Internet gains vs. Wall Street Innovations
The Hindu, Sept. 9, 2009
Prabhudev Konana is the William H. Seay Centennial Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
There are contrasting value systems at play in the universally beneficial development of the world wide web and the skewed financial [...]
Konana: Wall Street Should Aim for Wealth Creation, Societal Impact
September 11th, 2009 · Filed under: McCombs in the Media · Opinion
Posted by Tracy Mueller
Tags: · business, economy, finance, Greed, innovation, Internet, Internet turns 40, money, Opinion, Prabhudev Konana, solution, Tim Berners-Lee, Wall Street
Video: Cox on “Is America in Moral Decline?”
July 17th, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · Opinion · video
Posted by Tracy Mueller
Marketing Professor Eli Cox spoke at the Texas Exes Alumni College on whether America is in moral decline. The short answer? Yes.
In this clip, he explains the economic concept of marginal utility - that the satisfying effect of acquiring goods and money diminishes over time. But for some individuals, no amount of money is enough, [...]
Tags: · Alumni Collge, Amercian moral decline, business, Eli Cox, ethics, marginal utility, point of satiation, Texas Exes, video
Brandl: The Danger of Us vs. Them
June 23rd, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · Opinion
Posted by Tracy Mueller
Is our society overly competitive and adversarial? On his Macroeconomics Updates blog, McCombs economist Michael Brandl writes about the dangers of taking on an “Us vs. Them” mentality, whether in sports, business or politics:
We seem to have a growing intolerance of those we consider not to be “us.” And it seems who we define as [...]
Tags: · business, competition, cooperation, education, Michael Brandl, politics, sports, us vs. them
