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Konana: Wall Street Should Aim for Wealth Creation, Societal Impact

September 11th, 2009 · Filed under: McCombs in the Media · Opinion

Posted by Tracy Mueller

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 [...]

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Cox: Creed of Greed Not Supported by Adam Smith

September 30th, 2008 · Filed under: Faculty News

Posted by Rob Meyer

By Eli Cox, Chair, Department of Marketing
Ordinary Americans have a deepening mistrust of free-market capitalism as our nation has gone from Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia and Tyco to Bear Sterns, Freddie Mac, Fannie May and Lehman Brothers. Sadly, this mistrust is justified because too many corporate executives have adopted the creed of greed.

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