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Video: Doggett, Nolen, Srinivasan on Growth Strategies in Trying Times

October 13th, 2009 · Filed under: Executive Education · Faculty News · Opinion · video

Posted by Tracy Mueller

On Sept. 17, Texas Executive Education hosted a faculty panel addressing Strategies for Growth in Trying Times. We captured a few of the highlights on video:
What country is poised to be the next global economic powerhouse?
Senior Lecturer of Management John Doggett spoke about the future of the global marketplace. “We in this country right now [...]

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Anatomy of an Investor: Personality, Age Influence Stock Choices More than You Might Think

January 29th, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · Research · Top Stories

Posted by Tracy Mueller

Theories on how to play the stock market abound. Buy low, buy companies whose leadership you admire, invest in organizations that reflect your personal values. And don’t count out the ever-popular strategy of throwing darts at the newspaper’s financial pages.
Every investor hopes he or she has figured out how to beat the system and turn [...]

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Media: Kumar on Perils of Investing Too Close to Home

July 11th, 2008 · Filed under: McCombs in the Media · Research

Posted by Rob Meyer

There’s no place like home, but staying too close to home can have unintended consequences for investors. Americans tend to put a disproportionate share of their money into shares of companies based in their own states, new research has shown, and that bias that can be exploited by [...]

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