McCombs TODAY

Edward Anderson Jr., associate professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM), is one of the leaders in a research group that received more than $700,000 in federal stimulus money from the National Science Foundation to study how innovation unfolds in platforms such as the iPhone. Researchers from Tulane and Boston University [...]

[Read more →]

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin will participate in a $3 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fight influenza and other diseases by creating models that simulate the complex interplay between human behavior and the spread of disease.
 
The grant is part of the Models of Infectious Disease Agent [...]

[Read more →]

Professor Sirkka Jarvenpaa returned to her native Finland to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Jyvaskyla May 23, 2009. “As a researcher of electronic commerce, virtual organizations, and team work, in particular, she represents the absolute peak of international academic research,” the citation read. The Conferment of Degrees Ceremony is a three-day event [...]

[Read more →]

Jaehong Park, a graduate student in Information, Risk, and Operations Management, earned UT’s William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant.
The Graduate School and the University Co-op presented the award as part of the Excellence in Graduate Education reception May 12 at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Congratulations, Jaehong - keep up [...]

[Read more →]

Assistant Professor Carlos Carvalho (right) of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business will join the McCombs School’s Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM) as a visiting scholar in the coming academic year under the prestigious Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program.”
“Professor Carvalho is an outstanding young researcher in econometrics and statistics,” said [...]

[Read more →]

The Insurance Council of Texas Education Foundation has awarded $28,000 in academic scholarships to 14 students of insurance at three universities in the state.
Scholarship recipents from McCombs are Alyce Arnick, Shuo-Li Chuang, Callie Hanks and Amie Sun. Pat Arnold, lecturer in IROM, said that the students from McCombs were extremely talented and had proven their abilities in [...]

[Read more →]

Austin Business Journal
November 7, 2008
Paul Damien is a professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management.
The current situation looks bleak with some banks not lending to their customers or even to other banks. Businesses are having more difficulty in placing commercial paper. Monetary policy seems to be nearly exhausted.

[Read more →]

A study authored by Patrick Brockett (IROM) and Linda Golden (Marketing) was named Most Outstanding Contribution to the Casualty Actuarial Society. Their paper, “Biological and Psychobehavioral Correlates of Credit Scores and Automobile Losses: Toward an Explication of Why Credit Scoring Works,” was published in 2007 in the Journal of Risk and Insurance.

[Read more →]

IROM Professor Sridhar Seshadri won the 2008 INFORMS MSOM Best Paper Award. The paper is titled “Hedging Inventory Risk Through Market Instruments” and was chosen over 11 other nominated papers. Seshadri is a new faculty member who joins McCombs from New York University. He researches problems related to planning, coordination and optimization in supply chains; [...]

[Read more →]

William W. Cooper, Foster Parker Centennial Professor Emeritus of Finance and Management in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management will receive the prestigious Presidential Citation for 2008. William Powers Jr., president of The University of Texas at Austin, will present the Presidential Citation and other major university awards to recipients in a ceremony [...]

[Read more →]