McCombs TODAY

Looking to bring together Austin’s entrepreneurial community and UT students, the McCombs Entrepreneur Society is hosting Start Up Meet Up, a one-day entrepreneurship conference. The conference will feature panel discussions on market validation, entrepreneurial law, digital-era marketing and start-up capital.
McCombs alumnus Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice, is the keynote speaker, and McCombs faculty members [...]

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Twenty executive MBA students from Finland’s Turku School of Economics spent May 11-15 with Texas Executive Education getting an in-depth look at U.S. business practices. This year’s program celebrated the ninth anniversary of a successful partnership between the schools.
The program, titled “Competing and Leading in a Changing Business Environment,” focused on strategy, marketing, negotiations, talent [...]

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Forbes.com, Jan. 20, 2009
How gloomy are entrepreneurs?
Check out the latest results of a survey of 805 small-business owners by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group. In the last 420 months that the NFIB has taken that monthly pulse of small-business owners–on everything from profits and inventories to hiring and capital [...]

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Originally posted on the MBA Alumni Network blog.
By Jim Nolen, Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Department of Finance
Well, I told you recent grads that you would look back at your MBA experience one day and say “OMG, Professor Spellman was right. His forecast of economic collapse really happened.” While Enron and the subsequent SOX legislation gave accounting [...]

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