McCombs TODAY

Congratulations to the following faculty members who received endowment appointments effective Sept. 1:
Janet Dukerich – Harkins & Company Centennial Chair
Dukerich joined McCombs in 1989 and since then has established herself as a well known scholar. She is one of the 50 most-citied scholars in the field of management. Her research and teaching expertise lies in organizational identity [...]

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Seventy-three faculty members from The University of Texas System academic institutions have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards and will be sharing $2 million in awards. The awards, which range from $15,000 to $30,000 depending on level of experience, are believed to be among the highest in [...]

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Ten McCombs School faculty were honored by their peers at the McCombs Teaching and Research Awards ceremony May 4. Congratulations to these terrific faculty members on a job well done:
RESEARCH AWARDS
CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
Alok Kumar, assistant professor, finance
For research excellence by an assistant professor in the McCombs School. Limited to tenure-track, full-time Assistant [...]

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Fair-value Accounting: A Better Reflection of Reality
By Lisa Koonce, Deloitte & Touche Professor of Accounting
Lately, much discussion has centered around the underlying causes of the financial crisis, and some have suggested that current accounting rules must shoulder some of the blame. Specifically targeted by critics is the focus by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), [...]

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