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James Mulva, CEO and Chairman of ConocoPhillips, was the guest of former McCombs Dean George Gau at the McCombs Leadership Forum on Oct. 8. Mulva, BBA ‘68, MBA ‘69, spoke about his 36-year career in the energy industry and his passion for it. He stressed the importance of work [...]

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After earning her MBA from McCombs in 1997, Rainey Knudson founded Glasstire, a non-profit online journal about the Texas visual arts scene. Not exactly the traditional MBA career path, but Knudson says her decision to follow her passions of art and writing is what has made her a successful entrepreneur.
McCombs Communications Director Dave Wenger spoke with [...]

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Who: Stacy Smith, CFO, Intel
Host:  Eric Hirst, associate dean, MBA Program
When: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009  5:30-6:30 p.m.
Where: Will C. Hogg 1.120
Stacy J. Smith is vice president of finance and enterprise services and the chief financial officer (CFO) for Intel Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for leading the worldwide finance organization and overseeing operational finance, [...]

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The Executive MBA program’s Class of 1999 held their 10-year reunion on Saturday, June 13 at Perry’s Steakhouse in downtown Austin. Court Huber, the former director of the program, came back to catch up with alumni, and current director, John Burrows, gave an update on the program.
The alumni shared stories about their time in Option [...]

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Gov. Rick Perry appointed McCombs alumnus Karim A. Meijer, BBA ‘06, to The University of Texas System Board of Regents. Meijer is a fourth-year medical student at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and will serve as a student regent on the Board.
He is vice president of the class of 2010, director [...]

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The New York Times technology blog Gadgetwise recently named McCombs-alumni owned SnapDat its App of the Week. SnapDat, owned by Chris James and Matt Knopf (above, at the 2009 Macworld Expo), both MBA ‘99, lets users create and share virtual business cards.
McCombs profiled James and Knopf, along with the Moximity app creator, Bryan Jones, MBA [...]

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Top brass. Rally the troops. Lead the charge.
Business lingo often borrows heavily from military vocabulary, but the overlap between the two worlds extends far beyond metaphors.
Former military officers are well-represented among our corporate chiefs. Research conducted in 2005 found that military officers were three times more likely than other Americans to serve as CEOs of [...]

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For a future story, the editors of Texas, the McCombs alumni magazine, want to hear from alumni about your greatest business failure–and, more importanly–what happened next. What is the value of failing, and how did you learn from it? Would your successful venture have happened without the mistakes made before it?
If you’re a McCombs undergraduate [...]

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Bill Pierce, MBA ’62, recently led an effort to honor America’s war veterans through the purchase and installation of 120 engraved brick pavers at the Veterans’ Walk of Honor at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. Pierce earned a BBA from the University of Houston and received his ROTC commission in [...]

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Rad Weaver, BBA ’98, is director of business development for Red McCombs Enterprises. On March 25, Weaver, chair of the BBA Alumni Giving Committee, is hosting Access McCombs in San Antonio, a chance for young alumni to spend an evening with Red McCombs and Dean Tom Gilligan.
What made you want to study business?
I think maybe [...]

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