McCombs TODAY

Assistant IROM Professor Rafael Mendoza-Arriaga received the 2009 Nemhauser Doctoral Dissertation Prize for his paper “Unified Credit-Equity Modeling.” The award is given to the best doctoral dissertation in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS) at Northwestern University.
“Being recognized with an award named after Professor Nemhauser is a great honor that carries with it the great responsibility [...]

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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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John Doggett, a senior lecturer in the Department of Management, was presented with the Outstanding Professor Award from Texas Executive MBA students during a recognition ceremony on Saturday, April 18. The students selected one professor from the program who has made a lasting impact in their education at McCombs.
(Read Doggett’s account of the 2008 Beijing [...]

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The McCombs School of Business is 10th worldwide in research productivity among business schools, according to a survey from the UT Dallas School of Management. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School came in at number one. This is the fourth year in a row in which McCombs has ranked in the top 10 worldwide.
Only two [...]

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By Jamey Smith
If you have the good fortune to meet William W. Cooper, a true gentleman if ever there was one, “prizefighter” is probably not the first word that will come to mind. Yet that word and many more — prodigious author, innovator, philanthropist — apply to this professor emeritus in the McCombs School of [...]

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