McCombs TODAY

Bayesian statistics is not, perhaps, the most accessible field of study, but Robert McCulloch, a professor of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at McCombs, opened up this important topic at a Faculty Research Presentation Oct. 20.
McCulloch, an internationally renowned statistician, illustrated how he uses BART (no relation to the Simpsons), a computer system that can analyze data [...]

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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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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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Measuring and Motivating Quantity, Creativity or Both
Who: Michael Williamson, Professor of Accounting
What: Faculty Research Series
When: Thursday, March 5, 5- 6 p.m.
Where: UTC 1.102
Free pizza and drinks!
Professor Williamson examines how worker productivity differs when compensation is based on quantity, creativity, or the product of both measures.

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Economics has often been called “the dismal science,” and with the economy staggering that may seem to be the case.
However, for Lorenzo Garlappi and Stathis Tompaidis, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business who are at the forefront of financial modeling, it is an exciting time to be studying markets.
“Economic [...]

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