McCombs TODAY

Communications expert Olivia Fox Cabane of SpitFire Strategies demonstrated how to influence and persuade people more effectively in high anxiety situations, in an interactive presentation Nov. 5 to faculty, students and executives at McCombs. “You only have to remember to do one thing,” she claimed. “Control your body language.”
Cabane said that more than 80 percent of communication is body language, and that [...]

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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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The McCombs School of Business has a commitment to honor and ethics. It is apparent to me, judging from comments and inquiries I have received recently, that our students, faculty, staff and alumni believe strongly in these principles as well.
We derive this high standard from the university of which we are a part. Our purpose [...]

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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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Fox-Austin, September 16, 2009

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Congratulations to these McCombs faculty members who were promoted by President William Powers, Jr. effective September 1, 2009. They are: John Griffin (finance), Lillian Mills (accounting) and Violina Rindova (management) promoted to the rank of Professor; Aydogan Alti (finance), Jennifer Huang (finance) and Clemens Sialm (finance) promoted to the rank of Associate Professor; and Greg [...]

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Gary E. Hoover, founder of Bookstop and the company that later became Hoover’s Inc., has been named entrepreneur-in-residence in the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship at the McCombs School of Business of The University of Texas at Austin.
“Our school’s role as a world-renowned driver of innovation and creativity got another boost when Gary Hoover stepped [...]

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The Moot Corp competition is the oldest and most prestigious business-plan competition in the country.
Recently, a panel of former Moot Corp participants gathered to share insights on topics such as raising venture capital, hiring the right team and how to learn from mistakes along the way. Taking part in the panel hosted by Moot Corp Director Rob [...]

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Wall Street Journal, Feb. 21, 2009
The research of Alok Kumar, assistant professor of finance, was featured in a Wall Street Journal story about the tendency of investors to try to recoup losses quickly. The research will be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Finance, and a longer discussion of Kumar’s work can be [...]

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The Hindu, Feb. 16, 2009
Prabhudev Konana is the William H. Seay Centennial Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
Those who prophesied the ‘coming collapse of China’ didn’t see what was coming. Ironically, it is to China that the world looks for major stimulus spending.
Is [...]

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