McCombs TODAY

McCombs Finance Professor Lew Spellman recently presented a talk on the latest developments in U.S. economic policy. The entire series can be viewed at lewspellman.com. In the clip below, Spellman discusses the cognitive dissonance associated with rising unemployment figures along with statistics showing that the recession is over.

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Last week President Powers sent an email to UT faculty and staff announcing Ideas of Texas, a Web site where faculty and staff can submit ideas for improving the university. As ideas are viewed, commented and voted on (Horns Up or Horns Down in this case) and rated by others, the university will look at [...]

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Andrew Whinston (right), McCombs professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management was named a Distinguished Fellow at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Oct. 11-14 in San Diego. INFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for the field of operations research. Whinston [...]

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The Hindu, October 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.
There is justified public outrage at the obscenely large executive compensation. Should the government regulate compensations in the private sector even when there is no government [...]

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Ethan B. Kapstein, one of the world’s foremost scholars in international economic relations, is joining the faculty of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Kapstein will hold a Tom Slick Professorship in International Affairs and offer two seminars in the spring 2010 semester, one on economic development and the other on the economics [...]

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Michael Clement, associate professor of accounting, was one of five winners of the Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty. The award was announced August 2 at the Ernst & Young faculty reception during the American Accounting Association’s annual meeting in New York City. The panel of judges from Ernst [...]

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The Alcalde, July/August 2009
Hiring is down. Anxiety is up. Tom Gilligan is calm.
When economic conditions plunge, a university’s business school feels the nausea most. UT’s McCombs School has been led by a newcomer to Texas this past year. If a mid-crisis transition like that sounds like it could be rough, realize Dean Gilligan’s used to [...]

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Bloomberg, July 1, 2009
Commentary by David Reilly
Markets sank last year. So too did hedge-fund performance. Markets soared in the just-finished quarter. Hedge funds notched up big wins. Now remind me why they are called hedge funds.
Bull-market geniuses may be a better moniker. For all the talk of being able to make money whether stocks rise [...]

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Austin American-Statesman, May 13, 2009
Childhood gave Jonah Kane-West a sweet and easy rhythm, like the early notes of a simple song.
By day he played tennis on the clay court outside his home in Charlottesville, Va. He taught himself a two-handed groundstroke. He found in tennis a desire to compete, to prevail over an opponent and, [...]

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KEYE-TV, May 19, 2009
Landmark credit card legislation passed by the Senate 90 to 5 will alter the way the credit card industry does business. After President Obama signs the bill into law, which is expected before Memorial Day, the $960 billion industry will go through a restructuring phase that should have broad implications for consumers. [...]

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