McCombs TODAY

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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Internet gains vs. Wall Street Innovations
The Hindu, Sept. 9, 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 are contrasting value systems at play in the universally beneficial development of the world wide web and the skewed financial [...]

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The Hindu, June 3, 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.
The current economic crisis is a transformational moment for business schools worldwide. The fact is that business schools have been off track, chasing precisely those Wall [...]

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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.
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The Hindu, December 22, 2008
Prabhudev Konana is a professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management.
In the 1980 Presidential debate, Ronald Reagan famously exclaimed to Jimmy Carter’s response on healthcare: “there you go again!” This response seems to resonate once again about unbridled, unregulated free market capitalism. This time it was Bernard Madoff’s [...]

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The Hindu
December 2, 2008
Prabhudev Konana is a professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management.
The world is in an economic crisis. Free market capitalism is now synonymous with the free-falling stock market. Some on the Left trumpet that this is the end of American capitalism. They thrash free-market capitalism as a vulgar passion [...]

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The Hindu
November 8, 2008
Prabhudev Konana is a professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management.

Finally, the U.S. presidential election 2008 comes to a historical end. This election will go down as one of the greatest victories for democracy and a symbolic victory for One America. It was a triumph of hope over fear. [...]

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Contrary to the popular belief that online investment communities represent a melting-pot of ideas, where people come together to trade stock tips, share opinions and attempt to influence others, individuals using financial message boards seek out and interact with those who share the same opinions, according to new research from McCombs School of Business faculty [...]

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McCombs IROM faculty members, Professor Prabhudev Konana and Assistant Professor Bin Gu, won the 2007 Best Paper Award from the journal Information Systems Research for their paper “Competition Among Virtual Communities and User Valuation: The Case of Investing-Related Communities.” Virtual investment communities (VICs) are online message boards where investors share stock tips, earning forecasts and [...]

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The Hindu
August 12, 2008

We need to ask some tough questions for answers to create freedom from poverty. Leaving the responsibility to the government alone will be the biggest mistake. Read the op-ed.

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