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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On Sept. 17, Texas Executive Education hosted a faculty panel addressing Strategies for Growth in Trying Times. We captured a few of the highlights on video:
What country is poised to be the next global economic powerhouse?
Senior Lecturer of Management John Doggett spoke about the future of the global marketplace. “We in this country right now [...]

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Get the Flash Player to see this player. Southwest Airlines Chairman and CEO Gary Kelly, BBA ‘77, waxed philosophical about leadership and his experiences in the top spot at SWA during a conversation with Professor George Gau September 24. Ethical leadership was the theme of the event, the first of three McCombs Leadership Forums planned [...]

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FInd MBA Blog, July 11, 2009
“In my view, the financial downturn has actually made teaching finance a little easier,” said Greg Hallman, McCombs finance lecturer. “At its core, finance is the study of risk and return. The past couple of years in the market have given students a perfect illustration of risk and the downside [...]

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By Rob Adams
The Chinese might have been prescient about the current world situation when they coined the phrase “may you live in interesting times.” However, most entrepreneurs and business owners are finding these times a little too interesting for comfort, and they are looking for insight on how to manage their businesses through the choppy [...]

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THE STRANGE POLITICS OF THE FINANCIAL BAILOUT
by David B. Spence, professor of business law
The political process that led ultimately to the passage of the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2008—better known as the “Wall Street bailout”—was a strange one. By the time the mortgage crisis was fully understood, enormous amounts of bad debt had [...]

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Forbes.com, Jan. 20, 2009
How gloomy are entrepreneurs?
Check out the latest results of a survey of 805 small-business owners by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group. In the last 420 months that the NFIB has taken that monthly pulse of small-business owners–on everything from profits and inventories to hiring and capital [...]

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