Research Centers Offering Corporate Involvement Opportunities
Center for Customer Insight and Marketing Solutions
The Center for Customer Insight and Marketing Solutions seeks to better enable interaction between faculty, students and industry. The center’s focus is to develop in-depth customer insight leading to customer-driven, cross-functional solutions for winning in the marketplace.
Lamar Johnson, Executive Director
Lori Van Orden, Administrative Director
Dr. Eli Cox, Marketing Department Chair
Center for Energy Finance Education and Research
The purpose of the Center for Energy Finance Education and Research is to support curriculum development in corporate finance and financial risk management applied to energy and financial commodities as well as to support faculty development and research in the Department of Finance.
Dr. Ehud Ronn, Director
Angela Dorsey, Assistant Director
Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence
The Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence brings together executives from leading corporations with McCombs School faculty and students for the purpose of producing research, providing a forum for industry to interact with academia and educating students to become future leaders in supply chain management.
Lamar Johnson, Senior Associate Director
Diana Busler, Administrator
Dr. Douglas Morrice, Director and IROM Department Chair
Real Estate Finance and Investment Center
The Real Estate Finance and Investment Center is the first research center at a leading university to specialize in the intersection of real estate and finance. With its home in the Finance Department, the center takes advantage of the exceptional faculty in the department to cultivate cutting-edge research on finance-related real estate issues.
Angela Dorsey, Assistant Director
Dr. Sheridan Titman, Director
Additional Research Centers
In addition to these research centers involving corporate participation, the McCombs School also houses additional research centers.


