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McCombs School News Bytes: August 2003
This newsletter is written to keep you--our alumni--connected with the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Each month we will include a series of brief topics with links leading to additional information about alumni, faculty, students, centers, activities, and programs.
We welcome your comments and suggestions for future editions.
Undergraduate Business Council Plans Student Empowerment
Conference
More than 150 student leaders and faculty from over 20 of the
top undergraduate business programs in the nation will gather in
November for the McCombs Student Empowerment Conference (MSEC).
The MSEC will provide a forum for student enrichment, corporate
insight, and student feedback. Learn more at the
MSEC website.
Find out how
your corporation can participate.
Accounting Professor
Jack Robertson Retires After 33 Years on Faculty
For his over 5,800 students, Professor Robertson was more
than a professor, serving as a confidante, mentor, and even
matchmaker. On eve of retirement, Dr. Robertson remembers some
of these students and their stories. Read more about
Professor Robertson’s retirement and other accounting news.
MSIS Portal Connects Companies and Students
By using this new interactive and user-friendly portal,
companies can easily submit proposals for MSIS class projects,
giving both BBA and MBA students valuable experience solving
real-world business problems. Read more about how this
web-based site enables
collaboration between faculty, students, and corporations.
Business Honors Graduate Challenges Fellow Alumni
Robert Buchholz, a 1982 graduate of the Business Honors Program
(BHP), has announced a challenge gift of $50,000 to the BHP
Excellence Fund. Buchholz will match all alumni gifts to the
fund dollar for dollar up to $50,000.
Read more about the
challenge
and about the BHP
Excellence Fund.
Roundtable to Help Stakeholders Capitalize on Mobile
Technologies
Aiming to build an international network of global
researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the mobile
communication and computing industries, the McCombs School will
host the third annual Mobility Roundtable in Austin in March
2004. Participants in the conference will exchange research and
knowledge about best practices for different mobile modes of
business and will includes professors, PhD candidates, Fortune
500 companies, and hardware and software firms.
Visit the conference website.
Support the McCombs School and Join the Donor Honor Roll
There is less than one week remaining before our fiscal year
ends on August 31. To be included in next year’s Investors’
Report and our online Donor
Honor Roll, make a gift on our
online pledge form.
Your support makes an impact and every contribution is valuable!
Learn to Speak the Language of Numbers
Learn the language of business and understand the reality behind
the numbers by enrolling in Executive Education’s Accounting and
Finance for Non-Financial Managers (September 29 – October 1).
Visit Executive Education or call (800) 409-3932 for
more information.
Stay in Contact with the McCombs School
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