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In This Newsletter
Kelleher Encourages Class of 2004 BBA Graduates to Take
Leadership
“Either Bianca Jagger or Calvin Coolidge—I get them mixed up because they’re
both skinny—used to say that the business of business is business,” Herb
Kelleher told undergraduates during the McCombs School's May 21 commencement
ceremony. The well-known chairman and co-founder of Southwest Airlines offered a
revision of the axiom: “The business of business is people.”
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Learn more about the Class of 2004.
BBAs Win National Esteem, International Victory
As the 2003-04 academic year ends, we take a moment to look back on
some of the outstanding activities and achievements of students in the
undergraduate business program this past year.
Learn more.
Industry Overview: Consulting Firms Come Back to Campus,
Students Revisit the Industry
Five short years ago, consulting firms aggressively recruited MBAs fresh out of
school. Then the recession of 2001 struck the industry
like a hammer. But today,
things are changing again. A consulting rebound seems to be in the works,
although few can tell how big it will be or how fast it is coming.
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Video Profile: Take 5 With Dr. John Sibley Butler
As director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and the IC²
Institute, and a distinguished author on minority and immigrant
entrepreneurship, John Sibley Butler has a clear vision of the role that new
ventures and small businesses play in American society. He shares some of his
ideas in this Web-video interview from UT's Take 5 series presenting "faculty
insights in brief."
View the Interview.
Mammogram Technology Takes First Place in Idea to Product
Competition
Most of us, however accomplished we may consider ourselves to be, have yet to
devise a smaller antenna or smarter PDA. Yet tech-savvy student entrepreneurs at
The University of Texas at Austin have done just that. Those technologies were
two of the contenders in this year’s Idea to Product™ Competition (I2P).
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Managers Should Pay Attention to Complexity, Says McDaniel
According to Reuben McDaniel, MSIS professor at McCombs, life is complicated in
almost every respect. McDaniel explored and explained
some of his ideas at a recent conference co-hosted by McCombs on "Complexity
Science and Exploration of the Emerging World.”
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BHP Alumna Lynn Fox Utter Delivers Keynote Address at the MPA/PPA Graduate
Recognition Ceremony
Download a PDF transcript of her speech.
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