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The University of Texas at Austin
McCombs Weekly Vol. 8, No. 03 Sept. 20, 2006   
McCombs School of Business
 
  Upcoming Speakers
  Faculty Research Speaker Series
  Jeffrey Loewenstein,
Assistant Professor of Management,
McCombs School of Business, 9/26 More info
  Lyceum Speaker Series
  David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. General Accountability Office, 9/27 More info
  Upcoming Events
  HBSA Company Night 9/26, 6-9 p.m., Special Events Room

UBCA Career Expo, 9/27, More info

Diversity Dialogue Dinner, 9/28, More info
 

Deloitte's Allen Discusses Changing Workplace, Future of Accounting  
By Rob Meyer
Sharon Allen, a baby boomer with 30 years of accounting and auditing experience, spoke Wednesday evening to a packed room of McCombs accounting students from Generation Y (those born in the 1980s and 1990s), and assured them her company understands the expectations they have about the workplace they will be a part of in the future.   
Get the full story.  
View the Austin-American Statesman article.

McCombs PPA Graduates Garner AICPA Sells Award
By Dorothy Brady
Mark Danielson and William Leder, both 2005 graduates of the McCombs Professional Program in Accounting, have received the prestigious American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Sells Award for 2005. They are two of ten winners nationwide who completed testing during that year and earned the highest cumulative scores on the four sections of the Uniform CPA Examination on their first attempt at the exam, the AICPA announced September 12, 2006.
Find out more about the award.

McCombs Executive Education Helps Beijing
Electric Compete in China 
By Andrea Ferdinand
Imagine you are an executive for a company that has never had a competitor. Now imagine your company is suddenly thrust into a highly competitive market. How do you solicit clients? How do you make a profit? Welcome to the dilemma facing Beijing Electric Power Corporation. The company became independent of the Chinese government in 2003 and has since had to adapt to a competitive marketplace and all of the challenges that come with it. For help, Beijing Electric turned to the Executive Education Program at the McCombs School of Business to create custom courses in marketing and customer service tailored to the needs of the company and its executives.  
Learn more about the custom program.

Ford Career Center Announces Student-Run Career Network
The McCombs Ford Career Center has found a new way to incorporate students’ need for information into the ever-changing media outlets. BBA {reality.bytes}, a student-run career network sponsored by Undergraduate Career Services, provides students with information ranging from debates on current business issues to career advice from professors. The site includes eight BBA students’ blogs chronicling their academics and jobs; podcasts hosted by students covering topics ranging from when to begin looking for internships to how employers are using Facebook in the hiring process; and interviews with professors that reveal career tips most students don’t receive in the classroom.
Check out BBA {reality.bytes}.

In the News: McCombs MBA Program Again Ranks Among Top Global Schools
Expansion, Aug. 23, 2006
The McCombs School's full-time MBA program ranked No. 20 in Expansion magazine’s list of the best global MBA programs for Mexicans. Expansion, Time’s leading business magazine in Mexico, rated schools based on academic quality, number of foreign students, return on global investment and value in the Mexican market.    

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