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Kevin Rollins,
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Gary Kelly,
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Business Ethics Speaker Series |
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Jeffrey Nesteruk,
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Hall of Fame Ceremony, 11/3
McCombs Advisory Council Meeting, 11/3
McCombs Softball Challenge, 11/5
MBA Finance Challenge, 11/8-11/10
MBA Plus Project Fair, 11/15 |
McCombs School of Business Honors Three
Texans Who Make A Difference
The McCombs School of Business Hall of Fame will induct three
prominent alumni Nov. 3 at a ceremony at the Driskill Hotel in Austin. The 2006 inductees represented success
in an array of industries, from oil and gas to investment
banking to food service.
The 2006 honorees are H. Scott Caven, Jr., managing director and
Texas regional manager of Atlantic Trust Private Wealth
Management; B. M. “Mack” Rankin, Jr., private investor and
consultant; and William E. “Billy” Rosenthal, chairman of
Penrose Group, LLC.
Get the full story.
Cooper Awarded 2006 Impact Prize from
INFORMS
William Cooper, information, risk, and operations
management professor emeritus, was awarded the prestigious 2006
Impact Prize by The Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences (INFORMS), the largest professional society
in the world for the field of operations research. Cooper and
his colleague Abraham Charnes were given the award for their
seminal work in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which was first
described in the article “Measuring the efficiency of
decision-making units,” in the European Journal of
Operational Research. It was selected as one of the 30 most
influential papers published in the first 30 years of that
journal.
Get the full story.
Spring MBA Applause Honors 12
Outstanding Faculty Members
At its annual MBA Applause event, the Graduate Business
Council celebrated favorite faculty members in the McCombs
School. The spring 2006 survey of full-time MBA students ranked
professors on a five-point scale. Those scoring 4.5 and above
were honored.
Get the full list.
Coors Business Remains a Family
Affair After 135 Years
By Andrea Ferdinand
When Peter Coors graduated from college he thought he could
conquer the world. Instead, he ended up working as a trainee in
the waste treatment plant of his family’s brewing company. “It
taught me that every job is important,” Coors, chairman of Coors
Brewing Co. and vice chairman of Molson Coors Brewing Co., told
a standing-room-only audience at his Oct. 26 VIP Distinguished
Speaker Series talk.
Get the full story.
In the News:
Trading Spaces Becoming More Necessary in B-Schools
BusinessWeek Online, Oct.30, 2006
 Within the past two years, a growing number of business schools
have built trading rooms on campus to allow students to
analyze financial data and house MBA investment fund programs
with the appropriate financial equipment. The EDS Financial
Trading and Technology Center at the McCombs School was one of
the first ever created. Dean George Gau came up with the idea
for the center more than a decade ago when he noticed that
investment banks in New York were not recruiting enough McCombs
students. Today, more than 60 companies, including Citigroup,
Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs recruit at the school. “When we
really want to wow them, we bring them up to the center,” said
Beverly Hadaway, associate professor of finance and
director of the EDS Center.
Get the full story.
In the News: Brandl Discusses
Texas Economy on CNBC
CNBC “Street Signs,” Oct. 26, 2006
With a combined GDP larger than that of China, the economies of
California and Texas are heavily influenced by the Federal
Reserve’s decisions regarding interest levels. Michael Brandl,
senior lecturer in finance, appeared on CNBC’s “Street Signs” to
analyze recent moves by the Fed as well as the state of the
Texas economy. “We’ve seen the technology sector coming back,
and higher energy prices have been beneficial for Houston,”
Brandl said. “We’re also seeing a lot of job creation. We need
those jobs to be created because we’re drawing a lot of people
into this state both from within the U.S., as well as from Latin
America.”
Get the full story.
In the News: Financial Times
Ranks McCombs Executive MBA Program #9 in the U.S.
The Financial Times, Oct. 23, 2006
The McCombs Executive MBA Program was ranked ninth in the
country and 30th in the world by the Financial Times. Other U.S.
programs on the list included the University of Pennsylvania,
Duke, Northwestern, Columbia, New York University, Cornell,
University of California at Irving, and Emory. The McCombs program
is the No. 2 public university and is No. 1 in Texas.
Get the full story.
In the News: Corporate Logo
Usage is Political Speech Says Allison
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Oct. 26, 2006
An environmental group that used TXU Corp.’s logo in opposing
Rick Perry’s plan to approve new coal plants has led to
allegations of trademark infringement. The group, Downwinders at
Risk, used the energy provider’s starburst insignia on a giant
fake smokestack that was mounted on a 16-foot hay trailer to
protest Perry’s alliance with TXU. The company claimed it was
illegal, but Downwinders refused to remove the logo. John
Allison, professor of information, risk, and operations
management, said Downwinders is within their rights to use TXU’s
logo in this fashion. “They're making fun of these companies.
That’s not trademark infringement,” he told the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram. “It's pure political speech, and that’s about as
constitutionally protected as you can get.”
Get the full story.
In the News:
Butler Discusses Quarterly Economic Outlook for Texas
San Antonio Business Journal, Oct. 26, 2006
 A new report says Texas business leaders are cautiously
optimistic about the fourth quarter of 2006. The latest Compass
Bank Texas Business Leaders Confidence Index registered a modest
decline of 2 points from the previous quarter—suggesting a
slightly slower pace of expansion. “Overall, expectations appear
to reflect the stabilization of energy prices, easing but
still-present inflation concerns, improving investor optimism
and robust capital markets,” said John Butler, director
of the IC² Institute and McCombs management professor.
Get the full story.
In the News: McCombs Helps Land
Top Football Recruit for Longhorns
The Dallas Morning News, Oct. 25, 2006
Sam Acho, a highly recruited defensive end from the St. Mark’s
School of Texas in Dallas committed to playing for the Longhorns
football team after a visit to campus in July. They toured the
McCombs School of Business and met the coaching staff. Sam kept
hearing the words “family atmosphere.” “They were the only ones
to bring it up,” Acho said. “Everywhere else, I had to ask them
about the family atmosphere.”
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