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In This Edition
- Ethics Series Features Watergate’s Krogh
- Six Faculty Members Earn Endowment Appointments
- Texas MBA Real Estate Team Rolls to Another Win
- Qcue Takes Rice Competition, Prepares for Global Moot Corp
- Media: Arney Discusses Job Prospects for Class of ’08
- Media: Austin’s uShip is Going Places
- Vote for the Best Texas MBA Global Connections Photos
- McCombs School Job Postings
Ethics Series Features Watergate’s Krogh
Egil “Bud” Krogh, convicted as one of the “plumbers” in the Watergate scandal, talked about his experiences April 7 as part of the Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Speaker Series. He provided the audience a perspective that only someone who has been led astray (in a very big way) can while discussing his book, “Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House.”
Read the Daily Texan story.
Six Faculty Members Earn Endowment Appointments
 Please congratulate the following six McCombs faculty members who gained the following appointments effective September 1, 2008. Pamela Haunschild (left), Jack R. Crosby Regents Chair in Business; Eric Hirst, John Arch White Professorship in Business; Prabhudev Konana, William H. Seay Centennial Professorship in Business; Andres Almazan, Bank of America Centennial Fellowship; Jay Hartzell, Allied Bancshares Centennial Fellowship in Finance; and Stathis Tompaidis, William R. Spriegel Centennial Fellowship.
Texas MBA Real Estate Team Rolls to Another Win
After a first-place finish at the University of North Carolina National Real Estate Challenge in February, the team representing the McCombs real estate program traveled to Dallas on April 3 to compete in the third-annual NAIOP “Texas Shoot-Out.” There, first-year MBA students Ryan Childs, Scott Humphreys, Joseph Longino, Bryan Kaminski, Michael Searls and Kevin White, won out over all other Texas programs. The case, designed by Goldman Sachs, focused on a complex of Boston technology corridor office buildings shortly after the turn-of-the-century “tech bubble” collapse and brought together several different facets of the commercial real estate industry — acquisition, disposition, development, financing, brokerage and property management. Congratulations on a second-straight victory!
Qcue Takes Rice Competition, Prepares for Global Moot Cor p
Texas Moot Corp champion qcue, a company founded by Barry Kahn, PhD ’07 (economics), Jitendra Dalvi, MBA ’07, and Andrew Mills, PhD ’08 (computer science), won another title April 5 at the 36-team 2008 Rice Business Plan Competition. Qcue, a software company that helps promoters set and adjust prices for concerts and live events to clear their tickets, will now take that momentum into the Global Moot Corp competition at McCombs April 30 – May 3.
Read more.
Watch the “elevator pitch.”
Media: For Class of ’08, A Scramble for Jobs
The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2008
 As the credit crunch roils financial markets and the U.S. economy sputters, new college graduates are plunging into the rockiest job market in recent years. At the UT Austin undergraduate school of business, where approximately 70 percent of college seniors find jobs within the state, 75 percent of seniors have received job offers so far, on par with last year. With oil prices hovering near historic highs, the university is seeing strong demand from energy companies in Texas, said Velma Arney, director of undergraduate career services. College juniors, meanwhile, are anticipating tough times ahead. “It’s probably going to be a lot more difficult” for next year’s graduating seniors, said Karim Hemani, 21, a business honors student majoring in finance at McCombs.
Read more.
Media: Austin’s uShip is Going Places
Austin American-Statesman, April 7, 2008
UShip, which has carved a niche as the eBay of shipping, is an Austin-based company started by three 2004 Texas MBA graduates. Matt Chasen came up with the idea and worked on the plan with fellow students Mickey Millsap and Jay Manickam during their time at McCombs. They pitched their idea at venture capital competitions and pumped professors and consultants for advice, and shortly after graduating, they launched uShip. The business allows consumers to post what they want to ship and freight companies bid for the business.
Read more.
Photos Showcase MBA Global Connections Trips
Texas MBA students participating in the 2008 Global Connections program recently returned from exciting two-week learning adventures to China, Central Europe, Arabian Gulf, South Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. To see pictures and vote on the best ones, visit the following link: https://community.mccombs.utexas.edu/mba/GCC/default.aspx?
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