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• Alumni News
• McCombs In the News
• Texas, the McCombs School of Business Magazine
• Alumni Career Services

Alumni News

McCombs MBA Welcomes New Program Director and Director of Career Services
The McCombs School of Business welcomed two new leaders to its MBA program last month. The school named Stacey Rudnick director of MBA career services. Daniel Garza, current director of MBA admissions, was hired to succeed Elissa Ellis as assistant dean and MBA program director.
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2002-03 Investors' Report Available Online
To reach the broadest possible base of stakeholders, the McCombs School's Office of Resource Development has placed its annual Investors' Report online in html format. For the first time the school also mailed a twelve-page summary version of the report to 75,000 alumni and friends along with the latest alumni magazine. Major donors will continue to receive a complete printed report each year.
Read the online Investors' Report.

Summer Receptions coming to a city near you!
Join alumni, current students and incoming 2006 MBAs for the summer reception in your city. Thank you to our chapter leaders for their help in organizing these events around the country and around the world.
Find the summer event near you.

Executive Education Focuses on Managerial Leadership
Institute for Managerial Leadership - Give your high-potentials the opportunity to acquire latest know-how, insights and trends in leadership, finance, business, economics and management. Classes meet for eight monthly 2.5-day sessions. First session starts September 9th. For more information email ExecEd@mccombs.utexas.edu or call 800.409.3932.

Beyond McCombs:
MBAs in Class of 2004 Enjoy More Job Offers
By Jane J. Kim, CollegeJournal.Com from The Wall Street Journal
"As the economy heats up, so are job prospects for graduating students with MBAs. University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, for example, said that the number of students who will be graduating with job offers this year is about 25% to 30% higher than last year. And at least two-thirds of second-year students at New York University's Stern School of Business have job offers, compared with about 50% to 60% of the class that had offers at the same time last year, Stern said."
Read complete CollegeJournal.Com article.

Beyond McCombs:
The Rise Of The Mompreneurs: eBay gives corporate dropouts a way to work-life balance
By Michelle Conlin, BusinessWeek
"Today, upwards of 430,000 people in the U.S. alone—more than are employed worldwide by General Electric Co. (GE ) and Procter & Gamble combined—earn a full- or part-time living on eBay selling everything from fashion to farm equipment, with the highest-sellers grossing up to $1 million a month. Of the estimated 48% of these sellers who are women, many are 'mompreneurs'—corporate stopouts who have found in eBay a way to tap into an international marketplace from their kitchen tables and finesse a saner work-life balance at the same time. Read complete BusinessWeek article (may require free registration).

In the News

Press Mentions Roundup
Broniarcyzk on overloading consumers, Koehler on overpricing materials, Konana on overdoing the myths of outsourcing—it's a binge diet of expert commentary in the McCombs School's latest roundup of press mentions.
See June press mentions.

Texas, the McCombs School Magazine

From Texas, the McCombs School of Business Magazine, Spring/Summer 2004 issue
	Gang Yu: A Modeler of Efficiency Gang Yu's coming of age in Communist China planted the seeds for his ground-breaking work in operations management 30 years later.
	Learning to Succeed: Education Makes the Grade No longer just a perk, non-degree executive education programs are flourishing. Know when you need to go.
	To Lead or not to Lead? Women Need Real Options in Business Although there are record numbers of women in business programs, there's still little progress in women's advancement to senior management positions.
	Privatizing Public Higher Education As private gifts account for larger percentages of public universities' operating resources, the notion of a public education is definitively changing.
	A McCombs Education PLUS In excerpts from travel journals this spring, MBA students offer snapshots of the current state of global business from Budapest to Bombay.

Alumni Career Services

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