The University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
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James A. NolenDistinguished Senior LecturerDepartment of Finance MBA, University of Texas at Austin B.B.A., University of Texas at Austin |
Jim Nolen’s research and teaching interests include small
business and entrepreneurship and corporate finance, including
business valuation, and mergers and acquisitions. Jim has taught
both undergraduate and graduate classes at UT since 1980. He has
taught in the Mexico City and Dallas Executive MBA programs as well
as IMADEC University in Vienna. Mr. Nolen is also active in the
education of minority and women business owners. Jim is the faculty
advisor for the Venture Fellows Practicum and the Entrepreneurs
Society.
Jim has extensive experience teaching Executive Education where he
lectures regularly in both custom and public enrollment programs,
including the popular Accounting and Finance for Non-Financial
Managers. He has designed and taught executive development programs
for several corporations including Texas Instruments, Dell, Essilor
of America, BMC Software, Motorola, Shell Oil, M.D. Anderson, State
Farm Insurance, Vought Aircraft and USAA among others.
During his 25-year tenure at UT, he has received many teaching
excellence awards. He has made the Faculty Honor Roll every semester
since its inception in 1999 and has been selected for the teaching
award for Best Ability to Link Theory and Practice for seven
consecutive years by the Graduate Students Association. Jim is a
past recipient of the Mary and Hank Harkin Award for Effective
Teaching and is a two-time recipient of the Fawn and Vijay Mahajan
Award in Executive Education.
Mr. Nolen is also President of CFO Services, Inc., a business
consulting firm specializing in business valuation, mergers and
acquisitions, raising capital, and financial analysis and planning.
He has served as CFO of a lighting manufacturing company and Vice
President of a refuse disposal company, where he coordinated the
company's sale and merger. He serves on numerous Boards of Directors
of privately-held companies as well as a financial institution.
