McCombs School in the News
July 2005
Personal Growth and Professional Development, in Just One Year
BusinessWeek Online, July 14, 2005
In the latest installment of her MBA Journal for BusinessWeek
Online, Heather Densmore, MBA '06, reflects on some of the
highlights of her first year as an MBA student at the McCombs School
of Business. "Exactly one year ago, in May 2004, I was a management
consultant traveling constantly between Dallas and San Francisco, a
nomad with no real home, with a few friends in many different
cities, and I was on a career path that didn't particularly excite
me," she writes. "Now...I own a two-bedroom condo in Austin, have
more friends here than I can even begin to count, and am about to
start an exciting internship where I will work on property
valuations and acquisitions at INVESCO Real Estate, a major real
estate investment management firm. My path is finally defined and
I'm thrilled about a career in the commercial real estate industry."
Read the latest installment of Heather's journal.
From India to Texas and Back Again: One Professor's Journey
Journal of Marketing, July 2005
In an essay published in the Journal of Marketing, McCombs marketing
professor Vijay Mahajan recounts his life story so far. Growing up
as a Dogra boy in the states of Jammu and Kashmir, India, writes
Mahajan, he never imagined that he would one day become a
world renowned academic. Mahajan began his career in business fueled
by potato chips, bread and milk as a student at the University of
Texas at Austin; now, he is the John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in
Business in the Department of Marketing at the McCombs School of
Business. On a sabbatical from the McCombs School, Mahajan is
currently serving in a temporary position as dean of the
newly-established Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.
After traveling and working in many developing countries over his
30-year career, Mahajan’s research focus has become the absence of
marketing strategies in developing countries. In his most recent
book, “The 86 Percent Solution” (2005), he explains how academics
have ignored the marketing issues of developing countries even
though these areas make up 86 percent of the world’s population.
Read "The Incomplete Autobiography of an Immigrant Marketing
Professor." (PDF)
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