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Mike Bacon, MBA ’98
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Nothing helps an alumnus reconnect like returning to campus, which is why Bacon is co-chair of his 10-year reunion, set for Sept. 19-21. Bacon says he is looking forward to staying at the new AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center, watching the Texas-Rice football game with classmates and catching up with friends.
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Top Stories
Dr. Gilligan Named Dean of McCombs School
Dr. Thomas W. Gilligan, the E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration and professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles, has been appointed dean of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Read more.
Design Symposium Unites Business, Engineering
On May 14-15, three research centers from The University of Texas at Austin, including two from McCombs, came together to explore new ways for creating cross-functional, integrated design processes through the lens of sustainability. Read a recap of the symposium.
McCombs Hosts Gulf States Toyota, ESADE
 Executive MBA students from ESADE Business School in Madrid, Spain spent June 2-6 at McCombs, participating in Texas Executive Education's "Leading in a Changing Environment" program. On June 10, Longhorns football coach Mack Brown was the keynote speaker at the opening dinner for the "Champions of Change" program for Gulf States Toyota.
Brandl: Will High Oil Prices Sink the U.S. Economy?
In his latest video Macro Update, senior finance lecturer Michael Brandl explains that, as usual, the pundits and politicians are not getting the story quite right. Watch the video.
Alumni in the News
Ken Foote, MBA ’78, Hosts Fort Worth Radio
 Tune into 921 FM in Fort Worth or online at http://www.countrylegends921.com/ to hear MBA alumnus Ken Foote’s Saturday radio program 7 p.m. - midnight. Ken is also the Director of Programming for CBS Television Stations in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Read his recent profile.
Kevin Dillon, MBA ’84, One of Houston's Top CFOs
 Kevin Dillon, MBA ’84, C.P.A., executive vice president, chief operating and financial officer at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has been named one of the Houston-area’s "Best CFOs of the Year.” Read more.
MMA Network News
Summer Receptions Big Success
Alumni gathered in 23 cities across the world last June for the MBA summer receptions. "It’s wonderful to see our alumni and newly admitted students at these events," says associate dean for graduate programs, Eric Hirst, who attended many of the receptions. "I’m especially pleased that we are connecting not only graduates of the full-time Texas MBA, but also graduates of the Executive MBA programs in Austin and Mexico City, the Evening MBA program, and our programs in Houston and Dallas. We’ve got strength in numbers and these events help us leverage that.” To view reception photos, go to http://www.flickr.com/, sign on with the Yahoo! ID: mccombsmbaalumni@yahoo.com, enter password "texasmba1" and click "Your Photostream." Don’t miss the final reception on August 26. RSVP for Austin Reception.
Survey: Alumni to Alumni Mentorship Program
We are investigating alumni interest in a mentorship program designed to allow alumni to mentor one another. We would like to get feedback from alumni like you on this type of mentorship program. We would maintain a secure database of mentors and alumni would log in to the site and search for alumni who meet their criteria. Mentors would be removed from the database after they are paired with a mentee. Take the survey.
Executive Education Offers Marketing Strategy Course, October 21-22, 2008
An organization’s ability to understand markets and create customer value is a critical factor for its long-term performance. Managers must continually tackle new challenges in their efforts to market products and services because of ever-changing markets, competitors and environments. To succeed, they must learn to recognize unmet customer needs, select specific ones to create compelling solutions for and then develop and implement lean marketing programs. The Texas Executive Education course, Marketing Strategy, will provide the foundations for building such internally consistent marketing strategies. To register, click here or call 800-409-3932. Participants earn 1.4 continuing education units (CEUs). Faculty: Kapil Jain, Ph.D., Kate Mackie, Ph.D. |
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McCombs in the News
Kumar on Perils of Investing Too Close to Home
The New York Times, June 15, 2008
There’s no place like home, but staying too close to home can have unintended consequences for investors. These insights come from "Long Georgia, Short Colorado? The Geography of Return Predictability," a study co-authored by Alok Kumar, assistant professor of finance at McCombs. Read story.
If you have news you would like to share, please send it to mbaalumni@mccombs.utexas.edu by the first of each month to be considered for inclusion in the newsletter.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008