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Best Paper Award for Marketing Professor
Raghunath Rao Associate Professor of Marketing Raghunath Rao won the Gerald E. Hills Best Paper Award from the American Marketing…
New Approaches to Career Management for Working Professional MBAs
The Graduate Management Admission Council recently released a paper exploring the current state of part-time MBA programs in the U.S.,…
Endowment Appointments Announced for Business Faculty
Ashish Agarwal, Jaime Schmidt, PK Toh, and Prabhudev Konana Four McCombs School of Business faculty members have earned endowment appointments.…
10 Tips about Winning, Losing, and Values in the Workplace
Values matter in the workplace because they determine the framework through which people make sense of their place in an…
Professor Linda Golden Wins Distinguished Marketing Educator Award
McCombs School of Business professor recognized by the Academy of Marketing Science Linda Golden McCombs School of Business Professor Linda…
3 Billion Rural Consumers — Can Marketers Profit From Them?
Texas McCombs Professor Vijay Mahajan has a powerful message for global marketers: “Rural does not mean poor” By Poornima Subramanian…
Lessons from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy offers lessons about the qualities and responsibilities of an effective leader Statue of Martin Luther…
Creating a Worldwide Community
McCombs launches new digital platform for cultivating international connections By Molly Dannenmaier Linda Gerber’s energy is infectious. And her networking…
Incubating Entrepreneurs
How a collaborative team of faculty and students is giving startup founders a fast start on their entrepreneurial adventure By…
Birth of a Technopolis
Entrepreneurship initiatives begun 40 years ago created a launchpad for global leadership By Bradley Keoun Houstonian Scott Tynes came to…
Network Builders
Proven strategies to connect and build powerful relationships By Jeremy M. Simon and Todd Savage For Andrew Phong Vo, BBA…
Cybersecurity Conundrum
McCombs experts weigh in on the growing digital threat. By Mary Ann Roser THE NEWS THAT Russians hacked the Democratic National…
Q&A: Business, Boycotts, and Backroom Politics
Consumer boycotts can cause politicians to back away from a business—at least publicly By Steve Brooks Flickr/Joe Brusky When the…
5 Management Lessons From the NFL
Daron Roberts, former coach and founding director of UT’s Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation, shares the lessons he’s learned…
Lean Startup Essentials from Texas Venture Labs
Harlan Beverly, Assistant Director, Texas Venture Labs Harlan Beverly, MBA ‘04, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded gaming hardware company Bigfoot Networks…
A New Playbook for Innovation
Have the courage to be bad. You can’t be innovative in one area if you’re trying to be the best…
Ethics in the Workplace
Encouraging competition among co-workers can backfire on organizations, causing inter-office conflict By Jeremy Simon Workers looking to earn a bonus…