Hiro Yoguchi, MBA ’25, said he chose Texas McCombs because of its world-class resources in his areas of interest, its small Japanese student population (allowing him to experience being a minority), and its warm climate. During the spring, Poets & Quants picked Yoguchi as one of its Best & Brightest Class of 2025. “McCombs felt […]
In 2016, Ryan Daly, BBA ’25, turned his passion for woodworking into an e-commerce business whose product lines now include handcrafted cutting boards, bottle openers, poker chip sets, and the bestselling, officially licensed Texas Longhorns Boot Jack, which is exclusive to the University Co-op in Austin. “I started doing woodworking in seventh grade when I […]
In 2023, longtime friends Ankitha Gantasala, a McCombs integrated MPA student, and Sophia Pirani, a Northwestern University student, revived and expanded Painted Hope, their nonprofit to help people with rare diseases. The pair, who met in art camp when they were 4 years old, originally started the organization in high school and sold their paintings […]
McCombs Graduates Take the Stage Last spring, our photographers captured the spirit of McCombs School of Business graduates during their convocation ceremonies on May 9-10. We selected a handful of candid shots and reached out to the newly minted alumni in them. We asked: What was going through your mind in this photograph? What did […]
Texas Exes, the ex-students association at The University of Texas at Austin, has named John Doggett and Sandy Leeds of the McCombs School of Business to its Texas 10 list. The association has asked students and alumni to submit nominations for the teaching award every year since 2011. Doggett is a professor of instruction in the […]
The University of Zurich gave honorary doctorates to McCombs finance professor Laura Starks, B.A. ’72, Ph.D. ’81, and seven other people during May as the university celebrated the 192nd anniversary of its founding. The other honorees included a historian, a legal philosopher, a linguist, a theologian, a banking expert, and a horse trainer. The Swiss […]
More than 50 students took part in the Investment Banking Accelerator, an intensive program to help undergraduates gain essential business skills, held in August before the start of the fall semester. The new weeklong program from Texas McCombs Academy was designed to equip students, including nonbusiness majors, with a strong foundation in investment banking. The […]
Ethics Unwrapped, the educational video series housed at the Center for Leadership and Ethics at McCombs, won a silver and a bronze medal in The Telly Awards for 2025. The awards honor excellence in video and television across all media and received over 13,000 entries from all 50 states and six continents. “Implicit Bias & […]
Texas McCombs is embracing the fast-rising trendof ‘entrepreneurship through acquisition’ By Omar L. Gallaga After Edgar Galindo, MBA ’20, finished school at Texas McCombs, he thought he’d go into consulting. That worked out; soon, he was a strategy and operations consultant at Deloitte. But after two years at the firm, the long hours wore on […]
![SCP 4146[50]](https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/SCP_414650-600x400.jpg)
