School News
Faculty & Staff
faculty earn promotions
Effective Sept. 1, 2007, Prabhudev Konana (IROM) will be
promoted to professor. Kyle Lewis (Management), Raji
Srinivasan (Marketing) and Raj Raghunathan (Marketing) will
be promoted to associate professors. Kathy Edwards
(Management) will be promoted to senior lecturer.
former smeal assistant dean named director of texas evening mba program
Bob Wheeler has joined the McCombs School as director of the Texas Evening MBA program. Wheeler served as the
assistant dean and director of the MBA program at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University for four years. Prior to that appointment, Wheeler was
an assistant dean and director of MBA admissions at Georgetown University
for three years after practicing law in Washington, D.C. for many years.
Accounting
kinney and koonce honored for excellence in accounting
Accounting Professor Bill Kinney received the American
Accounting Association Wildman Medal for his paper, “Auditor
Independence, Non-Audit Services, and Restatements: Was the
U.S. Government Right?” published in the Journal of
Accounting Research in June 2004. His coauthors are
Zoe-Vonna Palmrose, University of Southern California, and
Susan W. Scholz, University of Kansas. This is the third
Wildman Medal for Kinney, who also won the award in 1983 and
1999. Accounting Professor Lisa Koonce won the Accounting
Horizons Best Paper award for “Accounting for Liabilities:
Conceptual Issues, Standards Setting, and Evidence from
Academic Research,” published in Accounting Horizons in
September 2005. Her coauthors are Christine Botosan,
University of Utah; Steve Ryan, New York University; Mary
Stone, University of Alabama; and Jim Wahlen, Indiana
University.
Finance
keith brown selected as university distinguished teaching professor
Keith Brown, finance professor, has been selected to join
the Academy of Distinguished Teachers—a select group of
tenured professors at The University of Texas at Austin that
provides leadership and guidance to improve the quality and
depth of the undergraduate experience. “There are only a few
faculty selected for this prestigious award every year, and
Keith is the eighth McCombs School professor to be so
honored,” said George Gau, dean of the McCombs School.
“Keith is a fitting addition to this distinguished group and
we are proud of his achievement.” New members of the academy
are selected after a rigorous committee evaluation process
that involves deans, members of the academy, students and
other faculty. The provost receives recommendations from the
committee and makes the final selections. Brown will receive
the title University Distinguished Teaching Professor and
will serve in the Academy of Distinguished Teachers for the
duration of his tenure at the university.
IROM
cooper awarded 2006 impact prize from informs
William Cooper, IROM professor emeritus, was awarded the
prestigious 2006 Impact Prize by The Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS),
the largest professional society in the world for the field
of operations research. Cooper and his colleague Abraham
Charnes were given the award for their seminal work in Data
Envelopment Analysis, which was first described in the
article “Measuring the Efficiency of Decision-making Units,”
in the European Journal of Operational Research. It was
selected as one of the 30 most influential papers published
in the first 30 years of that journal.
Management
john sibley butler receives booker t. washington legacy award
John Sibley Butler, director of the Herb Kelleher Center for
Entrepreneurship and the IC2 Institute at The University of
Texas at Austin, was presented the Booker T. Washington
Legacy Award June 4 by The New Coalition for Economic and
Social Change, a nonprofit devoted to advancing conservative
multiculturalism. Butler, a professor of management, was
honored because of his research on the importance of
business enterprise for wealth creation and job creation. As
director of the Kelleher Center and the IC2 Institute,
Butler has been dedicated to both the teaching and the
“doing” of entrepreneurship. “My father, who held degrees in
agriculture and was a country agent and entrepreneur in
Louisiana during his lifetime, considered Booker T.
Washington among the greatest of all Americans,” Butler
said. “It was a delight to meet Booker T. Washington’s
granddaughter, who was present at the awards ceremony.”
Marketing
peterson named ut austin’s associate vp for research
Robert Peterson, McCombs marketing professor and John T.
Stuart III Centennial Chair in Business Administration, has
been named associate vice president for research in the
Office of the Vice President for Research at The University
of Texas at Austin. “I am excited about serving the
university in a new capacity and increasing its research
stature globally,” Peterson said. In the past, Peterson
served as deputy director and director of research at the
IC2 Institute and associate dean for research and chair of
the Marketing Department at McCombs.
eli cox appointed chair of department of marketing
Eli Cox, the La Quinta Motor Inns Centennial Professor in
Business, has succeeded Wayne Hoyer as chair of the
Department of Marketing. Cox joined the McCombs School in
1971 and has served in several administrative capacities,
including his current role as director of the Business
Honors Program for more than 10 years, which he will
continue. Cox served as the chair of the Marketing
Department from 1985 to 1989 and as the director of the
Executive Education MBA Program from 1982 to 1985. “Eli’s
appointment received the full support of the Department of
Marketing, and he is well known to most of the McCombs
faculty and staff,” said Dean George Gau.
center for customer insight names executive director
Lamar Johnson, BBA ’70, was named executive director of the
Center for Customer Insight, which was recently renamed the
Center for Customer Insight and Marketing Solutions. Johnson
has been charged with revitalizing and re-launching the
center, providing measurable benefits for students, faculty
and industry partners, and enabling cross functional
solutions for winning in the marketplace. Johnson recently
retired from Procter & Gamble after a career of more than 33
years in sales, marketing and supply chain roles. In his
final P&G assignment, Johnson reported to the North American
president and led the Customer Services and Logistics
organization for the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
The McCombs School of Business offers six options to earn an
MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. In all our
programs, highly qualified students from myriad backgrounds
and with an array of career experiences come to McCombs to
learn from our faculty, expand their networks and develop
their leadership abilities. The format of the programs
varies to accommodate students in different stages of their
careers and personal lives. Students in the full-time,
evening, Dallas and Houston programs have similar work
experience, GMAT scores and undergraduate GPAs. These
programs are designed to help managers launch their careers
as senior-level leaders. Students in our Austin and Mexico
City executive programs are generally further along in their
professions and are looking to turbocharge their careers.
This table of 2006 incoming class statistics provides a
brief summary of both the distinctions and commonalities of
the menu of Texas MBA programs.
