UT Dallas News Center is an official news voice of The University of Texas at Dallas. http://www.utdallas.edu/news/ http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/06-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Experts in graduate business education met at UT Dallas to wrestle over a few business questions of their own recently: namely, how best to market and manage their schools in a tough economy, and how to build leadership excellence. The 16th Annual gave heads of part-time 75 MBA programs a chance to exchange ideas, evaluate progress and collaborate on these ideas and others. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/11/04-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The arrival of rankings season has brought good news for the UT Dallas School of Management. The Financial Times has ranked the school's Executive MBA program No. 1 among public universities in Texas and one of the Top 10 U.S.-based programs globally. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/10/28-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management recognized Professor Gregory Dess, an internationally recognized business strategy expert, for a work on entrepreneurship that has been cited by hundreds of researchers since it first appeared in 1996. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/10/23-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UT Dallas has been recognized by its university peers with an award citing the program's contributions to advancing the discipline of entrepreneurship. IIE Executive Director Joseph C. Picken accepted the honor at the annual conference of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers in Houston. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/10/12-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS A management student who has demonstrated leadership skills on the job and on campus will be recognized this month by the Texas Business Hall of Fame. The nonprofit organization honors the accomplishments of the state's business leaders and encourages future entrepreneurs. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/10/05-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Continuing interest in China's role in global business is fueling demand for the insights of a UT Dallas management faculty member who is an expert on the subject. Mike W. Peng began a series of high-profile speaking engagements over the weekend with a keynote address at the three-day conference on China at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Mon, 5 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/10/01-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The UT Dallas School of Management is offering a new degree concentration focused on educating coaches to support leaders, managers and other professionals striving for optimal employee-performance results. The Organizational Behavior and Coaching concentration introduces executive and professional coaching, shows how it works and provides supervised practice. Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/09/23-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The cultural divide that has existed between the U.S. and Mexico is slowly diminishing, research by a UT Dallas professor finds. The study, co-authored by School of Management faculty member Dr. Habte Woldu, reveals that younger, more educated, professional Mexicans have started to demonstrate more cultural assimilation with the U.S. cultural value system. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/09/18-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS A society for operations management professionals has conferred top honors on Kathryn E. Stecke, lauding the School of Management professor for a long list of contributions to the field. Stecke was chosen to be a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), one of only 11 chosen this year out of the society's 10,000 members. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/09/01-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS On Tuesday, The University of Texas at Dallas received 16 philanthropic gifts, totaling more than $16.8 million - seven of them in amounts of $1 million or more and all greater than $100,000. It was the greatest number of individual seven-figure gifts ever received in one day by UT Dallas. Tue, 1 Sep 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/08/27-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Power tools and toothbrushes have helped UT Dallas School of Management Professor Brian T. Ratchford and his colleagues achieve breakthrough results in their efforts to improve the new-product design process. Their marketing model gives designers insights into how objective attributes and perceptions jointly influence buyers' purchase decisions. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/08/20-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS UT Dallas professors Monica Evans, Michael Savoie, John Sibert and Marjorie Zielke are taking on a challenge issued by the University of Texas System. Research proposals issued by these faculty members have each been awarded roughly $250,000 under the Transforming Undergraduate Education grant program. Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/08/17-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Businesses in all industries are increasingly concerned about the impact that products and services are having on the planet and future generations. Under the leadership of Francisco Szekely, the School of Management's new Center for Responsible Business and Sustainability is doing work to help companies rewrite their strategies. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/08/10-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and retired NASA astronaut and UT Dallas alumnus Jim Reilly will be keynote speakers on Aug. 13 to about 300 professionals as they gather to refine their skills in managing projects large and small. The 3rd Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium is expected to draw managers who oversee projects in a variety of fields. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/08/06-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS High school students meeting recently at The University of Texas at Dallas School of Management vanquished the stereotype that teenagers use the Internet only to socialize and be entertained. A group of 18 local teens put blogs, social networks, Twitter, video sharing, virtual worlds, Wikis and the like to work at Web 2.0 Summer Camp. Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/07/13-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS A dramatic increase in demand for business-process courses has spurred the School of Management to add classes and step up the school's affiliation with the dominant maker of business-solutions software. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/07/13-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Titan Technology's top managers talk excitedly and effusively about their new business. But they're not high-powered executives; they're high school students who participated in an Innovation Opportunity Camp. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/07/06-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Media and politicians blame subprime mortgage lenders for a litany of problems, but when it comes to home foreclosures, the evidence doesn't support the accusations, Dr. Stan Liebowitz says, describing his recent research in The Wall Street Journal. Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/06/29-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Supercharged by the potential of the new administration in Washington, yet subdued by the angst of the current economy, minority business academics recently met at UT Dallas to consider their roles in this shifting landscape. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/06/22-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The world's leading applied mathematics society has honored Dr. Alain Bensoussan, director of the UT Dallas International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/06/15-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Gabriel Vaughan, who holds three different degrees from the School of Management, has yet another distinction to his credit. On the recent nationwide CPA exams, he earned one of the Top 10 scores nationwide. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/05/15-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS A 22-year-old business-biology major will be the fourth member of her family to earn a degree at UT Dallas. Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/05/12-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS For UT Dallas business honor society inductees, Beta Gamma Sigma is more than a name. Last month’s induction ceremony celebrated 110 new members and exhorted them to pursue careers based on solid principles. Tue, 12 May 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/05/05-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS After she finishes her first year at Georgetown University's law school, Kim Allen will begin a summer internship for Judge Sandra Ikuta of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Tue, 5 May 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/04/30-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS An accounting student's independent research on internal auditing has landed her a $5,000 award and an expense-paid trip to an international conference in South Africa. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/04/30-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The UT Dallas School of Management has named Jerry Hoag, the executive director of the UT Dallas Leadership Center, as associate dean of the school's Executive Education area. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/04/28-003.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Recognizing the competitive edge students gain by learning data mining skills that can ultimately help businesses identify patterns in customer behavior, the School of Management is now offering a graduate certificate in Business Intelligence and Data Mining. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/04/24-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS The Full-Time MBA program at The University of Texas at Dallas' School of Management was ranked one of the Top 50 programs in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/04/23-001.php?WT.mc_id=RSS A School of Management program will help leaders of middle-market companies apply the principles of accountability and transparency that serve larger companies. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:00:00 CST http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2009/04/16-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS Proliferating problems with fraud mean that businesses and consumers must exercise a higher degree of diligence and skepticism than they ever have before, former top-flight FBI agent Eric O'Neill told the 2009 UT Dallas Fraud Summit. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:00:00 CST