Dean’s Council Seeks Nominations for First-Ever Owlie Awards
Wise, the owl statue, had barely taken roost in the courtyard of the Naveen Jindal School of Management before the JSOM Dean’s Council decided to mount a schoolwide awards competition that pays homage to its shiny countenance. Artist Brad Oldham with his creation, Wise The first-ever Owlie Awards this year seek to honor students, faculty […]
10th Annual Fraud Summit Draws Record Crowd, Top Speakers and Major Scholarship Donors
(Left to right) Mark Salamasick, Center for Internal Auditing Excellence director, with student teaching assistants Jae Park, Esther Bayazitoglu, Linh Mai, Alex Michael, Samantha Nguyen, and Gabe Cook — all scholarship recipients, and Chris Linsteadt, Center for Internal Auditing Excellence director associate director More than 700 internal auditors, fraud examiners and information technology professionals attended […]
Professor’s Research Earns Management Science Honor
Özalp Özer Dr. Özalp Özer, Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management, recently received the Management Science Best Paper Award for his 2011 paper “Trust in Forecast Information Sharing.” Özer wrote the paper together with his former PhD student, Dr. Yanchong Zheng, now a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, […]
U.S. News Ranks University’s MBA Program in Top 15 Public Programs Nationally
The Naveen Jindal School of Management’s Full-Time MBA Program has been named among the nation’s top 15 public MBA programs by U.S. News and World Report in its newly released 2016 “Best Graduate Schools” rankings. The survey lists the Jindal School at No. 14 among public schools offering full-time MBA programs, moving up two spots […]
Jindal School Publications Earn Three Awards
Jindal School Associate Dean Diane McNulty with the school’s 2014 MarCom Awards Three Naveen Jindal School of Management print publications earned recognition in the 2014 MarCom Awards competition, an annual international contest for marketing and communication professionals. “Make Business Your Future,” an undergraduate recruiting brochure, earned a MarCom Platinum Award in the print category of […]
Profs Team Up to Give Engineering Students Crash Course in Effective Business Communication
UT Dallas faculty members who teamed up to teach senior engineering students some critical business communication skills included (from left) Dr. Robert Hart of ECS, Dr. Michele Lockhart, Margaret Smallwood, Victoria McCrady and Dr. Jeanne Sluder of JSOM, and Dr. Todd Polk of ECS A conversation between professors from different UT Dallas schools has blossomed […]
Marketing Junior Earns Morris Hite Scholarship
Kelsey Morrison (left) with Carrie Miller, AAF Dallas education chair Kelsey Morrison, a Naveen Jindal School of Management junior majoring in marketing, is used to facing down long odds. But she is not relying on luck to secure her future. The adults in her life note that her relentless work, dedication and poise have contributed […]
Jindal Students Flourish in the Rigorous Appraisal Field
JSOM students who have interned or worked at the IRR Dallas/Fort Worth office include (left to right) Joseph Pytcher, Babak Davani, Robin Ahmadi and Vernon Williams Five University of Texas at Dallas students have found success at one of the nation’s top real estate valuation companies, all because of classes they completed at the Naveen […]
JSOM Students Work on Startup Ideas With Their Engineering Counterparts
Josh Garcia (left) with Ty Hillier and Julie Haworth Ty Hillier and Josh Garcia got hands-on marketing experience — called experiential learning in the academic world — while still Naveen Jindal School of Management students. Last semester, BS in Marketing Program Director Julie Haworth oversaw Garcia, a junior, and Hillier, a senior who graduated in […]
Two Jindal School Online Business Programs Make U.S. News Top 10
The Naveen Jindal School of Management’s online MBA and online graduate business programs are listed among the nation’s top 10 programs by U.S. News & World Report in its 2015 Best Online Programs rankings. Released Jan. 7, 2015, the report ranks the school’s online graduate business programs No. 2 and its online MBA program No. […]
ACHE Case Competition
Third Win in Four Years for a Jindal Team at Healthcare Case Competition Left to right: William (Bill) Howard, Fallon Wallace, Keith Herl and Dr. Forney Fleming, MS in Healthcare Management program director A UT Dallas team that delivered no-nonsense advice to a novice CEO trying to fix a deluge of problems in his struggling […]
Professor’s Social Enterprise ‘Paradox’ Study Earns Best Paper Award
Toyah Miller New Naveen Jindal School of Management faculty member Toyah Miller’s passion for using business skills to create societal change earned recognition recently when she and research colleague Curtis L. Wesley won the Best Paper Award and $5,000 at the 11th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference. Miller, an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship in […]
Dr. Mike W. Peng Among Top 1 Percent of Researchers
Dr. Mike Peng, the O. P. Jindal Chair of Management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, recently earned a Highly Cited Researcher Award from Thomson Reuters, the multinational mass media and information company. Thomson Reuters runs the Web of Science, a comprehensive online research platform that named Peng one of the 95 most-cited researchers […]
You’re Invited to the Grand Opening of JSOM’s New Wing
The new wing of the Naveen Jindal School of Management, which significantly expands the building, formally opens December 1 with a 3:45 p.m. ribbon cutting that will feature speeches, visitor tours and a virtual scavenger hunt for students. At 108,000 square feet, the new facility is more than half again as large as the original […]
JSOM Professor Receives Study Abroad Award
Dr. Habte Woldu receives his award from Lisabeth Lassiter. Dr. Habte Woldu, director of the Naveen Jindal School of Management BS in Global Business and MS in International Management Studies programs, was honored in November as Education Abroad Mentor. This is the first year this award has been presented by Education Abroad (formerly the Office […]
Top 5 Tips To Get a Raise, From Professor Robert Hicks
Dr. Robert Hicks, director of JSOM’s Organizational Behavior and Executive Coaching Programs, recently was tapped by CBS Channel 11 News reporter Brian New to provide his top five tips to get a raise. Hicks recounted these: Getting a raise starts before you ask for one. Take on additional tasks, duties and responsibilities to prove your […]
Jindal Team Defends Title in 2014 ICSC Real Estate Case Competition
JSOM team members (left to right) Kimberly Son, Robin Ahmadi, Brianna Davis and Jeremy Bragg with team mentor Michelle Miller A team of four Naveen Jindal School of Management undergraduates is focused on defending the first-place title UT Dallas earned last year in the inaugural International Council of Shopping Centers case competition. Three seniors — […]
JSOM Pair Scores First Place in National Ethics Competition
Back in Tucson for their second Eller Collegiate Ethic Competition, first-place winners Katherine Huston and Lewis Warne do a celebratory Whoosh Practice made perfect for Naveen Jindal School of Management seniors Katherine Huston and Lewis Warne, who came in first this year at the 12th annual Collegiate Ethics Case Competition at the Eller College of […]
Grad Student and His Team Win “Code for Good” Web App Challenge
Naveen Jindal School of Management graduate student Shobhit Dalal and his team recently used their creativity and technical skills to win first place in JPMorgan Chase’s “Code for Good” Web application challenge. The competition was held October 10 and 11 in Chase’s corporate office in Columbus, Ohio. “Code for Good” brought together 66 students studying […]
Marketing Professor’s Research Wins Best Paper Award
For companies willing to take multiple stabs at designing a new product, researchers have found that using customers only as a source of information often leads to an innovative product that will hold a marketplace advantage. What doesn’t drive innovation or marketplace advantage, surprisingly, is getting customers right in the thick of things to actually […]
Innovation, Entrepreneurship Programs Awarded for Excellence in Teaching
UT Dallas student budding entrepreneurs and the faculty behind them are part of the university’s program recently honored for its innovative teaching. From left to right: Madison Pedigo, director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs; Matthew Hinson, innovation and entrepreneurship student; Dan Bochsler, manager of the Startup Launch Track; Dr. Joseph Picken, Institute for Innovation […]
Outstanding Faculty and Staff Honored
Dean Hasan Pirkul introduced the Naveen Jindal School of Management’s 2013-2014 academic year Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award winners at a reception September 5. A teaching committee reviewed nominations and made selections of faculty winners based on their abilities and teaching excellence. A separate committee of school staff members chose the Outstanding Staff Award recipient. […]
Wise… With Great Potential
New Artworks Installed in Jindal School Courtyards Wise, a newly acquired sculpture for the Jindal Art collection, has come to roost in the courtyard of the main building. Two pieces by Dallas artist Brad Oldham recently acquired for the Jindal Art Collection were installed in the school’s courtyards October 8. Wise, a mirrored stainless steel […]
Marketing Staffer Earns Campus CARE Award
Malissa Cloer In the 3½ years that Malissa Cloer has served as administrative assistant in the Marketing Area’s undergraduate office, she has proved to be innovative, responsive to student needs and generally just great to work with. Julie Haworth, director of the Naveen Jindal School of Management undergraduate program in marketing, says Cloer has set […]
Joint UT Effort Leads to Health Case Competition Success
Winning team members (left to right): Kajal Mehta and Jack Squiers, UT Southwestern Medical School; Jonathan Stringer, UT Arlington School of Engineering; Sarah (Jane) Slusher, UT Dallas Jindal School of Management; Luwam Ghidei, UTSW Medical School; and Rohit Tyagi, UT Dallas JSOM Two Naveen Jindal School of Management full-time MBA students recently joined three students […]
Phi Beta Lambda Competitors Headed to Nationals After Setting a Texas Record
Phi Beta Lambda members posed for a celebratory photo with advisors Dr. Vance Johnson Lewis (back row, second from left) and Dr. Michele Lockhart (middle row, far right) after another winning year at state conference competitions April 11-12 at Stephen F. Austin University. A dozen members of the JSOM student organization Phi Beta Lambda are […]
Jindal School Sales Program Draws National Attention
Winning sales team members (left to right): Megan Leppez, Sharmayne Ford, sales team coach Semira Amirpour, Maria Araujo and Jawwad Baig The Professional Sales program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management has been named a top program for preparing students for professional selling careers by a nonprofit foundation that promotes the sales profession through […]
Innovation, Entrepreneurship Track Named Tech Titan Award Finalist
Graduate students (clockwise from top left) Matthew Hinson, Matthew Krenik, Alejandro Jacobo and Nicole Mossman and were the first enrolled in the new MSIE Startup Launch Track. Startup Launch, a track within the Jindal School’s Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MSIE) degree program, has been named as one of four finalists for the […]
Congratulations, Former Ascend Officers
These seven Naveen Jindal School of Management new graduates and all former officers in the student organization, Ascend, had jobs in hand before their college degrees. Shown in the photo are: Top left: Huilin (Ben) Luo, past vice president of community service for Ascend, has accepted a position as an audit associate with Ernst & […]
Jindal Students Make a Clean Sweep in DFW AMA Collegiate Marketer of The Year Finals
All finalists for the 2013-2014 DFW American Marketing Association Collegiate Marketer of the Year award were Jindal School students, including (from left) Zachary Evans, winner Ganapath (Ramu) Velu, Mindy Tiu, BS 2014, and Asha Andrews, BS 2014. (Photo by and courtesy of Benjamin D. Stewart) Naveen Jindal School of Management marketing and global business major […]
More Record-Setting Success for Phi Beta Lambda at Nationals
Phi Beta Lambda members who went to the organization’s national conference in Nashville in June added to the chapter’s competitive success. From left to right, back row: Dr. Vance Johnson Lewis, PBL chapter advisor, and Siddarth Vyas; middle row: Melvin Lopez, Anil Pandya, Luis Fuentes, Dr. Michele Lockhart, PBL chapter co-advisor; Omar Farid; and Saad […]
D CEO Honors IECG Executive Director Dennis McCuistion
Dennis McCuistion, Naveen Jindal School of Management clinical professor and executive director of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance, is among honorees recently selected by D CEO magazine to receive one of its 2014 Financial Executive Awards. McCuistion earned the Excellence in Corporate Governance Award. “Corporate governance essentially means the system by which a […]
Jindal School Alumni Strike Deal with Mark Cuban on “Shark Tank”
Naveen Jindal School of Management alumni Corey Egan, MBA’10, and Swapnil Bora, MBA’11, emerged from the “Shark Tank” reality television show with a $350,000 deal with entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Egan and Bora, who appeared on the episode of “Shark Tank” that aired April 18, developed the idea of smartphone-controlled light bulbs […]
Star Jindal Students Receive Campus Awards
At the end of the spring semester, many awards are given to students who stand out for their contributions to UT Dallas. In April, two Naveen Jindal School of Management students were recognized for their exemplary involvement. Amanda Pereira Amanda Pereira, received the campus Student Employee of the Year Award from the Career Center during […]
Math Society to Honor Professor Alain Bensoussan
Alain Bensoussan Dr. Alain Bensoussan, Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management and director of the Jindal School’s International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis, has been selected by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to receive an award for his contributions in the fields of differential equations and control theory. He will be […]
JSOM Undergraduate Awarded Ethnic Minority Scholarship
Naveen Jindal School of Management marketing major Miguel Juarez was one of 20 undergraduates from across the nation recently awarded a competitive scholarship for ethnic minority students pursuing careers in advertising, marketing and public relations. The LAGRANT Foundation, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit whose mission is to increase the number of ethnic minorities in the fields […]
Whoosh! from Seoul and Dongguk U.
Naveen Jindal School of Management students (left to right) Renata Fry, Babajide Akinwale, Melanie Castro, Richard Beiswanger and Maggy Schieffer show their Comet pride with a Whoosh outside the Cheongwadae, the Blue House, in Seoul, South Korea. The Blue House is a complex that includes the official residence of the president of South Korea as […]
Business Honorary Beta Gamma Sigma Inducts 150 New Members
Dean Hasan Pirkul congratulates Matrice Ellis-Kirk, who spoke and was made an honorary member at the recent Beta Gamma Sigma induction ceremony. View more induction ceremony photos on Flickr. The business honorary society Beta Gamma Sigma observes its 100th anniversary this year, and in keeping with that celebration, the speaker at the recent UT Dallas […]
Business Educator Alumnus to Speak at Hooding Ceremony
Dipak C. Jain Dipak C. Jain, MS 1986, PhD 1987, immediate past dean of INSEAD, a global business school with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, returns to UT Dallas August 15 to speak at the doctoral hooding ceremony at the Clark Center (1 to 4 p.m.) At the ceremony, successful PhD candidates receive […]
Jindal School Hosts Healthcare Conference
(Left to right) Dr. Forney Fleming, director of the Naveen Jindal School of Management MS in Healthcare Management program; quality improvement consultants Cindy Bigbee, Janice Torecki and Donna Zimmerman; and Dr. Earl Smith III, TMF medical director; at the Readmissions: Developing a Community Focus conference. The MS in Healthcare Management program hosted a daylong health […]
Undergrad Specialties Ranked by Bloomberg
The Naveen Jindal School of Management undergraduate program ranked among the nation’s top 15 in five academic disciplines in a recent Bloomberg Businessweek survey of graduating seniors. The school placed in the top 25 in nine subjects included in the publication’s 2013 specialty area rankings: No. 8 in sustainability (green business) No . 9 in […]
Jindal School Finance Professors Earn Best Paper Award
Feng Zhao Examination of counterintuitive investor behavior has led to an award-winning study by three Naveen Jindal School of Management finance professors. The trio investigated what they described as a “puzzling phenomenon.” Why, they wondered, despite the poor performance of actively managed mutual funds relative to their passively managed counterparts, the active funds continued to […]
Annual Scholarship Breakfast Brings in $107K
Jindal School of Management Dean Hasan Pirkul (at left in both photos) accepts scholarship donations from Ericsson North America President Angel Ruiz (in photo at left) and from Southwest Securities Group President and CEO James H. Ross. Communications technology and services provider Ericsson and securities broker-dealer Southwest Securities Group co-sponsored the recent Naveen Jindal School […]
Two JSOM Alums Among Top Young Business Professionals
Two Naveen Jindal School of Management alumni are among the top young business achievers recently named to the annual list of “40 Under 40” compiled by the Dallas Business Journal. Brian Livingston, MS 2002, and Chad Schieber, MBA 2001, were chosen from among more than 300 nominees this year for the honor, which recognizes accomplished […]
Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul Recognized for Exceptional Leadership
JSOM Dean Hasan Pirkul Naveen Jindal School of Management Dean and Caruth Chair of Management Dr. Hasan Pirkul received the John J. Fernandes Strategic Leadership Award October 10 at the meeting of the Allied Academies in San Antonio. Given by the Academy of Strategic and Entrepreneurial Leadership, the award recognizes a university president, provost, dean […]
Kids’ Stuff: JSOM Students Volunteer at Holiday Toy Sort
Accounting Leadership Association volunteers (left to right) Xiaoyun (Linda) Su, Chenchu (Chloe) Wang and Manshu Zhang The Jindal School-based Accounting Leadership Association at UT Dallas recently invited JSOM students to join them in serving with the Dallas CPA Society at the annual Love for Kids toy sort. More than 10,000 toys needed to be sorted, […]
JSOM Undergrads Finish in Fourth Place in Spring Capsim Challenge
Capsim fourth-place finishers (left to right) Ca Nguyen, Sarah Ching and Iris Mostrom Undergraduates Sarah Ching, Iris Mostrom and Ca Nguyen battled with more than 550 student teams from around the globe in the Spring Capsim Challenge, finishing the Capsim Foundation competition in fourth place. The contest, which took place in April, tested participants’ abilities […]
JSOM Team Wins Social Media Marketing Competition
Marketing Senior Lecturer Abhi Biswas (far left) and Graduate Marketing Program Director Alex Edsel (far right) celebrate with the winning JSOM team members (left to right) Preston Hanisko, Xi Yan, Gamze Ozkan and William (Troy) Prestenberg UT Dallas marketing students recently won a case study competition so rooted in business reality that they had to […]
JSOM Team Wins 2012 AICPA Accounting Competition
(Left to right) Richard J. Caturano, chairman of the American Institute of CPAs, presented the UT Dallas team Working Capitol — Samuel Teichelman, Shahrzad Azimi, team captain April Crawford, Trey Sweeney and adviser John Barden — with a $10,000 presentation check for winning the 2012 AICPA Accounting Competition. A student team from UT Dallas has […]
Jindal School Alum Named Nonprofit CEO of the Year
A Naveen Jindal School of Management alumnus, Lynn M. Davis, was recently named Nonprofit CEO of the Year in recognition of his excellence in managing the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, an agency serving abused children in Dallas County. President and CEO of the advocacy center since 2005, Davis earned the award last November from the […]
JSOM Students in Top 10 of World Collegiate Sales Open
Naveen Jindal School of Management senior marketing majors Sarah Kienle and Monica Raofpur sold the judges on their salesmanship skills when they competed at the 2012-2013 World Collegiate Sales Open (WCSO) finals recently at Northern Illinois University. Kienle placed fifth overall in the contest, and Raofpur placed ninth. The pair advanced through three elimination rounds […]
JSOM Student Places Second in INFORMS Competition
Naveen Jindal School of Management PhD candidate and graduate teaching assistant Sandun Perera recently earned second place from the Financial Services Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for his research paper on a new intervention model nations can use to determine the optimal time to enter the foreign-exchange market, […]
The Bloomberg Businessweek Rankings Are In
Recognition for the high quality of Naveen Jindal School of Management curriculum and programs has come from Bloomberg Businessweek rankings in many areas. Here is how the Jindal School fared in the latest (2013) standings: Professional MBA No. 12 among public university Professional MBA Programs, No. 26 overall and No. 3 regionally Executive MBA No. […]
Thank You for Voting UT Dallas into the Finals of the 2012 AICPA Accounting Competition
Naveen Jindal School of Management students (left to right) Sam Teichelman, Shahrzad Azimi, April Crawford and Trey Sweeney make up Working Capitol, the UT Dallas team in the semifinals of the 2012 AICPA Accounting Competition . For the third consecutive year, a Jindal School of Management team has made it into the finals of the […]
Take Another Bow, Jared Pickens
Jared Pickens (left) receives Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award from Dean Hasan Pirkul No sooner had Jared Pickens been named the 2012-2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher in the Jindal School of Management at a September ceremony than he was tapped for another honor, winner of the 2013 Chairman Award from the Financial Planning Association of Dallas-Fort Worth. […]
SIFE Team Advances to Nationals
Winning team members (left to right) Ha Nguyen, Nithhyaa Ramamoorthy, Ying He, Lisa Nielsen, adviser Dr. Jeanne Sluder, Sadiq Momim, Tiancheng Bao, Mayur Mehta, Mohammad Raza, Sanket Kamath and Balaji Venkatachalapathy show off their trophy. The UT Dallas Students in Free Enterprise — SIFE — team was named one of the champions in the regional […]
JSOM Moves Up in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
The School of Management’s online graduate business programs climbed to the No. 4 spot in a newly released national ranking by U.S. News & World Report. The school tied with the University of West Georgia in the 2014 Best Online Graduate Business Programs rankings released Wednesday. In the 2013 rankings, the Jindal School was No. […]
“What Do We Know For Certain About Uncertainty?”
Dr. Peter Lewin, JSOM clinical professor of finance and managerial economics, delivered a keynote address at the inaugural Charles Street Symposium in London in June. The symposium focused on “Rethinking Uncertainty in Economics and the Real World.” The symposium was organized by the Legatum Institute, an independent, nonpartisan think tank spun off the Legatum Group, […]
“Ninja Shoes” Win Big at UT Dallas Innovation Opportunity Camp
Photo by Ken SharpCaleb Clarke of Plano Senior High School was a member of Surge, the second-place Innovation Opportunity Camp team that created the Sonic Hair Dryer. Teens Learn Entrepreneurship, Generate New Business Ideas “Ninja Shoes,” a cordless hair dryer and a “Wireless Waitress” took top honors this year at a UT Dallas summer camp […]
India Enterprise Forum Explores Untapped Technology Opportunities to Fuel Global Economy
The India Enterprise Forum, sponsored by The University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management, will be held from 1:45 to 7 p.m. on Friday, May 3, in the Jindal School’s Davidson Auditorium on the UT Dallas campus, 800 West Campbell Road in Richardson. The event will feature one of the most influential […]
Professor’s Media Study Featured in Institutional Investor
Umit G. Gurun When media executives sit on corporate boards of directors, those companies are likely to receive not only significantly more broadcast and press attention, but more favorable mentions and less negative publicity overall. Assistant Accounting Professor Umit G. Gurun studied the presence of media experts on organizational boards and the public influence those […]
Inaugural India Enterprise Forum
Tuesday, May 15Naveen Jindal School of Management | Davidson Auditorium A one-day event, the India Enterprise Forum will be held Tuesday, May 15, in the Davidson Auditorium at the UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management. The forum will feature high-profile experts from business, government agencies and public institutions in India and the United States. […]
Professor Honored for Marketing Science Contributions
Brian T. Ratchford Dr. Brian T. Ratchford, Charles and Nancy Davidson Chair in Marketing at the Jindal School, has received the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2013 Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) Fellow Award. The award recognizes cumulative long-term contributions to fostering the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and […]
Humana Healthcare Case Competition Winners
Second Win in Three Years for a Jindal Team at Humana Healthcare Case Competition Humana Healthcare Case Competition winners (left to right): Steve Buchalter, Madison Moore, Charlotte Hamm and Shane Damico For the second time in three years, a Jindal School student team has won first place, $10,000 and job-interview opportunities in a national healthcare […]
Healthcare Management Professor Comments on Potential ‘Sticker Shock’ of Mandated Health Insurance
In a KERA radio interview, JSOM Healthcare Management Professor John F. McCracken predicted that despite the threat of a monetary penalty, some people will skirt the federal mandate to buy health insurance. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to soon rule on the constitutionality of healthcare reform. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed […]
Healthcare Management Experts Comment on Reform on KERA
Dr. John McCracken, director of JSOM’s Healthcare Management for Physicians program, and Dr. Forney Fleming, director of JSOM’s MS in Healthcare Management program, spoke to KERA reporter B.J. Austin about issues in play as the Supreme Court considers healthcare reform. Read and listen to the March 29 report at “Supreme Court Decision to Affect Texas.”
Phi Beta Lambda Members Triumphant Many Times Over at Texas Competition
Phi Beta Lambda winners. Back row (left to right): Yousuf Hassan, Siddarth Vyas, adviser Dr. Vance Johnson Lewis, Sumanth Nelluru, Sridhar Karr.Front row: Saad Khan, Sehrish Rizvi, Robert Kim, Mindy Tiu, Alica Cobb, Phuong Nguyen, Shaheena Ramzan The UT Dallas chapter of Phi Beta Lambda, a student organization based in the Jindal School, triumphed many […]
Going Places
JSOM student Teresa Tran profiled in AICPA video Naveen Jindal School of Management accounting and finance double-major Teresa Tran is featured in a video profile on Start Here, Go Places, a student website of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. AICPA picked Teresa to interview after she and three JSOM teammates won third place […]
Full-Time MBAs host KIPP Truth Academy students
Naveen Jindal School of Management full-time MBA students hosted 75 students from the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) Truth Academy in Dallas On March 23. The one-day visit by KIPP seventh-graders has become an annual JSOM event at which the MBA students introduce the middle-schoolers to UT Dallas and lead them in team-building and networking […]
First Annual Dean’s Cup Competition
Team Tex Mex members (left to right) Zac Evans, Addison Kim, Alejandra Serrate and Marco Hagens won first place, $1,500 and the silver trophy in the inaugural Dean’s Cup Competition. Team Tex Mex won the first Dean’s Cup, a new competition the Accounting Club started to test undergraduates’ overall business knowledge. Creative team names were […]
Dr. Rebecca Files Awarded President’s Award
President’s Outstanding Teaching Award Recipient Rebecca Files (right) in her JSOM office with fellow accounting faculty member Tiffany Bortz. Dr. Rebecca Files has faced some tough crowds in her accounting classes. Some students arrive expecting a dull semester, the assistant professor of accounting said. But Files sees that as a challenge. “There are a lot […]
Dr. Forney W. Fleming Named to the Dallas Business Journal’s Inaugural ‘Who’s Who in Healthcare’ Publication
Dr. Fleming has used personal experiences — gained from nearly three decades as a practicing orthopedic surgeon who also ran hospital committees and trained future doctors — and professional training — including an MBA degree — to create a pioneering master’s degree program at UT Dallas that rigorously equips students — with or without a […]
Naveen Jindal School of Management Team Wins North Texas 2012 ACHE Case Competition
JSOM team members (left to right) Isaac Hernandez, Madison Vinklarek and Veeraj Thakkar celebrated their win with one of their faculty coaches, Dr. Forney Fleming. A trio of Jindal School students recently earned first place and $3,000 in the third annual North Texas Case Competition held by the American College of Healthcare Executives. Full-time MBA […]
Naveen Jindal School of Management Building Addition Breaks Ground
Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Parking Lot Q (East of the school) Join the Jindal School community as we celebrate the start of construction on the school’s new addition, which increases our campus footprint by 50 percent and enhances our ability to educate tomorrow’s business leaders. Reception with light refreshments to follow. In […]
Accounting Undergrads Celebrate at Annual Luncheon
Every spring, the JSOM Undergraduate Accounting program holds an honors luncheon to bestow accolades on top achievers and make predictions about future career choices. This year, honors at the May 6 event went to:
Accounting Seniors Celebrate
JSOM undergraduate accounting seniors celebrated the end of the academic year and their forthcoming graduation with a May 8 honors luncheon featuring tributes, awards and career predictions. After Accounting Area Coordinator and Ashbel Smith Professor William Cready welcomed everyone, a video recounted 2011-2012 accomplishments and closed with a reminder for students to: Work hard. Be […]
Accounting Major Brings Home $5K Scholarship
Accounting Major Brings Home $5K Scholarship Naveen Jindal School of Management undergraduate Sixuan (Veronica) Wang had no idea she had won a $5,000 scholarship from Ernst & Young until her boyfriend told her he saw her name on the Web page of Ascend, the nonprofit organization through which the scholarship was being awarded. After a […]
Accounting Faculty Member Has New Leadership Role in Dallas CPA Society
Art Agulnek Art Agulnek, senior lecturer in accounting, was chosen as chairman-elect of the Dallas CPA Society at its annual meeting last month. In his new role, Agulnek will serve this year and part of next as second-in-command of the local professional group before becoming chairman in the 2015-2016 year. The society, a not-for-profit association […]
A Capitol Idea!
EMBA students go to Washington, D.C. EMBA Students in Washington, D.C. A study trip to Washington, D.C., is part of the JSOM Executive MBA curriculum, and the class traveling there in March is seen here posing outside the Office of Management and Budget. Inside, the students heard from Ken Baer, OMB's senior advisor and associate […]
Purdue Recognizes JSOM Professor as a ‘Distinguished Woman Scholar’
Dr. Kathryn E. Stecke’s latest accolade for contributing to the advancement of women in her field comes from Purdue University, where she earned three graduate degrees on her way to becoming a leading researcher in operations management. In a program and reception March 7, Purdue honored Stecke, Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management in the […]
