On Friday, March 6, 2015 the 10th Annual AlumniBusiness Conference was held at the AT&T Executive Education and ConferenceCenter in Austin, TX. The keynote panel included Antonio Garza, U.S. Ambassador (ret.), Christi Craddick, Chair, Texas Railroad Commission, and wasmoderated by Evan Smith,Editor-in-Chief and CEO, The Texas Tribune. Lillian Mills, Chair, Department of Accounting, was the master ofceremonies. The speaker list also included Tom Gilligan, dean of the McCombsSchool of Business, JackFraker, Vice Chairman andManaging Director, CBRE Capital Markets, Patton “Pat" Jones,Principal, ARA Real Estate Investment Services, Colby Mueck, ManagingDirector, HFF, LP, Michael E. Webber,deputy director, Energy Institute, and associate professor, MechanicalEngineering, and Sheril Kirshenbaum,associate director, UT Energy Poll.

1. School Update
Tom Gilligan
Dean

2. Topics
 Program Performance
 BBA/BHP
 MPA
 MBA
 Other programs
 MSFinance, MSIROM, MSTC
 Executive Education
 Business Foundations Program
 Strategic Initiatives
 Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs
 Energy Initiative
 Health Care Initiative
 Facilities Master Plan
 Alumni Engagement
 Faculty/Staff Highlights

3. BBA Admissions
 Fall 2014
 Total applications: 6,503 (LY 6,271)
 Students admitted: 1,651 (LY 1,629)
 Students enrolled: 887 (LY 872)
 Average SAT: 1345 (LY 1342)
 Average High School Rank: 7% (LY 8%)
 Female: 50.8% (LY 50.5%)
 Valedictorians: 46 (LY 47)
 Texas residents: 88% (LY 76.6%)
 Out-of-state: 7% (LY 19.8%)
 International: 5% (LY 3.6%)

4. BHP Admissions
 Fall 2014
 Total applications: 1,255 (LY 1,255)
 Students admitted: 244 (LY 237)
 Students enrolled: 118 (LY117)
 Average SAT: 1480 (LY 1482)
 Average High School Rank: 2.1% (LY 2.2%)
 Female: 47.5% (LY 46.8%)
 Valedictorians: 46 (LY 31)
 Texas residents: 86% (LY 87.8%)
 Out-of-state: 10% (LY 9.7%)
 International: 3% (LY 2.5%)

5. MPA Admissions
(Traditional and I-MPA)
 Fall 2014
 Total applications: 784 (LY 857)
 Admitted: 403 (LY 380)
 Students enrolled: 316 (LY 291)
 Yield: 78% (LY 77%)
 Female/Male: 45% / 55%
 GPA: 3.68
 GMAT: 660 (T-MPA)

6. MBA Admissions
 Fall 2014
 Total applications: 2,179 (LY 1,951)
 Students enrolled: 272 (LY 274)
 Average GMAT: 691 (LY 690)
 Female: 32% (LY 26%)
 Texas residents: 36% (LY 37%)
 International: 24% (LY 19%)

7. Other Programs
 Masters Programs 2014-15 Enrollment
 MSFinance – 40 (LY 29)
 MSIROM – 54 (LY 52)
 MSTC – 68 (LY 79)
 Executive Education
 655 program days (LY 715)
 Revenue $10,931,999 (LY $11,492,400)
 Served ~7,000 people
 Custom programs for ~50 organizations
 Open enrollments programs for more than 300 organizations

8. Other Programs (cont.)
 Business Foundations
 More than 6,100 students across UT’s campus
 Online courses
 UT Students
 Currently offering 4 of 6 courses (enrollment: 133 – 4 courses; 3 are in phase 1 pilot)
 Final 2 courses offered in Spring ‘15
 Non UT Students
 Targeting Spring ‘15 to offer 4 of 6 courses
 Remaining 2 courses targeted for Summer ’15
 Summer sessions
 Teaches fundamentals of business to non-McCombs student
 Program is 8 weeks, 15 credits, team taught by 15 McCombs faculty members to
integrate course content
 Three cohorts, 2 STEM (Halliburton supported) and 1 Health Care (new 2014), running
concurrently with over 120 students
 Expect to grow to 150+ students with additional healthcare cohort in 2015
 Program runs at a financial surplus in support of the BBA Program Office

9. Undergraduate Career Success
 100% complete professional internship or
practicum
 Companies recruiting on campus: 875 (full-
time jobs accepted)
 Companies posting on job boards: 2,900
 Average base salary at graduation: $58,049
(LY $55,606)
 Average signing bonus: $6,804 (LY $6,216)

10. MBA Career Success
 Students with job offers
 At graduation: 85%
 By 3 months out: 96%
 Average base salary: $106,277 (LY $105,112)
 Average signing bonus: $24,738 (LY $23,426)
 Average pre-MBA salary of entering class:
$64,993
 Average time to recoup education
investment: 3.8 years

11. 2014-2015 UPDATE

12. What is Texas Venture Labs?
Texas Venture Labs
Texas
Venture
Labs
Practicum
(I & II)
New
Venture
Creation
(NVC)
Venture
Labs
Investment
Competition
TVL
Scholarship
Program
Venture
Partner
Program
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13. TVL Alumni on Shark Tank
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"Would you do $1 million for a third?"
BeatBox Beverages lands $1M investment from Mark Cuban

14. Cumulative TVL Student Reach
14
MBA,
108
ENGR, 43
CNS, 27
LAW, 47
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Other, 2
 236 Total Students
 318 Student-Semesters
39% work at companies
with <25 employees Yes
63%
No
37%
Was TVL Discussed
During Job Interviews?
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree Neither Agree
nor Disagree
Agree Strongly Agree
%ofTVLAlumniStudents
TVL has been instrumental in my career success.
TVL influenced the type/size of companies I applied to.

15. 0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Alumni Company Funding Rate
By Industry
Cumulative TVL Entrepreneur Reach
15
 102 Total Companies
 > $234M Post-TVL
Funding
 39% Funding Rate
 4 Companies Acquired

16. TVL Practicum - Spring 2014
 38 Associates
 8 Principals
 5 Unique Schools Within UT
16
 14 companies
 3 University tech startups

17. TVL Practicum - Fall 2014
 37 Associates
 7 Principals
 6 Unique Schools Within UT
17
 14 companies
 5 Software, 4 biomedical/life science
3 Social Entrepreneurship, 2 Technology

18. 2013-2015 Update

19. supports research, teaching
and business – academic
collaborations in the areas of
entrepreneurship, innovation,
growth and renewal.

20. Research
 Business Analytic Conference
– A forum for industry academic knowledge sharing
– 30 presentations on diverse topics related to social and
business analytics
– Over 150 attendees
 Two University-wide PhD Fellowships for Research using
Innovative Methodologies

21. Student Engagement
 Sponsor of:
– MBA Pitch Party (October 2014)
• $1,000 Grand Prize by Herb Kelleher
Center to Max Pike, MBA Class of
2015 – online brokerage system for
container shipping buyers and sellers
– UT Student Organizations Retreat
(May 2014)
• Entrepreneurial Roundtable’ to
strengthen the connectivity among the
numerous entrepreneurship and
innovation student organizations on
campus
– Women MBA Event (October, 2013
and April 2014)
• 20 women in CEO roles provide
mentorship through the Women MBA
organization

22. Entrepreneurship Community Engagement
 HKC Speaker Series (ongoing)
– Entrepreneurship Live! – since its launch in 2012 it has
brought to campus 42 serial entrepreneurs who have
built two or more companies and have sold or taken
public at least one. Presenters include Michael Dell
(Dell Computers), Rod Canion (Compaq), Cotter
Cunningham (RetailMeNot), Clayton Christopher
(Sweet Leaf Tea).
– Money Talks! – dedicated speaker series to early stage
funding with Venture Capitalist like Bill Wood – Silverton
Partners, Alan Cline – Vista Equity Partners, Chris
Pacitti – Austin Ventures, Joel Fontenot – Trailblazer
Capital.
 Raise Funding Panel – May 2013
– Michelle Skelding (Austin Chamber of Commerce), Rick
Timmins (Central Texas Angel Network), & Brett Hurt
(Founder of Bazaarvoice) on funding opportunities

23. Alumni Engagement
 The Frontiers of Innovation
Speaker Series hosts
distinguished authors on the
topics of innovation and
change, innovation
ecosystems and industry
dynamics, models for growth,
sustained creativity and new
sources of value creation.

24. Management Entrepreneurship Classes
Undergraduate Graduate
Entrepreneurship in the Social Environment
(Passovoy – Spring)
Entrepreneurship & Incubation (Butler – Fall)
Management Practicum (Social
Entrepreneurship Practicum) (Passovoy – Fall)
Texas Venture Labs (Adams – Fall/Spring)
Entrepreneurship & Innovation (Butler –
Fall/Spring)
Texas Venture Labs Leadership Practicum
(Adams – Fall/Spring)
Entrepreneurial Management (Courter –
Summer/Fall)
Opportunity Identification & Analysis (Doggett
– Fall)
Foundations of Entrepreneurship (Summer) Entrepreneurial Growth (Doggett – Fall/Spring)
Introduction to Entrepreneurship (Graebner –
Spring)
New Venture Creation (Courter – Fall/Spring;
Adams – Summer)
Entrepreneurship & Innovation (Houston &
Dallas – Summer)

25. Entrepreneurship Research
 Tricks of the Trade: Resource Acquisition in a Family-
Owned Technology Venture
 The Origins of Strategy in Entrepreneurial Ventures
 Dissertation: subject is the social dynamics of angel
investing groups
 Dissertation: subject is how multi-sided platform
companies like Uber and HomeAway leverage their
“customer communities” as strategic resources

26. Energy Initiative
 Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law and
Business
 Inaugural symposium “Geopolitics of Energy” on February 20th
 Part of first, UT Energy Week
 8th Release of UT Energy Poll, March 2015
 5th Annual Austin Electricity Conference, April 2015
 Two Active MBA Energy Student Groups
 Energy Finance, CleanTech
 100 Applicants for third year of UG Energy
Management Program

27. Healthcare Initiative
 2015 spring symposium: Engaging Patients & Families to Transform
Care – April 9-10
 Working with the local health care community to enhance the
student experience
 Developing programs with UMC Brackenridge, Seton Healthcare Family, and
Central Health.
 Involving local health care community
 More than 150 people from local health care organizations and 32 people from
several State of Texas agencies in a variety of programmatic efforts
 Working with the Dell Medical School to leverage mutual synergies
that will enhance the school’s teaching, research, and service
missions

28. Facilities Master Plan
 Phase 1
 Robert B. Rowling Hall
 Funds raised to date = $55.3 million (as of 3/5/15)
 Milestones
 Submit Design Development (35%) set – April 2014
 BOR approval – May 2014
 Early Construction (off site utilities) – June 2014
 Submittal 75% Construction Documents – August 2014
 Submittal 100% Construction Documents – November 2014
 Construction – December 2014
 Completion – Spring 2017

29. Facilities Master Plan
 Phase 2
 Renovate CBA North and South to house
department faculty offices and undergraduate
program space
 Jim and Miriam Mulva gift
 Phase 3
 Renovate GSB to house undergraduate
classrooms, team rooms and community spaces

30. Alumni Engagement
Alumni Signature Events
Knowledge To Go (KTG) Webinars
Continue your active learning relationships with the
university through monthly one-hour webinars.
Career Webinars
Strengthen your competitive advantage in the workplace with
these monthly one-hour webinars.
Faculty Speaker Series
Discuss current business trends with faculty at your local
alumni chapter.
Economic Forecast Events
Hear exclusive economic conversations between McCombs
faculty and legendary corporate executives in Texas.
Alumni Weekend
Return to the Forty Acres to catch up with friends and learn
from faculty at this annual fall event in Austin.
Alumni Business Conference
Learn faculty perspectives on the hottest business topics at
this annual spring event in Austin.

31. Knowledge To Go (KTG) Webinars
 Lew Spellman kicked off 2014 with his
topic on “Cyclical Forces Driving the
Economy, But Not the Stock Market”
 Participation Trend – average 142 attendees
 62% of alumni participation view the KTG recordings
 Future Plans: featuring faculty research topics

32. Economic Forecast Events
 Four sold out events held in Dallas,
Houston, San Antonio, and Austin
 Special recognition to Daron Peschel,
BBA/MPA Alumni Advisory Board, for championing
these events at the Federal Reserve Banks
 760 total McCombs/UT Alumni and guests

33. Economic Forecast Events cont.
 Notable CEO Executives/Speakers:
Dallas Houston
San Antonio Austin

34. Alumni Giving Rates

35. Highlights: Development and External Relations
 Exceeded UT capital campaign expectations by more than $50 million
 Raised $276,798,870 – goal was $225 million
 Set all-time record in philanthropic support in 2013-14 ($108,916,839)
 Annual giving of more than $2.5 million in 2013-14 – first
college/school to exceed $2 million
 Impact
 Rowling Hall
 Mulva Hall
 Endowments
 Scholarships

36. Faculty Highlights
 McCombs faculty rated 5th most productive in the world—
first among public schools
1. Wharton
2. Harvard
3. MIT
4. NYU
5. McCombs
 Faculty Investment Initiative
 Provost driven - allocates new resources to hire established “stars” from good schools
 McCombs targeting three main areas
 Economics
 Healthcare
 Business Analytics

37. Staff Highlights: Media Services
 Conversion of Media Lab to Active
Learning Classrooms
 Thanks Deloitte!
 Impact
 Greater flexibility for teaching and learning
 Increased ability to attract high caliber students
 Laboratory for testing new pedagogy

38. School Leadership
 Senior Associate Dean
 Jay Hartzell, former Chair of the Finance Department at McCombs
(thank you to Paul Newman)
 Chairs
 Finance – Bob Parrino
 Accounting – Robert Freeman
 IROM – Steve Gilbert
 Management – Jim Fredrickson (reappointed)
 Marketing – Wayne Hoyer (reappointed)
 Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship
 Violina Rindova

39. School Leadership
 Hasta la vista!
 Leaving effective August 31, 2015
 Served as Dean for 7 years (2008-15)
 Stanford University
 Director of the Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution and Peace
 Thanks so much!

40. Questions, comments, discussion?