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Published: April 11, 2017
Matthew Myers Announced as New Dean of SMU Cox
The Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business has recently announced that Matthew Myers, a strategy expert on global marketing and Latin American economies, will take on the role of dean for the school.
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Published: February 15, 2017
SMU Cox’s Maguire Energy Institute Honors Top Energy Leaders
Texas consumes more energy than any other U.S. state, both per capita and as a whole. In addition, several major oil companies have TX headquarters, including BP, ConocoPhilips and Exxon-Mobil. Because Texas is a global energy leader, many of the business schools in the state maintain connections to the industry through clubs, MBA concentrations, faculty and course work.
Each year at the SMU Cox School of Business, the Maguire Energy Institute honors one of the top leaders in the energy industry with the L. Frank Pitts Energy Leadership Award. The award—created in 2010—recognizes an individual who exemplifies a spirit of ethical leadership within the energy industry. This year, the award committee chose Trevor Rees-Jones, the founder and CEO of Chief Oil & Gas LLC.
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Published: October 16, 2016
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: SMU Cox’s John Roeder
John Roeder knows Dallas’s SMU Cox School of Business inside and out as only an alumnus would. A 2003 graduate of the full-time MBA program, he confesses that it might be the closest to his heart, although today he has oversight of admissions for all the school’s graduate programs. These also include a “Fast Track” one-year program geared toward recent college graduates without significant work experience, a Professional MBA program for mid-career professionals who want to obtain their degree while continuing to work and an Executive MBA program for experienced business leaders. In fact, Roeder’s knowledge of SMU dates
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Admissions Director Q&A: SMU Cox’s John Roeder
As the latest addition to our Admissions Director Q&A Series, we recently connected with John Roeder, assistant dean of graduate admissions at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University (SMU). Roeder is a graduate of the Cox MBA program, so he knows the school and its offerings inside and out.
Roeder oversees all of the graduate programs at Cox, including the full-time MBA, “which is obviously close to my heart since it’s my program,” he says. He obtained his undergraduate degree from SMU as well, before heading into consulting at Andersen. Heading back to SMU for business school he then took an alternate path to head into graduate management admissions. “I graduated on a Saturday here at Cox and was working at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management the following Monday,” he says.
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Published: November 22, 2015
SMU Cox Names the Top 100 Entrepreneurial Businesses in Dallas
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
The Cox School of Business at SMU recently held the 25th Annual SMU Cox Dallas 100 Awards Ceremony Banquet. Taking Place at the Omni Dallas Hotel, the event included an announcement of the 100 top entrepreneurial companies in Dallas this year.
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