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The Creative Class
Posted October 9, 2012 3 Comments
When Tina and Josh Zulu (’00 and ’02) finished the entrepreneurship program at the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, they didn’t just earn a degree. They left with a foundation for a business and a network to support it
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Up Close With Brooks Bassler (’02)
Posted September 4, 2012 2 Comments
Brooks Bassler’s father attended the University of Houston on a football scholarship and later started successful businesses in the housing, motel and energy industries. His mother grew up in Morgan City, La., in a family that knew how to stir up a good pot of gumbo. With his Maw Maw’
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Up Close With Tony Van Slyke (MBA ’91)
Posted August 2, 2012 No Comments
Back in 2008, Goodwill Industries of Houston was looking for a CFO who could wean the struggling non-profit off its contributed-income dependency and make it run like a business. Tony Van Slyke (MBA ‘91) was looking to expand his repertoire with a CFO position.
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Up Close With Iryna Mckenzie (MBA 2012)
Posted May 30, 2012 No Comments
International student Iryna Mckenzie knows how valuable being part of a team can be —in March, she and three fellow MBAs worked together to take home first place in the Rice University Marketing Case Competition. Collaboration is also a big part of being successful in the…
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Up Close With Zain Master (MBA 2011)
Posted May 30, 2012 1 Comment
As a student in the Bauer MBA program, Zain Master was results-driven. He excelled in his classes, worked as a peer advisor, served on the recruitment committee of the MBA Advisory Board and held a full-time job. His return on investment? Six job offers from technology companies…
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Up Close With Ralph Xavier Bito Degala (BBA 2012, Accounting)
Posted May 30, 2012 No Comments
Recent graduate Ralph Degala was both excited and nervous to begin the search for a job. Those emotions soon turned to confidence in his junior year, as he began to regularly attend career fairs and mixers held by the college’s Rockwell Career Center and was eventually selected…
