Ethan Burris
The McCombs management department looks forward to an exciting 2013 full of new programs and initiatives. We talked with management department chairman Jim Fredrickson about what’s coming up.
The Texas MBA program has started several new programs in 2013 meant to enrich the educational experience for MBA students. We talked with MBA program director Stacey Rudnick about what’s in store for MBA students.
Employees have a lot to say. But they rarely say them. See what Associate Professor of Management Ethan Burris recommends for improving ways to get good ideas to the top.
See who received 2011-12 Research and Teaching Awards.
Six McCombs faculty members have been promoted by the university effective Sept. 1, 2011.
Innovative thinking at McCombs extends to both research endeavors and the classroom experience. See which faculty members earned one of 72 state-wide Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards from the University of Texas System.
Using teamwork to talk through a problem can illuminate new solutions that otherwise would have been overlooked. New evidence suggests this type of collaboration results in more effective treatment of patients.
It seems straightforward enough: Managers manage. Workers work. But in the real workaday world, managing your manager can be critical to success and happiness in a job.
The Harvard Business Review print and online versions feature articles from Ethan Burris, assistant professor of management at McCombs. Burris studies how and why employees do or don't speak up at work.
If you’re like a lot of managers, you pride yourself on your open door and all the other ways you signal to employees that you welcome their input.
