Editor’s Note: TOMS Shoes and Social Enterprise Chic

Monday, February 1st, 2010

TOMS Shoes has become a hit in both the business and fashion worlds while doing its part to help those who need it.
If you’ve somehow not heard of the company and its one-for-one mission, here it is: for every pair of shoes TOMS sells, it gives away one pair to a needy child. (“TOMS” comes [...]

Editor’s Note: Is it Wrong to Call it Swine Flu?

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

We just published the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of Texas, the magazine for UT’s McCombs School of Business. I’m managing editor and wrote the cover story, “Diagnosing the H1N1 Pandemic.”
Business school? Isn’t that where they study boring things like derivatives and fair-value accounting? What does a global health emergency have to do with business school?
Well, one [...]

Using Wordpress to Publish an Online Magazine – Part I

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

As managing editor of the University of Texas McCombs School of Business alumni magazine, it’s my job to generate story ideas, interview sources, do background research, brainstorm art options, write feature articles and profiles, assign stories to our intern, edit copy and proofread layouts before printing.
But the fun doesn’t stop there. Thanks to this phenomenon [...]

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