Texas McCombs Business Outlook in Houston to Focus on Health Care

AUSTIN, Texas — Health care industry experts will explore the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead during the 2024 Business Outlook meeting Feb. 7 at the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Hosted by Dean Lillian Mills of The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business, the event includes breakfast and networking. McCombs alumni and the Houston business community are invited.

Mills will moderate a panel of economic, academic, and industry leaders considering the current state of the health care economy, ways the industry is responding to recessionary pressure and labor shortages, and improvements that businesses are making to better serve Texas’ medical needs.

The event’s panelists are Ayse McCracken, Texas MBA ’12, founder of eNNOVATE Health Ventures LLC, a business adviser to CEOs and executive teams in health care; Indranil Bardhan, a professor of information, risk, and operations management at Texas McCombs and a distinguished researcher on information systems and analytics in health care; and Luis Torres, a senior business economist and researcher on issues affecting Texas, Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico border.

Following an event in Dallas on geopolitical risk, the Houston meeting will be the second in a three-part series for this year’s annual McCombs Business Outlook, presented in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. In addition to looking at geopolitics and health care, this year’s series, “Focus on the Future,” will be capped off with an event in San Antonio on defense.

“We’re delighted to facilitate these vital conversations,” said Mills. “Our vision is to offer business communities in Texas a chance to glean lessons from 2023 and to gain inspiration and confidence to move forward.”

Registration is open and space is limited. For information about purchasing a table, contact alumni@mccombs.utexas.edu.