Burkenroad Fund in the News
Link: Burkenroad Fund in the News New Orleans City Business profiles the Freeman School’s Burkenroad Reports program.
Finance
Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs
Quick Tour – Darwin Fenner Fund
Guest post from Scott Gerdes, MBA2. Final deliberations in which the Darwin Fenner research analysts decide on how to allocate roughly $2 million are drawing near. Armed with classic and even some more recent, unpublished journal articles, the sector teams are dwindling down the stocks in the S&P 400 and […]
Energy, Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs
Quick Tour – Burkenroad Reports
Today’s guest post comes from Alexandra Thurber, MBA 2. Burkenroad Reports is a course in equity analysis. Students are divided into teams of 3-5 and follow one public company throughout the semester. For the most part, we follow small cap companies headquartered in the Southeastern United States. The companies span […]
Entrepreneurship, Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs
Freeman Ladies Win Case Competition
Some of Freeman’s very own won the 2011 National Association of Women’s MBA Strategy Case Competition in Newark, New Jersey, taking home a grand prize of $5,000. On March 23, Katie LaCorte, Dana Omar Mahmoud, Hakima Taoufiq and Sofia Zarate partook in the final round of the contest at the […]
Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs
Derivatives
I understand that I expose myself as both a nerd and a pre B-school “non-finance” person when I say this, but up until just a few weeks ago, my knowledge of derivatives came mostly from listening to This American Life’s Planet Money episodes about the recent economic downturn. Then came […]
Experience, Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs
Last day of class!
It is a great December day in New Orleans; it’s a mild 60 degrees, the sun is shining, the sky is blue and…it is our last day of class. Of course the last day of class mean that exams are right around the corner, but so is a nice long […]
Energy, Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs
An interview with INFO 6020 Professor, Dr. Xiaoyue Jiang
Q1: Why do you feel that it is important to have a Quantitative Modeling course included in the MBA core curriculum? It has been the general consensus among Freeman faculty that quantitative modeling skills are fundamental to the MBA curriculum for all specializations. Today’s business practice is very much data-driven. […]
Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs
Mad Money at Tulane
Yesterday, millions of people were exposed to Tulane and the Freeman School on CNBC thanks to Jim Cramer’s “Mad Money.” The stock-picking show made a stop on our campus as a part of Mad Money’s Back to School Tour. A few weeks ago, the show emailed students asking for a […]
Experience, Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs
The following guest post is from incoming Graduate Business Council President Ian Jones who is w
The following guest post is from incoming Graduate Business Council President Ian Jones who is wrapping up an internship with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in New York City. —— There are few places that can match the energy and beauty of New York City. I have been […]
Entrepreneurship, Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs
KeyBank Business Case Competition
One of the best opportunities you have as an MBA student is to take part in extremely engaging extracurricular activities. Whether doing consulting for startups, building marketing plans to rebrand local businesses there is probably something going on that will interest you. Then there are the case competitions. I was […]