The Tulane Energy Club recently held an Alumni and Energy Professionals Reception at the Windsor Court hotel. Current students, from the various graduate programs at the Freeman School of Business, were given the opportunity to interact with professionals and faculty at the event. I was excited to have the opportunity […]
Freeman students are fortunate to have networking days, called Freeman Days, off campus in a variety of cities in the U.S. The goals of these events are to provide career education, alumni networking, and employment opportunity exploration. Each student is given a schedule for the two day event catered to […]
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 […]
Earlier this month at the 2011 Burkenroad Symposium, speakers with various backgrounds in the business world (energy, consulting, and speech communications) lectured a packed audience of undergraduates and graduates on transforming adversity into competitive advantage. As a member of Tulane Net Impact, a group concerned with promoting responsible and ethical […]
Freeman School’s Burkenroad Institute hosted its annual symposium yesterday; this year the theme was “Honor in the Face of Fire.” The Symposium publicity material (see above) looked pretty severe, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. As it turns out, all speakers gave very interesting presentations about business ethics, […]
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. […]
Last Friday, I was able to attend the 2009 Tulane Business Forum at the Hilton Riverside as a student volunteer. I was quick to volunteer for the Forum as that the theme this year was Corporate Consciousness, and there was an impressive speaker list, which included among others: John Mackey (Chairman […]
I have had this picture for a while and hadn’t posted it. This is the graduate final exam for the Fall semester of Burkenroad Reports. If you look in the upper left hand corner of the picture, you can see Wil Donaldson. hmm…Burkenroad Reports. Burkenroad Reports is one of the […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.