Welcome to the Tulane MFIN Blog! My name is Tommy Milburn and I am currently a Master of Finance candidate at Tulane University. I hail from Warwick, New York. Some may say that Louisiana is a bit of a ways to travel for school, but I’ve always had a little […]
By Tommy Milburn, Master of Finance 2014 If you’ve ever sought a job, then somebody has probably told you, “it’s not what you know; rather, it’s who you know.” There is no doubt that the Freeman School of Business’s Master of Finance candidates (MFIN) are developing a deep understanding of […]
There is age old wisdom in understanding one key concept: Knowledge is power. Newman of the nineties sitcom “Seinfeld” understood that he could leverage the flow of information to solicit responses from people. This is what happens in the financial world every day. There are millions of articles written and […]
by Xi (Jessie) Chen and Shengting (Sandy) Luo Four hours before this photo was taken, we walked into the classroom for our last class at Tulane with excitement. We were buy-side analysts of the Darwin Fenner Students Managed Fund and fund managers who made investment decisions together. Darwin Fenner Student […]
I’m thrilled to be working at Tulane for the same reasons that you will enjoy being a Tulane student. I moved to New Orleans recently, in the summer of 2012 to join the Freeman School as the Director of Graduate Admissions. A year has gone by and I’ve done a […]
I think of myself as a marketing-business person who works at business schools because I enjoy assisting people in reaching their career goals. Prior to working for universities I had some interesting and diverse jobs: In the US Coast Guard I was a navigator on a buoytender, a waterways planner […]
I’m thrilled to be working at Tulane for the same reasons that you will enjoy being a Tulane student. I moved to New Orleans recently, in the summer of 2012 to join the Freeman School as the Director of Graduate Admissions. A year has gone by and I’ve done a […]
In my prior blog post I mentioned that doing the Tulane Professional MBA Program will allow you to improve your organization through immediate relevance and application. Some people might think “that is all well and good, my company is better off, but Patrick what is in it for me?” It […]
I’m thrilled to be working at Tulane for the same reasons that you will enjoy being a Tulane student. I moved to New Orleans recently, in the summer of 2012 to join the Freeman School as the Director of Graduate Admissions. A year has gone by and I’ve done a […]
Last week, at approximately 7:30 on Thursday night, a group of suspects met at Tommy’s Cuisine in the Central Business District to solve a murder. Twenty or so MBA 2s donned 1920’s costumes and transformed for an evening into characters like Al Capone, Jack “Greasy Thumbs” Guilespsi, Don Wannabe, and jazz singer […]