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Crawfish Fest at Tulane

Crawfish Fest at Tulane

Students, alums and crawfish fans alike flocked to Crawfest over the weekend. With warm weather, close to 20,000 pounds of mudbugs and nine bands playing on two stages, the annual student-run festival was, once again, a rousing success.  Read More…

April 26, 2017 ×

Master of Business Administration, Professional MBA

PMBA student Amy Barad, a director with an education nonprofit, makes her team’s pitch for Unpackd, a clothing rental service developed in New Product Development in the Hospitality Industry, an MBA course that takes a granular look at how to take products from the drawing board to the marketplace.

New course explores the process behind new products

What does it take to create a successful product? According to John Clarke, it’s probably not what you think. “It’s kind of a myth that there has to be some kind of epiphany,” says Clarke, a professor of practice in management at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business. […]

February 23, 2017 ×

Entrepreneurship, Experience, Hospitality, Master of Business Administration

New course explores the process behind new products

New course explores the process behind new products

  What does it take to create a successful product? According to John Clarke, it’s probably not what you think. “It’s kind of a myth that there has to be some kind of epiphany,” says Clarke, a professor of practice in management at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of […]

February 23, 2017 ×

Community, Professional MBA

Students find use for excess dining hall food

Students find use for excess dining hall food

Have you ever wondered where all the excess food produced at the Bruff Commons dining hall goes at the end of the night? Thanks to the Tulane University chapter of the Food Recovery Network (FRN), food that used to end up in the trash is now collected and donated to […]

November 29, 2016 ×

Experience, Featured, Professional MBA

3 reflections on the Asia Global Leadership course

3 reflections on the Asia Global Leadership course

Several things contribute to this course being a useful and interesting course. The number one reason would be the fact that you work with actual companies who are looking to expand into Asia. It is an empowering and exciting experience to work as “management consultants” with the company administration, gauge […]

May 16, 2016 ×

Experience, Global, Master of Business Administration, Programs

Make Locks Consulting Project

Make Locks, Ltd., based in Xiamen, China, is one of the leading developers and manufacturers of top security and high quality industrial locks. The company approached our consulting team at Tulane University seeking assistance with penetrating the U.S. security products market. Specifically, Make Locks sought to better understand the competitive […]

May 9, 2016 ×

Community, Experience, Global, Programs

An Inside Look at Top Lockers

Any business education is incomplete without hands on learning to compliment classroom discussion. Through three international trips to Italy, Argentina, and China, the Tulane MBA program offers students the ability to work closely with various companies and organizations in order to get an inside glimpse at businesses of varying sizes and industries. The class […]

May 9, 2016 ×

Community, Experience, Master of Business Administration, New Orleans

Two Amazing Years in New Orleans

I set foot in New Orleans on a warm summer evening 22 months ago. Although I was in the U.S. many times before, it was my first time in the world famous city of New Orleans (or Nola as many like to call it). The culture shock was immediate. It […]

May 9, 2016 ×

Community, Experience, Finance, Master of Business Administration

Learning in the Real World

It is a commonly held belief that experiential learning is one of the best ways to learn a concept. By applying what you have learned in the classroom and interacting with it in a real and impressionable way, you are more likely to learn that knowledge or concept. The Research […]

May 9, 2016 ×

Community, Experience, Featured, Global, Master of Business Administration, Programs

A Pertinent and Sentimental Culmination

Travel is a wonderful thing.  It is exciting.  It is interesting.  It is certainly fun. The opportunity to tour the world with a group of motivated classmates is a unique experience that teaches you far more than can be gleaned from leisure trips though, and it is rare.  During my […]

May 9, 2016 ×