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Beta Alpha Psi‬

Beta Alpha Psi‬

Beta Alpha Psi is a national accounting honors society that recognizes excellence in the field of accounting. The Tulane chapter aims to promote networking and build relationships between accounting firms and members. Our weekly meetings feature presentations from a large range of firms- from Big Four to local firms. Beta […]

November 8, 2013 ×

Featured, Master of Finance, New Orleans, Programs

Never a Dull Moment in the Big Easy

By Tommy Milburn New Orleans is one of the few places in America that has managed to hold on to a very unique culture. The Mississippi River is one of the major gateways to the United States and as such, it is a melting pot of culture. The French, Spanish, […]

November 8, 2013 ×

Experience, Featured, Professional MBA, Programs

Tulane PMBAs Help Market the Affordable Care Act

Tulane PMBAs Help Market the Affordable Care Act

By: Jonathan Jouet Last week, I began my final class for the semester, Marketing Planning and Implementation.  Our professor, Catherine Lenihan, has presented us with an exceptional opportunity to assist Blue Cross / Blue Shield of Louisiana in marketing their individual health care plan that will be offered through the […]

November 8, 2013 ×

Community, Experience, Featured, Finance, Programs

Venture Capital Fellowship and Private Equity Internship

(Above picture (from right): CFO of Fortune 500, Texas-based Susser Holdings (NYSE: SUSS),  Mary Sullivan, and Jordan Dorenfeld, Tulane MBA Student, Class of  2014) Series: “2nd Year MBAs Talk About Their Summer Internships” MBA Student: Jordan Dorenfeld (Cal Poly, B.S. Accounting ’09) Concentration: Finance, Strategic Management, Energy Year: 2nd Year […]

November 8, 2013 ×

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Tommy Milburn Welcomes You to the Master of Finance Blog

Tommy Milburn Welcomes You to the Master of Finance Blog

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 […]

November 6, 2013 ×

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Freeman Days: A Weekend of Networking, Connections For a Lifetime

Freeman Days: A Weekend of Networking, Connections For a Lifetime

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 […]

November 6, 2013 ×

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Empowering Students through Information – Reuters Training Session

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 […]

November 6, 2013 ×

Experience, Featured, Master of Finance, Programs

Generating Alpha in a Beta World

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 […]

November 6, 2013 ×

Experience, Featured, Master of Finance, New Orleans, Programs

“New” to New Orleans

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 […]

November 4, 2013 ×

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Patrick Foran – Director of Graduate Admissions

Patrick Foran – Director of Graduate Admissions

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 […]

November 4, 2013 ×