Post Tagged with: "Finance"

Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs

Burkenroad Fund in the News

Link: Burkenroad Fund in the News New Orleans City Business profiles the Freeman School’s Burkenroad Reports program.

April 25, 2011 ×

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  Armed with classic and even some more recent, unpublished journal articles, the sector teams are dwindling down the stocks in the S&P 400 and […]

April 20, 2011 ×

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 […]

April 18, 2011 ×

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 […]

January 31, 2011 ×

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 […]

October 20, 2010 ×

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 […]

July 27, 2010 ×

Energy, Finance, Master of Business Administration, Programs

I have had this picture for a while and hadn’t posted it. This is the graduate final exam f

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 […]

April 17, 2009 ×