Freeman School of Business
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Type | Private |
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Established | 1914 |
Parent institution | Tulane University |
Endowment | $89.7 million [1] |
Dean | C. Edward Fee (interim) |
Academic staff | 110 |
Students | 3090 |
Location | , , U.S. 29°56′07″N 90°07′22″W / 29.935344°N 90.122687°W |
Campus | Urban |
The A. B. Freeman School of Business is the business school of Tulane University, located in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The school offers undergraduate programs, a full-time MBA program and other master's programs, a doctoral program, and executive education. It was a charter member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916.[2] The school was named in honor of A. B. Freeman, a former chairman of the Louisiana Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and a prominent New Orleans philanthropist. The school is known in the finance community as the publisher of Burkenroad Reports.
The school's main location, in the center of Tulane's Uptown New Orleans campus, is across a pedestrian thoroughfare (McAlister Place) from the university's student center.
History
In 1914, Tulane University's business school was founded as the College of Commerce and Business Administration. Two years later, the school became one of the fourteen founding members of the
In 1986, the school moved from Norman Mayer Memorial Hall, one of the oldest buildings on Tulane's campus, to Goldring/Woldenberg Hall. In 2018, a renovation and addition was completed, making it the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex (GWBC).
Campus
The Freeman School's main building, the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex, sits in the center of Tulane's Uptown New Orleans campus, which is located on
In 2019, the Freeman School opened the Stewart Center CBD, a new facility in downtown New Orleans, for executive and international programs.[citation needed]
Academic programs
Degrees
The school offers a Bachelor of Science in Management degree, as well as numerous graduate degrees, including the Master of Business Administration (
Double-degree programs
Double-degree offerings include, but are not limited to, the BSM/Master of Accounting, BSM/MBA, MBA/MME (Master of Management in Energy), MBA/Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development, MBA/MD,
Signature programs
Burkenroad Reports
Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund
In the Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund course, students actively manage more than $5.8 million of Tulane University's endowment in three separate equity portfolios – and regularly beat the benchmark indexes.[7] Students are empowered to manage real risk with real money by studying academic research and learning methods for analyzing stocks while managing a mid-cap or a small-cap portfolio. Students utilize the software and databases used by professional fund managers, including Bloomberg Terminals, ThomsonOne.com, Standard & Poor's Net Advantage, and Standard & Poor's Capital IQ.
Aaron Selber, Jr. Courses on Distressed Debt and Hedge Funds
In the Selber courses,[8] students dedicate an entire semester to learning about distressed debt (each spring) or hedge funds (each fall). Students can apply to take one or both courses, which complement topics in the traditional long-only equity or investment grade bond world.
Trading room
The Freeman School's trading room has ninety-eight flat-screen computer monitors, televisions to provide news coverage, and a stock ticker monitor.[relevant?] All the desks have access to Bloomberg and Reuters financial databases. The trading room is meant to resemble spaces that can be found usually at banks and brokerage houses.[citation needed]
Rankings
Business Rankings | |
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U.S. MBA | |
Bloomberg (2024)[9] | 66 |
U.S. News & World Report (2024)[10] | 81 |
Several news publications, including the
The
In 2013, Tulane University reported that admissions figures for the business school had been falsified from 2007 to 2011, including increasing the average GMAT scores of students and the number of completed applications.[12]
Current faculty
- Deen Kemsley, bulge-bracket accounting consultant[4]
- Peter Ricchiuti, founder of Burkenroad Reports, former state chief investment officer[13]
Notable alumni
- C.W. Lemoine Author and Air Force aviator.
- CEO of Grupo Elektra, 154th wealthiest person in the world in 2008 (worth $6.3 billion)[14]
- Regina Benjamin, MBA 1991, former Surgeon General of the United States[15]
- Andrew Friedman, BSM (Finance) 1999, became General Manager of the Tampa Bay Rays at age 28[16]
- Dominik Knoll, M.B.A., CEO of World Trade Center New Orleans
- NFL
- Eleni M. Roumel, MBA 2000, Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims[17]
- William A. Goldring (BBA ’64), Chairman, Sazerac Company, Inc.
See also
- List of business schools in the United States
- List of United States business school rankings
- Tulane Corporate Law Institute
References
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- ^ "About AACSB - Accrediting and Advancing the Best Business Programs and Schools Worldwide". www.aacsb.edu. Archived from the original on 4 October 2002. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Freeman launches online MBA program". 21 April 2023.
- ^ a b c "Freeman.tulane.edu". Archived from the original on 25 April 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Burkenroad Reports - A. B. Freeman School of Business". www.freeman.tulane.edu. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "A Quarter Century of "Stocks under Rocks"". Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ "Two Decades Later, the Darwin Fenner Fund Is Still Beating the Street". Freeman Magazine. 19 May 2020. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ "Alternative Investments Courses".
- ^ "Best B-Schools". Bloomberg Businessweek.
- ^ "2023 Best Business Schools Rankings". U.S. News & World Report.
- ^ a b Staff, The Princeton Review (16 September 2014). "Top 25 Colleges for Entrepreneurship for 2015 (Graduate Programs)". Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
- ^ "Home - Motivational Speakers Booking Agency". Motivational Speakers Booking Agency. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "The World's Billionaires: #154 Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family". forbes.com. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ^ Zhang, Jane (2009-07-14). "Surgeon General Is Designated". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Tulane alumnus Andrew Friedman pivotal in assembling Tampa Bay Rays". Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Class Notes, Winter 2020". Freeman Business Magazine, Tulane University. Winter 2020.