Tulane University Freeman School BLOG

Only a few lazy Sunday’s left before I’m outta here!
Last Friday my Electricity Markets (Syllabus .doc) class toured Tulane’s co-gen (co-generation) power plant. It’s about a 5 mW plant, which is enough to run the entire school in the winter. The generator hasn’t been run since Katrina because NatGas prices are too high […]

What a great Day! We had class at 8am - 1130ish, then traveled by bus to Tienanmen Square and walked through the Forbidden City. The pictures from today and yesterday are here. Some of them have been GPS tagged so the geekier tulanemba blog readers can follow our progress through Beijing.
Got the info […]

It’s been a busy few weeks for me. In the last month I’ve been gone three weekends out of four. Most of this has been job search related…I’ve got a few things cooking so stay tuned!
On the plane back to MSY last night I came across this NYT article discussing the […]

Unless you’ve been living the life of a Luddite, I’m sure you’ve heard about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! - My friend and Freeman School Professor Victor Cook has written an interesting article discussing the merits of the purchase. Here’s a snippet:
The the first two lines in the following table compare YHOO’s actual with its […]

Case competitions are an integral part of business school. The big competition at the Freeman School is the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association Business Plan Competition - a $40,000 affair!
Freeman MBA’s are also regularly invited to participate in other schools’ competitions. For example, I received the following email last week:
We hope to have […]

I came across a pretty interesting read, The Personal MBA: Mastering Business Through Self-Education, by Josh Kaufman. For those of you who aren’t looking to switch careers or add another zero to your salary (to the LEFT of the decimal), simply doing the learning involved in an MBA may be for you. Especially […]

I came across the below article in yesterday’s NY Times. Those of you who read this blog regularly know that the Freeman School places a big emphasis on its global education. I went to Mexico last year and Paris this past December. We just had our first class for the upcoming trip […]

It’s been a few weeks since my last semester classes started - time for a recap:
Renewable Energy (optional) - great class! The professor, Linda Baynham, is ex-Entergy and now runs her own consulting company. She’s very well prepared and we’re covering all kinds of topics relevant to our nation’s energy needs, now and […]

Yesterday I answered a student’s question about how to improve their Excel skills before MBA classes start. I forgot to mention the Freeman School’s Summer Session, which starts about a month before regular classes. Abe covered this info a while ago, but it’s buried. So here it is again:
Abe writes:
We had three […]

I received the following question from a recently admitted Freeman MBA:
I have just been accepted to Freeman and plan on attending this fall. My
question involves my lack of experience with Excel. Would you recommend a
particular book or class that I might be able to dive into before I get to New
Orleans so that […]