Tulane University Freeman School BLOG

Whew! What a week! What a semester! Feels good to be done, although next week in Paris will likely be pretty hectic.
I had a business law final on Friday. Great class! General knowledge about the law should be required for any MBA student…unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately for me?) […]

This is it - the last week before break! And what a week it is:
Classes ended for most kids Wednesday. I’ve got a business law (great class!) final Friday, a Finance (how are you going to screw me this time, Prof Reese?) exam on Saturday and I leave for Paris with my class […]

Shane, a first year MBA, sent me this Yahoo/Businessweek articleby another first year MBA discussing the hectic schedule as a first year business student.
Hate to tell you Shane, it doesn’t get any less busy as a second year MBA. Less group work is replaced by more job hunting and fewer cases are […]

Professor Joe LeBlanc runs a very popular energy trading class. It’s in the same classroom as my currency trading class, so it uses that big ass screen I showed you earlier, but also runs some pretty cool software by Reuters. The class is taught at night when the markets are closed. This […]

A portfolio manager from Whitney Bank came and spoke to my finance class on Monday. Interesting talk - he discusses his job, how he manages his clients, the tools he uses on a daily basis and how he creates his stock universe.

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Last week I spoke with Janice Hughes in the International Programs office at the Freeman School. When I studied abroad this summer in Austria, I worked a ton with Janice to find the right program, dates and schedule.
With Tulane’s international programs reaching out to Russia, the Far East and South America, there’s […]

At a recent gathering of Tulane MBA’s I got talking to a PMBA about the differences between the P and the MBA. I received a quick note the other day with some more information:
Hey Joel,
Hope all is well. Here are my comments regarding the PMBA inquiry that we
talked about at the Halloween party. […]

Professor Eric Smith is part of the Entergy-Tulane Energy Institute (say that 5 times). Tulane University with funding from Entergy Corporation formed a center to explore issues related to energy and environmental education. The Entergy-Tulane Energy Institute was founded in 2003 to establish a systematic research program aimed at improving the understanding of the […]

The trading competition for a trip to New York is gearing up. The class average is now well in the black and McNew has shared some more details regarding the prize:
The winner of the FINC 780 trading competition will spend one night and one day on Wall Street on McNew’s money. Fly up […]

Forbes compiled this year’s top cities to get a job. Salt Lake City made the number one spot. I spent a year there; best laid out city I’ve ever been to. The airport’s only 15 mins away from downtown, they have light rail and the Best Snow on Earth!
This resonates pretty well […]