Tulane University Freeman School BLOG

Ahhhh….feels good to be done. Graduation was blissfully short. Here’s a few pics from the festivities. The school really trumpeted their 81yr old MBA grad…interesting way to get PR. -Joel, joel@tulanemba.org

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Mixed emotions today. Most people don’t like change. It was hard coming to business school and it’s going to be equally as hard leaving the relationships I forged with my classmates and others over the past two years. My @tulane.edu email only lasts 6 months…thankfully I’ve got most of my friends’ private email/facebook/twitter (no, actually no one uses twitter in my class…that may be a few classes to come) addresses.

More next week on what else I learned in bschool. Enjoy your Saturday!

Joel Yarmon, MBA
joel@tulanemba.org

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Tulane President Scott Cowen’s last email to the MBA Class of 2008. For the record, there was no 81 yr old geezer MBA in any of my classes…must have been a part timer.

Dear Students:

What do an 81-year-old earning his MBA after a 53-year interruption, two
undergraduates being honored for public service and a group of nine
receiving their Master’s of Fine Arts degree after a Katrina-imposed delay
have in common?

They are all members of Tulane’s class of 2008 and are among the more than
2,100 graduates who will be honored as Tulane hosts the 10th anniversary of
its Unified Commencement May 17 at 9 a.m. in the Superdome. This year’s
commencement, the first Tulane commencement held in the Superdome since
Katrina, is expected to draw more than 12,000 families, friends and members
of the university community. Keep reading →

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Hey Guys.

The question I get most often (by far) is, “What about the job prospects?” I’m still in the system, so I am not always the best person to ask, but this is a recent article the school published, which speaks to our success directly.

Will

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I finally did it!

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Today at Tulane from 2:30pm – 4:30pm in Room 3111, Goldring/Woldenberg Hall II you can watch our very own Dean DeNisi welcome Jason Matthews, who’s the Chief of Staff for Senator Landrieu. He’s gonig to be talking about opportunities for public, private, and not-for-profit collaborations to further
domestic and overseas human and natural resource development. Yes, I know that’s a mouthful. Welcome to the land of government bureaucracy.

Speaking next is Raymond Gilpin. He’s the Director of Economies and Conflict at the Centers of Innovation, United States Institute for Peace and he’s talking about overcoming challenges to resource management in africa’s petro-states. Sounds like he could use a few good…MBA’s!

Finally Nancy Mock from the School of Public Health at the Payson Center for International Development Center for Research on Women at Tulane University will opine on Tulane and the African Continent: A Thirty Year Retrospective.

Should be some real gray matter stimulating stuff. If you’re around, drop by.

-Joel, joel@tulanemba.org

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A lot of you have asked about housing at Tulane.

When I was looking for a place to live I used Craigslist almost exclusively.

But housing in New Orleans is kinda funny: you can have a half-million dollar home on one block and some pretty shanty/shady looking stuff the next. Keep reading →

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It’s almost time for my 2nd Annual (and final) top 10 things i learned at bschool, year2. Till then, check out these pics of a Crawfish Boil I attended this weekend, put on by exiting Social Chair James Ellis (thanks James - great job!). Everyone was stuffed!

-Joel Yarmon, joel@tulanemba.org

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Before we get to the Lazy Post, here’s one lazy link I couldn’t resist posting: Must. Be. Nice.

Staying on top of your time is difficult while at business school. You have to manage your classes, group meetings, job/internship search, part time job/internship, social life, checkbook, etc. Here’s some of the digital tools and hardware I’ve used over the past two years to help keep me on track:

1. Exchange account (paid, about $8/mo) - Tulane gives each student their own MS Exchange account with a 100mb mailbox. Not enough for students sharing large pdf’s. I pay for a 1gb mailbox (and soon will be migrating to sherweb for 3gb) which has more than enough for all my Tulane items.
Keep reading →

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Hey guys,

Here’s the final my team turned in for our Enterprise Valuation class. We covered a company called PGT or (ticker symbol) PGTI.

This has been done using the Burkenroad Reports Template.

Will

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