Freeman School of Business
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The Freeman School of Business, at Tulane University
, is located in New Orleans, LA. The school offers undergraduate programs, a full-time MBA program and other master's programs, doctoral programs, and many executive-education programs, and consistently ranks among the top business schools nationally and globally and was a charter member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
in 1916.
The school is known in the finance
community as the publisher of the Burkenroad Reports
, and is regularly ranked among the top ten schools in finance by the Financial Times
. Additionally, Entrepreneur Magazine
consistently ranks the Freeman School among the top twenty schools for entrepreneurship
; giving the school a ranking of #4 in 2009. The Financial Timess Global MBA Rankings 2010 ranked the Freeman School as the 35th best business school in the United States; the U.S. News & World Report ranked the MBA program 40th in 2011.
The school's main location, in the center of Tulane's Uptown New Orleans
campus, is next to the Tulane University Law School
and across a pedestrian thoroughfare (McAlister Place) from the University's student center. Every year, leading finance and M&A practitioners from throughout the United States come to Tulane to attend the Tulane Corporate Law Institute
forum. The school was named in honor of Alfred B. Freeman, a former Coca-Cola Bottling Co. chairman and prominent New Orleans philanthropist.
program. The Doctor of Philosophy
program began in 1976, and the Executive MBA program began in 1983. Three years later, the school moved from Norman Mayer Memorial Hall, one of the oldest buildings on Tulane's campus, to its present home, Goldring/Woldenberg Hall. Since then, a separate graduate-programs building was constructed, giving the school two main buildings along McAlister Place
in the center of Tulane's Uptown New Orleans
campus.
The Burkenroad Reports provide stock analyses of small- to mid-size companies throughout the Texas to Florida region of the United States. Many of these companies would otherwise not be covered by bulge bracket
financial firms; consequently, the reports provide unique information that investors rely on, which helps the followed companies gain access to capital.
Students are the primary authors of the reports, and they get the opportunity to visit the followed companies and interview top management. This process allows students to gain practical and marketable stock analysis skills, as well as insight into strategic management
.
, Europe
and Asia
. Each module includes a trip to the region being reviewed, where classes are taught at local business schools and students get the opportunity to visit local businesses. Recent visits took place in Paris
, Beijing
, Mexico City
, Monterrey
, and Buenos Aires
. Schools visited have included ITAM
, Tsinghua University
and EGADE
.
, Houston, and Washington, D.C.
New Orleans employers typically come directly to the Uptown New Orleans campus. The school refers to these events as "Freeman Days." Past employer-participants have included Morgan Stanley
, Google
, Booz Allen, and Goldman Sachs
.
The global reach of the Freeman School's programs help it to attract a diverse student body with geographically-diverse post-graduation plans. Students come from, and find jobs in, cities throughout the United States and around the world.
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at the main entrance of the building. The room has ninety-eight flat-screen computer monitors (two for each work space), several televisions to provide news coverage, and a news ticker
/ stock ticker monitor that can be read from the nearby McAlister Place. All the desks have access to Bloomberg
and Reuters
financial databases. The trading room is meant to resemble similar spaces that can be found at bank
s and brokerage houses in London
's Canary Wharf
, New York City
, Connecticut
, Houston, and San Francisco.
, Forbes
, América Economía
and the U.S. News & World Report
, regularly rank the Freeman School among the top 50 business schools in the nation. Individually, the Finance
department has been ranked among the top 10 in the world by the Financial Times on several occasions. Also, Entrepreneur Magazine has consistently ranked Freeman among the top 20 schools for entrepreneurship.
MBA program ranked 4th by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2009, 17th in 2008, and 13th in 2006
MBA program ranked 35th in the U.S. by the Financial Times in 2010.
MBA program was ranked 40th by U.S. News & World Report in 2011.
MBA program ranked 22nd by AméricaEconomía magazine in 2006, and 24th in 2008
MBA program ranked 39th on Fortune magazine's list of the Top 50 B-Schools for Getting Hired (February 2007)
MBA program ranked 44th by Forbes in 2007; 52nd in 2009
MBA program ranked 46th by the Financial Times (2008)
Undergraduate business program ranked 43rd by U.S. News & World Report (Sept. 2008)
Executive MBA program ranked 6th in Latin America by AméricaEconomía magazine (August 2006)
Tulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
, is located in New Orleans, LA. The school offers undergraduate programs, a full-time MBA program and other master's programs, doctoral programs, and many executive-education programs, and consistently ranks among the top business schools nationally and globally and was a charter member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business was founded in 1916 to accredit schools of business worldwide. The first accreditations took place in 1919. The stated mission is to advance quality management education worldwide through accreditation and thought leadership. It is regarded...
in 1916.
The school is known in the finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
community as the publisher of the Burkenroad Reports
Burkenroad Reports
Burkenroad Reports are widely circulated financial reports on small- to medium-sized companies between Texas and Florida that are traditionally under-followed by bulge bracket stock analysts. Colloquially the Burkenroad-followed companies are referred to as "stocks under rocks". The reports are...
, and is regularly ranked among the top ten schools in finance by the Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
. Additionally, Entrepreneur Magazine
Entrepreneur Magazine
Entrepreneur is a publication that carries news stories about entrepreneurialism, small business management, and business opportunities. It is published by Entrepreneur Media Inc., headquartered in Irvine, California....
consistently ranks the Freeman School among the top twenty schools for entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response...
; giving the school a ranking of #4 in 2009. The Financial Timess Global MBA Rankings 2010 ranked the Freeman School as the 35th best business school in the United States; the U.S. News & World Report ranked the MBA program 40th in 2011.
The school's main location, in the center of Tulane's Uptown New Orleans
Uptown New Orleans
Uptown is a section of New Orleans, Louisiana on the East Bank of the Mississippi River encompassing a number of neighborhoods between the French Quarter and the Jefferson Parish line. It remains an area of mixed residential and small commercial properties, with a wealth of 19th century architecture...
campus, is next to the Tulane University Law School
Tulane University Law School
Tulane University Law School is the law school of Tulane University. It is located on Tulane's Uptown campus in New Orleans, Louisiana. Established in 1847, it is the 12th oldest law school in the United States....
and across a pedestrian thoroughfare (McAlister Place) from the University's student center. Every year, leading finance and M&A practitioners from throughout the United States come to Tulane to attend the Tulane Corporate Law Institute
Tulane Corporate Law Institute
The Tulane Corporate Law Institute is an annual two-day M&A and corporate law conference that takes place in downtown New Orleans every spring. It attracts the most high-profile lawyers and bankers from around the United States, as well as judges, journalists, and others who follow the dealmaking...
forum. The school was named in honor of Alfred B. Freeman, a former Coca-Cola Bottling Co. chairman and prominent New Orleans philanthropist.
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 American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the nation’s accrediting body for business schools. In 1940, the school began offering the Master of Business AdministrationMaster of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...
program. The Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
program began in 1976, and the Executive MBA program began in 1983. Three years later, the school moved from Norman Mayer Memorial Hall, one of the oldest buildings on Tulane's campus, to its present home, Goldring/Woldenberg Hall. Since then, a separate graduate-programs building was constructed, giving the school two main buildings along McAlister Place
McAlister Place, New Orleans
McAlister Place is a pedestrian mall that runs through a section of Tulane University's Uptown New Orleans campus. Construction of the mall began on May 18, 2009, and was completed in January 2010. The mall replaced McAlister Drive, which was an asphalt-paved private road with one-way vehicular...
in the center of Tulane's Uptown New Orleans
Uptown New Orleans
Uptown is a section of New Orleans, Louisiana on the East Bank of the Mississippi River encompassing a number of neighborhoods between the French Quarter and the Jefferson Parish line. It remains an area of mixed residential and small commercial properties, with a wealth of 19th century architecture...
campus.
Burkenroad Reports
The Burkenroad Reports provide stock analyses of small- to mid-size companies throughout the Texas to Florida region of the United States. Many of these companies would otherwise not be covered by bulge bracket
Bulge bracket
The bulge bracket comprises the "big banks," the world's largest and most profitable multi-national investment banks.- Technical meaning :The term 'bulge bracket' refers to the first group of investment banks listed on the "tombstone" notifying the public of a financial transaction or deal...
financial firms; consequently, the reports provide unique information that investors rely on, which helps the followed companies gain access to capital.
Students are the primary authors of the reports, and they get the opportunity to visit the followed companies and interview top management. This process allows students to gain practical and marketable stock analysis skills, as well as insight into strategic management
Strategic management
Strategic management is a field that deals with the major intended and emergent initiatives taken by general managers on behalf of owners, involving utilization of resources, to enhance the performance of firms in their external environments...
.
Global Leadership program
As part of their international-business concentration, all Freeman MBAs complete modules on conducting business in Latin AmericaLatin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. Each module includes a trip to the region being reviewed, where classes are taught at local business schools and students get the opportunity to visit local businesses. Recent visits took place in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...
, and Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
. Schools visited have included ITAM
ITAM
ITAM may refer to:*Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, a private research university located in Mexico City, Mexico*IT asset management*Immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif...
, Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University , colloquially known in Chinese as Qinghua, is a university in Beijing, China. The school is one of the nine universities of the C9 League. It was established in 1911 under the name "Tsinghua Xuetang" or "Tsinghua College" and was renamed the "Tsinghua School" one year later...
and EGADE
EGADE
EGADE Business School is the Graduate School of Business at ITESM , a university system with 33 campuses in 26 cities in Mexico.EGADE Business School was created more than 30 years ago in Monterrey, 180 miles south of the...
.
Freeman Days
Within the United States, the Freeman School annually hosts company visits at corporate headquarters in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Houston, and Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
New Orleans employers typically come directly to the Uptown New Orleans campus. The school refers to these events as "Freeman Days." Past employer-participants have included Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, Booz Allen, and Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
.
The global reach of the Freeman School's programs help it to attract a diverse student body with geographically-diverse post-graduation plans. Students come from, and find jobs in, cities throughout the United States and around the world.
Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship
The Levy-Rosenblum Institute seeks to provide entrepreneurial-minded students with opportunities to develop entrepreneurial skills inside and outside of the classroom. As such, the program connects students with entrepreneurial professors and full-time entrepreneurs in a wide-variety of fields. Donations from the Levy-Rosenblum Foundation and other charitable entities have resulted in a great number of monetary-award-winning opportunities for Freeman students with entrepreneurial ideas. Because of the Institute's resources—including the ability to offer $200,000 annually in merit-based scholarships and an annual business-plan competition with a prize of $50,000—Tulane consistently ranks among the top 20 universities for entrepreneurship by Entrepreneur MagazineEntrepreneur Magazine
Entrepreneur is a publication that carries news stories about entrepreneurialism, small business management, and business opportunities. It is published by Entrepreneur Media Inc., headquartered in Irvine, California....
.
Degrees
The school offers a Bachelor of Science in Management degree, as well as numerous graduate degrees, including the following: Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, Master of Management, Master of Risk Management, Doctor of Philosophy.Joint-degree Programs
Joint-degree offerings include, but are not limited to, the MBA/JD (Law), MBA/MPH (Health Systems Management), MBA/MA (Latin American Studies), MBA/MD, MBA/BA, and Master of Accounting/BA.Campus
The Freeman School maintains facilities in both New Orleans and Houston. Its two main buildings sit in the center of Tulane's Uptown New Orleans campus, which is located on St. Charles Avenue, across from Audubon Park.Uptown New Orleans buildings
Goldring/Woldenberg Hall I (GW I) was completed in 1986. It primarily houses the undergraduate programs. Construction of Goldring/Woldenberg Hall II (GW II) was completed in November 2003. The building sits next to GW I and across the street from Tulane's Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC), a state-of-the-art student center completed in 2006. GW II houses the graduate business programs and a trading roomTrading room
A trading-room gathers traders operating on financial markets.The trading-room is also often called the front office.The terms dealing-room and trading-floor are also used, the latter being inspired from that of a open outcry stock exchange....
.
Trading room
GW II also houses a trading roomTrading room
A trading-room gathers traders operating on financial markets.The trading-room is also often called the front office.The terms dealing-room and trading-floor are also used, the latter being inspired from that of a open outcry stock exchange....
at the main entrance of the building. The room has ninety-eight flat-screen computer monitors (two for each work space), several televisions to provide news coverage, and a news ticker
News ticker
A news ticker resides in the lower third of the television screen space on television news networks dedicated to presenting headlines or minor pieces of news. It may also refer to a long, thin scoreboard-style display seen around the front of some offices or public buildings...
/ stock ticker monitor that can be read from the nearby McAlister Place. All the desks have access to Bloomberg
Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...
and Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
financial databases. The trading room is meant to resemble similar spaces that can be found at bank
Bank
A bank is a financial institution that serves as a financial intermediary. The term "bank" may refer to one of several related types of entities:...
s and brokerage houses in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
's Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is a major business district located in London, United Kingdom. It is one of London's two main financial centres, alongside the traditional City of London, and contains many of the UK's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest , One Canada Square...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
, Houston, and San Francisco.
Investments
In late November 2008, the university announced that donors are funding elimination of the street (McAlister Drive) between the Uptown business school and the cafeteria/bookstore, to transform the center of campus "into a vibrant, pedestrian environment." Between 2003 and 2009, the Entergy Corporation donated $1 million to the Freeman School to develop the Tulane Energy Institute, a program aimed to stimulate energy-related instruction. In March 2009, the University announced the designation of a $1.5 million donation to support in perpetuity an MBA/JD professor of national stature at Tulane.Current faculty
- Deen KemsleyDeen KemsleyDeen Kemsley is an accounting professor and a Christian author. He earned a PhD in business and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. He then served on the faculty at Columbia Business School from 1995 to 2004, taking a one-year visit to Yale School of Management...
, bulge-bracket accounting consultant - Geoffrey Parker, co-originator of the two-sided market model
- Peter RicchiutiPeter RicchiutiPeter Ricchiuti is an assistant dean at the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, and former chief investment officer for the State of Louisiana. In 1993 he founded the Burkenroad Reports. He is a popular public speaker on Finance, and regularly provides consulting to groups like NFL...
, founder of Burkenroad ReportsBurkenroad ReportsBurkenroad Reports are widely circulated financial reports on small- to medium-sized companies between Texas and Florida that are traditionally under-followed by bulge bracket stock analysts. Colloquially the Burkenroad-followed companies are referred to as "stocks under rocks". The reports are...
, former state chief investment officer - Paul SpindtPaul SpindtPaul Spindt is the Keehn Berry Chair of Banking and Finance at the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. He was previously a chair of the Federal Reserve System and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Arizona State University before coming to Tulane. In...
, former chair of the Federal Reserve SystemFederal Reserve SystemThe Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907... - Scott CowenScott CowenScott S. Cowen is 14th president of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he is also Seymour S. Goodman Memorial Professor in the A.B. Freeman School of Business and professor of economics in Tulane's School of Liberal Arts. He has written more than a hundred peer-reviewed journal...
, Tulane University president and economics professor
Alumni
- Ricardo Salinas PliegoRicardo Salinas PliegoRicardo Benjamín Salinas Pliego is a Mexican businessman and one of Forbes World's Richest People since 2000. He serves as President and CEO of Grupo Salinas and Grupo Elektra, two holdings with interests vested in telecommunications, media and retail stores, among those TV Azteca, Elektra,...
, MBA 1979, Mexican businessman, CEO of Grupo ElektraGrupo ElektraGrupo Elektra is a Mexican financial and retail corporation owned by Grupo Salinas. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange , the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores and on the Spanish Stock Market Latibex ....
, 154th wealthiest person in the world in 2008 (worth $6.3 billion) - Neil BushNeil BushNeil Mallon Bush is the fourth of six children of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush . His five siblings are George Walker Bush, the former President of the United States; Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida; Robin Bush, who died of leukemia in 1953 at the age of...
, MBA 1979, brother of President George W. BushGeorge W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
and son of President George H.W. Bush; ex-savings and loan executive - Regina BenjaminRegina BenjaminVice Admiral Regina Marcia Benjamin, USPHS is an American physician who serves as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Benjamin previously directed a nonprofit primary care medical clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama and served on the Board of Trustees for the Morehouse School of...
, MBA 1991, Surgeon General of the United StatesSurgeon General of the United StatesThe Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government... - Ray NaginRay NaginClarence Ray Nagin, Jr. is a former mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Nagin gained international note in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the New Orleans area....
, MBA 1994, Mayor of New Orleans (D); former General Manager of Cox CommunicationsCox CommunicationsCox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States... - Andrew FriedmanAndrew FriedmanAndrew Friedman is the Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations for the Tampa Bay Rays franchise in Major League Baseball. In that position, he acts as the team's General Manager.-Early life:...
, BS (Finance) 1999, became General Manager of the Tampa Bay RaysTampa Bay RaysThe Tampa Bay Rays are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of MLB's American League. Since their inception in , the club has played at Tropicana Field...
at age 28 - Shannon Burchett, MBA, CEO, Risk Limited Corp; developer of RiskRank credit rating systems
- Jordan BratmanJordan BratmanJordan Bratman is an American music marketer. He is best known for his high-profile marriage to singer Christina Aguilera, with whom he was married from 2005 to 2011 and had a son.-Early life:...
, music marketer - Chandler J. Rapson, BSM, CEO of FSAI
- Dominik Knoll, M.B.A., CEO of World Trade Center New Orleans
- John Runningen, MBA 1977, Managing Director, Runningen Associates, Atlanta; former Senior VP at WebMDWebMDWebMD is an American corporation which provides health information services. It was founded in 1996 by Jim Clark and Pavan Nigam as Healthscape, later Healtheon, and then acquired WebMD in 1999 to form Healtheon/WebMD...
- John Koerner III, MBA/JD 1970, former President and Co-Owner of Barq's Root Beer Inc.
- Stanley E. Ellington Jr., MBA 1972, Managing Director, Dahlman Rose & Co.
- Jay Lapeyre, MBA/JD 1977, President of Laitram Corp.
- Nancy L. Shanik, MBA 1978, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal, New York
- Kevin Rafferty, MBA 1979, Executive Vice President, Iberiabank Corp., Houston
- Daniel L. Fink, MBA/MPH 1984, CEO of Riley Hospital for Children, the sixth-largest children's hospital in the United States
- Michael Barton, MBA 1985, KPMGKPMGKPMG is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PwC. Its global headquarters is located in Amstelveen, Netherlands....
partner (San Francisco) - Stephen J. Borders, BS Management / Accounting 1985, Principal, Advantage Capital Partners
- James Burke, MBA, CEO of TXU Energy
- David B. Davis, BSM 1985, Principal, Booz Allen HamiltonBooz Allen HamiltonBooz Allen Hamilton Inc. , or more commonly Booz Allen, is an American public consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, with 80 other offices throughout the United States. Ralph Shrader is its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The firm was founded by Edwin Booz in...
- Gerald Lema, MBA 1986, President, Baxter International, Inc., Asia Pacific region
- A. M. Thurber, MBA 1985, Managing Director, Zurich Surety
- John Nolan, BSM 1986, CFO, Quadel Consulting
- Mark S. Livingston, BSM 1987, CFO, Emerson, Reid & Co. (New Jersey)
- Keith Blackwell, MBA 1988, Founder & CEO of Bristol Technology Inc.Bristol Technology Inc.Bristol Technology Inc. was a software development company founded in January 1991 by Keith, Ken, and Jean Blackwell. The company's original product idea, Wind/U, was an implementation of the Windows API on non-Windows operating systems...
- Vijay Parmar, MBA 1988, founder, president and CEO of GainSpan Corp.
- John Ragan, MBA 1988, Chief Operating Officer, NRG Energy
- Robert W. Mouton, MBA/JD 1989, New Orleans partner of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
- Douglas Downing, MBA 1990, CFO, Canal Barge Company, Inc., New Orleans
- John W. Hadden II, CEO of IRX Therapeutics
- Waajid Siddiqui, MBA/JD 1991, New York City partner of Hogan & Hartson
- Sagar Bhimavarapu, MBA 1992, Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase & Co. (New York)
- David Morris, MBA 1994, managing director of Oracle Capital Partners (Detroit); named one of the “Top 50 Under 50” by DiversityMBA Magazine
- Rick L. Rambo, MBA/JD 1994, Houston partner of Morgan Lewis
- Frank Russo, MBA 1992, Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Michael S. du Quesnay, MBA/JD 1995, Los Angeles partner of Dewey & LeBoeufDewey & LeBoeufDewey & LeBoeuf LLP is a prominent global white shoe law firm, headquartered in New York City. Originally founded in 1909, the firm currently has over 2400 lawyers spread throughout 26 offices in 15 countries on 4 continents, and is known primarily for its corporate, insurance, litigation, tax and...
- Eduardo S. Espinosa, MBA/JD 1995, Dallas partner of K&L Gates
- Timothy W. Goodly, MBA 1995, Senior Vice President at CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
Worldwide - Paul Friedman, MBA/JD 1996, Senior Vice President at Sony Pictures EntertainmentSony Pictures EntertainmentSony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony...
- Roth Kehoe, MBA/JD 1996, Atlanta partner of Hunton & WilliamsHunton & WilliamsFounded in 1901, Hunton & Williams LLP is a US law firm that employs more than 800 lawyers. It has been called "one of the most well-connected legal and lobbying firms in DC." The firm was founded in Richmond, Virginia and has 18 other offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In...
- Andrew P. Schmutz, MBA/JD 1996, Philadelphia partner of Greenberg TraurigGreenberg TraurigGreenberg Traurig LLP and Greenberg Traurig PA is an international law firm based in Miami, Florida.The firm has approximately 1,800 attorneys and governmental professionals in 32 locations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Its founding office is in Miami, Florida with its largest office in...
- Tristan E. Propst, MBA/JD 1998, Houston partner of Mayer BrownMayer BrownMayer Brown is an international law firm head-quartered in Chicago which specializes in commercial transactions and litigation. The firm employs more than 1,600 lawyers, including approximately 875 in the Americas, 425 in Europe and 300 in Asia....
- Filip Verfaillie, BSM 1998, Vice President, CitigroupCitigroupCitigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...
(NYC) - Steven Halperin, BSM Economics and Finance 1999, Managing Director, Barclays CapitalBarclays CapitalBarclays Capital is a global British investment bank. It is the investment banking division of Barclays plc which has a balance sheet of over £1.2 trillion . Barclays Capital provides financing and risk management services to large companies, institutions and government clients. It is a primary...
, New York - David Rohrbach, MBA 1999, Director, Credit SuisseCredit SuisseThe Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...
, Chicago - Jairo Perez, BSM Accounting 1994 / MBA 2000, Finance Director, Emerson Process Management, Mexico City
- Colleen E. Laduzinski, MBA/JD 2000, New York City partner of Jones DayJones DayJones Day is an international law firm founded in Cleveland, Ohio on March 1, 1893, by Judge Edwin J. Blandin and William Lowe Rice. Jones Day is the eighth largest law firm in the world by revenue, and the fourth highest grossing firm in the US with annual revenues of US$1.4 billion...
- Duce Lazarov, BSM 2000, Vice President, Deutsche BankDeutsche BankDeutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...
(NYC) - James O'Neil, MBA/MA 2000, Manager, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
- Ben Turner, MBA 2003, CEO, Ibelong Networks
- Mark Lumpkin, MBA 2004, Vice President, The Royal Bank of Scotland
- Rod West, MBA 2005, President & CEO of EntergyEntergyEntergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. It is headquartered in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana.-History:...
New Orleans - Lara Seeburg, MBA 2005, Vice President, Morgan StanleyMorgan StanleyMorgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
(NYC) - Kurt Modarelli, MBA, Managing Director-Head of Fixed Income, Legend Merchant Group, New York
- Marc Lauricella, MBA, Chief Marketing Officer, Praetorian Financial Group, New York
- Lauren Haas, Vice President, J.P. Morgan (NYC)
- John M. Porter, CFO, Astrotech, Houston
- Ford F. Graham, MBA/JD, Vice-Chairman and President, Miller Petroleum, Inc., and Managing Partner of Vulcan Partners
Reputation
Several news publications, including the Financial TimesFinancial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
, Forbes
Forbes
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, América Economía
América Economía
América Economía is a Latin American magazine founded in 1986 by Chilean Elías Selman and Swedish Nils Strandberg.The 1980s was considered the lost decade in Latin America but Selman and Strandberg decided to take risk and create the first Latin American business magazine.Since 1986 AméricaEconomía...
and the U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
, regularly rank the Freeman School among the top 50 business schools in the nation. Individually, the Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
department has been ranked among the top 10 in the world by the Financial Times on several occasions. Also, Entrepreneur Magazine has consistently ranked Freeman among the top 20 schools for entrepreneurship.
Rankings
The Freeman School's Finance department was ranked 6th in the world by the Financial Times in 2005, and 10th in 2008.MBA program ranked 4th by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2009, 17th in 2008, and 13th in 2006
MBA program ranked 35th in the U.S. by the Financial Times in 2010.
MBA program was ranked 40th by U.S. News & World Report in 2011.
MBA program ranked 22nd by AméricaEconomía magazine in 2006, and 24th in 2008
MBA program ranked 39th on Fortune magazine's list of the Top 50 B-Schools for Getting Hired (February 2007)
MBA program ranked 44th by Forbes in 2007; 52nd in 2009
MBA program ranked 46th by the Financial Times (2008)
Undergraduate business program ranked 43rd by U.S. News & World Report (Sept. 2008)
Executive MBA program ranked 6th in Latin America by AméricaEconomía magazine (August 2006)
See also
- Burkenroad ReportsBurkenroad ReportsBurkenroad Reports are widely circulated financial reports on small- to medium-sized companies between Texas and Florida that are traditionally under-followed by bulge bracket stock analysts. Colloquially the Burkenroad-followed companies are referred to as "stocks under rocks". The reports are...
- List of business schools in the United States
- List of United States business school rankings
- Tulane Corporate Law InstituteTulane Corporate Law InstituteThe Tulane Corporate Law Institute is an annual two-day M&A and corporate law conference that takes place in downtown New Orleans every spring. It attracts the most high-profile lawyers and bankers from around the United States, as well as judges, journalists, and others who follow the dealmaking...