Industry-engaged business education at the graduate level focuses on specialization, depth, and strategic application of knowledge in professional settings. Students gain hands-on experience through full-time internships, consulting projects with corporate partners, global immersion programs, or advanced capstone courses in areas such as accounting, analytics, energy, and finance.
MBA Experiential Learning
MBA Impact Capstone
In the Impact Capstone, MBA student teams work with corporate clients to solve complex, real-world business problems across diverse disciplines. Past projects have spanned the energy, hospitality, manufacturing, and utilities industries.
Freeman announces new full-time MBA curriculum
To prepare future leaders to take on the complex challenges of today’s rapidly changing business environment, Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has announced a new full-time MBA curriculum to begin in fall 2023.
Climate Change, Sustainability, & Financial Markets
This elective examines how climate change risks affect firms, the economy, and financial markets. Students design and back-test trading strategies that hedge climate exposures while evaluating corporate sustainability strategies and performance.
Course Spotlight
Sustainability in a Dynamic Global World
This course explores critical sustainability issues facing global managers. Students conduct strategic analyses, apply data-driven approaches, and assess the financial impacts of climate change on international firms. Students travel abroad to engage with business leaders, entrepreneurs, consultants, and policymakers.
Executive MBAs travel to South Africa for lessons in global management
The Freeman School’s Executive MBA class hit the road in May, traveling to Cape Town, South Africa, for the course Managing the Global Enterprise.
Specialized Graduate Programs
Master of Business Analytics (MANA)
This program prepares students with advanced analytical, technological, and strategic skills for leadership in the fast-evolving data landscape. The curriculum emphasizes hands-on applications in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
- Business Analytics Projects
Student teams partner with faculty and industry sponsors on applied projects, presenting findings at the annual Tulane Business Analytics Colloquium. Past partners include the Saints & Pelicans, Ochsner Health System, Premium Parking, and the New Orleans Police Department. - Applied Machine Learning
Students learn to identify and apply machine learning techniques to real-world datasets, culminating in the development of an end-to-end interactive machine learning application on an enterprise platform. - Business Analytics Practicum
This introductory practicum combines classroom instruction, company visits, and applied sessions on business analytics in practice. Past site visits have included the Port of New Orleans and Goldstar Satellite.
MANA Colloquium showcases ‘Analytics in Action’
On Nov. 15, the Freeman School hosted the 2024 Master of Business Analytics Colloquium, an annual conference that brings analytics experts to campus to share their perspective on industry trends and offer career insights to students in the Master of Business Analytics (MANA) program.
Master of Finance (MFIN)
Students develop advanced analytical skills in derivatives, fixed-income analytics, risk valuation, and risk management. Coursework is paired with experiential learning opportunities to ensure students can apply classroom concepts in real-world financial settings.
Master of Accounting (MACCT)
- Forensic Accounting
“Forensic” in this context means “suitable for the courts.” Students engage in moot court testimony and improv exercises to prepare for real-world forensic accounting scenarios.
Master of Management in Energy (MME)
- Introduction to Energy Markets & Policy
This course introduces students to both domestic and international energy industries, covering fundamentals of energy sources, production, transportation, and consumption. Students gain a deeper understanding of energy sources—including conventional and unconventional oil and gas, as well as renewables like wind, solar, and hydroelectric. Field trips have included the PBF Refinery, LA Ship, Entergy’s Solar Station, and LLOG Exploration. Read: Pierre Conner: The Future of Energy Is Now - Energy Fundamentals & Trading
Students participate in interactive trading exercises in Freeman’s state-of-the-art trading room. Using Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) futures markets, they test trading strategies, risk management tactics, and mark-to-market models. - Energy Risk Management
Featuring industry speakers, this course explores how energy producers and consumers use derivatives for finance, planning, credit, and risk management. The course concludes with a multi-week trading simulation in which students manage a paper portfolio of equities, commodities, and options.
As executive director of the Tulane Energy Institute at Tulane University’s A. B Freeman School of Business, Pierre Conner is educating the leaders of tomorrow’s energy companies today.
Additional Initiatives
Burkenroad Reports
Each year, 200 Freeman students work in teams to provide coverage for 40 small-cap public companies headquartered in six southern states. Teams meet with top management, visit company sites, design financial models, and publish in-depth, unbiased investment research reports. Learn more about the Burkenroad Reports.
Burkenroad Reports Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Burkenroad Reports, the student equity research program founded by Peter Ricchiuti, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The nation’s first such program, Burkenroad Reports has developed into one of the jewels of the A. B. Freeman School of Business.
Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund
Through this course, students actively manage more than $5.8 million in equity assets across three portfolios, often outperforming benchmark indexes. They develop proprietary sector models and make investment decisions with real portfolios—an opportunity few undergraduate programs offer. Learn more about the Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund.
Alternative Investments
The Selber courses move students as close to the real world as possible. Industry experts serve as mentors throughout the semester, as students build an investment pitch to raise committed capital for a distressed debt fund or a hedge fund. The celebrated speaker series allows students to interact with leaders actively doing the work in the alternative investment space. Learn more about the Selber Courses.
