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    TU Test Drive: Campus & Class Visit (in person)

    Monday, October 21, 2024 at 5:30 PM until 7:30 PMCentral Daylight Time UTC -05:00


    Goldring/Woldenberg Hall II
    7 Mcalister Dr
    New Orleans, LA 70118
    United States

    Curious about what it's like being a Freeman Graduate Student? Come try it out! This experience begins with an Admissions Team Introduction, an overview of our Graduate Business Programs and application components, a building tour, and concludes with a class visit.

    Tentative Schedule:
    • 5:30pm: Meet the Graduate Admissions Staff & Discuss Program, Application Process
    • 6:00pm: Tour the Business School Building
    • 6:15pm: Break
    • 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Sit in and observe a Graduate Level Course MGMT 6030 Strategic Management with Professor Carmen Weigelt
    This course is designed to present strategic management from the point of view of the practicing general manager. It focuses on specific knowledge and skills that are required to understand strategy and the process by which it is developed in business organizations. It also provides information on the situation and context in which strategy is formed and implemented.

    Carmen Weigelt is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Prior to joining the faculty at the Freeman School, Dr. Weigelt was an assistant professor at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. Dr. Weigelt obtained her Ph.D. in strategy from Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business in 2003. Her dissertation research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Financial Services Exchange.

    Her research interests focus on innovation, outsourcing, firm capabilities, and acquisition performance. In particular, she studies the role of outsourcing in enabling firms to adopt new technologies, and the impact of outsourcing on subsequent firm performance outcomes and firm competencies. Another line of her research focuses on measurement issues in strategy research related to acquisition performance. Her papers were finalists for the McKinsey/Strategic Management Society Best Paper Award in 2001 and 2006. She is a member of the Academy of Management (BPS, OMT, and TIM divisions), the Strategic Management Society, and INFORMS. She has reviewed for the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and the Academy of Management Annual Meetings.

     

    Registration is no longer available because the registration deadline has passed.