Student Spotlight

Business is very broad, and you will naturally gravitate towards certain aspects, but don’t run away from others. Also, business can be combined with any industry so don’t forget to explore your other passions.

I’m super proud to have had the opportunity to work as a Lepage Fellow since my sophomore year at Tulane. The people I’ve met working at the Lepage Center have shaped me into who I am today and challenge me to be the best…

“Kobe is amazingly brilliant, insanely dedicated and hardworking, and has been a tremendous mentor for students seeking investment banking roles as the president of the Green Bull investment banking group. He is so fantastic…

I am pursuing an MBA to learn core business aspects like strategy, finance, accounting, marketing, business analytics and to hone leadership and networking skills.

My time in Jerusalem and the West Bank through Tulane’s Mandel-Palagye Program for Middle East Peace was transformative and is something that I consider to be a hallmark of my time at Tulane. The academic outcome of that…

The extracurricular achievement that I am the proudest of is leading and helping grow the Tulane music business club, Green Wave Sound. I have always been passionate about music and have been lucky enough to meet, partner…

I am most proud of two achievements: being selected to study abroad in Milan, Italy and my involvement in transforming Tulane’s Alliance of Black Business Students (ABBS). Both experiences were incredibly challenging and…

I am most proud of working with the first responders during the height of the pandemic, I feel joy in helping others.

My proudest moments came when I was managing over 100 employees in our healthcare technology consulting internal startup while our restaurants and bars were closed for the Covid-19 lockdowns.

I am most proud of my work as Senior Brand Manager at a CPG company and I was able to manage 11 brands with revenues of USD 11M.

I hope to be a professional in impact investing, especially in gender lens investing.

How well-respected program is and how it increases opportunities and experience. I hope to improve my leadership skills and make long-lasting friendships and connections.

I am pursuing my MBA to provide myself with greater mobility in my professional career.

I'm pursuing my MBA to make myself more competitive in the job market, specifically in Sports Management.

I am most proud of my work in education, it was great to make a difference each day. I am also proud of my work in college; I interned and eventually directed an art show designed to highlight minority and local small…

Small classrooms, data-driven curriculum, trading rooms, warm weather, nice food, and most importantly nice people that I met in the admission process. This program really gets to know me as a person.

I went to Tulane as an undergraduate student and I love and respect Tulane/Freeman and New Orleans. I hope to learn more about myself, to increase my business knowledge and to discover a career path that excites me, as well…

I want to change my career path to a more strategic direction. I love numbers and business and would like to be a project or new product manager.

Sofia Merkowitz-Bustos (MBA '25) hails from Columbia, Maryland, and hopes to combine her creative impulses with her business knowledge to work in the entertainment industry.

Jake Davidson (MBA '25), the fourth member of his family to attend Tulane, is pursuing his MBA to develop the skills to be the fifth generation to take the helm of his family's business.

Samantha Rubin (MBA '25) comes to Freeman from Delray Beach, Florida. She chose Freeman because of our newly revamped MBA curriculum, and she hopes to pursue a career in digital marketing.

Vasili Econopouly (MBA '24) confirmed his intended career path through a summer internship at Sutter Health in Sacramento, California.

In his summer internship at Syneos Health, Justen Downing (MBA '24) learned how to apply business analytics to pharmaceutical consulting.

In a summer internship at Entergy in New Orleans, Kalsey Belle (MBA '24) was able to apply her interests in energy and analytics at KeyString Labs, their innovation lab.

Jade Barnblatt (MBA '24) discovered the field of Thought Leadership Marketing through her summer internship at Autodesk.