In This Issue:

Features

A Stirling Success
Jimmy Maurin (MBA '71) has built Covington-based Stirling Properties Inc. into one of the leading real estate companies in the Gulf South.

Do you know the way to Monterrey?
In April, the first-year MBA class traveled to Mexico for the first of three international trips in conjunction with the new MBA curriculum.

From the Dean

• New faculty, admissions update and more

In the News

• MBAs make a splash with City Park
• Finance Case Competition celebrates 11th year
• Freeman on the rise in the latest U.S. News ranking
• Lawrence and Cloutier honored as Entrepreneurs of the Year
• You want hummus with that shake?
• Latin American Research Consortium meets at Freeman
• New Master of Finance Program in Houston
• Student snags Colin Powell, Stephen Covey for Tulane talks
• Turning of the TIDES
• New Career Management Center director hopes to continue growth
• Burkenroad Conference highlights Gulf South rebound
• Medical, education groups take top prizes at Business Plan Competition
• MBA and MD a perfect match
• Return of the "Masters of the Universe"

Research

• MIT professor addresses renewable energy
• Coke is it
• Burkenroad Institute elects a Cardinal
• Perspective: A brief history of the destruction of money

With Alumni

• If you build it, will they come home?
• Humble Beginnings: Dan Packer
• My Brilliant Career: Jacques Leonardi
• Class Notes