International academic programs include the study-abroad program, which enables students to live and study in Europe, Asia and Latin America for periods ranging from two months to a full academic year; the international management concentration, which enables full-time MBAs to focus on international business; and faculty development and executive programs, which include MBA and PhD programs offered jointly with international partner institutions. These programs include PhD programs for faculty from ITESM in Mexico, Universidad De Los Andes in Colombia and IESA in Venezuela, and executive programs for executives from Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Taiwan and China.
One of the goals of the Freeman School is to be a leading U.S. institution involved in research and educational programs in Latin America. To implement this strategy, the Freeman School began in the early 1990s identifying and forming affiliations with top Latin American institutions. More recently, the Freeman School’s Center for Latin American Business Studies was founded to serve as one of the first international business centers of its kind of focus exclusively on the region. It serves as a resource for education and research on the economic and corporate environment in Latin America. The center comprises the Latin American Research Consortium, an alliance of research institutions from across Latin America; the Latin American Doctoral Consortium, which offers PhD curricula in law and business with the assistance of a consortium of top Latin American professional schools; and Burkenroad Reports for Latin America, a series of financial reports on small, medium and less-traded companies.
In Asia, the Freeman School has had a joint venture EMBA program in Taiwan since 1993. More recently, this program has expanded to include managers from the People’s Republic of China. The Freeman School’s Asia Executive MBA Program was the first program of its kind to bring together in a classroom setting managers from Taiwan and Mainland China.
In October 2002, construction began on the Tulane International Business School in Shanghai, China. The school, which will house the Freeman School’s Asia Executive MBA program in China, makes Tulane the first non-Chinese university to establish a campus in that nation.
