Tepper School of Business
Business school of Carnegie Mellon University / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Tepper School of Business is the business school of Carnegie Mellon University. It is located in the university's 140-acre (0.57 km2) campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Former names | Graduate School of Industrial Administration (1949-2004) |
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Type | Private business school |
Established | 1949 |
Founder | William L. Mellon |
Endowment | $3.0 billion |
Dean | Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou[1] |
Academic staff | 102[2] |
Undergraduates | 584 |
Postgraduates | 922[2] |
76[2] | |
Address | 5000 Forbes Avenue[3] , , , |
Campus | Urban, 140 acres (57 ha) |
Website | www |
The school offers degrees from the undergraduate through doctoral levels, in addition to executive education programs.
The Tepper School of Business, originally known as the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA), was founded in 1949 by William Larimer Mellon. In March 2004, the school received a record $55 million gift from alumnus David Tepper[4] and was renamed the David A. Tepper School of Business.
Numerous Nobel Prize–winning economists have been affiliated with the school, including alumni Dale T. Mortensen, Oliver Williamson, Edward Prescott, Finn Kydland and faculty members Herbert A. Simon, Franco Modigliani, Merton Miller, Robert Lucas, and Lars Peter Hansen.