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wckirby
Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 355 Location: New Orleans
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: Tulane: the only ones losing money |
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http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=18479
Hmmm... Everyone else (big) who stayed is prospering. Except Tulane... _________________ Clay Kirby
11th generation New Orleanian
4th generation Tulanian
Mechanical Engineering Class of '06 |
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Dr. Ash
Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 45 Location: New F'n Orleans
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:07 am Post subject: |
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I thought Cowen was going to run Tulane "like a business"?
So why hasn't anybody fired his ass? |
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rwaldron
Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Baton Rouge (for now), LA
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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Dr. Ash wrote: | I thought Cowen was going to run Tulane "like a business"?
So why hasn't anybody fired his ass? |
who has the power to?
anyone read the hullabaloo article on how MechE dept. was making Tulane money? |
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perturbed
Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Maryland
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Cowen is firmly entrenched for the moment having ruthlessly routed all real or potential threats, but his feet are planted in the alluvial soils of New Orleans. Not the firms ground. Like a levee it look formidable right up to the moment it is undermined and washed away.
He wants to run it like a business. The numbers will make or break him. |
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lob
Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 17 Location: New Orleans, LA
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: a business? |
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So, what business model is Tulane following?
An apt comparison might be the domestic automobile business. The objective there seems to have been to produce what's cheap and profitable in the short term, while cutting costs by cutting out--yes, wait for it--engineering.
The Big Three now must face the result. Asian manufacturers have invested in technology (via their engineering talent), and now deliver truly efficient vehicles. Here in this country, GM takes pride in a "mild" hybrid that gets 18 mpg. Ford shrugged and now buys its hybrid technology from Toyota.
Tulane might be happy for now to produce the academic equivalent of the Cadillac Escalade (strong on aesthetics, well-marketed, but crude technologically and a bad fit in a $4/gallon world). The university will missing out on providing the core talent to meet real and growing challenges of wetland restoration, hurricane-resistant infrastructure, and energy demands. |
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