The Tepper School of Business, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offers professional business programs in finance, entrepreneurship, operations management, and information technology.

Previously called the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, the school was founded in 1949 by William Larimer Mellon. Since then the school has distinguished itself by focusing on developing the scientific principles that underlie business management.

Many of the Tepper School's innovations have been adopted by other business schools around the globe. It pioneered the "quantitative" or "fundamental analysis" based approach to teaching management, as separate from the "case-study" based approach developed originally at Harvard Business School. It also pioneered the use of computer simulation for experiential learning of business roles via the 'Management Game'.

The Tepper School's faculty have won wide acclaim for research which spans all of the functional areas of business and economics. The school has also produced six Nobel laureates in Economics: Robert Lucas Jr, Merton Miller, Franco Modigliani, Herbert Simon, Finn E. Kydland and Edward Prescott.

The Graduate School of Industrial Administration was renamed the Tepper School of Business on March 19, 2004, in recognition of a record $55 million donation from David Tepper, a hedge fund manager who received his MBA from the school in 1982.

Rankings

• Wall Street Journal - 2004
  • Overall:
    • 6. Business school

• Wall Street Journal - 2006
  • Overall:
    • 3. Business school

• • Specialty rankings:
    • 1. Favorite school of technology recruiters
    • 1. Operations management
    • 2. Information technology
    • 2. Quantitative analysis
    • 5. Finance
    • 6. Entrepreneurship
      

• U. S. News & World Report - 2005
  • Overall:
    • 5 Undergraduate business school
    • 17 Graduate business school

• • Specialty rankings:
    • 1 Information systems (graduate)
    • 2 Quantitative analysis (graduate and undergraduate)
    • 2 Management information systems (undergraduate)
    • 2 Production/operations management (undergraduate)
    • 3 Production/operations management (graduate)
      

• Business Week - 2002
  • Overall:
    • 19 Top graduate business school

• • Specialty rankings:
    • 2 Technology recruiters' favorite
    • 15 Intellectual capital
      

• Financial Times - 2004
  • Overall:
    • 7 Doctoral program
    • 28 Business school

• • Specialty rankings:
    • 5 Placement success
    • 25 Research
      

• Forbes - 2003
  • 19 Business school
    

• Business 2.0 - 2003
  • Top 25

Notes

External links

• Tepper School of Business

Business schools in the United States | Schools and departments of Carnegie Mellon