Tepper School of Business

David A. Tepper School of Business
Former names
Graduate School of Industrial Administration (1949-2004)
TypePrivate business school
Established1949
FounderWilliam L. Mellon
Endowment$3.0 billion
DeanIsabelle Bajeux-Besnainou[1]
Academic staff
102[2]
Undergraduates584
Postgraduates922[2]
76[2]
Address
5000 Forbes Avenue[3]
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CampusUrban, 140 acres (57 ha)
Websitewww.cmu.edu/tepper

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.

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.

  1. ^ Patrick Thomas (16 October 2020). "Carnegie Mellon's New Business Dean Optimistic About School, U.S." Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ a b c "Tepper School Facts & Figures" (PDF). CMU Website. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  3. ^ "School Profile". Business Week. Retrieved 3 March 2007.[dead link]
  4. ^ "Announcing a Transformational Gift". School’s Website. Archived from the original on 2007-02-05. Retrieved 2007-04-05.

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