Category: Financial education and training. Country: United States (USA).
"How it all started..." E. J. Ourso, for whom LSU’s College of Business was named in 1997, is not only the College’s financial benefactor but also an educational contributor. Many times, over the last two decades, he has talked to classes about his experience as an entrepreneur. He likes to talk with the young people - students in the E. J. Ourso College of Business’ MBA program - who come to see him at his house on St. Charles Avenue. Professor Robert Justis brings students from his entrepreneurship classes to the house, and E. J. talks with them in a large room on the first floor, where he has chairs and a desk set up in an informally arranged classroom. "Don’t be surprised if I don’t sound like your professors at the university," he says. Leaning forward, eagerly, he thinks: they are waiting for the truth. Lord help me. He begins by saying that this "Entrepreneurship class" should not be thought of as a class in small business management. "Entrepreneurship is not a matter of small business management. A class with this title is about growing a business, expansion." He notes that most entrepreneurs he has known, or known about - John Folse or Billy Guillot of his hometown, Donaldsonville, or like Microsoft’s Bill Gates - started out small but immediately set about getting bigger and bigger. "They all started out small and got big," he says... Welcome to the Department of Finance at Louisiana State University’s E. J. Ourso College of Business. LSU’s Department of Finance offers high quality programs for the development and communication of knowledge in studies related to finance, real estate, risk management and insurance, and business law. Our vision is to be recognized as among the top twenty departments of finance at public universities for excellence in the production, dissemination and application of financial knowledge. To this end, our faculty have compiled a record of excellence in research and teaching, creating exciting educational opportunities for our students. Whether researching a firm in the SMART Lab, or participating in our Student Managed Investment Fund, or discussing current practices with finance professionals at meetings of our Student Finance Association, our students are able to take full advantage of our innovative, challenging, high quality learning experiences. Our website will enable you to meet our faculty, view our courses and curricula, and see some of the interesting things we are doing. We hope you enjoy exploring these Web pages...
Address: 3304 Patrick F. Taylor Hall Baton Rouge, Louisiana LA 70803 Phone: 225 578 3211 Fax: 225 578 5256
