Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
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 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.
- Number of Students: About 1,500
- Foundation: 1949
- Accreditation: AACSB