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For nearly 80 years, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John's University has spawned leaders in a host of industries, primarily within financial services, both regionally and globally. The College plans now to enhance the education provided to  our students through the establishment of a learning environment that will bring real-time news, market information, financial data and analysis to our students and faculty through a Financial Information Laboratory. This type of facility will enable our students to learn about and live in financial markets and business environments and situations throughout the world.Students will benefit from the most contemporary learning technology and tools of analysis that are available in the marketplace today.The Financial Information Lab will further distinguish the Tobin College of Business as amongst the most premiere business learning environments, not only within the United States, but around the world. We invite you to join with us in this exciting undertaking.

Competitive Advantage

Building on our traditions of producing business practitioners who recognize opportunities and use these to competitive advantage, the College is moving in a direction that will further build visibility for programs in all of our major areas of study.

For Students

Students will solve real-world business problems in real-time using the same sophisticated technology that is in place and the world's most respected and well-known firms. The lab will serve all majors within the College. For example:

• Risk management students can simulate scenarios using multiple variables to arrive at best formula for risk coverage.
• Finance and economics students will have access to real-time business data and news from around the world, aggregated to make the soundest decisions on investment and portfolio management.
• Decision sciences students can utilize the lab to draw from databases and databanks around the world in making decisions within or across business disciplines.
• Students of organizations and organizational behavior will use the lab to derive the most contemporary business cases for use in strategic and operational analyses.
• Marketing students will use the lab for research and planning relative to new products and services for consumers.

For Alumni

Establishing the Financial Information Lab at the College will contribute significantly to our reputation as a leader and innovator in business education, thereby increasing the recognition of the Tobin degree worldwide.

For Faculty

The lab will enable faculty to provide instruction that is exciting, informative and engaging. Imagine three screens running simultaneously in the Financial Information Lab: One capturing CNN and news of a major corporate merger; another downloading historical stock data and a third with a faculty member and student team using this information to make decisions about a specific business case. All right there, in one place and at one time.

For Corporate Partners

The laboratory environment holds virtually unlimited promise as a mechanism for provision of training, updating of skills or corporate education in innumerable fields of business, such as financial services, business journalism, e-commerce, management of risk, insurance and quantitative finance.

For more information about this exciting new venture, please contact Dr. Susan McTiernan at (718) 990-2665 or email at: mctierns@stjohns.edu.