Case Study: Carnegie Mellon University achieves data-driven strategic decision-making and campus-wide visibility with Tableau Software

Carnegie Mellon business school drives world-class education with data

Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business needed a way to align operations with the dean’s strategic priorities—international expansion, visibility and cross-campus collaboration—while consolidating fragmented data from 14–15 systems to support faster budgeting, consistent metrics and better decision-making across academic, administrative and fundraising functions.

By deploying Tableau (including a rapid two‑week prototype dean’s dashboard), the school unified data, standardized definitions and gave leaders mobile/web access with powerful drilldowns. The result was faster, more strategic financial and operational oversight, cross‑college adoption, improved external reporting and new insights into donor behavior, class utilization and student career progress—helping Tepper steward resources more effectively and plan future HR and skills‑inventory initiatives.

Carnegie Mellon University

Ted Curran

Executive Director of Finance