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The first Bloomberg Terminal was purchased by the College of Business Administration (CoBA) in 1999. When CoBA moved to the Harper building and was named for the Heider family, the Heider College of Business (HCoB) built the first Investment Center, located in Harper 2066, and filled it with ten Bloomberg Terminal computers. After the 2020 remodel of the Harper building, the Investment Center was relocated further north on the second floor, again in Harper 2066.
Currently the Heider College of Business has twelve Bloomberg Terminal licenses. Nine are installed on student-use computers in the Investment Center (Harper 2066), one is installed on the student or faculty single-monitor computer in the Investment Center, and two licenses are installed on Lenovo laptops. These laptops are shared amongst the various Finance faculty in the Heider College of Business.
- Bloomberg Terminal is not licensed to be installed on personal computer?
- Anyone can download the software from https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/software-updates/. Once installed, a serial number must be provided to Bloomberg Support (located on a sticker on the computer CPU) and provide contact information to Bloomberg support (see above for HCoB contact information).
- You need administrative rights on the computer to install the software?
- You do not need to have administrative rights on the computer to run the software once it is installed.
- The software installs on all users not just the individual user’s profile.