Freeman News

Honors students are on the case

August 09, 2010

It’s not that unusual for business students to read cases on companies like Google, General Electric and Time-Warner in their management classes. What is a little unusual is for the students themselves to write the cases.

image file named CDevers_7399_web.jpg — CEOs' zeal for acquisitions flags when their own money is at stake, Freeman researcher says
August 02, 2010
Corporate-acquisition activity has been in the doldrums, and the finger of blame has tended to be pointed at investors.

image file named CDevers_7399_web1-150x150.jpg — Freeman adds six new faculty members
July 25, 2010
The Freeman School has appointed six new tenure-track faculty members for the 2010-11 academic year.

image file named DiversityMBA_ShellondCheste-150x150.jpg — Diversity MBA Magazine names five alums to “Top 100 Under 50”
July 09, 2010
Diversity MBA Magazine has selected five alumni of the Freeman School for inclusion on its 2010 list of the “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive & Emerging Leaders.” The list recognizes exceptional minority and multicultural executives—including African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, f

image file named AmericaEconomia_ranking_201.jpg — Freeman ranked 35th in the world by AméricaEconomía
July 08, 2010
In its latest ranking of global MBA programs, leading Latin American business magazine AméricaEconomía has ranked the Freeman School 35th internationally and 22nd among U.S. business schools. The ranking appears in the magazine's June 2010 issue.

image file named DSC_7134.jpg — Commencement ceremony celebrates a return to normalcy
May 19, 2010
This year’s Freeman School commencement ceremony was nothing special, and according to Dean Angelo DeNisi, that’s what made it special indeed.

image file named Ricchiuti_Burkenroad_IMG_36.jpg — Burkenroad Conference spotlights recovery
May 04, 2010
At last year’s Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference, 33 of the 34 companies that presented posted negative returns for the preceding 12 months. This year, 28 of 33 companies posted positive returns, including top performer Stone Energy, which generated a total return of 337.89 percent for the year.

image file named Nuru_Light_Freeman_229.jpg — Business Plan Competition winners have a bright idea
April 20, 2010
Poverty and lack of access to safe, affordable lighting are two of the biggest challenges facing populations in the developing world. A startup company hopes to solve both of those problems with an innovative new product, and now, with the help of Tulane, it's a little closer to achieving that goal.

image file named Latin_American_Seminar__web.jpg — Admissions hosts Latin American advisers
April 20, 2010
On April 17, the Office of Graduate Admissions hosted its third annual International Advisers Seminar.

image file named Entrepreneur_Week_032610_mba2_9629_pbc.jpg — Students team up for New Orleans Entrepreneur Week
March 27, 2010
Jack and Jake’s Local and Organic Market is a new business that plans to bring locally grown food to customers in underserved neighborhoods within three days of harvest, but to achieve that goal, the company first needs a top-notch distribution system.

image file named Investor_Idol_IMG_0044.jpg — MBA students make waves at "Investor Idol"
March 25, 2010
Xavier Cabo, Chonchol Gupta and Alex Owings may not have much in common with Kelly Clarkson or Adam Lambert, but they can all say they're idols.

image file named Agular_finance_awards_0811.jpg — Freeman hosts 14th annual Finance Case Competition
March 23, 2010
MBA students from Freeman and seven other top-ranked business schools competed for $10,000 in cash prizes at the 14th annual Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition.