Finance
April 26, 2024
For the 2024 R.W. Freeman Distinguished Lecture, Todd Schwartz (BSM '03), founder of fintech company OppFi, shared the firm's origin story and highlighted its unwavering commitment to assisting millions of Americans.
April 05, 2024
Amanda Heitz, assistant professor of finance, was interviewed for a segment on the WWNO news magazine "Louisiana Considered" about independent banks in New Orleans seeking to change their ownership structure from mutual banks to stock-owned institutions.
March 19, 2024
For the 2024 R.W. Freeman Distinguished Lecture, Todd Schwartz, founder of OppFi, will sit down with Myke Yest, senior professor of practice in finance, for a wide-ranging discussion that will chart the company's journey from a Chicago pawnshop to a $265 million public company.
February 07, 2024
Two members of the A. B. Freeman School of Business community were recently honored by Tulane University for exceptional achievements in advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
January 11, 2024
Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and research director of Burkenroad Reports, was interviewed by the New Orleans Advocate for a story about how Louisiana public companies matched up with Wall Street in 2023.
December 22, 2023
Oleg Gredil, associate professor of finance, was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal for a story about public market equivalent (PME) methods for comparing private equity fund returns to public benchmarks.
December 18, 2023
Russ Robins' paper "A New Look at Expected Stock Returns and Volatility" has been accepted for publication in Critical Finance Review.
December 06, 2023
Amanda Heitz's paper "The Power of the People: Labor Unions and Corporate Social Responsibility," co-authored with Youan Wang and Zigan Wang, has been accepted for publication in Review of Finance.
November 01, 2023
Three months after graduation, 93% of the Freeman School's 2023 MBA class had job offers, an 8% increase over last year at that time. While those jobs were distributed across industries, more than half of this year's grads leveraged their Freeman MBA experience to pivot industries and start new careers.
October 27, 2023
Oleg Gredil’s paper “Do Employees Cheer for Private Equity? The Heterogeneous Effects of Buyouts on Job Quality” has been accepted for publication in Management Science.
October 25, 2023
The A. B. Freeman School of Business has received a $5 million gift from Todd and Gina Schwartz to expand opportunities for students to “learn by doing.”
September 15, 2023
Abhishek Bhardwaj’s paper “Government Investment Stimulus and Household Balance Sheet Externalities”, co-authored with Saptarshi Mukherjee, has been conditionally accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA).