Finance
Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business recognized more than 700 degree candidates at its spring 2022 undergraduate and graduate diploma ceremonies. The ceremonies took place on Friday, May 20, at Avron B. Fogelman Arena in Devlin Fieldhouse on Tulane’s uptown campus.
Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and research director of the Burkenroad Reports equity research program, was interviewed for an Acadiana Advocate story on UnitedHealth Group’s agreement to acquire Lafayette-based home health company LHC Group for $5.4 billion.
Oleg Gredil’s paper “Nowcasting Net Asset Values: The Case of Private Equity,” co-authored with Greg Brown and Eric Ghysels of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been accepted for publication in The Review of Financial Studies.
Lisa LaViers, Jason Sandvik and Da Xu’spaper “CEO Pay Ratio, Voluntary Disclosures and Stakeholder Reactions” has been accepted for publication in The Review of Accounting Studies (RAST).
Trevor Young’s paper “Sentiment and Uncertainty” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE).
Assistant Professor of Management Anyi Ma and Senior Professor of Practice in Finance Myke Yest were named co-recipients of the inaugural Albert Lepage Faculty Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
As a business student, Brian Egwele (BSM ’01) learned valuable lessons from the entrepreneurs and alumni who shared their experiences with his classes at the Freeman School. Now, as a Lepage Center Innovator-in-Residence, Egwele is mentoring the next generation of student entrepreneurs.
Freeman School faculty members Mike Hogg and Anthony Wood were named to Poets & Quants for Undergrads’ 2021 list of the Top 50 Undergraduate B-School Profs. The list, based on a national survey of business schools, was published in April 2022.
Volunteers from Goldman Sachs visited Freeman on April 3 to take part in two events sponsored by the Freeman School’s Career Management Center.
Senior Professor of Practice Peter Ricchiuti will discuss his new book, Being Your Own Boss Is Terrific, at the inaugural New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University, which takes place March 10-12 on the uptown campus.
Peter Ricchiuti, William B. Burkenroad Jr. Clinical Professor and senior professor of practice, was quoted in a Biz New Orleans feature on what schools in the region are doing to keep with new trends and the changing economy.
Oleg Gredil’s paper “On the information content of credit ratings and market-based measures of default risk” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Financial Economics.