Peter Ricchiuti, the William B. Burkenroad Jr. Clinical Professor of Equity Research and senior professor of practice in finance, was interviewed for a New Orleans Advocate story about efforts to keep CenturyLink, one of Louisiana’s two remaining Fortune 500 companies, in the state.
Gus De Franco’s paper “Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures,” co-authored with Stephanie Cheng, Haibo Jiang and Pengkai Lin, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.
Amanda Heitz, assistant professor of finance, was featured in a WalletHub “Ask the Experts” Q&A on low-interest credit cards. Heitz addressed the changing definition of low-interest, why credit card rates remain high despite historically low interest rates, and how credit cards compare to bank loans.
Netscape Communications Corp. founder Jim Clark and CEO Jim Barksdale shared their recollections of the company’s meteoric rise in a special keynote talk hosted by New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.
Robert S. Hansen, Francis Martin Chair in Business and professor of finance at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, died unexpectedly on March 3, 2019.
Rob Lalka, professor of practice and executive director of the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, co-authored an OpEd for NOLA.com with Idea Village CEO Jon Atkinson about the city’s post-Katrina entrepreneurial renaissance and their hopes for New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.
KnoNap (George Washington University), RentCheck (Tulane University) and Speeko (University of Iowa) have been selected as the three finalists in the 2019 Tulane Business Model Competition.
Jamie Milstein won third-place and $10,000 in Weber State University’s Outdoor Weber Competition with her pitch for a smart device she’s developing that can instantaneously stream data and statistics.
Claire Senot’s paper “Continuity of Care and Risk of Readmission: An Investigation into the Healthcare Journey of Heart Failure Patients” has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management (POM).
Cameron Verhaal, assistant professor of management at the Freeman School, visited The Shop at the Contemporary Arts Center to discuss how brands and businesses can deliver authenticity.
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