MME students visit offshore production platform
On July 13, Master of Management in Energy students visited Breton Sound #51, an offshore production platform in the Gulf of Mexico operated by independent oil and gas company Upstream Exploration.
Other News
Alumna fuses fashion and function in swimwear line
As the founder and CEO of stylish swimwear brand Cabana Life, Melissa Papock (BSM ’96) knows that clothing acts as a vital line of defense against summertime sun exposure.
Research Notes: Musa Caglar
Musa Caglar’s paper “Impact Assessment Based Sectoral Balancing in Public R&D Project Portfolio Selection,” co-authored with Sinan Gurel, has been accepted for publication in Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.
New nonprofit solves thorny issue for STEM teachers
Founded by alumnus Todd Wackerman (MBA ’18), STEM Library Lab is a new nonprofit that provides New Orleans public and charter school teachers with the tools they need to teach hands-on, inquiry-based science.
Research Notes: Junghee Lee
Junghee Lee’s paper “First Look Determination,” co-authored with Vish Krishnan, Oleksiy Mnyshenko and Hyoduk Shin, has been accepted for publication in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM.)
Research Notes: Rajat Khanna
Rajat Khanna’s paper “Entangled Decisions: Knowledge Interdependencies and Termination of Patented Inventions in the Pharmaceutical Industry,” co-authored with Isin Guler and Atul Nerkar, has been accepted for publication in Strategic Management Journal.
Research Notes: Tim West
Tim West’s paper “A Comprehensive Analysis of Findings from Single Audits: The Implications of Auditee Type and Auditor Expertise,” co-authored with Tammy Waymire and Zach Webb, has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Government and Nonprofit Accounting (JOGNA).
Alumna appointed president of Kennesaw State University
Pamela Whitten, an alumna of Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, has been appointed president of Kennesaw State University, the third-largest university in Georgia and one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country.
Freeman grad earns prestigious accounting award
A. B. Freeman School of Business alumna Alexis S. Gandal (BSM/MACCT ’17) has been named a 2017 recipient of the American Institute of CPAs’ Elijah Watt Sells Award.
The growing importance of tacit knowledge
In a new study, Professor of Accounting Jasmijn Bol finds that firms increasingly value tacit knowledge — the term scholars use for hard-to-teach skills like communication, self-management and the ability to prioritize tasks — in junior-level employees.
