November 05, 2019
Freeman School alumni, parents and friends returned to campus in November for a weekend of food, fun, friendship and football. The occasion was Wave ’19, Tulane’s annual celebration that combines homecoming, class reunions and family weekend.
November 01, 2019
Professor Jeffrey A. Barach, who taught marketing and management at the Freeman School for more than 40 years, died on Oct. 25, 2019. He was 85.
October 24, 2019
Lynn Hannan's paper "Mutual Monitoring and Team Member Communication in Team," co-authored with Markus Arnold and Ivo Tafkov, has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review.
October 22, 2019
Gus De Franco's paper “Product Market Peers in Lending,” co-authored with Scott Liao and Alex Edwards, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.
October 09, 2019
Associate Professor of Marketing Daniel Mochon, whose research coined the term "the Ikea effect," was featured in a CNBC story about the psychology underlying Ikea's business success.
October 08, 2019
August’s yield curve inversion was yet another sign that the U.S. could be headed for a recession, but in remarks at the 2019 Tulane Business Forum, Atlanta Fed President and CEO Raphael Bostic said he remains confident in the strength of the economy.
October 07, 2019
Scott Kuban's paper “Contracting in the Smart Era: The Implications of Blockchain and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for Contracting and Corporate Governance,” co-authored with Alex Murray, Matthew Josefy and Jonathan Anderson, has been accepted for publication in Management Perspectives.
October 03, 2019
Rob Lalka, executive director of the Freeman School's Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, co-authored an op-ed in Fortune about Opportunity Zones, the tax-advantaged zones created to spur economic development and job creation in economically distressed areas.
October 02, 2019
Peter Ricchiuti, William B. Burkenroad Jr. Professor of Practice in Equity Research and senior professor of practice in finance, was interviewed for a WWL-TV story about Bayou Steel Group's sudden closing and its impact on the state's economy.
October 02, 2019
Ricky Tan's paper “When to Play Your Advertisement? Optimal Insertion Policy of Behavioral Advertisement,” co-authored with Subodha Kumar and Lai Wei, has been accepted for publication in Information Systems Research.
September 30, 2019
Collin Ferguson (BSM ’04) considers the arts community to be the greatest natural resource that New Orleans possesses. Ferguson’s company, Where Y’Art, is dedicated to promoting the work of local artists and building a stronger, more expansive New Orleans.
September 25, 2019
Eric Smith, professor of practice and associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, was interviewed for a Nola.com story about the 2020-21 Louisiana Economic Outlook, a study published by Loren Scott and Gregory Upton Jr. that estimates New Orleans will see 19,500 new jobs over the next two years thanks to a flurry of industrial projects.