April 15, 2019

Tulane University honored skin care innovators Dr. Katie Rodan and Dr. Kathy Fields and social entrepreneurs Stephanie and David Barksdale as its Entrepreneurs of the Year at the 2019 Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards Gala.

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April 15, 2019
Peter Ricchiuti, William B. Burkenroad Jr. Professor of Practice in Equity Research, was interviewed for a New Orleans Advocate story about the Pelican Portfolio, a group of 23 Louisiana-based stocks tracked by The Advocate.
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April 12, 2019
Gans Narayanamoorthy's paper “A Hidden Risk of Auditor Industry Specialization: Evidence from the Financial Crisis,”  co-authored with Stephen Rowe, Cory Cassell and Emily Hunt, has been accepted for publication in Review of Accounting Studies.
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April 10, 2019
Christine Smith, professor of practice in accounting and assistant director of the joint BSM/Master of Accounting program, contributed an article to Accounting Today about things students can do to help make their first internship a success.
RentCheck receives top prize in 2019 Tulane Business Model Competition.
April 09, 2019
Less than two weeks after winning the top prize at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, the red-hot startup founded by a pair of Tulane University students has done it again.
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April 06, 2019
Anu Varadharajan, lecturer in accounting at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, was interviewed by WVUE-TV's Fox 8 News for a story about the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
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April 05, 2019
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
April 04, 2019
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.
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April 03, 2019
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.
Jim Clark and Jim Barksdale
April 03, 2019
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.
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April 03, 2019
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.
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March 28, 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.
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