Freeman News

Harry Gestetner (BSM ’22) wants to help you hack your sleep.“My goal is to increase the number of minutes the world sleeps each night,” Gestetner says. “And I want to make it happen through Orion.”Orion, Gestetner’s company…

Nothing says summer like an ice cream cone, and thanks to a Freeman School of Business alumnus, New Orleanians now have another way to celebrate the season. Briggs Barrios (BSM ’14) is the founder of Super Witch, an ice…

Jasmijn Bol, Francis Martin Chair in Business and PwC Professor of Accounting, recently published three articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by Fortune for a story about Washington's response to President Trump's shocking rise in income since taking office in January 2025, much of it fueled…

Lisa LaViers, assistant professor of accounting, contributed an opinion piece to The Hill on the need for greater corporate transparency on the issue of job losses related to AI.

Ashley Nelson, senior professor of practice in management communication, was interviewed by WWL-TV for a segment on the importance of distinguishing fact from fiction in social media.

Yumei He’s paper “Mining Linguistic Styles in Bilateral Matching: A Contrastive Learning Approach to Reciprocal Recommendation” was accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.

New Orleans foodies know Café Reconcile for its soul food staples like gumbo and fried chicken. The young people enrolled in its workforce readiness program, however, know the café for the opportunities it serves up. Since…

With the help of a team of Freeman School MBA students, the Shop, a design-forward shared workspace company, hopes to find the perfect location for its new space in New York.

Simin Li's paper "Proximity Matters: The Impact of Urgent Care Centers on Emergency Department Arrivals," co-authored with Achal Bassamboo and Martin Lariviere (Northwestern Kellogg), has been accepted for publication in …

Assistant Professor of Accounting Lisa LaViers studies how organizations define, measure and reward value and how those choices shape people’s behavior. A big part of that focus has been an interest in pay transparency.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by Wired for a story about SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's ethos of “extreme ownership” in the wake of the company's record-breaking $85 billion IPO.

Elliott Howe (BSM/MACCT ’24) says that as a prospective student, discovering Tulane was a bit like a fairytale. “For me, Tulane was like the Goldilocks of schools,” he says. “It wasn’t too big and it wasn’t too small. It…

Helmuth Chavez (MMG ’09, PhD ’12) is Dean of the School of Business at Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM) in Guatemala City, Guatemala, which currently offers its students two dual-degree master's programs in partnership…

Richard W. Freeman Jr. (BBA ’60), business executive, civic leader, philanthropist and lifelong supporter of Tulane University and the A. B. Freeman School of Business, died on June 10, 2026, in New Orleans. He was 88.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by Business Insider for a story about Big Tech's efforts to train the workers needed to build data centers.

Amanda Heitz's paper "Quick on the Draw: Liquidity Risk Mitigation in Failing Banks," co-authored with Jeffrey Traczynski (FDIC) and Alex Ufier (FDIC), has been accepted for publication in Review of Finance.

Paulo Goes, Dean and Debra and Rick Rees Professor of Management, was interviewed by AACSB Insights for a story about the growth of specialized master's programs at business schools.

Christine Smith, senior professor of practice in accounting, was interviewed by Bloomberg Tax for her reaction to a push by the chair of the Financial Accounting Standards Board to comprehensively reexamine how…

When Tulane staff member Maple Goldberg enrolled in the Freeman School’s Professional MBA program, she had two goals in mind.“I wanted to increase my earning potential and income, and I wanted to put myself in a stronger…

Simin Li's paper "No Call, No Show: Impact of No-Shows on Customer Attrition in Online-to-Offline Services," co-authored with Nil Karacaoglu, has been accepted for publication in Manufacturing & Service Operations…

Larisa Cioaca's paper "The Effect of University Science on Corporate Innovation,” co-authored with Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Hansen Zhang and Lia Sheer, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.…

Chris Lipp, professor of practice and director of Management Communication, was interviewed on HBR's IdeaCast about his research on how leaders develop and display what Lipp refers to as personal power, a type of authority…

Mara Baumgarten Force, professor of practice in finance and a member of the city's Revenue Estimating Committee, was interviewed by WVUE-TV about the committee's finding that Mardi Gras generated a net loss of $3.7 million…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by CNET for a story about Anthropic's planned IPO, which will enable the company to raise significantly more capital than it's been able to raise on the private…