Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Shepherd, an AI-powered app that integrates emergency information from multiple sources and provides customized directions for people evacuating from hurricanes, won the grand prize of $5,000 in the inaugural Freeman AI…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by The Seattle Times about Microsoft's decision to offer voluntary retirement to thousands of its employees in the United States for the first time in…

Forté Foods, a startup creating protein-fortified pasta sauces, won the top prize at the Freeman School's annual Pitch Friday Competition.

Exactics, a biotech startup developing rapid at-home tests for a range of infectious diseases, won first place and the grand prize of $75,000 in the 2026 Tulane Business Model Competition.

The Freeman School has announced the six semifinalist teams that will face off in the 2026 Tulane Business Model Competition.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by Deseret News for a story about a proposed ballot initiative in California to impose a 5% wealth tax on billionaires.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about President Trump's call for CNN to be sold or get new leadership as its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, weighs takeover…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by NBC News for a story about Elon Musk's political posts on X since leaving the White House in May 2025.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was interviewed by NOLA.com about the emergence of in-state venture capital firms that invest in…

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business unveiled the results of its seventh Greater New Orleans Startup Report while announcing plans to significantly expand its annual survey of the region’s entrepreneurial…

1834 Ventures, co-founded by Evan Nicoll (BSM ’12, MBA ’16), hopes to strengthen Louisiana’s economy and support the university’s entrepreneurial community by investing in startups founded by Tulane alumni, faculty and…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by Techstrong.ai about Elon Musk's antitrust suit against Apple and OpenAI over an alleged "anticompetitive scheme."

Applications are now open for the Student Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (SEED) Fellowship, a unique, cross-university program designed to equip students with entrepreneurial skills and real-world experience…

As a LEAP fellow, Luis Saab (MBA ’25) created a tailor-made financial quote tracking model for Travis Banks' company, Gravel Road Builders and Construction Services.

The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation honored its student fellows and named its 2025 Lepage Fellow of the Year at the center’s first Toast to the Future ceremony.

"The Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation empowered me to turn ideas into action—and that shift in mindset has opened more doors than I could have anticipated," says Tenley Gorman (MANA '25)

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by Business Insider for a story about President Trump's pressuring of Amazon to kill a plan to display tariff-related costs on product pages.

Biotech startup Exactics took home the top prize of $15,000 in cash and $2,500 in pro bono legal services during the Grand Prize Round of this year’s Pitch Friday Competition.

The Grand Prize Round of Pitch Friday, the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s annual student elevator pitch competition series, will take place on Friday, April 18, with Abode, BEEFUEL, Cloud IX, Cypher…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business, was interviewed by The National Desk for a story about Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams's testimony about the company's ties to the Chinese government.

MabLab, a student startup that produces quick and accurate test strips to detect deadly lacing agents in drugs and drinks, took home first place and the grand prize of $75,000 in the 2025 Tulane Business Model Competition.…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by The Times-Picayune for a story about New Orleans' efforts to establish itself as a destination for tech…

In many ways, Rob Lalka has had a ringside seat for the tech revolution of the past three decades.

According to the 2024 Greater New Orleans Startup Report, area startups see artificial intelligence and machine learning as likely game-changers for their industries, but they’re not all sure if that’s a good thing.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, will discuss his forthcoming book The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits into…