Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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…

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has announced the six semifinalist teams that will face off in the 2021 Tulane Business Model Competition.

In 2011, David Olk (BSM ’98) teamed up with Jason Richelson to raise $2 million to build a company with the goal of taking small businesses where they’d never gone before: the cloud.

Applications are now open for the 2021 Tulane Business Model Competition, which this year will take place virtually to ensure the safety of participants and judges.

Rob Lalka, professor of practice and executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was interviewed by NOLA.com for a story about the impact of Saints owner Gayle Benson's announcement that she…

The 2020 Greater New Orleans Startup Report, a project of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, shows that Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs face clear inequities in accessing…

Since April, the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has been connecting alumni volunteers with small businesses facing the challenges of COVID-19.