Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The Lepage Center has launched a new program that connects student startup founders with a team of successful executives, investors and entrepreneurs for one-on-one coaching and mentoring.

The Lepage Faculty Fellows program, a new initiative of the Freeman School's Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, will award grants of up to $10,000 per year to Tulane faculty members working in the areas of…

Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business honored business executive Patrick Comer and civic activist Sandy Rosenthal as its 2018 Entrepreneurs of the Year.

On April 25, footwear giant Steve Madden stopped at the A. B. Freeman School of Business for an intimate Q&A session with business students hosted by the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

A health-care startup with an innovative device designed to help people breathe a little easier was the big winner at the 18th annual Tulane Business Model Competition.

AssistENT, Boost Linguistics and Uchooze Lunchbox will compete on April 19 in the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex for the top prize of $25,000.

On March 19, entrepreneur Aidan Gill discussed his 50-year career behind the barber chair in a special New Orleans Entrepreneur Week talk hosted by the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane University’s A. B.…

A team of Freeman School MBAs edged out peers from five universities to win first place in the IDEAcorps MBA Consulting Challenge, which helped kick off this year’s showcase of the best in New Orleans startups and business innovation…

Gyl Grinberg (BSM ’95), former president of Val-Fit Inc., a leading master distributor of pipe, valves and fittings (PVF) for the oil and gas industry, shared the family-owned company’s long and winding journey in a special…

College entrepreneurs are invited to enter the 18th annual Tulane Business Model Competition for a chance to win more than $40,000 in cash and prizes for promising startup ventures.

Rob Lalka, executive director of the Freeman School's Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, is featured in a Forbes.com article about what baseball can teach entrepreneurs about venture capitalists.

How do you build a sustainable ecosystem for entrepreneurs? In a talk hosted by the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, venture capital giant Chuck Newhall invoked an analogy tailor-made for his…

A team of students from Johns Hopkins University with a device to improve the treatment of a potentially blinding infant eye disease won first place and the top prize of $25,000 in the 2017 Tulane Business Model Competition.

In March, the A. B. Freeman School of Business honored Ballards Brands, the corporate parent of PJ's Coffee of New Orleans and WOW Cafe, with the 2017 Outstanding Family Enterprise Award.

CMDX Biopsy, Kaleyedos and Instapath Bioptics will compete for $25,000 in the final round of the 2017 Tulane Business Model Competition.

The A. B. Freeman School of Business will honor business executive James J. Buquet III (MBA ’90) and ALS activist Steve Gleason (MBA ’11) at the 2017 Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards Gala.

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has named the six student teams that will compete in the qualifying round of the 2017 Tulane Business Model Competition.

Rob Lalka, an entrepreneur and educator whose accomplishments span the public, private and non-profit sectors, has been appointed professor of practice and executive director of the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and…

The 2016 Silicon Bayou 100, Silicon Bayou News' annual list of Louisiana's most influential and active people in tech and entrepreneurship, includes at least 29 honorees with connections to the A. B. Freeman School of Business or…

Freeman is planning a new hospitality entrepreneurship initiative at NOCHI unlike traditional hospitality management programs. Instead it will use the hospitality industry to gain new insights and solve problem across business…

You might think you’d have to be nuts to try to compete with Frito-Lay, but in a presentation hosted by the Tulane Family Business Center on Friday, Jan. 27, the co-owner of Germack Pistachio Co. said the snack food business is…

College entrepreneurs are invited to enter the 17th annual Tulane Business Model Competition for a chance to win more than $40,000 in cash and prizes for promising startup ventures.

Chris Sloas, left, a 2015 graduate of the Tulane School of Science and Engineering, is congratulated by Stephanie Kleehammer, director of outreach and communications with the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, after…

The A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University honored real estate developers Chris Papamichael (BSM ’96) and Matt Schwartz (BSM ’99) as Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneurs of the Year and educator Caroline Roemer as Tulane…

If you’ve ever seen the reality show “Shark Tank,” you know the format: Budding entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of investors with thousands of dollars in funding resting in the balance. Alberta Wright, above, a teacher at…