The following faculty awards were presented at the Freeman School’s 2011 graduate and undergraduate diploma ceremonies.
Irving H. Lavalle Research Award
Established in 1996, this award recognizes…
Corporate-acquisition activity has been in the doldrums, and the finger of blame has tended to be pointed at investors. In the prevailing view, CEOs are typically empire builders, willing and able to buy, but shareholders…
The Freeman School has appointed six new tenure-track faculty members for the 2010-11 academic year. Cynthia E. Devers joins the Freeman School as an associate professor of management. Devers received her…
The following faculty awards were presented at the Freeman School’s 2010 Graduate Diploma Ceremony.
Irving H. Lavalle Research Award
Established in 1996, this award recognizes professors for excellence and…
At last year’s Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference, 33 of the 34 companies that presented posted negative returns for the preceding 12 months. This year, 28 of 33 companies posted positive returns, including top…
Peter Ricchiuti is quoted again in today's Times-Picayune on McMoRan Exploration Co.'s groundbreaking Blackbeard drilling project. The mega-deep well, located just off the mouth of the Mississippi River, could end up…
Assistant Dean Peter Ricchiuti was interviewed by ABC News for a Good Morning America segment on May 7 that examined the Gulf Coast's surprisingly strong economy. Ricchiuti is research director of Burkenroad Reports, which…
John Elstrott, clinical professor of business and executive director of the Freeman School's Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, was among the guest speakers to address 50 visiting graduate business students. The…
Victor J. Cook, Freeman Professor of Doctoral Studies and Research and Senior Fellow at the Goldring Institute for International Business, recently contributed an opinion piece to BusinessWeek. The article, titled What GM…
When Burkenroad Institute director Laura Cardinal selected the topic for this year's Burkenroad Symposium - Leadership and the Eye for Innovation - she knew it was a subject of interest to business students and executives.…