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Student traders from Rutgers, the University of Texas at Austin, Tulane and Northwestern took the top honors at the 2010 Tulane Energy Trading Competition, but according to some participants, the biggest reward for taking…

From left to right, Alexandra Thurber, Mark Popovich, David Cusimano, Max Joseph, Daniel Crowley, Anthony Elia, Dennis Grosche, Peter Ricchiuti, Ioana Martian and Jacque Noel.The always enthusiastic Peter Ricchiuti, clinical…

For the fifth consecutive year, the Freeman School has been recognized as one of the top 50 schools in the country for entrepreneurship. The Princeton Review in its latest survey of entrepreneurship programs ranks the…

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…

From Reuters, July 16, 2010 In Louisiana, the Gulf state most reliant on energy businesses, the economic costs of the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling, in place through November 30, will be severe and long…

From Forbes.com, June 25, 2010: In a commentary written for Forbes.com, Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, says the Obama administration's current Gulf policy will lead to the departure of…

From the Wall Street Journal Online, June 23, 2010: Economists and real estate brokers here say it is too early to gauge the long-term damage, but the early signs are worrisome. Leaking oil already has sapped tourism and…

From NPR's All Things Considered, June 21, 2010: NPR's Michele Norris spoke with Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, about the drilling moratorium's potential impact on the Gulf Coast economy and…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 11, 2010Contact: Ben Haimowitz212-233-6170HHaimowitz@aol.comNEW ORLEANS - The likely effect of…

From Forbes.com, June 1, 2010: In a commentary written for Forbes. com, Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, says oil companies need the U.S. less than the U.S. needs oil companies. To read…

From The Times-Picayune, May 30, 2010:[Tulane marketing professor Mita Sujan] says BP may not be quite as motivated to follow Tylenol's example. "In cases like Tylenol and Toyota, people buy with their feet," she says. "But…

From NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, May 26, 2010:Professor Eric Smith of Tulane University's Energy Institute offers perspective on the oil spill crisis and the attempts to contain it. NBC's Brian Williams reports.To…

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…

The Freeman School will honor the Wilson family, owners of Barriere Construction Co., as Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneurs of the Year and Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, founding director of Birthing Project USA, as Tulane Social…

Since 2008, the Freeman School and the School of Science & Engineering have been collaborating on research into the production and utilization of next generation fuels for clean power, including butanol from sugar cane…

Douglas N. Schantz, president of Sequent Energy Management, died tragically in New Orleans on March 5 after apparently falling accidentally into the Mississippi River. Schantz, who served on the board of the Tulane Energy…

From rooftop solar panels to tissue-engineered human organs, many of the innovations we take for granted today became reality through the combined efforts of scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. For…

Research shows that just a tiny percentage of technological innovations cross over to mainstream success, but that doesn't stop entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists, corporations, investors and governments from pumping…

As the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) hits a 10-year milestone with its annual Business Plan Competition, the group is shaking things up by more than doubling the prize money and shifting focus to the virtues of "…

Twenty-eight of the nation's best student traders met up in New Orleans on Nov. 14 to test their skills trading simulated live oil and gas futures, but unlike most competitions, the winners of this event weren't necessarily…

For more than a decade, the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification has been the globally recognized benchmark for expertise in risk management. Now, thanks to a unique partnership between Freeman and the Global…

The Freeman School has earned a national reputation in recent years for its use of cutting-edge technology to teach energy trading. Next month, Freeman takes another step toward establishing itself as one of the nation's…

Have a business idea to improve New Orleans? Interested in honing your pitch? Want to network with likeminded entrepreneurs? Enter PitchNOLA, an "elevator pitch" competition for entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to create…

In a new paper to be published in Journal of Accounting and Economics,…