Finance

Peter Ricchiuti, professor of practice in finance and founder of the Burkenroad Reports program, was interviewed by Biz New Orleans for a story on the recently announced merger of IberiaBank and First Horizon Bank.

Peter Ricchiuti, William B. Burkenroad Jr. Professor of Practice in Equity Research and senior professor of practice in finance, was interviewed for a WWL-TV story about Bayou Steel Group's sudden closing and its impact on the state's…

WWL-TV asked Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice in finance at the Freeman School, to fact check competing claims made in political ads for the Louisiana governor’s race.

Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and founder of the Freeman School's acclaimed Burkenroad Reports program, was honored by Mayor Latoya Cantrell and the New Orleans City Council for his 23 years of service on the city's…

Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business welcomed 12 new faculty members to the school for the 2019-20 academic year. That number includes 10 tenure-track assistant professors and two professors of practice.

Burkenroad Reports, the Freeman School's acclaimed student equity research program, was recently profiled in Poets & Quants for Undergrads.

Tulane third baseman Kody Hoese (BSM '20), a Freeman School junior majoring in finance, was selected with the 25th pick in the first round of the 2019 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

As college graduates prepare to enter an increasingly automated workplace, one of their greatest fears is job security. In a talk at the Freeman School, the head of the nation’s second-largest professional services firm told…

Peter Ricchiuti, William B. Burkenroad Jr. Professor of Practice in Equity Research, was interviewed for a New Orleans Advocate story about the Pelican Portfolio, a group of 23 Louisiana-based stocks tracked by The Advocate.

Peter Ricchiuti, the William B. Burkenroad Jr. Clinical Professor of Equity Research and senior professor of practice in finance, was interviewed for a New Orleans Advocate story about efforts to keep CenturyLink, one of Louisiana's…

Gus De Franco's paper “Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures,”  co-authored with Stephanie Cheng, Haibo Jiang and Pengkai Lin, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

Amanda Heitz, assistant professor of finance, was featured in a WalletHub "Ask the Experts" Q&A on low-interest credit cards. Heitz addressed the changing definition of low-interest, why credit card rates remain high despite…

Robert S. Hansen, Francis Martin Chair in Business and professor of finance at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, died unexpectedly on March 3, 2019.

Amanda Heitz received the Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Banking and Economic Development for her paper “Creditor Rights, Information Sharing and Borrower Behavior: Theory and Evidence."

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business and the School of Liberal Arts are the beneficiaries of a new $3.5 million gift from Carole B. and Kenneth J. Boudreaux.

Bill Reese, professor of practice in finance, contributed to Real Simple's article "8 Budgeting Hacks That Will Allow You to Gift Everyone on Your Holiday List — Without Going Into Debt."

Jung Hoon Lee's paper “Do Portfolio Manager Contracts Contract Portfolio Management?", co-authored with Charles Trzcinka from Indiana University and Shyam Venkatesan from University of West Ontario, is forthcoming in the Journal of…

For graduating seniors— and identical twins— Blane and Tyler Margaretten, the highlight of their college careers is not the final destination, but the journey.

Students Griffin Donnelly (BSM ’19), Ben Gerber (BSM ’19) and Jack Preston (BSM ’19) were anything but distressed after taking home first place honors in the fourth annual Aaron Selber Jr. Distressed Debt Investment Pitch Competition…

Louis Baugier had a 360-degree view of the dizzying, fast-paced business of New York real estate. By day, Baugier (BSM '13) was part of J.P. Morgan’s global real estate group, where he worked on big Manhattan development projects.…

Nishad Kapadia and Morad Zekhnini’s paper “Do Idiosyncratic Jumps Matter?” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics.

Paddy Sivadasan and Xuhui "Nick" Pan are the 2017 recipients of the Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award, the Freeman School's highest honor for classroom teaching.

The A. B. Freeman School of Business celebrates Tulane University Homecoming and Graduate Reunion Weekend on Nov. 3 -5 with a full slate of events for alumni, parents and friends.

Continuing the historic faculty recruiting effort that began in 2012, Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business welcomes seven new full-time professors to the faculty for the 2017-18 academic year.

Celebrating a milestone graduation anniversary this year? Register now for the A. B. Freeman School of Business Graduate Reunion Weekend! Scheduled to coincide with Tulane Homecoming, this year’s reunion takes place Nov. 3-5.