Finance

Amanda Heitz's paper "The Power of the People: Labor Unions and Corporate Social Responsibility," co-authored with Youan Wang and Zigan Wang, has been accepted for publication in Review of Finance.

Three months after graduation, 93% of the Freeman School's 2023 MBA class had job offers, an 8% increase over last year at that time. While those jobs were distributed across industries, more than half of this year's grads…

Oleg Gredil’s paper “Do Employees Cheer for Private Equity? The Heterogeneous Effects of Buyouts on Job Quality” has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

The A. B. Freeman School of Business has received a $5 million gift from Todd and Gina Schwartz to expand opportunities for students to “learn by doing.”

Abhishek Bhardwaj’s paper “Government Investment Stimulus and Household Balance Sheet Externalities”, co-authored with Saptarshi Mukherjee, has been conditionally accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and…

Maura Baumgarten Force, professor of practice in finance, was interviewed for a NOLA.com story about a report that Bank of America is planning an expansion into the New Orleans market.

Climate Change, ESG and Financial Markets, a new course developed by Associate Professor of Finance Nishad Kapadia, examines the impact of climate change risk on the economy and explores methods of quantifying and measuring…

Ryan Peters’ paper “Intangible Capital in Factor Models” has been accepted for publication Management Science.

Assistant Professor of Finance Amanda Heitz was interviewed by The New York Times for a story about the government’s seizure and sale of troubled First Republic Bank.

Institutional and individual investors can hear from company executives at the 26th Annual Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference being held on Friday, April 28, 2023, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New Orleans. Registration…

Amanda Heitz’s paper “Bank Monitoring with On-Site Inspections” was selected as Best Paper in Financial Intermediation at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, which took place in Asheville, North…

As a strategic planning analyst at Children’s Hospital New Orleans, Jeanne Chrisanthopoulos (MFIN '21) derives insights from data to help support the hospital's mission: to serve the pediatric healthcare needs of children…

Sheri Tice’s paper “Mutual Funds and Stock Fundamentals” has been accepted for publication in the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and director of Burkenroad Reports, was interviewed by the Advocate for a story about how a portfolio of Louisiana stocks fared in 2022.

Amanda Heitz’s paper “Bank Loan Monitoring, Distance, and Delegation,” co-authored with Christopher Martin and Alexander Ufier (FDIC), has been accepted for publicatoni in AEA Papers and Proceedings

Pradeep Muthukrishnan’s paper “Corporate Hiring under Covid-19: Financial Constraints and the Nature of New Jobs?” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Yuliia Yehorova, associate professor of economics and business at Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, will discuss the impact of the war in Ukraine on the country’s economy as the inaugural…

The Tulane chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society recognizing academic excellence in the study of business, welcomed its newest members at a recognition ceremony on Nov. 14, 2022.

Amanda Heitz won the Financial Management Association’s 2022 Best Paper Award in Financial Markets & Institutions.

Jose Cil (A&S ’91), CEO of Restaurant Brands International, parent company of Burger King, Popeyes and Tim Horton’s, discussed the company’s commitment to purpose before profits as luncheon keynote speaker at the 43rd…

Nishad Kapadia’s paper “One Vol to Rule Them All: Common Volatility Dynamics in Factor Returns,” co-authored with Matthew Linn (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and Bradley Paye (Virginia Tech), has been accepted for…

Zach Foster (MBA ’17) is CFO of Louisiana Pepper Exchange, a leading importer of peppers and supplier of pepper mash to the global hot sauce industry.

Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and director of Burkenroad Reports, was interviewed by Nola.com for a story about DXC Technology’s failure to deliver on its promise to create thousands of tech jobs in downtown…

Oleg Gredil’s paper “Finding Fortune: How Do Institutional Investors Pick Asset Managers?” co-authored with Greg Brown (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Preetesh Kantak (Indiana University Bloomington), has…

Stuart Haselden (MBA ’98), CEO of Arc’teryx, a global design company specializing in high-performance outerwear and equipment, discussed his life and career in retail as the Freeman School’s 2022 R.W. Freeman Distinguished…