Freeman News

Zachary Engel (BSM ’10), chef de cuisine at Shaya Restaurant in New Orleans, won the James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef of the Year on Monday (May 1) at the Beard Foundation’s 2017 Awards Gala in Chicago.

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 April, Freeman School alumna Emily Mitchell Madero (NC ’02, G ’03, MBA ’07) was named president and CEO of French Quarter Festivals Inc.

Alumnus Drew Greenblatt (MBA ’91), owner and president of Marlin Steel, was one of a dozen National Association of Manufacturers representatives who visited the White House on March 31 to talk manufacturing with President Donald Trump…

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.

More than six years after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly referred to as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, Steve Gleason (MBA ’11) is busier than ever.

It takes approximately nine minutes for an ambulance to reach the scene of a medical emergency, but Freeman School alum Benjamin Swig (PHTM '09, MBA '16) has an idea that will cut that time to just five minutes.

The one-year Master of Business Analytics program will give students the skills to transform large, complex data sets into the clear information managers need to make business decisions.

Matt Schwartz (BSM ’99) has received the 2017 T.G. Solomon Award for Entrepreneurship and Civic Engagement. The award is presented annually by the Times-Picayune and the Solomon family to honor New Orleans entrepreneurs who have…

Current Tulane parent Larry Ornstein joined Freeman School of Business students on March 9 for “Lunch and Learn,” a series sponsored by the Freeman Career Management Center and the Tulane Energy Institute.

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.

A team of Master of Finance students from Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business won first place at the TIPS 2017 Student Portfolio Managers Competition.

Social media managers who think that simply building up followers on Facebook is enough to boost a brand’s sales may not “like” a new Tulane University study featured in Harvard Business Review.

What does it take to create a successful product? According to John Clarke, it’s probably not what you think.

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…

Tulane Energy Week is for managers from around the world who work in, or have an interest in, the development of world energy markets.

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…

Based on its performance since 2001, Thomson Reuters Lipper ranked the Hancock Horizon Burkenroad Small Cap Fund No. 1 in the small cap blended category.

On yesterday morning's “Today” show, Princeton Review Editor-in-Chief Robert Franek highlighted Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business as one of five colleges that offer an outstanding return on investment for marketing…

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…

What’s the best way to learn how to do business internationally? For about 100 executive MBA students from around the world, the answer is to spend a week together.

Sid Pulitzer has a tradition. On the first day of his Entrepreneurial Management class, he asks his students how many would object to becoming wealthy in an honest way. If no hands go up, he tells them they’ve qualified to stay in the…