Freeman News
A team of students from Rice University took first place and the grand prize of $5,000 at this year's Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition. The competition took place at the Freeman School on April 17.
Tears for Life, a company developing a technology to screen women for breast cancer using proteins found in tears, and KAIEN, a company that plans to leverage the unique talents of people with high-functioning autism to provide software testing services for the Japanese auto industry, were the bi
Technology that transforms coal into fuel that burns as clean as natural gas, a non-invasive test for breast cancer that uses tears instead of blood and a new dental device to better spot early tooth decay are some of the innovations behind student-led business plans competing in the 9th Annual T
The Freeman School isn't unique in having its MBA students read cases about multinational firms and global strategies.
Graduate students from some of the nation's top business schools and working professionals from Google and salfesforce.com visited the Freeman School from March 21-28 to participate in the IDEAcorps Challenge '09.
The Freeman School has been named one of the top 15 graduate business schools in finance by the Princeton Review. The ranking, based on a survey of MBA students, appears in the April 2009 issue of Entrepreneur magazine.
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.
Freeman students Brigham Hall and Derek Little have been named as finalists in the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program. The program, coordinated by the U.S.
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.
Freeman students Brigham Hall, Jan Roessler, Saurav Srivastav, Dash Yagaan and Jamil Bhatti took second place honors in the Portfolio Manager's Finalist Competition of the Texas Investment Portfolio Symposium (TIPS), hosted by Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management.