Management

Carol Lavin Bernick (NC ’74), CEO of Polished Nickel Capital Management and former Executive Chairman of Alberto-Culver Co., will discuss her extraordinary life and career as the Freeman School of Business's 2025 R. W. Freeman…

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by Newsweek for a story about Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement of changes to Facebook's fact-…

You might think working for one of the biggest companies in the world means getting used to success, but Amazon's Joe Mulford (MBA ’25) says it’s just the opposite.

A team of Freeman School MBA students worked with the Southern Rail Commission to help bring passenger rail service back to the Gulf Coast for the first time in nearly 20 years.

By the time Diego Bufquin was 5, he was fluent in three languages. By age 18, he had lived on three continents. It’s no surprise, then, that he found his calling in international hospitality. “The fact that I had stayed at beautiful…

Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business and professor of practice in management, was interviewed by Quartz for a story about corporate America's response to the election of Donald Trump.

Cameron Verhaal’s paper “Organizational Authenticity: How Craft-based Ventures Manage Authentic Identities and Audience Appeal,” co-authored with Stanislav Dobrev, was accepted for publication in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal…

Shuhua Sun, Peter W. and Paul A. Callais Professor of Entrepreneurship and associate professor of management, recently had two research papers accepted for publication.

Adrienne Colella and Natalie Longmire's paper "Relational Incongruence in Neurodiverse Workgroups: Practices for Cultivating Autistic Employee Authenticity and Belonging,” co-authored with Timothy Vogus (Vanderbilt University), was…

Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business has named Mara Baumgarten Force as inaugural director of the Schwartz Family Center for Experiential Business Learning, the school’s new center of excellence dedicated to high-impact hands…

Diego Bufquin, professor of practice in management and director of the undergraduate hospitality certificate program, participated in a MarketScale "Experts Talk" roundtable discussion on the impact of customer reviews on the…

Rob Lalka, Lepage Professor in Business and executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was interviewed by Forbes for a story about misinformation and the 2024 presidential campaign.

Melissa Lightell, assistant dean of graduate admissions, was interviewed by the education news website Best Colleges for a story about Freeman's new MBA curriculum.

Ashley Langford (BSM ’09) was named head coach of the Tulane women’s basketball team in April, making history as the first African American to lead the program.

Alissa Bilfield's paper "Exploring the Implications of the Fair Trade USA Certification for Farmworker Health and Well-being at the First Certified Farm in the U.S.," co-authored with Edmundo Hernandez, was published in the Journal…

Freeman School accounting professors Jasmijn Bol and Lisa LaViers co-authored an article for MIT Sloan Management Review about innovation contests, in which organizations award prizes to employees who submit the best ideas for…

Assistant Professor of Management Scott Kuban's paper "Peer Response to Regulatory Enforcement: Lobbying by Non-Sanctioned Firms," co-authored with Jason Ridge, Dan Worrell, Sergei Kolomeitsev and Kristie Moergen, has been accepted for…

Freeman School professors Michael Burke and Claire Senot were honored for their outstanding research achievements at the 2023 Tulane University Research, Scholarship & Artistic Achievement Awards, which took place on Nov. 3 at the…

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.”

Assistant Professor of Management Ben King's paper "Reconciling Theories on Why Employees of Small Firms Are More Likely to Become Entrepreneurs," co-authored with Evan Starr and Martin Ganco, has been accepted for publication in …

Michael Burke recently had papers accepted for publication in the Journal of Social Psychology and the Journal of Business and Psychology.

In May, Louis David (MBA ’11) was named interim president and CEO of the New Orleans Business Alliance, the public-private partnership that serves as the City of New Orleans’ official economic development organization.

In a study published in Organization Science, Associate Professor of Management Shuhua Sun finds that politically skilled employees in competitive workplace environments can often become targets of social undermining by co-…

Freeman School researchers Stephanie Cheng and Yuchen Zhang analyzed 17 years of patent activity in states with medical marijuana laws to determine that the legalization of marijuana has an adverse effect on regional innovation…

Adrienne Colella has been named the 2023 recipient of the Albert Lepage Faculty Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, which recognizes Freeman School faculty members whose teaching or research significantly advances the ideals of…