Management

More than 200 young businesses contributed to the 2020 Greater New Orleans Startup Report survey, according to the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business.

Larry Arnold, who served on the Freeman School's management science faculty from 1971 to 2005, passed away on Feb. 2, 2020, in Arlington, Tennessee. He was 76.

Scott Kuban's paper “Too Hot to Handle and Too Valuable to Drop: An Expanded Conceptualization of Firm’s Reactions to Exchange Partner Misconduct” has been accepted for publication in the Academy of Management Journal.

Professor Jeffrey A. Barach, who taught marketing and management at the Freeman School for more than 40 years, died on Oct. 25, 2019. He was 85.

Gus De Franco's paper “Product Market Peers in Lending,” co-authored with Scott Liao and Alex Edwards, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

Scott Kuban's paper “Contracting in the Smart Era: The Implications of Blockchain and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for Contracting and Corporate Governance,” co-authored with Alex Murray, Matthew Josefy and Jonathan Anderson…

Rob Lalka, executive director of the Freeman School's Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, co-authored an op-ed in Fortune about Opportunity Zones, the tax-advantaged zones created to spur economic development and…

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business released the results of the 2019 Greater New Orleans Startup Report, the first comprehensive overview of the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Biz New Orleans interviewed Rob Lalka, executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, about VC University Live, the upcoming executive education program co-presented by the Freeman School.

Corinna Zengel (BSM ’20), a junior majoring in management, has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for the fall 2019 semester. Zengel will use the award to support her semester abroad at Insper in Sao Paulo,…

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.

Osman Kazan's paper “Electric Power Industry: Operational and Public Policy Challenges and Opportunities,” co-authored with Geoff Parker and Burcu Tan Erciyes, has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management…

Rob Lalka, executive director of the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was quoted in a New Orleans Advocate story about the Opportunity Zone tax break program, which has received criticism for…

Less than two weeks after winning the top prize at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, the red-hot startup founded by a pair of Tulane University students has done it again.

Netscape Communications Corp. founder Jim Clark and CEO Jim Barksdale shared their recollections of the company's meteoric rise in a special keynote talk hosted by New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.

Rob Lalka, professor of practice and executive director of the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, co-authored an OpEd for NOLA.com with Idea Village CEO Jon Atkinson about the city's post-Katrina entrepreneurial…

KnoNap (George Washington University), RentCheck (Tulane University) and Speeko (University of Iowa) have been selected as the three finalists in the 2019 Tulane Business Model Competition.

Cameron Verhaal, assistant professor of management at the Freeman School, visited The Shop at the Contemporary Arts Center to discuss how brands and businesses can deliver authenticity.

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has named the six student teams that will face off in the qualifying round of the 2019 Tulane Business Model Competition during the 11th annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW…

Xianjun Geng's paper “Bloatware and Jailbreaking: Strategic Impact of Consumer-Initiated Modification of Technology Products" was accepted for publication in Information Systems Research, and his paper “Operational Role of…

John Clarke, professor of practice and associate dean for graduate programs, spoke with Biz New Orleans Managing Editor Kim Singletary about the Freeman School's new program in entrepreneurial hospitality for her feature on efforts to…

Ricky Tan's paper “Altruism or Shrewd Business? Implications of Technology Openness on Innovations and Competition” has been accepted for publication in Management Information Systems Quarterly (MIS Quarterly).

J. Cameron Verhaal's paper “Optimal Distinctiveness, Strategic Categorization, and Product Market Entry in the Google Play App Platform” has been accepted for publication in Strategic Management Journal.

The Idea Village and the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University are joining forces to produce the 11th annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW), March 25th - 29th, 2019.

Rob Lalka co-authored an op-ed in The Hill in which he argues for changing the gross income provision of Opportunity Zones, the tax incentive established as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to help spur investment in distressed…