Management

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…

The Lepage Center has launched a new program that connects student startup founders with a team of successful executives, investors and entrepreneurs for one-on-one coaching and mentoring.

Xianjun Geng's paper “Does It Pay to Shroud In-App Purchase Prices?", co-authored with Jeffery Shulman from the University of Washington, has been accepted for publication in Information Systems Research.

In July, a panel of employees from one of the most innovative companies around -- technology firm Lucid -- shared their thoughts on the company’s one-of-a-kind culture in a special presentation for business students.

Musa Caglar’s paper “Impact Assessment Based Sectoral Balancing in Public R&D Project Portfolio Selection,” co-authored with Sinan Gurel, has been accepted for publication in Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

Junghee Lee's paper “First Look Determination,” co-authored with Vish Krishnan, Oleksiy Mnyshenko and Hyoduk Shin, has been accepted for publication in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM.)

Rajat Khanna’s paper “Entangled Decisions: Knowledge Interdependencies and Termination of Patented Inventions in the Pharmaceutical Industry,” co-authored with Isin Guler and Atul Nerkar, has been accepted for publication in Strategic…

For graduating seniors— and identical twins— Blane and Tyler Margaretten, the highlight of their college careers is not the final destination, but the journey.

A health-care startup with an innovative device designed to help people breathe a little easier was the big winner at the 18th annual Tulane Business Model Competition.

Yinliang “Ricky” Tan's paper “Marketplace, Reseller or Hybrid: Strategic Analysis of an Emerging E-Commerce Model” has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management (POM).

Junchao “Jason” Li’s paper “Exploring the Affective Impact, Boundary Conditions, and Antecedents of Leader Humility” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

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 2018 Tulane Business Model Competition during the 10th annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW…

Today’s innovators turn to platforms like Kickstarter to crowdfund their imaginative products. Now, a new study conducted by the Freeman School's Yuchen Zhang suggests that a Kickstarter campaign’s worst enemy is the overuse of tech…

Entrepreneur Fran Heller (NC '88) discussed the evolution of her startup Good2Go in November as part of a new speaker series hosted by the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.