Management

Dean Ira Solomon is pleased to announce the following appointments to the faculty of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University for the 2016-17 academic year. Gus De Franco, professor of…

Sherif Ebrahim, director of entrepreneurship and innovation education at the Freeman School, said recent residential development along Upper Canal Street has led to the need for additional amenities like restaurants and…

Ira Solomon, center left, dean of the A. B. Freeman School of Business, welcomed former Dean Meyer Feldberg, center right, to the business school on Wednesday (June 8). Also greeting Feldberg were former Deans Angelo DeNisi…

Jennifer Merluzzi, assistant professor of management at Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business, is interviewed in the June 2016 issue of Harvard Business Review about her research on specialization among MBA…

Shuhua Sun’s paper “What Does It Take to Break the Silence in Teams: Authentic Leadership or Proactive Followership?” has been accepted for publication in Applied Psychology: An International Review. The paper was…

Angelo DeNisi has been named the 2016 recipient of the Herbert Heneman Jr. Award for Career Achievement from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management.Angelo DeNisi, the Albert Harry Cohen Chair of Business…

Geoffrey Parker's article "Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy," co-authored with Marshall Van Alstyne and Sangeet Choudary, appears in the April 2016 issue of Harvard Business Review. Parker is the Norman…

Irwin D. Simon has some simple advice for students: Don’t listen to advice. Irwin D. Simon, president and CEO of the Hain Celestial Group, shared insights about his career and the natural foods industry as this year's R. W.…

Irwin D. SimonIrwin D. Simon, president and chief executive officer of Hain Celestial Group, will deliver the 2016 R. W. Freeman Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 16, at 5 p.m. in the Lavin-Bernick Center’s Qatar…

Jennifer Merluzzi's paper “Network Oscillation,” co-authored with Ronald S. Burt, the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Management, has been accepted for…

Jennifer Merluzzi's paper “Lasting Effects? Referrals and Career Mobility of Demographic Groups in Organizations,“ co-authored with Adina Sterling of Stanford University, has been accepted for publication in a special issue…

From The New York Times, Jan. 20, 2015: The New York Times' Farhad Manjoo interviewed Geoff Parker, professor of management science, about the continuing dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. “The…

Burcu Tan’s paper “Dual Sourcing under Random Supply Capacities: The Role of the Slow Supplier,” co-authored with Qi Feng of Purdue University and Wen Chen of Providence College, has been accepted for publication in…

In the last several years, specialization has become the new mantra at business schools, with students pursuing increasingly narrow tracks of study in hopes of gaining an advantage in the job market. Jennifer Merluzzi says…

Applications are now open for the 2016 Tulane Business Model Competition, which will award over $40,000 in cash prizes to college entrepreneurs with promising startup ventures. The 2016 Tulane Business Model Competition…

From WWL.com, Oct. 19, 2015:WWL-AM interviewed Angelo DeNisi, professor of organizational behavior and Albert Cohen Chair in Business, about the "firm 40," a policy being adopted by some companies across the country that…

Iris Mack, adjunct lecturer in management science and faculty member of the Tulane Energy Institute, has kicked off a two-month Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for MathQED, a website dedicated to assisting math students at…

Carmen Weigelt's paper “Competition, regulatory policy, and firms’ resource investments: The case of renewable energy technologies” has been accepted for publication in the Academy of Management Journal. The paper is…

Geoffrey Parker’s paper “Envelope Modeling of Renewable Resource Variability and Capacity,” co-authored with Xiaoyue Jiang of Tulane University’s Computer Science Department and Ekundayo Shittu of George Washington…

Jennifer Merluzzi's paper “The Specialist Discount: Negative Returns for MBAs with Focused Profiles in Investment Banking,” co-authored with Damon Phillips of Columbia University, has been accepted for publication in…

Lei LaiAssistant Professor of Management Lei Lai has been named a recipient of the 2015 Most Influential Article Award from the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. The award will be presented at the…

From CNBC, June 3, 2015:John Clarke, professor of practice and associate dean for graduate programs at the Freeman School, and Kurt Schacht, managing director of the Standards and Financial Market Integrity division of CFA…

Kelsey Chan-Chin graduated from Tulane University in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in public health and a deep desire to help people eat healthier. Master of Management students visited the headquarters of Shanghai Baosteel…

Kenny Wang will begin his residency in emergency medicine this fall, but the Tulane University School of Medicine graduate has career aspirations that go far beyond the ER. Wang hopes to eventually go into academic medicine…

Ira Solomon, dean of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, has announced the inaugural grant recipients in the Millie and Allan Bradley Innovation in Ethics Education program.Established in 2014, the…