Freeman News

Assistant Professor of Finance Ryan Peters is the developer of Money, Fintech, and Blockchain: Transforming the Financial Landscape, a new Freeman School course that explores the innovative technologies transforming the…

NOLA Nature School is a pioneering nonprofit preschool program that educates children through the wonders of nature, but as an organization, it faces many of the same challenges that for-profit businesses do.

Dave Lesmond, Exxon Professor in Business and associate professor of finance, was featured in a WalletHub "Ask the Experts" Q&A on jumbo money market accounts. People often lose out on interest by not seeking…

A new study by Jasmijn Bol, Francis Martin Chair in Business and PwC Professor of Accounting, investigates the differential impacts of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) for male versus female employees, uncovering…

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…

A new research paper from Assistant Professor of Management Science Fariba Mamaghani explores the complex dynamic of electricity retailing, deciphering how solar power adoption is driving up prices and proposing an…

Assistant Professor of Management Science Fariba Mamaghani joined host Rich Collins to discuss ways utilities can strengthen Louisiana's electric grid to withstand the growing risk of extreme weather events for the Biz…

Jasmijn Bol, Francis Martin Chair in Business and PwC Professor of Accounting, was interviewed for an American Banker story about some of the ways artificial intelligence is expected to impact jobs in the financial…

A study co-authored by a researcher at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has uncovered important insights into how individual investors' risk preferences influence their online trading behaviors and…

Hongseok Jang's paper "Tailoring Technology for Heterogeneous Shoppers: Implications for e-Retail Channel Competition” was accepted for publication in Journal of Management Information Systems.

Rob Lalka, Albert Lepage Professor of Business, was interviewed for a Forbes article about U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's call for a warning label on social media platforms stating that social media is…

Yumei He, assistant professor of management science, was interviewed for an Associated Press story about dating app burnout.

Musa Caglar's paper "A Parsimonious Tree Augmented Naive Bayes Model for Exploring Colorectal Cancer Survival Factors and Their Conditional Interrelations” was accepted for publication in Information Systems Frontiers…

Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and research director of Burkenroad Reports, was interviewed by USA Today for a story about the wisdom of investing in companies following a stock split.

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.

Most people today take same-sex marriage for granted, but the legal right for LGBT couples to marry was established less than 10 years ago, and Chris Otten, professor of practice in business and legal studies, played a part…

Leslie Williamson (MBA ’25) is the owner of Leslie Dalton Taxidermy, an eight-year-old studio that serves clients around the world with one-of-a-kind pieces that combine the fleeting beauty of nature with the permanence of…

Two A. B. Freeman School of Business graduates are among the eight Tulanians to win 2024-25 Fulbright awards. The graduates will receive grants through the highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the U.S.…

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…

Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, was interviewed for an S&P Global story about the potential impact of a more active hurricane season on energy.

A research paper co-authored Goen Choi, visiting assistant professor of finance, was highlighted in a MarketWatch article. The paper, "Long-Term Shareholder Returns: Evidence from 64,000 Global Stocks," studied long-run…

Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and founder of Burkenroad Reports, was interviewed on the Scripps News show Morning Rush about the gap between Wall Street's record-high performance and sentiment on Main Street…

With more than 700 degree candidates set to participate in this year’s graduation festivities, the Freeman School did something it had never done before: Host three ceremonies.

At the May meeting of the A. B. Freeman School of Business faculty, Dean Paulo Goes announced the following faculty members as recipients of 2024 research awards.