Freeman News

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.

Anu Varadharajan, lecturer in accounting at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, was interviewed by WVUE-TV's Fox 8 News for a story about the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

Peter Ricchiuti, the William B. Burkenroad Jr. Clinical Professor of Equity Research and senior professor of practice in finance, was interviewed for a New Orleans Advocate story about efforts to keep CenturyLink, one of Louisiana's…

Gus De Franco's paper “Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures,”  co-authored with Stephanie Cheng, Haibo Jiang and Pengkai Lin, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

Amanda Heitz, assistant professor of finance, was featured in a WalletHub "Ask the Experts" Q&A on low-interest credit cards. Heitz addressed the changing definition of low-interest, why credit card rates remain high despite…

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.

Robert S. Hansen, Francis Martin Chair in Business and professor of finance at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, died unexpectedly on March 3, 2019.

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.

Jamie Milstein won third-place and $10,000 in Weber State University's Outdoor Weber Competition with her pitch for a smart device she's developing that can instantaneously stream data and statistics.

Claire Senot's paper “Continuity of Care and Risk of Readmission: An Investigation into the Healthcare Journey of Heart Failure Patients" has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management (POM).

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.

Every year, hospitals around the country lose out on millions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements due to low patient satisfaction scores. DOCPACE, a New Orleans startup founded by native Shelby Sanderford, might just be the solution…

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…

The A. B. Freeman School of Business has named Pierre E. Conner III, a senior energy and finance executive with more than 40 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, to lead the Tulane Energy Institute.

Daniel Mochon, associate professor of marketing, was featured in a WalletHub "Ask the Experts" Q&A on Mardi Gras. Mochon offered tips on how to enjoy Carnival on a budget, advice on promoting responsible behavior and ideas to…

Jim Clark, co-founder of Netscape and Silicon Graphics, and Marcus Lemonis, chairman and CEO of Camping World and star of CNBC reality shows "The Profit" and "The Partner," are among the headline speakers for the 11th annual New…

Eric Smith, interim executive director of the Tulane Energy Institute, contributed an article to The Conversation about the unintended consequences of U.S. sanctions intended to put pressure on the government headed by Venezuela's…

Named in honor of Frank B. Stewart Jr. (BBA '57), Stewart Center CBD will house the executive MBA program, non-degree executive education offerings, international programs, and courses related to the school’s new entrepreneurial…

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…

Ten years after their fortuitous meeting in Sharp Hall, Matthew Berman (BSM '09) and Warren H. Cohn (BSM '09) have brought their partnership under one roof in a joint venture called Emerald Digital, a full-service digital-marketing…

Kendall Gardner and Matthew Johnson have been named spring 2019 recipients of the Freeman Travel Abroad Award (FTAA), a new scholarship presented by the Office of Study Abroad & Exchange that offers financial assistance to students…

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…

In January, Freeman students visited the Waterford 3 control room simulator, a training facility located within Entergy’s Waterford 3 nuclear power plant that replicates the instrumentation in the plant’s actual control room down to…

The Freeman School has announced a partnership with Tulane University School of Architecture to meet the increasing demand for business professionals equipped with the tools for a career in real estate development.