Freeman News

Eric Smith, professor of practice and associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, was interviewed by VOA News for a story about the Biden administration’s plan to increase U.S. production of liquified natural gas in order to…

Freeman School faculty members Oleg Gredil, Pierre Conner and Eric Smith discussed the economic impact of the war in Ukraine as part of a special seminar to help students and faculty from across the university better understand recent…

Carmen Weigelt, associate professor of management, recently had papers accepted for publication in Energy Policy and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Freeman School faculty members Mike Hogg and Anthony Wood were named to Poets & Quants for Undergrads’ 2021 list of the Top 50 Undergraduate B-School Profs. The list, based on a national survey of business schools, was published in…

Volunteers from Goldman Sachs visited Freeman on April 3 to take part in two events sponsored by the Freeman School’s Career Management Center.

In a study published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Assistant Professor of Management Brian Bergman offers strategies for new entrants in an emerging market category when the category-leading firm suffers a very public…

Tulane University honored Jim Coulter as Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year and Daryn Dodson as Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2022 Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards Gala.

Hubly Surgical, founded by Johns Hopkins University graduate student Casey Grage, earned this year’s grand prize for developing an integrated electric drill system designed to improve the outcomes of bedside intracranial surgeries.

Pierre Conner, professor of practice and executive director of the Tulane Energy Institute, contributed an article to the spring 2022 Louisiana Oil & Gas Association (LOGA) Industry Report about opportunities for industry as the…

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has announced the six semifinalist teams that will face off in the 2022 Tulane Business Model Competition.

Eric Smith, professor of practice in management science and associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, was quoted in a New York Times story about a power outage that became fodder for jokes when Entergy New Orleans said it…

Pierre Conner, professor of practice and executive director of the Tulane Energy Institute, was interviewed by WGNO-TV for a story about the effect of President Biden’s ban on Russian oil imports on local gas prices.

Eric Smith, professor of practice and associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, was interviewed by WVUE Fox 8 about the impact of hostilities with Russia on gas prices.

Stephanie Cheng’s paper “Disclosure and Competition for Capital,” co-authored with Christine Cuny and Xue Hao, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

Freeman School alums Tomas Crowe (BSM ’18) and Tim Demirjian (BSM ’18) are co-creators of Dezo, a ready-to-go cocktail that combines vodka with health-focused flavors like coconut water, acai and Himalayan sea salt.

Senior Professor of Practice Peter Ricchiuti will discuss his new book, Being Your Own Boss Is Terrific, at the inaugural New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University, which takes place March 10-12 on the uptown campus.

Josh Asarnow (BSM ’22) turned a guest lecture by U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy into an internship in Cassidy’s state headquarters office in Baton Rouge.

Rajat Khanna’s paper “Degree Assortativity in Collaboration Networks and Invention Performance,” co-authored with Isin Guler from UNC Chapel Hill, has been accepted for publication in Strategic Management Journal.

Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor of Business and executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, contributed a guest column to the New Orleans Advocate on Web3 and why New Orleans can play a leading…

Peter Ricchiuti, William B. Burkenroad Jr. Clinical Professor and senior professor of practice, was quoted in a Biz New Orleans feature on what schools in the region are doing to keep with new trends and the changing economy.

Saeede Eftekhari’s paper “Impact of Health Information Exchange Adoption on Referral Patterns” has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

Scott Kuban’s paper “When Not One of the Crowd: The Effects of CEO Ideological Divergence on Lobbying Strategy” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Management.

Oleg Gredil’s paper “On the information content of credit ratings and market-based measures of default risk” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Financial Economics.

Cameron Verhaal’s paper “Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars” has been accepted for publication in Organization Science.

Shuhua Sun’s paper “Perceived Social Undermining Keeps Entrepreneurs Up at Night and Disengaged the Next Day: The Mediating Role of Sleep Quality and the Buffering Role of Trait Resilience” has been accepted for publication in …