Freeman News

Ashley Nelson, professor of practice in management communication, was interviewed by WVUE Fox 8 for a story on the backlash surrounding Rouse’s Markets co-founder Donald Rouse Sr.’s attendance at the Jan. 6 rally in support of Donald…

Assistant Professor of Management Shuhua Sun recently had five articles accepted for publication.

Dear Students and Alumni, Happy New Year! Our Alumni Spotlight this week is on Maria Fernanda Roa, a 2020 Master of Management graduate. Maria Fernanda, a native Panamanian, holds her Law degree from Universidad Catolica Santa Maria…

Sophia Hamm’s paper “Organized Labor and Inventory Stockpiling,” co-authored with Boochun Jung, Woo-Jong Lee and Daniel G. Yang, has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review.

Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and founder of Burkenroad Reports, was interviewed by Courthouse News Service for a story about the stock market’s performance in 2020.

Rakesh Mallipeddi's paper “A Framework for Analyzing Influencer Marketing in Social Networks: Selection and Scheduling of Influencers,” co-authored with Subodha Kumar, Chelliah Sriskandarajah and Yunxia Zhu, has been accepted for…

The Tulane chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society recognizing academic excellence in the study of business, recognized new inductees at a society-wide virtual membership recognition ceremony on Dec. 15.

After leading the Freeman School through a substantial period of growth during the last nine years, Dean Ira Solomon has announced his plans to step down this summer at the end of his second five-year term.

Applications are now open for the 2021 Tulane Business Model Competition, which this year will take place virtually to ensure the safety of participants and judges.

At 11 am Friday, November 13, the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation held its second Virtual Pitch Friday Competition of the 2020-21 school year. This time we had four talented teams present their respective…

Dean Ira Solomon was interviewed by Poets & Quants for a story highlighting the Freeman School's agreement with Peking University to offer Chinese students admitted to Freeman graduate programs “visiting student” status.

Claire Senot's paper “Reflections on Continuity of Care and Risk of Readmission” was recently accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management.

Rakesh Mallipeddi was honored with the 2020 Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award at the 51st annual Decision Sciences Institute Conference.

Lynn Hannan's paper “Do Peer Ratings Work?”, co-authored with Markus Arnold of the University of Bern, Margaret Shackell of Ithaca College and Ivo Tafkov of Georgia State University, was published in the December 2020 edition of …

I shall begin this message with four words: Congratulations! You made it! After what arguably is the longest and hardest year that many of us have experienced, the end of 2020 is finally in sight. And not a moment too soon.

No matter how much you owe, debt settling can be a complex and lengthy process for parties on both sides of the transaction. Enter Debtle, an innovative way businesses, both big and small, can deal with overdue invoices by…

In its latest survey of university entrepreneurship programs, the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine ranked the Freeman School 42nd on its list of the best graduate programs for entrepreneurship.

For a little over nine years now, I have had the privilege of serving as the dean of the A. B. Freeman School of Business. Now, as the final year of my second five-year term as dean is progressing, I have been doing a lot of thinking…

On October 22, 2020, the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosted a panel discussion based on the Greater New Orleans Startup Report. The GNO Startup Report is an annual, comprehensive overview of the…

Rajat Khanna's paper “Aftermath Of A Tragedy: A Star’s Death And Coauthors' Subsequent Productivity” has been accepted for publication in Research Policy.

If you search “Entrepreneurial Hospitality,” you will not find a concrete dictionary definition, but the A.B. Freeman School of Business defines it as “The act of driving competitive advantage and value creation through innovation in…

On October 16th, the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosted the first virtual pitch competition of the school year. The competition consisted of five student start-ups and a panel of three Freeman-alum judges:…

Amanda Heitz’s paper “Corporate Political Connections and Favorable Environmental Enforcement” has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

Tulane University paid tribute to Barbara and Jerry Greenbaum's lifetime of support by naming a new program of the A. B. Freeman School of Business in their honor.

Ted Matherly's paper “Racialization of Peer-to-Peer Transactions: Inequality and Barriers to Legitimacy” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Consumer Affairs for a special issue on race in the marketplace.