Freeman News

Hanna Gamble (BSM '12), manager of St. Lucia Plantation, a family-owned pine-tree farm in Logansport, Louisiana, was named 2017 Tree Farmer of the Year by the Louisiana Forestry Association.

Today’s innovators turn to platforms like Kickstarter to crowdfund their imaginative products. Now, a new study conducted by the Freeman School's Yuchen Zhang suggests that a Kickstarter campaign’s worst enemy is the overuse of tech…

Gyl Grinberg (BSM ’95), former president of Val-Fit Inc., a leading master distributor of pipe, valves and fittings (PVF) for the oil and gas industry, shared the family-owned company’s long and winding journey in a special…

Yinliang "Ricky" Tan's paper “Captivate: Building Blocks for Implementing Active Learning," co-authored with Brent Kitchens of the University of Virginia and Tawnya Means of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been accepted for…

Entrepreneur Fran Heller (NC '88) discussed the evolution of her startup Good2Go in November as part of a new speaker series hosted by the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Paddy Sivadasan and Xuhui "Nick" Pan are the 2017 recipients of the Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award, the Freeman School's highest honor for classroom teaching.

With clear skies and unseasonably mild temperatures, Homecoming/Reunion Weekend 2017 attracted hundreds of Freeman alumni, parents and friends to Tulane’s uptown campus for a Wave-themed weekend of fun.

Lynn Hannan's paper “Team Member Subjective Communication in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Teams,” co-authored with Markus Arnold of the University of Bern and Ivo Tafkov of Georgia State University, has been accepted for publication…

The Tulane chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society recognizing academic excellence in the study of business, welcomed its newest members on Nov. 1, 2017.

College entrepreneurs are invited to enter the 18th annual Tulane Business Model Competition for a chance to win more than $40,000 in cash and prizes for promising startup ventures.

Comedy isn’t something people typically associate with accounting, but Tim West -- a graduate of the Second City, the famed improvisational theater in Chicago -- isn’t a typical accounting professor.

The 2016 presidential election exposed deep fissures within U.S. society, but in an appearance at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business on Nov. 8, economist Roger W. Ferguson Jr. said the current economic and cultural…

During a trip to Shanghai last week, the Freeman School's Anu Varadharajan, lecturer and assistant director of the Master of Accounting program, met with alumni to catch up on their careers, share the latest news from Freeman and…

With a photo of themselves spelling out “NAWMBA,” members of Tulane Women in Business captured the most creative photo prize at this year’s National Association of Women MBAs Conference in Chicago.

Mazhar Islam's paper “Signaling by Early Stage Startups: US Government Research Grants and Venture Capital Funding,” co-authored with Adam Fremeth of the Ivey School at University of Western Ontario and Alfred Marcus of the Carlson…

The A. B. Freeman School of Business celebrates Tulane University Homecoming and Graduate Reunion Weekend on Nov. 3 -5 with a full slate of events for alumni, parents and friends.

Rob Lalka, executive director of the Freeman School's Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, is featured in a Forbes.com article about what baseball can teach entrepreneurs about venture capitalists.

Freeman School alumna Simone Reggie (MBA '12) is the founder of Simone’s Market, an old-fashioned neighborhood grocery store with a special emphasis on local and regionally sourced food.

Tulane Energy Institute Associate Director Eric Smith spoke with WWL-TV's Lauren Gale about oil and gas production in Lake Pontchartrain in the wake of Sunday night's explosion and fire aboard a platform.

Continuing the historic faculty recruiting effort that began in 2012, Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business welcomes seven new full-time professors to the faculty for the 2017-18 academic year.

Dr. Steven Udvarhelyi, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, spoke about how the company is using data to help solve the state's healthcare challenges as keynote speaker at the 38th annual Tulane Business Forum…

How do you build a sustainable ecosystem for entrepreneurs? In a talk hosted by the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, venture capital giant Chuck Newhall invoked an analogy tailor-made for his…

Celebrating a milestone graduation anniversary this year? Register now for the A. B. Freeman School of Business Graduate Reunion Weekend! Scheduled to coincide with Tulane Homecoming, this year’s reunion takes place Nov. 3-5.

The Freeman School’s Houston campus reopens today, nearly two weeks after closing in anticipation of Hurricane Harvey.

The Wall Street Journal interviewed Freeman School Assistant Professor of Accounting Serena Loftus for a story about a new study she authored on managers' use of self-inclusive language.