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It is a common stereotype: accounting degrees are for math-loving introverts who spend their lives doing taxes and pouring over numbers and calculations. Accounting is a profession that many outside the field have often…

Master of Management in Energy students have long had success in landing jobs with leading energy companies, but this year’s graduates are among the most successful yet. Ninety-three percent of this year’s class had job…

Gus De Franco and Vivi Zhu’s paper “Fixed Income Conference Calls,” co-authored with Da Xu (PhD ’22) and Thomas Shohfi from the SEC, has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Accounting & Economics. …

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business recognized more than 700 degree candidates at its spring 2022 undergraduate and graduate diploma ceremonies. The ceremonies took place on Friday, May 20, at Avron B.…

Gus De Franco and Stephanie Cheng’s paper “Marijuana Liberalization and Public Finance: A Capital Market Perspective on the Passage of Medical Use Laws,” co-authored with Pengkai Lin of Singapore…

Four Freeman School graduates are among the 14 Tulanians to be named as 2022-23 Fulbright award winners. The graduates will receive grants through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the U.S. Department of State’s flagship…

Ashley Nelson, senior professor of practice, was featured in a KNOE-TV story about the effects of the Buffalo supermarket mass shooting on Louisiana’s already rising number of extremist and anti-semitic incidents. Nelson…

Kwasi Agyeman (L ’22) was browsing clothes in the Tulane bookstore in 2019 and not seeing anything he particularly liked when he got a funny idea: Tulane Daddy.

Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and research director of the Burkenroad Reports equity research program, was interviewed for an Acadiana Advocate story on UnitedHealth Group’s agreement to acquire Lafayette-…

Yuchen Zhang’s paper “Breakthrough Invention and Problem Complexity: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment,” co-authored with Wei Yang of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), has been…

Gans Narayanamoorthy’s paper “Are All Types of Real Transaction Management Equal in the Eyes of Bank Lenders?” has been conditionally accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.…

Tulane University honored Freeman School Senior Professor of Practice Ashley Keller Nelson (MBA ’98) with the 2022 Barbara E. Moely Service Learning Teaching Award. The award recognizes Tulane faculty members who embrace…

Oleg Gredil’s paper “Nowcasting Net Asset Values: The Case of Private Equity,” co-authored with Greg Brown and Eric Ghysels of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been accepted for publication in …

Mariska Morse (SOPA ’21) co-founded Salon22 on the idea that women work best when they’re collaborating and accomplishing goals together.

Musa Caglar’s paper “An Interpretable Decision-Support Systems for Daily Cryptocurrency Trading” has been accepted for publication in Expert Systems with Applications.

Lisa LaViers, Jason Sandvik and Da Xu’s paper “CEO Pay Ratio, Voluntary Disclosures and Stakeholder Reactions” has been accepted for publication in The Review of Accounting Studies (RAST).

Trevor Young’s paper “Sentiment and Uncertainty” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE).

Hosted by the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Pitch Friday Competition series allows student startups to pitch their ideas, receive valuable feedback, and win cash prizes. Eighteen different…

As a business student, Brian Egwele (BSM ’01) learned valuable lessons from the entrepreneurs and alumni who shared their experiences with his classes at the Freeman School. Now, as a Lepage Center Innovator-in-Residence,…

The Tulane chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society recognizing academic excellence in the study of business, welcomed its newest members on April 13, 2022.

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…

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…

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…

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