Freeman News

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…

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…

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…

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…

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-…

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…

Rob Lalka, professor of practice and executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was interviewed by NOLA.com for a story about the impact of Saints owner Gayle Benson's announcement that she…

This month’s Alumni Spotlight is on Alicia Mata. A 2020 Master of Management graduate from our joint degree partnership with Universidad Francisco Marroquin. Alicia, a native Panamanian, holds her bachelor’s degree in…

The 2020 Greater New Orleans Startup Report, a project of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, shows that Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs face clear inequities in accessing…

Ricky Tan’s paper “Less Is More? The Strategic Role of Retailer’s Capacity” has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management.

Students studying Real Estate at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University get a real-world education that goes beyond the classroom.

The A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of nine faculty members for the 2020-21 academic year. The appointments include seven tenure-track assistant professors, one professor of practice…

Jason Sandvik’s paper “Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm” has been accepted for publication in Management Science.