Freeman News

Peter Ricchiuti, senior professor of practice and founder of the Freeman School's acclaimed Burkenroad Reports program, was honored by Mayor Latoya Cantrell and the New Orleans City Council for his 23 years of service on the…

Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business welcomed 12 new faculty members to the school for the 2019-20 academic year. That number includes 10 tenure-track assistant professors and two professors of practice.

Osman Kazan's paper “Electric Power Industry: Operational and Public Policy Challenges and Opportunities,” co-authored with Geoff Parker and Burcu Tan Erciyes, has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations…

Does your Freeman graduation year end in four or nine? Then join us Nov. 1-3, 2019, for Graduate Reunion Weekend, the Freeman School’s annual get-together for master’s and PhD program alumni celebrating milestone graduation…

Burkenroad Reports, the Freeman School's acclaimed student equity research program, was recently profiled in Poets & Quants for Undergrads.

Gans Narayanamoorthy and Shuoyuan He's paper per “Earnings Acceleration and Stock Returns”  has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Dale Kalmfoth, executive director of the Freeman School’s Career Management Center, was interviewed by WWL Radio for a segment about a Bankrate.com survey that found nearly half of all U.S. workers earn extra income on the…

The New Orleans Saints and Pelicans recently teamed up with the Freeman School for a semester-long project that introduced Master of Business Analytics students to real-world projects and helped the two sports organizations…

Tulane third baseman Kody Hoese (BSM '20), a Freeman School junior majoring in finance, was selected with the 25th pick in the first round of the 2019 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers…

Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business awarded diplomas to nearly 1,000 degree candidates at its spring 2019 graduation ceremonies. This year's ceremonies took place on Friday, May 17, in the Avron B. Fogelman…

Rob Lalka, executive director of the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was quoted in a New Orleans Advocate story about the Opportunity Zone tax break program, which has received…

As college graduates prepare to enter an increasingly automated workplace, one of their greatest fears is job security. In a talk at the Freeman School, the head of the nation’s second-largest professional services firm told…

Anthony Salazer (BSM/MACCT '18) has been named a 2018 recipient of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Elijah Watt Sells Award, which recognizes the year's top performers on the Uniform CPA Examination.…

The Tulane chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society recognizing academic excellence in the study of business, welcomed its newest members at a recognition ceremony on April 22, 2019.

Yinliang "Ricky" Tan, assistant professor of management science at Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business, has been named one of 2019’s Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets & Quants.

Tulane University honored skin care innovators Dr. Katie Rodan and Dr. Kathy Fields and social entrepreneurs Stephanie and David Barksdale as its Entrepreneurs of the Year at the 2019 Albert Lepage Center for…

Peter Ricchiuti, William B. Burkenroad Jr. Professor of Practice in Equity Research, was interviewed for a New Orleans Advocate story about the Pelican Portfolio, a group of 23 Louisiana-based stocks tracked by The…

Gans Narayanamoorthy's paper “A Hidden Risk of Auditor Industry Specialization: Evidence from the Financial Crisis,”  co-authored with Stephen Rowe, Cory Cassell and Emily Hunt, has been accepted for publication in Review…

Christine Smith, professor of practice in accounting and assistant director of the joint BSM/Master of Accounting program, contributed an article to Accounting Today about things students can do to help make their first…

Less than two weeks after winning the top prize at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, the red-hot startup founded by a pair of Tulane University students has done it again.

Anu Varadharajan, lecturer in accounting at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, was interviewed by WVUE-TV's Fox 8 News for a story about the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

Peter Ricchiuti, the William B. Burkenroad Jr. Clinical Professor of Equity Research and senior professor of practice in finance, was interviewed for a New Orleans Advocate story about efforts to keep CenturyLink, one of…

Gus De Franco's paper “Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures,”  co-authored with Stephanie Cheng, Haibo Jiang and Pengkai Lin, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.…

Amanda Heitz, assistant professor of finance, was featured in a WalletHub "Ask the Experts" Q&A on low-interest credit cards. Heitz addressed the changing definition of low-interest, why credit card rates remain high…

Netscape Communications Corp. founder Jim Clark and CEO Jim Barksdale shared their recollections of the company's meteoric rise in a special keynote talk hosted by New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.