Freeman News

Chris Sloas, left, a 2015 graduate of the Tulane School of Science and Engineering, is congratulated by Stephanie Kleehammer, director of outreach and communications with the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, after…

The A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University honored real estate developers Chris Papamichael (BSM ’96) and Matt Schwartz (BSM ’99) as Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneurs of the Year and educator Caroline Roemer as Tulane…

From the App Store and Airbnb to Uber, Xbox and eBay, platform businesses — firms that use technology-based platforms to connect buyers and sellers — are revolutionizing the way people live, work and play. A new book by Geoffrey G.…

An MBA team representing Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business earned second-place honors in the 20th annual Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition.MBA teams from Washington University in St. Louis,…

Geoffrey Parker's article "Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy," co-authored with Marshall Van Alstyne and Sangeet Choudary, appears in the April 2016 issue of Harvard Business Review. Parker is the Norman Mayer…

Irwin D. Simon has some simple advice for students: Don’t listen to advice. Irwin D. Simon, president and CEO of the Hain Celestial Group, shared insights about his career and the natural foods industry as this year's R. W. Freeman…

A team of Master of Finance students from Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business won third-place honors at this year’s Texas Investment Portfolio Symposium (TIPS) Portfolio Managers Competition. Freeman's TIPS team…

Nishad Kapadia's article "Davids, Goliaths, and Business Cycles," co-authored with Jefferson Duarte, associate professor of finance at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, has been accepted for publication in Journal of…

Charan Bagga's article "The Metrics That Marketers Muddle," co-authored with Neil Bendle, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Western Ontario's Ivey Business School, has been accepted for publication in the spring…

Tulane University will launch a major expansion of the A. B. Freeman School of Business this spring to meet surging enrollment, enhance industry-leading programming and provide new, state-of-the-art learning spaces for the next…

Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has announced the six teams that will compete in the semifinal round of the 2016 Tulane Business Model Competition. The 2016 Tulane Business Model Competition will award over $40,…

Irwin D. SimonIrwin D. Simon, president and chief executive officer of Hain Celestial Group, will deliver the 2016 R. W. Freeman Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 16, at 5 p.m. in the Lavin-Bernick Center’s Qatar Ballroom on…

Claire Senot's article "Collaborations between Service Professionals during the Delivery of Health Care: Evidence from a Multiple-Case Study in U.S. Hospitals," co-authored with Aravind Chandrasekaran and Peter T. Ward of Ohio State…

Capstone New Orleans began as a nonprofit that grows food on vacant lots in the Lower 9th Ward and distributes it to people in need at little or no cost, but founder David Young soon got the sweet idea to begin selling honey (he’s also…

Jennifer Merluzzi's paper “Network Oscillation,” co-authored with Ronald S. Burt, the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Management, has been accepted for publication in…

Freeman students Sarah Lawhorne, Andrew Landsiedel, Michael Kreisman, Neil Barot and Sara Scott, left to right, beat out more than 450 teams from across the U.S. to win this year's PwC Challenge accounting case competition. (Photo by…

Jennifer Merluzzi's paper “Lasting Effects? Referrals and Career Mobility of Demographic Groups in Organizations,“ co-authored with Adina Sterling of Stanford University, has been accepted for publication in a special issue of …

Candace Jens' paper “Political uncertainty and investment: casual evidence from U.S. gubernatorial elections” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics. Jens is an assistant professor of finance at the A.…

If you’ve ever seen the reality show “Shark Tank,” you know the format: Budding entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of investors with thousands of dollars in funding resting in the balance. Alberta Wright, above, a teacher at…

Jasmijn Bol's paper “How control system design affects performance evaluation compression: The role of information accuracy and outcome transparency,” co-authored with Victor Maas of the University of Amsterdam and Stephan Kramer of…

From The New York Times, Jan. 20, 2015: The New York Times' Farhad Manjoo interviewed Geoff Parker, professor of management science, about the continuing dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. “The Big Five came…

Ten semifinalists will be pitching their ideas for solutions to community issues at Tulane University during PitchNOLA 2016: Community Solutions, to be held on Jan. 28. A presenter pitches for her project at last year’s PitchNOLA…

Steve Gleason (MBA '11), the former New Orleans Saint who has turned his battle against ALS into a national campaign to promote treatment of the disease, was featured in the New York Times on Jan. 2. Freeman alumnus Steve Gleason (MBA…

From The Advocate, Dec. 19, 2015: The Advocate interviewed Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, for a story on the outlook for Louisiana energy service companies in 2016. Smith said the Louisiana energy…

Burcu Tan’s paper “Dual Sourcing under Random Supply Capacities: The Role of the Slow Supplier,” co-authored with Qi Feng of Purdue University and Wen Chen of Providence College, has been accepted for publication in Production and…