Freeman News

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    Lepage Center announces inaugural Faculty Fellows

    The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business has awarded eight career-development grants as part of the newly launched Lepage Faculty Fellows program.…

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    Lepage Center launches Innovators-in-Residence program

    The Lepage Center has launched a new program that connects student startup founders with a team of successful executives, investors and entrepreneurs for one-on-one coaching and mentoring.

  • Freeman hosts inaugural colloquium on business analytics

    About a dozen data professionals from leading New Orleans companies came together on Thursday (Oct. 18) to share insights and discuss industry trends at the inaugural Tulane Business Analytics Colloquium.

  • Analytics students fight crime with data

    To help make its calls for service data more accessible to the public, the New Orleans Police Department recently turned to the Freeman School and students in the Master of Business Analytics program.

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    Research Notes: Xianjun Geng

    Xianjun Geng's paper “Does It Pay to Shroud In-App Purchase Prices?", co-authored with Jeffery Shulman from the University of Washington, has been accepted for publication in Information Systems Research.

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    Is New Orleans poised to be the next Silicon Valley?

    New Orleans was already ranked as the fastest growing technology jobs market in the country when DXC Technology announced it had selected the city as the home of its new Digital Transformation Center, a software development…

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    Join us for Freeman's Graduate Reunion Weekend 2018

    Does your Freeman graduation year end in three or eight? Then join us Nov. 9-10, 2018, for Graduate Reunion Weekend, the Freeman School's annual get-together for master’s and PhD program alumni celebrating milestone…

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    Freeman welcomes nine to faculty for 2018-19

    Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of nine new faculty members for the 2018-19 academic year.

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    Tulane Business Forum explores digital transformation

    For the 39th annual Tulane Business Forum, industry leaders from local and national firms will discuss the digital transformation and how firms are using technology to solve problems and generate value in new and innovative…

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    Research Notes: Jung Hoon Lee

    Jung Hoon Lee's paper “Do Portfolio Manager Contracts Contract Portfolio Management?", co-authored with Charles Trzcinka from Indiana University and Shyam Venkatesan from University of West Ontario, is forthcoming in the…

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    Research Notes: Robert Hansen

    Robert Hansen's paper “Investment bank monitoring and bonding of security analysts’ research,” co-authored with Oya Altınkılıç of the University of Maryland and Vadim Balashov of Rutgers University, has been accepted for…

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    New program offers faculty support for entrepreneurial research and activities

    The Lepage Faculty Fellows program, a new initiative of the Freeman School's Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, will award grants of up to $10,000 per year to Tulane faculty members working in the…

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    Making Moves

    As a professional football player, Freeman School alumnus Brandon LeBeau (BSM '15) has some slick moves on the field. As the founder of local moving company Movn, LeBeau also specializes in smooth moves off the gridiron.

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    Certified Gold

    The Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex has been certified LEED Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council for meeting the highest standards in green building.

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    A Lucid approach to corporate culture

    In July, a panel of employees from one of the most innovative companies around -- technology firm Lucid -- shared their thoughts on the company’s one-of-a-kind culture in a special presentation for business students.

  • MME students visit offshore production platform

    On July 13, Master of Management in Energy students visited Breton Sound #51, an offshore production platform in the Gulf of Mexico operated by independent oil and gas company Upstream Exploration.

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    Alumna fuses fashion and function in swimwear line

    As the founder and CEO of stylish swimwear brand Cabana Life, Melissa Papock (BSM '96) knows that clothing acts as a vital line of defense against summertime sun exposure.

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    Research Notes: Musa Caglar

    Musa Caglar’s paper “Impact Assessment Based Sectoral Balancing in Public R&D Project Portfolio Selection,” co-authored with Sinan Gurel, has been accepted for publication in Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

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    New nonprofit solves thorny issue for STEM teachers

    Founded by alumnus Todd Wackerman (MBA '18), STEM Library Lab is a new nonprofit that provides New Orleans public and charter school teachers with the tools they need to teach hands-on, inquiry-based science.

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    Research Notes: Junghee Lee

    Junghee Lee's paper “First Look Determination,” co-authored with Vish Krishnan, Oleksiy Mnyshenko and Hyoduk Shin, has been accepted for publication in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM.)

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    Research Notes: Rajat Khanna

    Rajat Khanna’s paper “Entangled Decisions: Knowledge Interdependencies and Termination of Patented Inventions in the Pharmaceutical Industry,” co-authored with Isin Guler and Atul Nerkar, has been accepted for publication in…

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    Research Notes: Tim West

    Tim West's paper “A Comprehensive Analysis of Findings from Single Audits: The Implications of Auditee Type and Auditor Expertise,” co-authored with Tammy Waymire and Zach Webb, has been accepted for publication in The…

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    Alumna appointed president of Kennesaw State University

    Pamela Whitten, an alumna of Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business, has been appointed president of Kennesaw State University, the third-largest university in Georgia and one of the 50 largest public…

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    Freeman grad earns prestigious accounting award

    A. B. Freeman School of Business alumna Alexis S. Gandal (BSM/MACCT ’17) has been named a 2017 recipient of the American Institute of CPAs’ Elijah Watt Sells Award.

  • The growing importance of tacit knowledge

    In a new study, Professor of Accounting Jasmijn Bol finds that firms increasingly value tacit knowledge -- the term scholars use for hard-to-teach skills like communication, self-management and the ability to prioritize…