Freeman News

The Tulane chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society recognizing business excellence, welcomed its newest members at an induction ceremony in Goldring/Woldenberg Hall II on Oct. 26, 2010. The inductees, including…

The hopes of three Freeman School students are riding on recycling in a national marketing competition. Freeman School students Amanda Diamond, Carly O’Meara and Beckie Warren, left to right, are traveling to locations across the…

Student traders from Rutgers, the University of Texas at Austin, Tulane and Northwestern took the top honors at the 2010 Tulane Energy Trading Competition, but according to some participants, the biggest reward for taking part in the…

Twelve teams of Freeman School students put their skills to the test on Friday (Oct. 22) as participants in the PricewaterhouseCoopers xACT Competition, one of the nation’s leading case competitions for accounting and business students…

From The Times-Picayune, Oct. 26, 2010: Business students from nine universities around North America spent Saturday competing to see who could produce the best results while using simulated portfolios to electronically trade oil and…

In its latest survey of executive MBA programs at the world’s leading business schools, Financial Times has ranked the Freeman School’s EMBA program 75th in the world and 35th among U.S. business schools. The ranking appeared…

“Mad Money” host Jim Cramer is famous for his unabashedly bullish take on the stock market, so it was only fitting that the investment guru should bring his CNBC television show to a city like New Orleans and a school like Freeman.…

Some of the world’s largest energy trading firms will be at the Freeman School of Business on Saturday, Oct. 23, to see the country’s best collegiate energy traders put their risk strategies to the test in what’s becoming one of the…

Up-and-coming singer-songwriter Sami Khan (BSM '11) plans to make music his full-time job when he graduates in May, but that doesn’t mean the Freeman School senior is turning his back on business. Khan hopes to use the marketing skills…

The Receivables Exchange was founded to connect small- and mid-size businesses in need of working capital with investors, but according to president and co-founder Nicolas Perkin, the biggest innovation the New Orleans-based company…

Freeman School assistant dean Peter Ricchiuti has seen Black Monday, the dot-com boom and bust, the subprime mortgage crisis, and the worldwide financial meltdown, yet he’s never seen anything quite like what’s happening in today’s…

CNBC’s “Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer” is coming to the Freeman School of Business on Oct. 19 to broadcast in front of a live audience as part of the show’s “Back to School Tour.” Jim Cramer brings his CNBC show "Mad Money" to Dixon Hall…

From left to right, Alexandra Thurber, Mark Popovich, David Cusimano, Max Joseph, Daniel Crowley, Anthony Elia, Dennis Grosche, Peter Ricchiuti, Ioana Martian and Jacque Noel.The always enthusiastic Peter Ricchiuti, clinical professor…

Got an idea to improve life in New Orleans? Enter the 2010 PitchNOLA competition and you could win $5,000 to help make that idea a reality. The Tulane Entrepreneurs Association is a co-sponsor of PitchNOLA, which will award $5,000 to…

With recruiter visits to college campuses down by an estimated 20 percent in the last year, business schools have had to get creative to connect students with employers, and that's just what Freeman's Career Management Center has done…

For the fifth consecutive year, the Freeman School has been recognized as one of the top 50 schools in the country for entrepreneurship. The Princeton Review in its latest survey of entrepreneurship programs ranks the Freeman School…

From Barron's, Aug. 15, 2010: You don't have to drill too deep to find intriguing plays on the Gulf's oil spill—just go to school. Tulane University professor Peter Ricchiuti and the students in his stock-research program…

It’s not that unusual for business students to read cases on companies like Google, General Electric and Time-Warner in their management classes. What is a little unusual is for the students themselves to write the cases. Since last…

Corporate-acquisition activity has been in the doldrums, and the finger of blame has tended to be pointed at investors. In the prevailing view, CEOs are typically empire builders, willing and able to buy, but shareholders have lately…

From Kiplinger's, July 20, 2010 Thomas M. Anderson, associate editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance, talks with Clinical Professor of Finance Peter Ricchiuti and highlights four energy-sector picks from Burkenroad Reports, the…

The Freeman School has appointed six new tenure-track faculty members for the 2010-11 academic year. Cynthia E. DeversCynthia E. Devers joins the Freeman School as an associate professor of management. Devers received…

From Reuters, July 16, 2010 In Louisiana, the Gulf state most reliant on energy businesses, the economic costs of the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling, in place through November 30, will be severe and long lasting,…

Diversity MBA Magazine has selected five alumni of the Freeman School for inclusion on its 2010 list of the “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive & Emerging Leaders.” The list recognizes exceptional minority and…

In its latest ranking of global MBA programs, leading Latin American business magazine AméricaEconomía has ranked the Freeman School 35th internationally and 22nd among U.S. business schools. The ranking appears in the…

From Forbes.com, June 25, 2010: In a commentary written for Forbes.com, Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, says the Obama administration's current Gulf policy will lead to the departure of drilling…