Freeman News

The Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF), the industry's premier leadership development organization, has honored Lorna C. Donatone (BSM ’80), COO and education market president at Sodexo, with the 2015 Fritzi Pikes Woods…

New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, the annual festival celebrating local entrepreneurship and innovation, will take place March 20 - 27 at venues across the city, and in conjunction with those festivities, the Freeman School is…

One of the top priorities identified in the Freeman School’s 2013 strategic plan was the need to investigate the potential revitalization of the school’s dormant PhD programs. This summer, Freeman takes a big step toward…

Howard Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Management and one of the nation’s leading experts on distressed debt, brought his renowned investment insight to the Freeman School on Feb. 19 as special guest lecturer in the Aaron…

An article on CFO.com highlights new research by the Freeman School’s Kris Hoang on auditor reactions to persuasive tactics. For the study, Hoang and co-author Sanaz Aghazadeh looked at how 85 auditors from large…

If Friday the 13th finds you being a little more careful than usual, you’re likely one of the millions of Americans who consider themselves to be at least a little superstitious. The Freeman School's Eric Hamerman says…

In a new ranking by Human Resources MBA, the Freeman School’s Greg Oldham is named as one of the nation’s most influential living I/O psychologists. Greg OldhamOldham, J. F. Jr. and Jesse Lee Seinsheimer Chair of Business…

From NOLA.com, Feb. 9, 2014:A new study on the economic value of the 2014 Mardi Gras season showed a total contribution to the New Orleans economy of $465 million, with a total of $17.5 million in tax revenues going to local…

Recognizing the growing need for physicians with business training, the A. B. Freeman School of Business and Tulane University School of Medicine have created a new four-year accelerated program for medical students to earn…

From The Advocate, Feb. 8, 2015:Business writer Kathy Finn profiled John Elstrott, chairman of Whole Foods Market and former executive director of the Freeman School’s Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, in Sunday…

When entrepreneur Larry Irvin Jr. took the Freeman Auditorium stage at last year’s PitchNOLA startup competition, it did not go well. He froze up a minute into his pitch, rushing out of the auditorium as a stunned audience…

“Aaron was one of the greatest, smartest investors I ever met,” says Peter Ricchiuti. “He was the consummate value investor, always looking for things that were out of favor. I learned so much from him.” Instructor Myke…

Liz Cowle grew up with cancer.Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer just a few weeks before Liz was born. She died a month after Liz’s fourth birthday, leaving her grieving father to care for her and her two young…

Eric Hamerman’s paper “Reliance on Luck: Identifying Which Achievement Goals Elicit Superstitious Behavior,” co-authored with Carey Morewedge, associate professor of marketing at Boston University School of Management, has…

From AccountingToday.com, Jan. 23, 2015Accounting may be a profession mostly involving numbers, but for Lynn Hannan, a professor of accounting at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, factors such as…

College entrepreneurs have less than two weeks to enter the 15th annual Tulane Business Model Competition for a chance to win more than $25,000 in cash and prizes for promising startup ventures. Jan. 30 is the deadline to…

For business school students, getting a good internship is the first step toward landing a great job after graduation, but for students lacking previous professional experience, that’s often easier said than done. Barrett…

Paddy SivadasanIra SolomonPaddy Sivadasan and Ira Solomon’s paper “Audit fee residuals: costs or rents?” has been accepted for publication in the Review of Accounting Studies. The paper, co-authored with Rajib Dooger of the…

The number of Freeman School alumni in the People’s Republic of China has grown to nearly 400 in recent years, comprising a large, diverse group of business, government and community leaders. In January, the Tulane…

Tulane University’s Burkenroad Reports won top honors this week for best teaching delivery in the prestigious Wharton-QS Stars Awards, an international competition recognizing innovative approaches in higher education that…

Finance professor C. Edward “Ted” Fee studies the effects of corporate financial policy, but the recently appointed Morton Aldrich Professor of Business has been known to apply that lens to some offbeat subjects. Ted Fee,…

Last year, students in a Freeman School marketing class worked with officials from Fox Sports New Orleans to help develop a marketing campaign for the network’s coverage of Louisiana high school sports. This year, Fox Sports…

Claire Senot’s paper “The Impact of Combining Conformance and Experiential Quality on Hospitals’ Readmissions and Cost Performance” has been accepted for publication in Management Science. The paper, co-authored…

Jasmijn Bol’s paper “Performance Target Revisions in Incentive Contracts: Does Information and Trust Reduce Ratcheting and the Ratchet Effect?” has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review. …

It’s more than 2,200 miles from the A. B. Freeman School of Business to Quito, Ecuador, but in that faraway South American community, accounting professor Beau Parent is fondly remembered. Freeman School alumnus Augusto…