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    New book shares the lessons of Burkenroad Reports

    As director of the Freeman School’s Burkenroad Reports program, Peter Ricchiuti has spent more than 20 years highlighting the small, profitable companies that often fly under the radar of Wall Street. Now, Ricchiuti has…

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    Fox Sports taps students to design marketing campaign

    A class of students at the A. B. Freeman School of Business delivered their final presentations on Friday (Dec. 6), but these projects were for more than just a grade. They were to see which team would earn the right to have…

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    WSJ.com: When Superstition Works

    From WSJ.com, Nov. 25, 2013: And while such superstitions can be broken, says Dr. Johar, it often takes a lot of negative evidence before people are willing to part with their lucky rituals. That's because they “provide some…

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    PMBA student earns top prize at PitchNOLA

    As a first-year Tulane University student in 2006, Teddy Nathan saw firsthand the power of public service. Now, as a young entrepreneur, he’s hoping to tap into that spirit of service to address some of the city’s biggest…

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    HBR.org: Saving Academic Medicine from Obsolescence

    From HBR.org, Nov. 8, 2013:Ralph Maurer, professor of practice and interim executive director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, co-authored an article for the HBR Blog Network about how Tulane School of…

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    Potential for awesomeness is the promise of the Internet

    The Internet is a powerful force that’s still evolving in unexpected, exciting and cool ways. The promise of the Internet is that “it actually lets us achieve our maximum for awesome,” said Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of…

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    Research Notes: Michael Burke

    Michael Burke’s paper “Statistical Significance Criteria for the rWG and Average Deviation Interrater Agreement Indices,” co-authored with Kristin Smith-Crowe, Ayala Cohen and Etti Doveh, has been accepted for publication in…

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    Groome and Tice receive inaugural Teaching Awards

    A legal studies instructor who sends her students into New Orleans courtrooms to help improve the city’s criminal justice system and a finance professor whose students are actively managing more than $3 million in Tulane…

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    NASDAQ sends Freeman a seven-story high salute

    To commemorate the Freeman School’s 100th anniversary, NASDAQ displayed a special congratulatory message this morning on its famed MarketSite Tower in Times Square.For more than 20 years, NASDAQ has been a dedicated…

  • Research Notes: Emily Rosenzweig

    Emily Rosenzweig’s paper “The Performance Heuristic: A Misguided Reliance on Past Success When Predicting Future Prospects for Improvement” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology:…

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    Barron's spotlights Burkenroad Reports

    The Freeman School’s Burkenroad Reports program earned a national spotlight this week with a high-profile feature in Barron’s magazine. Barron's praised Burkenroad Reports for the impressive record of its student…

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    Position Announcement: Exec. Dir., Levy-Rosenblum Inst.

    Executive Director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for EntrepreneurshipA. B. Freeman School of BusinessTulane University The A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans invites…

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    MarketWatch: What Twitter knows that Blackberry didn’t

    From MarketWatch, Oct. 10, 2013 In the wake of Twitter’s recent IPO filing, Professor of Management Science Geoffrey Parker co-authored a commentary for MarketWatch on the growing impact of platform firms, companies with…

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    Freeman Days New York attracts record number of employers

    More than 300 Freeman students traveled to the Big Apple in September for Freeman Days New York, the Career Management Center’s annual networking and recruiting trip for students seeking jobs in New York City. This year’s…

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    Research Notes: Geoff Parker and Burcu Tan

    Geoff Parker Burcu TanGeoff Parker and Burcu Tan’s paper “Platform Performance Investment in the Presence of Network Externalities,” co-authored with Edward G. Anderson Jr., associate professor of information, risk and…

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    Freeman welcomes five to faculty for 2013-14

    Dean Ira Solomon is pleased to announce that the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University has added five new full-time professors to its faculty for the 2013-14 academic year. R. Lynn HannanR. Lynn…

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    Alum brings "social dining experiment" to Freeman

    As Al Green croons in the background, a chef assembles small plates of sous vide pork belly with shiso and corn espuma at a work station in the front of the room as Paco Robert, the evening’s host, places them in front of…

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    Freeman kicks off yearlong centennial celebration

    The first Bachelor of Business Administration class of Tulane University's College of Commerce.The year 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. In…

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    Bankrate: Survey: Many Still Ask, 'What is Obamacare?'

    From Bankrate, Sept. 11, 2013Bankrate’s Jay MacDonald spoke to Assistant Professor of Marketing Janet Schwartz, an expert on the consumer experience of health care, for her reaction to a new survey on Obamacare.Schwartz…

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    TABA elects eight to board of directors

    The Tulane Association of Business Alumni (TABA) has elected eight members to serve on its board of directors. The new board members’ three-year terms began in January 2013. Shannon Brice Aimee Adatto Freeman Dominik Knoll…

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    Research Notes: Prof. Jasmijn Bol

    Jasmijn Bol’s paper “Managers’ Discretionary Adjustments: The Influence of Uncontrollable Events and Compensation Interdependence” has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research. The paper was…

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    Part-time MBA helps staff members go further

    Rhonda Coignet joined the Tulane University Office of External Affairs in 2000, but the former communications major soon found herself taking on responsibilities beyond her training. “Working at Tulane while going through…

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    Freeman receives $25K donation from Phillips 66

    The A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University has received a $25,000 gift from Phillips 66. The gift will be used to enhance student programs, including courses in energy finance and trading. Sherri B. Thomas,…

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    Financial Times: Asian Students Look to the West

    From Financial Times, June 23, 2013:The 2013 FT Masters in Finance ranking of the top 40 full-time pre-experience programmes has a very western feel: it includes one business school from Australia, one from China, five from…

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    Scientific American: The Health Insurance Shell Game

    From Scientific American, June 17, 2013: Janet Schwartz, assistant professor of marketing at the Freeman School and an expert on the intersection of marketing and public policy with regard to health care, co-authored a…