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    Energy firms highlight Burkenroad Conference

    With oil prices hovering around $120 a barrel, it doesn't take much imagination to guess what the hot ticket was at this year's Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference. "Energy stocks were white hot," says Peter Ricchiuti…

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    Reiss and Houston honored as Entrepreneurs of the Year

    The Freeman School has named two distinguished businessmen with close ties to New Orleans as this year's Tulane Entrepreneurs of the Year. James J. Reiss Jr., a private investor and manager of Reiss Companies, was honored…

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    Startups compete for cash in business plan competition

    Can small loans up to $250 be enough to fight global poverty? A group of students from the Freeman School and University of Texas at Dallas are banking on it. They got an endorsement from peers and faculty Friday at the 8th…

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    Freeman hosts 12th annual Finance Case Competition

    A team representing Vanderbilt University took the top prize of $5,000 at this year's Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition. The competition took place at the Freeman School on April 4, 2008. Emory…

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    Burkenroad Symposium looks at leadership

    In her introductory remarks at this year's Burkenroad Symposium on Business and Society, moderator Laura Cardinal said she hoped to present a "kaleidoscope" of perspectives on critical leadership, and that's just what the…

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    Sequent Energy announces scholarships

    Sequent Energy Management hosted a reception in the Lavin-Bernick Center on Tulane's Uptown campus on Feb. 20 to announce the recipients of two scholarships for students interested in pursuing careers in energy. Freeman…

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    If it's Tuesday, this must be Bogota...

    In January, 10 Freeman MBA students traveled to Bogota, Colombia, to spend a week studying global business with classmates from Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. The students are among the first participants in the Global MBA…

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    Rankings round up

    The Financial Times isn't the only prestigious publication to rank the Freeman School highly in recent months. The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Forbes, U.S. News & World…

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    It's not who you know, but how many...and how different

    Bert Cannella has spent several years studying knowledge creation and how new ideas emerge in organizations, and after a good deal of research, one thing appears clear: If you want to stay on the cutting edge, grow and…

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    Financial Times ranks Freeman 10th globally in finance

    In its latest survey of global MBA programs, the Financial Times has named Tulane's Freeman School of Business one of the 10 best schools in the world in finance. The 10th place ranking, which appeared in the Financial Times…

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    CNBC highlights Freeman's trading room

    In a recent news segment, CNBC highlighted the Freeman School's trading room and its unique approach to training students for careers in energy trading. "They may be a long way from the NYMEX in New Orleans and at Tulane…