– Summer 2015 –

Internships help undergrads pull it all together

- Summer 2015 -

Hala Bowen (BSM ’14) had always dreamed of owning her own concert venue, so when, as part of her business integration capstone course, she got the chance to do an internship at the Civic Theatre, she jumped at the opportunity. “Working for the Civic was my dream job, basically,” laughs Bowen. “Being able to be […]

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PitchNOLA winner comes full circle

- Summer 2015 -

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 watched his business partner Kristyna Jones dash up to finish the presentation. Unbowed, the two came back […]

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Malaria detection device wins Business Model Competition

- Summer 2015 -

Disease Diagnostic Group, a startup company with technology to dramatically improve the diagnosis of malaria, won first place and a $25,000 grand prize at the 15th annual Tulane Business Model Competition. The final round of the competition, an annual presentation of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, took place at the Freeman School on April 16 […]

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Mastering the business of health care

- Summer 2015 -

Kenny Wang will begin his residency in emergency medicine this fall, but the Tulane University School of Medicine graduate has career aspirations that go far beyond the ER. Wang hopes to eventually go into academic medicine and one day direct a residency program. To help achieve that goal, Wang enrolled in the five-year MD/MBA program, […]

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Tulane Business Forum surveys changing business landscape

- Summer 2015 -

With technology and shifting demographics changing the way companies do business, what can executives do to ensure that their organizations stay on top? For its 36th annual program, “Changing Landscapes: Business Leaders Taking Action,” the Tulane Business Forum looks at the changing business environment and highlights corporate leaders who are taking bold steps to adapt, […]

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Freeman hosts 19th Finance Case Competition

- Summer 2015 -

MBA teams from Washington University in St. Louis, the University of North Carolina and Tulane University took home the top prizes at the A. B. Freeman School of Business’ 19th annual Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition. The competition, which took place at the Freeman School on April 17, tests the valuation and financial […]

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Energy Program Eyes Growth

- Summer 2015 -

The Master of Management in Energy (MME) program marked its fifth birthday in July, and according to James McFarland, it was a milestone worth celebrating. “The program has exceeded our expectations,” says McFarland, Lawrence Distinguished Chair in Finance and executive director of the Tulane Energy Institute, who oversees the program. “The students are very happy […]

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Hannan Honored as Inaugural EY Professor

- Summer 2015 -

In 2006, Lynn Hannan earned academic accounting’s highest honor, the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, in recognition of her trailblazing research in managerial accounting. Now, thanks to the support of one of the world’s largest accounting firms, Hannan hopes to build on that record of scholarly excellence as the inaugural holder of a new […]

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Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

- Summer 2015 -

Jasmijn Bol received the 2015 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award for her paper “The determinants and performance effects of managers’ performance evaluation biases,” which was published in 2011 in The Accounting Review. The Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association presents the award each year to recognize outstanding contributions to the management […]

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Selling Consumers on Healthier Eating

- Summer 2015 -

Tulane University School of Medicine has opened up a new front in the battle against diet-related disease: the kitchen. The Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine is a groundbreaking program of the medical school that trains future physicians in the fundamentals of food, nutrition and cooking so they can better help their patients make practical dietary […]

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Perspective: Under Pressure

- Summer 2015 -

  Image source: We Love Costa Rica Most young auditors recognize when clients try to influence their work, but when those clients are important to the firm’s bottom line, getting auditors to act on that knowledge can be a challenge. By Kris Hoang, Assistant Professor of Accounting While many accounting students are attracted to the […]

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New Morton Aldrich Professor explores the unconventional side of finance

- Summer 2015 -

Finance professor C. Edward “Ted” Fee focuses his research on 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. His PhD dissertation looked at how Hollywood motion pictures are financed, exploring the factors that lead producers to seek […]

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Conference explores morality in the marketplace

- Summer 2015 -

Business school conferences typically don’t include research from anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers and military scholars, but “Morality in the Marketplace” was no ordinary conference. The event, which took place at the Freeman School in October 2014, marked the first in-person meeting of the Moral Research Lab, a virtual group of interdisciplinary scholars who study morality and […]

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Selected Faculty Research

- Summer 2015 -

Jennifer Merluzzi’s paper “Unequal on top: Gender profiling and the income gap among high earner male and female professionals” has been accepted for publication in Social Science Research.

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