When Constanta Lungu (MFIN ’19) interviewed for an internship with Merrill Lynch last summer, she went in prepared to talk about all her academic experience, but one subject in particular dominated the conversation.
Hundreds of Freeman School alumni, parents and friends returned to campus in November for a weekend of food, fun, friendship and football. The occasion was Wave ’19, Tulane’s annual celebration that combines homecoming, class reunions and family weekend.
Freshly armed with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Newcomb College and an MBA from the A. B. Freeman School of Business, Lisa (Kelloway) Madden (NC ’88, MBA ’89) started her first job as a tax associate at KPMG in 1989.
Prior to becoming dean here at the Freeman School, I was a professor of accountancy for several decades. I would like to share with you some of what I learned over those decades and explain why it is more relevant today than ever before.
In the last eight years, Upturn Arts has grown from a two-week dance camp for kids into a thriving nonprofit that provides after-school, holiday and summer arts programming to over 1,300 children in New Orleans, but founder Dana Reed shares the credit for its success with an unlikely source: Tulane University undergraduate business students.
