IRA SOLOMON likely surprised a few people in November when he announced he would not be seeking a third term as dean of the A. B. Freeman School of Business. Since his arrival in 2011, Solomon had embraced the dean’s role with missionary zeal. His charge had been to...
IN FOCUS Before coming to New Orleans to pursue his MBA at the Freeman School, Vignesh Krishnan (MBA ’10) spent three years working as an engineer with Dell Perot Systems. The company was anything but a startup, but Krishnan says the experience helped lay the...
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT David Olk (BSM ’98) In 2011, David Olk teamed up with Jason Richelson to raise $2 million to build a company with the goal of taking small businesses where they’d never gone before: the cloud. As co-owner of a specialty grocery store and wine shop in...
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Jim Burke (A&S ’91, MBA ’91) A scholarship made Tulane University possible for Baton Rouge native Jim Burke. That generosity — from someone he didn’t even know — transformed his life and ultimately led him to create the same opportunity for future...
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Steve Jarmel (BSM ’93) and John Findlay (BSM ’07) For Freeman alumni Steve Jarmel and John Findlay, the decision to strike out on their own in private equity presented an opportunity to not only generate superior returns but also to build a company...
