At first glance, Liberty’s Kitchen looks like most neighborhood cafes, serving up a menu of coffee, pastries, sandwiches and blue plate specials from its storefront in the ReFresh Project development on Broad Street. But what casual customers might not know is that with every order, they’re helping to transform lives.
Irwin D. Simon has some simple advice for students: Don’t listen to advice. In a talk at the Freeman School, the founder of natural foods giant Hain Celestial Group recalled how many times he’d been told that a company focused exclusively on healthy eating would never fly. “If I had listened to them, I never would have gone out and done it,” Simon told the students.
A team of Master of Finance students from the Freeman School won third-place at this year’s Texas Investor Portfolio Symposium (TIPS) Portfolio Managers Competition. The competition was part of the annual TIPS conference, a forum for students and faculty from universities in the region with investment management curriculum.
As Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business begins work on a major expansion and renovation, Dean Ira Solomon hosted a visit from the man responsible for building Goldring/Woldenberg Hall I, former Dean Meyer Feldberg. Feldberg served as dean from 1981 to 1986 and oversaw fundraising efforts to construct GW1, the first new academic building to be built on Tulane’s uptown campus in 18 years.
During the May 2016 NFL owners’ meeting, votes were cast for the 2019 and 2020 Super Bowl host cities. When that happened, students in one class at the A. B. Freeman School of Business were paying close attention.
