When Peter Ricchiuti speaks at conventions and corporate meetings, event organizers bill him as “the financial professor you wish you’d had in college.” In November, Ricchiuti shared his unmistakable brand of market analysis with alumni, parents and students as part of the 2015 Homecoming Speaker Series.
Yvette Jones (MBA ’95), whose career at Tulane University spanned 36 years, officially retired as executive vice president for university relations and development on July 31, 2016.
A device to prevent pressure ulcers in patients undergoing medical procedures won first place and a grand prize of $25,000 in the 2016 Tulane Business Model Competition.
The A. B. Freeman School of Business honored real estate developers Chris Papamichael (BSM ’96) and Matt Schwartz (BSM ’99) as Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneurs of the Year and educator Caroline Roemer as Tulane Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2016 Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards Gala.
If you’ve ever seen the reality show “Shark Tank,” you know the format: Budding entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of investors with thousands of dollars in funding resting in the balance. But for participants in PitchNOLA 2016: Community Solutions, which took place in January in the Woldenberg Art Center’s Freeman Auditorium, the motivation wasn’t a desire for profits. It was the desire to make a difference.
