Shaun Budnik, Manny Fernandez, Cheryl Hollander Goldstein (BSM ’84) and Dave Wilson, four business and civic leaders with long, distinguished careers, are the latest additions to the Business School Council, the advisory board of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, spoke to Tulane students, faculty and guests on April 9 in an appearance sponsored by the Freeman School. Dimon, whose wife, Judy (N ’78), is a Tulane graduate, discussed the role of banks, the role of corporate America and the nation’s economic future in addition to answering questions from students.
Working with family-owned firms in New Orleans over the past few years, I started hearing stories about the days, months and years after Katrina and how these firms maintained continuity and restructured in response to the disaster. These stories differed significantly from those I heard from non-family firms, and they led me to conduct a formal academic study comparing the two groups.
Carmen Weigelt, assistant professor of management, recently had her paper “Implications of Internal Organization Structure for Firm Boundaries,” co-authored with Doug Miller, accepted for publication in Strategic Management Journal.
Michael T. Yest, professor of practice in finance, received the James T. Murphy Teaching Excellence Award in May at the Freeman School’s Graduate Diploma Ceremony.
