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In its latest biennial ranking of full-time MBA programs, Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the Freeman School 35th in the U.S. The ranking represents a jump of at least 10 spots for the Freeman School.

Green Jobs Program Takes Top Honors at PitchNOLA

Disposing of used cooking oil is a cost of doing business for most restaurants, but one local group is turning that unpleasant task into green— green fuel, green jobs and green cash.

Top Traders Converge for Energy Trading Competition

In just two years, the Tulane Energy Trading Competition has grown into one of the leading annual events for both students seeking careers in trading and energy executives seeking the best young talent.

Tulane Business Forum Looks at Leveraging Resources

This year’s Tulane Business Forum focused on the theme “Leveraging Corporate Resources,” and more than 650 people attended to hear some of the creative ways that businesses and business leaders are doing more with less.

Freeman Ranked 13th for Entrepreneurship

In its latest survey of entrepreneurship programs, the Princeton Review ranks the Freeman School 13th on its list of the nation’s top graduate programs for entrepreneurs. The ranking appeared in the October 2010 issue of Entrepreneur magazine and online at Entrepreneur.com.

Students Ride on Recycling in Marketing Competition

A team featuring Freeman students Amanda Diamond, Carly O’Meara and Beckie Warren was recently one of 10 finalists in the Honda CR-Z Media Challenge, a national marketing competition that asked students to devise social media campaigns to generate a buzz for the sporty new hybrid car.

Recruiting Goes Virtual with Skype

With recruiter visits to college campuses down by an estimated 20 percent in the last year, business schools have had to get creative to connect students with employers, and that’s just what Freeman’s Career Management Center has done.

A NYSE Start for Freeman Days New York

Peter Ricchiuti, clinical professor of finance and research director of the Burkenroad Reports program, led a group of Burkenroad Reports analysts and investment research managers on a tour of the New York Stock Exchange during Freeman Days New York.

Accounting Gets Extreme in PWC xACT Competition

Twelve teams of Freeman School students put their skills to the test in October as participants in the PricewaterhouseCoopers xACT Competition, one of the nation’s leading case competitions for accounting and business students.

Fund Hopes to Jump-Start Early-Stage Ventures

John Elstrott and Ralph Maurer are part of the management team behind the New Orleans Startup Fund, a new nonprofit venture capital fund created to provide local high-potential ventures with seed capital.

Bringing Back Circle Food Store

Circle Food Store served the New Orleans community until 2005, when Hurricane Katrina filled the historic structure with five feet of water. Now, thanks in part to the efforts of four Freeman School MBA students, Circle Food Store may finally be on the verge of a rebirth.

BP Spill Puts Faculy in the Spotlight

Since April 20, when an explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the worst accidental oil spill in history, journalists from around the world have looked to Tulane for scholars to comment on the spill and its aftermath.

ConocoPhillips Donates $35K to Trading Center

ConocoPhillips, the nation’s third-largest integrated energy company, has donated $35,000 to the Freeman School over the last year to support the school’s energy trading program.

Symposium Explores Emerging Technologies

For the 17th Burkenroad Symposium on Business and Society, nationally respected experts in the areas of nanotechnology, alternative energy and regenerative medicine offered their thoughts on what it takes to bring cutting-edge technologies to market.