Bloomberg is the world’s leading provider of news, data and analytics for finance professionals. Now, thanks to a new agreement, the Freeman School is making the company’s flagship desktop product—the Bloomberg Professional service— fully available to students.
In 2012, ManpowerGroup ranked accounting as one of the five hardest jobs to fill. That talent shortage is expected to continue through 2020 as more and more accountants reach retirement age. Those numbers aren’t lost on the staff of the Freeman School’s Career Management Center.
From the NBA All-Star Game to the Super Bowl, New Orleans has reemerged as one of the nation’s leading destinations for major sporting events. At the 33rd annual Tulane Business Forum, a panel of local sports officials said that impressive post-Katrina run isn’t an accident.
Within hours of learning that Tulane football player Devon Walker had suffered a devastating spinal injury, Brad Girson and Jesse Schwartz started brainstorming. “We didn’t know the extent of the injury at the time, but when we found out, we just thought, ‘What can we do?’”
The Business School Council, the primary external advisory board of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, has recently added three new members.
Jasmijn Bol was formally invested as the inaugural PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Faculty Fellow in Accounting in a ceremony at the Freeman School on Nov. 15. The professorship was established with donations from Tulane alumni and friends at PricewaterhouseCoopers along with matching gifts from the PwC Foundation.
