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.
If you’ve ever wondered about the true value of social media, a class of Freeman School students has an answer for you. $18,000.
That’s how much a Twitter message—or, if you prefer, a tweet—the students posted on behalf of the Louisiana Museum Foundation generated for the foundation’s efforts to repair and restore music legend Fats Domino’s white Steinway piano, which was nearly destroyed by floodwaters in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
