New federal rules to rein in the banking industry may be causing a stir on Wall Street, but the regulations likely won’t go far enough to prevent a crisis like the 2007–2008 financial meltdown, says the Freeman School’s Paul Spindt.
St. Denis J. Villere and Co., a 100-year-old family-owned investment management company, is the 2011 recipient of the Tulane Family Business Center’s Outstand Family Enterprise Award.
The ideas presented spanned everything from urban farms to educational wetlands trips to an online crowdsourcing program to support underprivileged students, but in the end, it was an innovative approach to health care that captured the top prize at PitchNOLA 2011.
The Tulane Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) has begun accepting applications for the 2012 Tulane Business Plan Competition, the only business plan competition in the nation dedicated to the principles of Conscious Capitalism.
John M. Trapani III and Yiorgos Bakamitsos have been appointed as the new heads of executive education at the Freeman School.
If you’re like most people, you probably don’t remember McDonald’s short-lived experiment with 55-cent Big Macs, but to Neil Golden, chief marketing officer of McDonald’s USA, the ill-fated 1997 price promotion is a bitter reminder of everything that had gone wrong at the Golden Arches.
