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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
