The Wilson family, owners of Barriere Construction Co., received the Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneur(s) of the Year Award and Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, founding director of Birthing Project USA, received the Tulane Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the 2010 Tulane Council of Entrepreneurs Awards Gala.
Rebirth Financial, a new company started by the second-year MBA students, was one of four finalists chosen from among more than 30 applicants to participate in Investor Idol, a showcase for New Orleans small businesses seeking investors.
It’s not that unusual for business students to read cases on companies like Google, General Electric and Time-Warner in their management classes. What is a little unusual is for the students themselves to write the cases.
The Freeman School is one of the top five graduate schools in the nation for entrepreneurship. That’s the finding of Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review, which ranked the Freeman School fourth in the nation on their list of Top Graduate Programs for Entrepreneurs.
To investment manager Howard Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, the roots of the financial crisis can be summed up in a simple observation: When people think there’s no risk, that’s the riskiest situation imaginable.
Thanks to a unique new partnership between the Freeman School and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), students can earn a master’s degree in risk management while simultaneously preparing for the FRM examinations.
