The Tulane Business Forum celebrates its 30th anniversary this year with a program dedicated to corporate consciousness. A distinguished lineup of speakers from retail, health care, energy, banking and other industries will discuss doing business in a more socially...
The stock market may have been dismal in 2008, but the end of the year did bring one piece of positive news. According to mutual fundtracker Morningstar, since its inception in 2001, the Hancock Horizon Burkenroad Fund ranks as the 38th best performer out of 4,823...
The Freeman School has been named one of the top 15 graduate business schools in finance by the Princeton Review. The ranking, based on a survey of MBA students, appeared in the April 2009 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. The Princeton Review contacted 19,000 MBA...
A new alumni group hopes to improve the Freeman School’s national ranking by reaching out to recent graduates. The Freeman 50 is the brainchild of Edward Crawford (MBA ’08, MGM ’09), who says he was inspired to start the group after seeing the success that other...
New Orleans experienced an unprecedented influx of young professionals in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but the challenge now, civic leaders say, is how to keep these talented 20- and 30-somethings in New Orleans. MBA student Ishaneka Williams came up with one idea...
When Burkenroad Institute Director Laura Cardinal selected the topic for this year’s Burkenroad Symposium—“Leadership and the Eye for Innovation”—she knew it was a subject of interest to business students and executives. She just didn’t realize how relevant it would...
