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Internet Pioneers Highlight NOEW 2019

Internet Pioneers Highlight NOEW 2019

Netscape Communications Corp. revolutionized computing in 1994 with the release of the world’s first commercial web browser, but in a talk at this year’s New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, company founder Jim Clark said he still regrets not developing one key feature.

Study Abroad & Exchange Announces Spring 2019 Scholarship Winners

Study Abroad & Exchange Announces Spring 2019 Scholarship Winners

Kendall Gardner (BSM ’20) and Matthew Johnson (BSM ’20) were named spring 2019 recipients of the Freeman Travel Abroad Award (FTAA), a new scholarship program that offers financial assistance to students participating in Freeman study abroad programs.

Pierre Conner Appointed Executive Director of Tulane Energy Institute

Pierre Conner Appointed Executive Director of Tulane Energy Institute

The Freeman School has named Pierre E. Conner III, a senior energy and finance executive with more than 40 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, to lead the Tulane Energy Institute.

Double Fission

Double Fission

In January, students in the Undergraduate Intensive Energy Seminar visited the Waterford 3 control room simulator, a training facility located within Entergy’s Waterford 3 nuclear power plant that replicates the instrumentation in the plant’s actual control room down to the last toggle switch.

The Business Buzz: A Model Team

The Business Buzz: A Model Team

Less than two weeks after winning the top prize at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, the red-hot startup founded by a pair of Freeman School students did it again.

Tulane Honors 2019 Entrepreneurs of the Year

Tulane Honors 2019 Entrepreneurs of the Year

Tulane University honored skin care innovators Dr. Katie Rodan and Dr. Kathy Fields and social entrepreneurs Stephanie and David Barksdale as its Entrepreneurs of the Year at the 2019 Lepage Center Awards Gala.

Freeman Team Wins First Runner Up In Business Valuation Challenge

Freeman Team Wins First Runner Up In Business Valuation Challenge

A team of Master of Finance and MBA students from the Freeman School earned first runner up honors at the 6th annual Business Valuation Challenge, which took place Nov. 17 in Atlanta.

Poets & Quants names Ricky Tan “Best 40 Under 40 Professor”

Poets & Quants names Ricky Tan “Best 40 Under 40 Professor”

Yinliang “Ricky” Tan, assistant professor of management science, has been named one of 2019’s Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets & Quants. The honor recognizes the world’s best young business school professors.

The Global Classroom

The Global Classroom

With Brexit, NAFTA and the U.S.-China trade war dominating news cycles, it’s easy to focus on the differences between nations, but for nearly 100 international executive MBA students who took part in a recent Freeman School seminar, the biggest takeaway was their similarities.

A Profitable Partnership

A Profitable Partnership

In the last eight years, Upturn Arts has grown from a two-week dance camp for kids into a thriving nonprofit that provides after-school, holiday and summer arts programming to over 1,300 children in New Orleans, but founder Dana Reed shares the credit for its success with an unlikely source: Tulane University undergraduate business students.

Good As Gold

Good As Gold

The Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex, the new home of Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, has been certified LEED Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council for meeting the highest standards in green building.

Analytics Students Fight Crime with Data

Analytics Students Fight Crime with Data

To help make the information more accessible to the public, the NOPD recently turned to the Freeman School and students in the newly launched Master of Business Analytics (MANA) program.

Is New Orleans Poised to be the Next Silicon Valley?

Is New Orleans Poised to be the Next Silicon Valley?

In a discussion at the 39th annual Tulane Business Forum in September, technology consultant David Snyder told business leaders not to underestimate the impact of DXC’s presence in the city.

A Lucid Approach to Growing a Business

A Lucid Approach to Growing a Business

How do companies create successful, innovative cultures? In July, a panel of employees from one of the most innovative companies around — technology firm Lucid — shared their thoughts on the company’s one-of-a-kind culture in a special presentation for business students.