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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

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”

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

MME Students Visit Offshore Production Platform

In July, Freeman School Master of Management in Energy students visited Breton Sound #51, an offshore production platform in the Gulf of Mexico operated by independent oil and gas company Upstream Exploration.

Freeman Welcomes Nine to Faculty for 2018-19

The A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of nine new faculty members for the 2018-19 academic year.

Former Dean James W. McFarland Retires

James W. McFarland, professor of management science and the second-longest-serving dean in Freeman School history, officially retired on July 1, 2018, bringing to a close a remarkable 30-year career at Tulane University.

New Course Gives Students an Inside Look at Hedge Funds

Mara Force spent 18 years at JPMorgan working with hedge funds and hedge fund managers. Now, as a Freeman School professor of practice and instructor in the Aaron Selber Jr. Course on Hedge Funds, she’s helping students to understand and master the notoriously Byzantine investment category.

Freeman Hosts Inaugural Colloquium on Business Analytics

About a dozen data professionals
from leading New Orleans
companies came together in
October to share insights and
discuss industry trends at the inaugural
Tulane Business Analytics Colloquium.