by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, News
Xavier Cabo, Chonchol Gupta and Alex Owings may not have much in common with Kelly Clarkson or Adam Lambert, but they can all say they’re idols. Rebirth Financial, a new company started by the second-year MBA students, was one of four finalists chosen from among more...
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, News
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. Since last year, Freeman honors students have...
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, Perspective, Research
By Eric Smith The Macondo Blowout, the world’s worst accidental marine oil spill, has been essentially under control since mid-July, when BP installed a mini BOP and transition spool on the well, but the disaster continues thanks to our federal government. On May 30,...
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, Research
Geoff Parker has studied platforms—business networks that connect two or more distinct user groups—for more than a decade, but this fall he and his colleagues plan to take that research to another level with an investigation of how firms can use one type of...
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, In Brief, Research
Adrienne Colella, professor of organizational behavior, has been appointed the James W. McFarland Distinguished Chair in Business. Prior to her appointment, Colella had served as the A. B. Freeman Chair in Doctoral Studies and Research since joining the Freeman School...
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, Cover Story
By Mark Miester “You want to get something to drink?” It’s a little after 5:30 p.m. on a balmy summer afternoon and Jerry Greenbaum has been going nonstop all day. After flying his Cessna Citation from Atlanta to New Orleans in the morning, he spent the early...
