by mark | Aug 25, 2011 | - Summer 2011 -, Cover Story
By Mark Miester Francisco Robert (MBA ’11) could have been the next Iron Chef. Before enrolling in business school, Robert was chef de partie at Alinea, the celebrated Chicago restaurant, where he assisted Chef Grant Achatz in preparing a dazzlingly complex menu of...
by mark | Aug 25, 2011 | - Summer 2011 -, Alumni, News from TABA
As the new president of the Tulane Association of Business Alumni (TABA), I attended the Freeman School’s commencement ceremony in May and represented TABA as a member of the platform party. Observing the excitement on the graduates’ faces brought back memories of my...
by mark | Aug 25, 2011 | - Summer 2011 -, Alumni, In Memoriam
Samuel F. Parker Jr. (BBA ’49) J. Barbee Winston (BBA ’49, L ’51) Carl M. Fremaux (BBA ’39) Henry W. Bull Jr. (BBA ’40) William V. Lyons (BBA ’40) Marjorie S. Vanzant (BBA ’42) John Dane Jr. (BBA ’43) Thomas F. Jordan (BBA ’43) David Gansar (’44) Leopold Guerra (’44)...
by mark | Aug 25, 2011 | - Summer 2011 -, Alumni, Humble Beginnings
“There are worse things in life than death, Woody Allen once cracked. “Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?” Life insurance salesmen have been a butt of jokes for years, but when Emile Bayle (BBA ’53) was looking for his first job, nobody...
by mark | Aug 25, 2011 | - Summer 2011 -, Upcoming Events
AUGUST 2011 AUG. 25 Tulane Houston Information Session, 1700 West Loop South, Houston AUG. 26 Rock ’n’ Bowl Party for Alumni and Graduate Students, Mid-City Lanes Rock ’n’ Bowl SEPTEMBER 2011 SEPT. 8 Executive and Professional MBA Information Session,...