The year 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of what is today known as the A. B. Freeman School of Business. To commemorate this milestone, Freeman looks back at the last hundred years to highlight some of the notable people, events and achievements in the history of business education at Tulane University.
The A. B. Freeman School of Business gratefully acknowledges in the following pages those individuals, corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations that made gifts to the school in fiscal year 2013 (July 1, 2012–June 30, 2013). Donors who requested anonymity are not listed. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this report. If […]
Time has a way of passing very quickly around here. It’s hard to believe that my two-year term as president of TABA will be ending in December. So much has happened. The TABA of today looks quite different from the organization I first became associated with six years ago, with new board members, new board […]
1959 J. Dwight LeBlanc Jr. (BBA ’59, L ’61) was selected for inclusion on the 2013 Louisiana Super Lawyers list. The list, a publication of Thomson Reuters, is a rating of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. LeBlanc is a partner […]
I. Sackman Marx (’41) Leah I. Levy Shindler (BBA ’41) Bertha Paglin Ferman (BBA ’42) Allen B. Koltun (BBA ’43, MBA ’47) Dorothy Eversmeyer Schuber (BBA ’43) Robert L. Turchin (BBA ’43) Andre V. Wogan (BBA ’43, L ’49) James R. Dykes (BBA ’45) Donald C. Oster (BBA ’45) Thomas E. Watts Jr. (BBA ’46) […]
In the 38 years since its debut, the official New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival poster has become as much a part of the annual celebration as Irma Thomas, Crawfish Monica and Rosemint Iced Tea, but few fans are probably aware that the highly collectible posters—which fetch hundreds of dollars on eBay—got their start as […]
More than 150 alumni and guests from the classes of 1968 through 2008 gathered in City Park in April for the Freeman School’s third annual Graduate Alumni Reunion Party. The event, which took place in Parkview Terrace (second floor of the old City Park Casino building), is a chance for the Freeman School to recognize […]
Now that’s what you call an opening act. To accommodate its growing size, the A. B. Freeman School of Business moved its diploma ceremony to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome this year, where it immediately followed the university’s spectacular unified commencement ceremony. For business graduates and their guests, the move enabled them to witness what was surely […]
One night last spring, Albin Soares (MBA ’13) was working at his computer when he got a text message from one of his colleagues on the Graduate Business Council, the Freeman School’s student government organization. “Hey, you need to calm down for the day,” the message read. Soares puzzled over the message for a second […]
OCTOBER 2013 Oct. 5 Freeman School Homecoming Tailgating Party, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans Oct. 11 Tulane Houston Information Session, Tulane Houston Campus, 1700 West Loop South, Houston Oct. 18 Freeman Days Houston Energy Career Expo Alumni Networking Reception, Marriott West Loop, Houston Oct. 24 Freeman Days Chicago Alumni Networking Reception, Hyatt Regency, Chicago New Orleans […]
