MBA teams from Washington University in St. Louis, the University of North Carolina and Tulane University took home the top prizes at the A. B. Freeman School of Business’ 19th annual Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition. The competition, which took place at the Freeman School on April 17, […]
The Master of Management in Energy (MME) program marked its fifth birthday in July, and according to James McFarland, it was a milestone worth celebrating. “The program has exceeded our expectations,” says McFarland, Lawrence Distinguished Chair in Finance and executive director of the Tulane Energy Institute, who oversees the program. […]
In 2006, Lynn Hannan earned academic accounting’s highest honor, the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, in recognition of her trailblazing research in managerial accounting. Now, thanks to the support of one of the world’s largest accounting firms, Hannan hopes to build on that record of scholarly excellence as the […]
Tulane University School of Medicine has opened up a new front in the battle against diet-related disease: the kitchen. The Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine is a groundbreaking program of the medical school that trains future physicians in the fundamentals of food, nutrition and cooking so they can better help […]
Image source: We Love Costa Rica Most young auditors recognize when clients try to influence their work, but when those clients are important to the firm’s bottom line, getting auditors to act on that knowledge can be a challenge. By Kris Hoang, Assistant Professor of Accounting While many accounting […]
Finance professor C. Edward “Ted” Fee focuses his research on the effects of corporate financial policy, but the recently appointed Morton Aldrich Professor of Business has been known to apply that lens to some offbeat subjects. His PhD dissertation looked at how Hollywood motion pictures are financed, exploring the factors […]
Business school conferences typically don’t include research from anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers and military scholars, but “Morality in the Marketplace” was no ordinary conference. The event, which took place at the Freeman School in October 2014, marked the first in-person meeting of the Moral Research Lab, a virtual group of interdisciplinary […]
Albert Lepage (MBA ’71) relied on innovation and entrepreneurial thinking to grow his company into one of the nation’s leading independent producers of baked goods. Now, through a landmark gift to the A. B. Freeman School of Business, the former chairman of Lepage Bakeries Inc. hopes to deliver entrepreneurial skills […]
There is a lot of reflection of late about how far we’ve come in the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina and how far we still have to go. Katrina was one of those experiences that had such an impact you find it hard not to divide recent history in Pre-K […]
Megan Baumgartner (BSM/MACCT ’14) has been named a 2014 recipient of the American Institute of CPAs’ Elijah Watt Sells Award. The AICPA bestows the prestigious award upon candidates who obtain a cumulative average score above 95.50 across all four sections of the Uniform CPA Examination and pass all four sections […]
Roma de Lucas Gibson (BBA ’36) Roswell J. Weil (BBA ’37) Gustave A. Manthey Sr. (BBA ’39) Leonard Weil (‘39) Louis V. Carambat (’41) Ralph R. Rugan Jr. (BBA ’41) Samuel H. Andrews III (’44) Milton P. Levy Jr. (’44) J. James Shiver Jr. (’44) Yvonne Duckworth Williams (’44) Elmo […]
It’s more than 2,200 miles from the A. B. Freeman School of Business to Quito, Ecuador, but in that faraway South American community, accounting professor Beau Parent is fondly remembered. Thanks to the efforts of Freeman alum Augusto Martinez (BSM ’90), a new educational and recreational center near Quito recently […]
Two Freeman School students were named Tulane University’s 2015 Scholar-Athletes of the Year. Jackie Wegner, a junior finance major from Clearwater, Florida, received the female Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award and Brandon Schmidt, a senior finance major from Lafayette, Louisiana, was named male Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The university bestows […]
September 2015 Sept . 2 Tulane Executive MBA Webinar, To register, visit http://emba.tulane.edu/infosessions. Sept . 11 Tulane Family Business Forum, Lavin-Bernick Center, Tulane University Energy Expo Networking Reception, Hyatt Regency, Houston Sept . 12 Tulane Houston Information Session, 1700 West Loop South, Houston Sept . 17 Tulane Business Forum, Hilton […]
