The Freeman School honored business executive James J. Buquet III (MBA ’90) as Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year and ALS activist Steve Gleason (MBA ’11) as Tulane Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2017 Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards Gala.
What does it take to create an insanely great product? According to John Clarke, it’s probably not what you think.
You might think you’d have to be nuts to try to compete with Frito-Lay, but the co-owner of Germack Pistachio Co. says snack foods are actually a very good business to be in.
Gus De Franco, professor of accounting, came to the Freeman School from the University of Toronto, where he served as an associate professor of accounting. He was previously a visiting professor in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and in the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A team of Freeman School Master of Finance students won first place at the TIPS 2017 Student Portfolio Managers Competition.
When Paul Ballard was an undergrad at Tulane, his future wife turned him on to a drink that would change his life. “She was a PJ’s customer and I did not drink PJ’s,” Ballard recalled. “She got me drinking Iced Mochas.”
