– Winter 2011 –

“Mad Money” host Jim Cramer is famous for his unabashedly bullish take on the stock market, so it was only fitting that the investment guru should bring his CNBC television show to a city like New Orleans and a school like Freeman.

Disposing of used cooking oil is a cost of doing business for most restaurants, but one local group is turning that unpleasant task into green— green fuel, green jobs and green cash.

This year’s Tulane Business Forum focused on the theme “Leveraging Corporate Resources,” and more than 650 people attended to hear some of the creative ways that businesses and business leaders are doing more with less.

A team featuring Freeman students Amanda Diamond, Carly O’Meara and Beckie Warren was recently one of 10 finalists in the Honda CR-Z Media Challenge, a national marketing competition that asked students to devise social media campaigns to generate a buzz for the sporty new hybrid car.

Peter Ricchiuti, clinical professor of finance and research director of the Burkenroad Reports program, led a group of Burkenroad Reports analysts and investment research managers on a tour of the New York Stock Exchange during Freeman Days New York.

John Elstrott and Ralph Maurer are part of the management team behind the New Orleans Startup Fund, a new nonprofit venture capital fund created to provide local high-potential ventures with seed capital.