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.
In its latest survey of entrepreneurship programs, the Princeton Review ranks the Freeman School 13th on its list of the nation’s top graduate programs for entrepreneurs. The ranking appeared in the October 2010 issue of Entrepreneur magazine and online at Entrepreneur.com.
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.
With recruiter visits to college campuses down by an estimated 20 percent in the last year, business schools have had to get creative to connect students with employers, and that’s just what Freeman’s Career Management Center has done.
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.
Twelve teams of Freeman School students put their skills to the test in October as participants in the PricewaterhouseCoopers xACT Competition, one of the nation’s leading case competitions for accounting and business students.
