Fund Hopes to Jump-Start Early-Stage Ventures

Fund Hopes to Jump-Start Early-Stage Ventures

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.

The Dread Factor

The Dread Factor

A psychological mechanism referred to as the “dread factor” helps explain the enhanced effectiveness of high-engagement training relative to low-engagement training when workers are being prepared to deal with particularly ominous hazards.

Cover Story: Energy Futures

Cover Story: Energy Futures

While the Freeman School has long placed graduates in general finance positions with energy companies, a new generation of students is finding success in more specialized roles including energy finance, trading, sell-side analysis and risk management.

2010 Honor Roll of Donors

2010 Honor Roll of Donors

The A. B. Freeman School of Business gratefully acknowledges in the following pages those individuals and corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations that made gifts to the school in fiscal year 2010.