The ideas presented spanned everything from urban farms to educational wetlands trips to an online crowdsourcing program to support underprivileged students, but in the end, it was an innovative approach to health care that captured the top prize at PitchNOLA 2011.
The Tulane Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) has begun accepting applications for the 2012 Tulane Business Plan Competition, the only business plan competition in the nation dedicated to the principles of Conscious Capitalism.
John M. Trapani III and Yiorgos Bakamitsos have been appointed as the new heads of executive education at the Freeman School.
While all this might sound like 21st century Wall Street-style art dealing, nothing could be further from the truth. Research into past art markets has revealed the existence of sophisticated dealer networks in the 19th century and possibly even earlier.
So it turns out there’s a reason why you could never throw out that wobbly old bookcase you put together in college. It’s the Ikea effect. In a new article in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Freeman School’s Daniel Mochon argues that consumers tend to value products they build themselves— such as furniture from Ikea—more than similar professionally built products
John Elstrott spoke to students, business leaders and entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colo., on Sept. 29 as part of An Evening at the Epicenter, a series of interactive talks dedicated to promoting local, socially responsible and green businesses.
