Innovative Clinic Wins Top Prize at PitchNOLA

Innovative Clinic Wins Top Prize at PitchNOLA

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.

TEA Kicks Off 2012 Tulane Business Plan Competition

TEA Kicks Off 2012 Tulane Business Plan Competition

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.

Love DIY Projects? It’s the Ikea Effect

Love DIY Projects? It’s the Ikea Effect

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

Research: Selected Faculty Presentations Etc.

Research: Selected Faculty Presentations Etc.

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.