– Winter 2013 –

Spearheaded by former students Stacey M. Berger and David A. Sislen, the John M. Trapani III Professorship in Business Administration will support the teaching and scholarship of an outstanding early-career faculty member.

In 2012, ManpowerGroup ranked accounting as one of the five hardest jobs to fill. That talent shortage is expected to continue through 2020 as more and more accountants reach retirement age. Those numbers aren’t lost on the staff of the Freeman School’s Career Management Center.

Within hours of learning that Tulane football player Devon Walker had suffered a devastating spinal injury, Brad Girson and Jesse Schwartz started brainstorming. “We didn’t know the extent of the injury at the time, but when we found out, we just thought, ‘What can we do?’”

Jasmijn Bol was formally invested as the inaugural PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Faculty Fellow in Accounting in a ceremony at the Freeman School on Nov. 15. The professorship was established with donations from Tulane alumni and friends at PricewaterhouseCoopers along with matching gifts from the PwC Foundation.

Ten teams of social entrepreneurs visited Tulane’s uptown campus to pitch ideas to solve a host of environmental and social problems, but in the end, it was a program to help the formerly incarcerated transition back into society that came out on top at the fourth annual PitchNOLA.

It started out modestly, as a way to offer volunteer opportunities to students during one of their international trips, but in the last three years, public service has grown to become the focal point of the annual MBA Global Leadership trip to Argentina.