Business School Council adds three new members

The Business School Council, the primary external advisory board of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, has recently added three new members.

Bol invested as inaugural PwC Faculty Fellow

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.

How much is a tweet worth? Try $18K

If you’ve ever wondered about the true value of social media, a class of Freeman School students has an answer for you. $18,000.
That’s how much a Twitter message—or, if you prefer, a tweet—the students posted on behalf of the Louisiana Museum Foundation generated for the foundation’s efforts to repair and restore music legend Fats Domino’s white Steinway piano, which was nearly destroyed by floodwaters in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Social entrepreneurs seek the perfect pitch

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.

New admissions director hopes to build on vision

Becoming a “school of choice” for prospective students is a big part of Dean Ira Solomon’s vision for the Freeman School, and it’s also a big part of what attracted Patrick Foran, the new director of graduate admissions, to the Freeman School.

Service takes the spotlight on MBA trip to Argentina

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.