– Fall 2022 – – Freeman Business

Experience for a Lifetime

Experiential learning is more than just a highly effective pedagogical method. It is also the perfect educational model for this moment in time.

Energy students take on a new challenge – recycling

A new company hopes to help solve the problem of plastic waste, and to do that, they teamed up with a surprising partner: The Tulane Energy Institute.

New program opens doors to investment banking

The Investment Banking Development Program, an application-only extracurricular offering that launched last spring, gives sophomores specialized training to prepare them for internships and jobs in the field.

Freeman welcomes 5 to faculty

The A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of five faculty members for the 2022–23 academic year. The appointments, which were effective July 1, include four tenure-track assistant professors and one professor of practice.

Nelson honored for service learning teaching

Tulane University honored Ashley Keller Nelson (MBA ’98), senior professor of practice in business and legal studies, with the 2022 Barbara E. Moely Service Learning Teaching Award.

Beneath the noise, a simple tale of what corporate strategy should not be

What does an executive who leads a company that manufactures electric vehicles — and who is still struggling to address the challenges of that industry — know about managing a largely unprofitable social media company? Even in the best of circumstances, it would have been a questionable decision.

How do you follow a flameout?

Airbnb, Uber and SiriusXM are each examples of what business scholars call beacons, companies that shine a light on a particular market space and confer legitimacy upon those that follow. But what happens to those followers when a beacon fails?

Selected Faculty Presentations and Honors

Gans Narayanamoorthy, professor of accounting, was selected as a 2022–23 Duren Professor by Newcomb-Tulane College. Narayanamoorthy was selected for his new undergraduate Risk Analytics course.

Selected Faculty Publications

Cameron Verhaal’s paper “Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars,” co-authored with Oliver Hahl and Kevin Fandl, was accepted for publication in Organization Science. Verhaal is an assistant professor of management.