The year 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. I am pleased to announce that we will be honoring this historic milestone during the 2013–2014 academic year with a host of special events and activities to highlight our past, celebrate our present and preview our very bright future.
On an annual basis, the foundation touches the lives of more 4,000 children, teens and family members, but like a lot of nonprofits, Periwinkle doesn’t always have the time or resources to devote to strategic marketing. That’s where a Houston-based class of Freeman School PMBA students comes in.
The CEOs of two of Louisiana’s biggest homegrown success stories — Daryl G. Byrd of Iberiabank Corp. and José S. Suquet of Pan- American Life Insurance Group — will discuss what it took to build those businesses as keynote speakers at the 34th annual Tulane Business Forum, “Home Grown: Leveraging the Louisiana Business Experience on a National Scale.”
In the wake of Enron and other corporate scandals, business schools across the nation have put a much greater emphasis on the teaching of ethics, but in a talk at the A. B. Freeman School of Business, James S. Turley, chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young, said those efforts can only go so far.
The fifth annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week shined a spotlight on the city’s fast-growing startup scene, but the head of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship at Tulane University told attendees that the event is also a testament to the important role Tulane plays in the city’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
When British Prime Minister David Cameron called for a referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union, it was just the latest challenge to the beleaguered union, which has struggled in the wake of the global financial crisis. But in remarks at the A. B. Freeman School of Business in January, the EU’s ambassador to the United States said Cameron’s comments should not be interpreted as a rejection of the union.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world’s largest professional services firm, has awarded the Freeman School a $10,000 grant to develop new accounting courses in the Master of Finance program. The grant was awarded through the PwC INQuires program, which funds applied research projects contributing to the practice of auditing and tax.
Be Well Nutrition, maker of a new healthy lifestyle beverage, and Haystack EDU, an online platform that connects teachers with schools, were the big winners at the 13th annual Tulane Business Plan Competition.
Dean Ira Solomon is happy to announce that the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University is adding five new full-time professors to its faculty for the 2013-14 academic year.
Student teams from seven top schools vied for $15,000 in prizes in April at the 17th annual Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition. The contest, an annual presentation of the A. B. Freeman School of Business, took place in Goldring/Woldenberg Hall II on Tulane’s uptown campus.
John Elstrott, professor of practice and emeritus executive director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, was honored at the 2013 Tulane Council of Entrepreneurs Awards Gala.
There are many opportunities in everyday life to associate consumer products with success or failure. For example, imagine a situation in which a Saints fan is at the Superdome, watching the team lose badly. During halftime, he purchases and consumes a Dr. Pepper. Subsequently, the team rallies to win. Months […]
The A. B. Freeman School of Business gratefully acknowledges in the following pages those individuals, corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations that made gifts to the school in fiscal year 2013 (July 1, 2012–June 30, 2013). Donors who requested anonymity are not listed. Every effort has been made to ensure the […]
Time has a way of passing very quickly around here. It’s hard to believe that my two-year term as president of TABA will be ending in December. So much has happened. The TABA of today looks quite different from the organization I first became associated with six years ago, with […]
