by mark | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, News
A full-tuition fellowship to the Freeman School has been life-changing for first-year MBA student Charishma Bhavani Koneru (MBA ’21). In turn, her experience at Freeman will help her transform more lives around the globe. Upon graduation, Koneru is hoping to institute...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Perspective, Research
By Stephen A. Zeff Stephen A. Zeff is the Keith Anderson Professor of Accounting at Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business. He served on the accounting faculty of Tulane University’s School of Business from 1961 to 1978. Now that I have reached...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Research
If you’ve purchased an airline ticket in the last 20 years, chances are you’ve made an annoying discovery: Your ticket is merely the first item the airline hopes to charge you for. After paying for the ticket, you’re forced to wade your way through a series of...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2010 -, Research
Assistant Professor of Management Science Ricky Tan was honored with the 2019 Irving H. LaValle Research Award. The award, which was announced at the spring 2019 faculty meeting, recognizes Freeman professors for excellence and advancement of the highest standards of...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Research, Selected Faculty Research
Osman Kazan’s paper “Electric Power Industry: Operational and Public Policy Challenges and Opportunities,” co-authored with Geoff Parker and Burcu Tan Erciyes, has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management. Kazan is a professor of practice...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Research, Selected Faculty Presentations Etc.
Jasmijn Bol, PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting, delivered five presentations in summer 2019. In May, she presented “A Holistic Framework for Effective Management Control Systems” at the 42nd annual Congress of the European Accounting Association in...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Cover Story, Features
Irwin Simon was ready for something new. For 25 years, Simon had worked to build Hain Celestial Group into one of the largest and most successful organic and natural foods companies in the world, with a wide-ranging portfolio of category leading brands including...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Features
Dale Klamfoth likes to tell a story about a client of his who worked on the Titanic. Klamfoth, a senior vice president with career consulting firm DBM at the time, was working with a group of Schlumberger engineers when he asked them to think about their biggest...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Features
When Constanta Lungu (MFIN ’19) interviewed for an internship with Merrill Lynch last summer, she went in prepared to talk about all her academic experience, but one subject in particular dominated the conversation. “Half the interview was about Darwin Fenner,”...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Alumni
Hundreds of Freeman School alumni, parents and friends returned to campus in November for a weekend of food, fun, friendship and football. The occasion was Wave ’19, Tulane’s annual celebration that combines homecoming, class reunions and family weekend. In addition...
by freemanschool | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Alumni
Alumni Spotlight Lisa (Kelloway) Madden (NC ’88, MBA ’89) Freshly armed with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Newcomb College and an MBA from the A. B. Freeman School of Business, Lisa (Kelloway) Madden (NC ’88, MBA ’89) started her first job as a...
by mark | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Alumni
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Jerry DiColo (MBA ’15) Jerry DiColo (MBA ’15) got his first taste of journalism as a copy boy in the sports department of the Boston Globe and was instantly hooked. After graduating from Boston College in 2006, the New Jersey native moved to New York...
by mark | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2010 -, Alumni
The Freeman School awarded diplomas to nearly 1,000 degree candidates at its spring 2019 graduation ceremonies, which took place on May 17 in the Avron B. Fogelman Arena in Devlin Fieldhouse on Tulane’s uptown campus. Kicking off the festivities at 10 a.m. was the...
by mark | Feb 28, 2020 | - Winter 2020 -, Alumni, Class Notes
1970s Beth A. Houghton (NC ’77, MBA ’77) has been named the new CEO of the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County, Florida. Previously, Houghton spent eight years with the St. Petersburg Free Clinic, including serving as CEO and executive director. 1990s Maria...
