In Memoriam: Winter 2020

Maurice Joseph Picheloup III (A&S ’39, BBA ’42) J. Martin Karpen ( ’41) Lee Roy Ledbetter (BBA ’46) Elizabeth Stafford Hans (BBA ’48) William Maxwell Lucas Jr. (BBA ’48, L ’50) Carlo Venturella (BBA ’48) John Parham Werlein Jr. (BBA ’48) Robert Freeman Cahn Sr....

Closing Bell: Panel Discussion

Master of Management in Energy students got a firsthand look at the logistics and economics of solar power in October during a tour of the Entergy New Orleans Solar Power Plant, the first utility-scale solar facility in the Entergy system. Located on a 14-acre site...

Upcoming Events

March 2020 March 13 Tulane Family Business Forum Stewart Center CBD March 23–27 New Orleans Entrepreneur Week Various Locations, New Orleans March 31 PMBA Lunch Info Session – Downtown Peche Restaurant, New Orleans April 2020 April 15 PMBA Lunch Info Session –...

The Myth of the Ivory Tower

By Ira Solomon, dean, A. B. Freeman School of Business A few weeks ago, I was discussing the strategy behind the Stewart Center CBD, our new facility in downtown New Orleans, when a colleague casually referenced a concept we’ve all heard before: the ivory tower. His...

MBAs Go the Distance to Fight Hunger

Banco de Alimentos serves the poor of Buenos Aires by collecting and distributing food donations to more than 900 soup kitchens across the metropolitan region, but deploying the organization’s army of nearly 6,000 volunteers had become an increasingly difficult...

Senior Wins $10K in Weber State Business Competition

Jamie Milstein (BSM ’19) won third place and a prize of $10,000 in the final round of Weber State University’s “Outdoor Weber” Competition. The event, sponsored by Camping World, is a three-day outdoor recreation idea contest that took place in March in Ogden, Utah....

Internet Pioneers Highlight NOEW 2019

Netscape Communications Corp. revolutionized computing in 1994 with the release of the world’s first commercial web browser, which helped jump-start the World Wide Web and launch the dot-com era. But in a talk at this year’s New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, company...

Double Fission

In January, Freeman students visited the Waterford 3 control room simulator, a training facility located within Entergy’s Waterford 3 nuclear power plant that replicates the instrumentation in the plant’s actual control room down to the last toggle switch. The...

The Business Buzz: A Model Team

Less than two weeks after winning the top prize at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, the red-hot startup founded by a pair of Freeman School students did it again. RentCheck, the rental inspection app developed by Marco Nelson (MBA ’19) and Lydia Winkler (MBA/JD ’19) to...

Tulane Honors 2019 Entrepreneurs of the Year

Tulane University honored skin care innovators Dr. Katie Rodan and Dr. Kathy Fields with its Distinguished Entrepreneurs of the Year Award and social entrepreneurs Stephanie and David Barksdale with its Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs of the Year Award at the 2019...