by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, News
Yinliang “Ricky” Tan, assistant professor of management science, has been named one of 2019’s Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets & Quants. The honor recognizes the world’s best young business school professors in terms of teaching, research and the impact they...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, News
With Brexit, NAFTA and the U.S.-China trade war dominating news cycles, it’s easy to focus on the differences between nations, but for nearly 100 international executive MBA students who took part in a recent Freeman School seminar, the biggest takeaway was their...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Perspective, Research
By J. Cameron Verhaal, assistant professor of management, A. B. Freeman School of Business Rogue Ales is a highly successful craft brewery located in Newport, a small town on the Oregon coast. Founded in 1988, the company entered the market well ahead of the craft...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Research
A great deal is known about patient outcomes, costs and quality of care inside the brick-and-mortar walls of a hospital, but very little is known about what happens when the patient leaves the facility, and that appears to have an equally significant impact on...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Research
When companies fail to achieve organizational goals, company leadership often attributes it to a failure of personnel. If managers could do a better job hiring, training and evaluating employees, the thinking goes, the problem would be solved. Serena Loftus and...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Research, Selected Faculty Presentations Etc.
Sherif Ebrahim, professor of practice in management, was a co-recipient of the 2018 Dean’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. The award is the Freeman School’s highest accolade for undergraduate classroom instruction. Xianjun Geng, professor of management...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Research, Selected Faculty Research
Gus De Franco’s paper “Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures,” co-authored with Assistant Professor Stephanie Cheng, Visiting Assistant Professor Haibo Jiang and PhD student Pengkai Lin, has been accepted for publication in Management...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Cover Story, Features
On Oct. 19, 1914, Tulane University’s newly established College of Commerce and Business Administration opened its doors to students for the very first time. Those doors weren’t located on Tulane’s uptown campus, however. They were on Camp Street in downtown New...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Features
From his leadership as chair of the Business School Council to his extraordinary financial support, Frank B. Stewart Jr. (BBA ’57) has played a central role in the success of the A. B. Freeman School of Business for more than 40 years. On Feb. 15, 2019, the Tulane...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Features
As a practicing nephrologist, Dr. Adrian Baudy (MBA ’19) routinely counseled his patients with kidney disease and high blood pressure to reduce their sodium intake, but to his surprise many told him they didn’t add any extra salt to their food. The culprit, he...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Features
Last October, a group of 16 international public health professionals spent an afternoon at the Freeman School learning strategies to improve their decision making. Over the course of a few hours, the participants, members of the ExxonMobil Global Health Scholars...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Alumni
It’s more than just a hotel. That’s the first thought that confronts almost anyone who ventures to the Hotel Peter & Paul, located at 2317 Burgundy St. in the heart of Faubourg Marigny. Nathalie Jordi (MBA ’12) planned it to be that way. Sort of. Her original plan...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Alumni
Anthony Salazer (BSM/MACCT ’18) was named a 2018 recipient of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Elijah Watt Sells Award. Salazer, who is employed with Ernst & Young in New Orleans, is the third Freeman School graduate in the last five years...
by mark | Jul 24, 2019 | - Summer 2019 -, Alumni
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Trivia Frazier-Wiltz (SSE ’08, M ’12, MBA ’18) Trivia Frazier-Wiltz always knew she wanted to build a career in New Orleans, but she didn’t want just any career. She wanted one that also allowed her to give back to the community and do good for the...
