David Woodside served as a scholar in the Altman Program in International Studies and Business, studying on four continents, learning to communicate in various languages, and acquiring the skill-set needed to travel abroad successfully. Now through a rigorous and competitive application process, he’s been accepted into the Peace Corps, where he’ll take his expertise and knowledge to Ukraine.
Stephen Sontheimer (BBA ’64) has been named as senior consultant of funeral services at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home and Cemeteries. Sontheimer is a fourth-generation funeral director whose family has been involved in funeral service in New Orleans continuously since 1916.
John Cooper Petagna Sr. ( ’42)
Milton Louis Dinkel Sr. ( ’45)
Paul Horace Duet ( ’47)
Henry Raymond Fox Jr. (BBA ’47)
Frank Henry Hagaman (BBA ’48)
Christian Davenport is more than a poet. He’s also an entrepreneur. Known professionally as Cubs The Poet, Davenport has been combining his art with business since 2015, when he first began writing instant poems for passersby from a table on Royal Street.
Prior to becoming dean here at the Freeman School, I was a professor of accountancy for several decades. I would like to share with you some of what I learned over those decades and explain why it is more relevant today than ever before.
In the last eight years, Upturn Arts has grown from a two-week dance camp for kids into a thriving nonprofit that provides after-school, holiday and summer arts programming to over 1,300 children in New Orleans, but founder Dana Reed shares the credit for its success with an unlikely source: Tulane University undergraduate business students.
The Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex, the new home of Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, has been certified LEED Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council for meeting the highest standards in green building.
To help make the information more accessible to the public, the NOPD recently turned to the Freeman School and students in the newly launched Master of Business Analytics (MANA) program.
In a discussion at the 39th annual Tulane Business Forum in September, technology consultant David Snyder told business leaders not to underestimate the impact of DXC’s presence in the city.
How do companies create successful, innovative cultures? In July, a panel of employees from one of the most innovative companies around — technology firm Lucid — shared their thoughts on the company’s one-of-a-kind culture in a special presentation for business students.
In July, Freeman School Master of Management in Energy students visited Breton Sound #51, an offshore production platform in the Gulf of Mexico operated by independent oil and gas company Upstream Exploration.
The A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of nine new faculty members for the 2018-19 academic year.
James W. McFarland, professor of management science and the second-longest-serving dean in Freeman School history, officially retired on July 1, 2018, bringing to a close a remarkable 30-year career at Tulane University.
