Mara Force spent 18 years at JPMorgan working with hedge funds and hedge fund managers. Now, as a Freeman School professor of practice and instructor in the Aaron Selber Jr. Course on Hedge Funds, she’s helping students to understand and master the notoriously Byzantine investment category.
About a dozen data professionals
from leading New Orleans
companies came together in
October to share insights and
discuss industry trends at the inaugural
Tulane Business Analytics Colloquium.
Betsy Clementson, librarian and head of the Freeman School’s Turchin Business Library, has been reaching out to employers for the last year to ensure that students graduate with the research skills they need to succeed in today’s work environment.
Companies invest millions of dollars in developing performance management systems, yet managers and employees continue to be frustrated by performance evaluations they perceive to be ineffective. A 2005 survey by consulting firm People IQ reported that only 13 percent of employees and managers — and only 6 percent of CEOs — found their organizations’ performance appraisal processes useful.
The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has awarded eight career-development grants as part of the newly launched Lepage Faculty Fellows program.
Jasmijn Bol’s paper “The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Auditor Expertise and Human Capital Development,” co-authored with Cassandra Estep, Frank Moers and Mark Peecher, has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Accounting Research. Bol is the PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Professor of Accounting.
As Burkenroad Reports celebrates its 25th anniversary, Freeman Business looks back at how Peter Ricchiuti built a tiny equity research program covering six “stocks under rocks” into one of the most acclaimed experiential learning programs in the nation.
1996 – The inaugural Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference is held. Senior management from 18 Burkenroad companies attend the conference to deliver presentations to an audience of institutional and private investors.
Burkenroad Reports has rightly earned the reputation as one of the nation’s most innovative experiential learning programs, but it’s just one example of active learning at the Freeman School.
Former teacher Todd Wackerman (MBA ’18) is the founder of STEM Library Lab, which helps public school educators teach hands-on, inquiry based science.
As the founder and CEO of stylish swimwear brand Cabana Life, Melissa Papock (BSM ’96) knows that clothing acts as a vital line of defense against summertime sun exposure.
As a professional football player, Brandon LeBeau (BSM ’15) has some slick moves on the field. As the founder of local moving company Movn, LeBeau specializes in smooth moves off the gridiron.
Jacob Landry (MBA ’13) didn’t like beer until he spent a year in France during college, but after tasting some of the finest brews Europe had to offer, he began to imagine what it would be like to open his own brewery.
In the spring of her senior year, Madeleine Bell landed a highly coveted job interview with Restaurant Brands International, the parent company of Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes. Her interviewer? None other than Jose Cil, president of Burger King.
