1960s Taylor Jesse Clear (BBA ’65) recently retired for the third time and closed his business, Ballistic Trap Media, a gun range design and consulting firm whose clients included police, military and national security agencies. Before retiring in 1995, Clear spent 27...
Rodney Clark Haase (BBA ’43) Henry J. Haydel (BBA ’45, G ’46) Robert Moore Curran Jr. (BBA ’46) Forrest Forsdick Lipscomb (BBA ’46) Sibyl McGee White (BBA ’46) Norris J. Landry Sr. (BBA ’48) Morris B. Phillips (BBA ’48, L ’51) Nancy O’Donnell Simoneaux (BBA ’48)...
New York artist Paul Villinski created “Currents” to celebrate New Orleans’ musical influence around the world. The whimsical work features 125 vinyl records crafted into a flock of birds that spring from a vintage turntable as they take flight across a wall in the...
January 2019 Jan. 7 Tulane Takeover: San Francisco, Courtyard by Marriott San Francisco Downtown, San Francisco Jan. 8 Tulane Takeover: Los Angeles, Luskin Conference Center – UCLA (Westwood), Los Angeles Jan. 11 Tulane Takeover: Miami, Hyatt Regency Convention...
A new era of business education at Tulane University has begun. In January, the new home of the A. B. Freeman School of Business — the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex — opened its doors to students. Designed by the internationally renowned architecture firm Pelli...
You’ve heard of experiential learning, but what about expeditionary learning? For the students who took part in this year’s intersession courses, some of the most exciting learning took place out of the classroom and off campus. “Going into the city and meeting...
Comedy isn’t something you typically associate with accounting, but Tim West isn’t your typical accounting professor. In addition to holding a PhD in accounting, West, a professor of practice at the Freeman School, is a graduate of the Second City, the famed...
The 2016 presidential election exposed deep fissures within U.S. society, but in an appearance at the Freeman School, economist Roger W. Ferguson Jr. said today’s economic and cultural divide has historical precedents. “This is not at all dissimilar to the U.S....
Two Freeman School MBA students have turned their gripes with renting into a company that could revolutionize how lease agreements are managed. Lydia Winkler (MBA/JD ’19) and Marco Nelson (MBA ’19) are the creators of RentCheck, a rental inspection app that lets both...
The A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University honored business executive Patrick Comer as Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year and civic activist Sandy Rosenthal (MBA ’81) as Tulane Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2018 Albert...
Ahealth-care startup with an innovative device to help people breathe a little easier was the big winner at the 18th annual Tulane Business Model Competition. The contest, an annual presentation of the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and...
Paddy Sivadasan’s students still like to talk about the time he walked out on their class. Sivadasan, an assistant professor of accounting, was in his first semester at the Freeman School when he arrived in class one morning to teach Auditing, a demanding...
The 2018 edition of New Orleans Entrepreneur Week featured nearly a dozen different pitch contests for ambitious entrepreneurs, but it was a team of MBA students from the Freeman School who took home the week’s first prize. The Freeman MBAs edged out peers from five...
In the last 10 years, Gus De Franco has published more than a dozen articles in top scholarly journals, a remarkable record of research success, but Tulane University’s new KPMG Professor of Accounting sees his work in simpler terms. “I think part of it is just being...
