How do you build a sustainable ecosystem for entrepreneurs? In a talk hosted by the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, venture capital giant Chuck Newhall invoked an analogy tailor-made for his Louisiana audience. “How many of...
Downtown New Orleans is a vibrant hub of hospitality, entrepreneurship and innovation. Beginning next year, the Freeman School will have a physical presence in the heart of it. In January, construction began on a new business school facility subleased from and located...
More and more innovators are turning to platforms like Kickstarter to support their new products or services, but what does it take to run a successful crowdfunding campaign? Two new studies from professors at the Freeman School offer fresh insights for startups and...
Businesses have long recognized the importance of skills such as teamwork, communication, self-management and the ability to prioritize tasks, but previous research suggested that these and other hard-to-teach skills — referred to by scholars as tacit knowledge — were...
Gus De Franco and Hila Fogel-Yaari organized the Freeman School’s second annual Mini-Financial Accounting Research Conference in February. The conference attracted nearly 50 participants from prominent business schools in the U.S. and Canada and featured presentations...
Oleg Gredil’s paper “Do Private Equity Funds Manipulate Reported Returns?,” co-authored with Gregory W. Brown and Steven N. Kaplan, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics. Gredil is an assistant professor of finance. Lynn Hannan...
It began with the trees. Bill Butler, principal with the architecture firm Pelli Clarke Pelli, was keenly aware of the challenge before him as he began to design the proposed expansion of Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business. Ira Solomon, dean...
The A. B. Freeman School of Business gratefully acknowledges the following individuals, families, corporations and foundations whose generous support made the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex possible. Building Anchor Gifts Goldring Family Foundation The Marshall...
Members of the MBA class of 1967 presented the combined gifts from 2017’s reunion classes to Freeman School Dean Ira Solomon at the Graduate Alumni Reunion Party, which took place in November at the Chicory. Pictured, from left to right, are Frank Tapparo, Ken...
On June 5, 1918, Tulane University’s College of Commerce and Business Administration celebrated its inaugural graduating class in a ceremony at the French Opera House on Bourbon Street. There was one graduate. On May 18, 2018 — nearly 100 years to the day after...
1960s Ian Bremner (MBA ’67) retired from his professional career as manager of business development with Foster Wheeler E&C in 1999. He is currently enjoying his retirement career as an international service manager with United Airlines. He and his wife,...
Phyllis Derbes Eagan (BBA ’41) William E. Kellner Sr. (’43) C.J. Grayson Jr. (BBA ’44) Arnold L. Levy (’44) John F. Savage (’44) Carroll L. Webb Jr. (’44) Evelyn Duckworth Blum (BBA ’45) August H. Eberle Sr. (BBA ’45) William G. Jones (BBA ’45) Thomas K. Harrah (BBA...
Film producer Scott Niemeyer (BSM ’87) helped create some of the biggest hits in Hollywood, including My Big Fat Greek Wedding and the Pitch Perfect franchise. Now the Louisiana native is hoping to bring more of that business back home with a new project that could...
