What does it take to create an insanely great product? According to John Clarke, it’s probably not what you think. “It’s kind of a myth that there has to be some kind of epiphany,” says Clarke, a professor of practice in management at the Freeman School. “The reality...
You might think you’d have to be nuts to try to compete with Frito-Lay, but the co-owner of Germack Pistachio Co. says snack foods are actually a very good business to be in. “[The snack foods industry] is growing at 3.5 to 4 percent per year, and it’s also very...
The A. B. Freeman School of Business welcomed six new full-time faculty members to the school for the 2016-17 academic year. Gus De Franco, professor of accounting, came to the Freeman School from the University of Toronto, where he served as an associate professor of...
A team of Freeman School Master of Finance students won first place at the TIPS 2017 Student Portfolio Managers Competition. The competition, which took place on Feb. 25 at the University of Houston, is part of the Texas Investment Portfolio Symposium (TIPS), an...
When Paul Ballard was an undergrad at Tulane, his future wife turned him on to a drink that would change his life. “She was a PJ’s customer and I did not drink PJ’s,” Ballard recalled. “She got me drinking Iced Mochas.” Inspired by their shared love of PJ’s, Paul and...
One candidate promised historic tax cuts while the other pledged to eliminate corporate loopholes. One promised to expand oil and gas production while the other vowed to reduce the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels by almost half. With a host of economic policies and...
Jasmijn Bol’s paper “Subjectivity in Professionals’ Incentive Systems: Differences Between Promotion- and Performance-Based Assessments,” co-authored with Justin Leiby, has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research. The paper examines how...
Michael Burke, Lawrence Martin Chair in Business and professor of management, received the Freeman School’s 2017 Erich Sternberg Award for Faculty Research. Established in 1987 by the Erich Sternberg family, the award is given to a member of the Freeman School faculty...
The dean of one of Mexico’s top business schools doesn’t mince words. “I don’t think any U.S. business school has done as much to further the development of business education in Latin America as the Freeman School,” says Mauricio Gonzalez, dean of the Northern Region...
“I can talk on Tuesday at 12:30. I’ll be downtown in between meetings. Why don’t we meet somewhere we can grab a quick lunch?” Yvette Jones (MBA ’95) retired from Tulane last July, ending a remarkable 36-year career with the university, but since then the former...
The A. B. Freeman School of Business awarded more than 700 diplomas at its 2017 graduation ceremonies, representing over a quarter of all degrees awarded this year by Tulane University. This year’s Graduate Diploma Ceremony took place on Friday, May 19, in the Avron...
It takes approximately nine minutes for an ambulance to reach the scene of a medical emergency, but Ben Swig (PHTM ’09, MBA ’16) has an idea that will cut that time to just five minutes. For that idea, Swig took home the grand prize during The Big Idea competition at...
Bringing flavorful, Nashville-inspired fare to Brooklyn, New York, Freeman School alumnus Evan Darnell (BSM ’98) teamed up with chef Carla Hall, a fan favorite on Bravo’s reality cooking competition show “Top Chef ” and co-host of ABC’s “The Chew,” to open Carla...
Silicon Bayou News published its annual list of the most influential and active people in tech and entrepreneurship in Louisiana, and once again Tulane University and the A. B. Freeman School of Business were well represented. The 2016 Silicon Bayou 100 includes at...
