by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Cover Story
AS AN INVESTMENT ANALYST at Welltower Inc., a Fortune 500 real estate investment trust, David Renbaum (BSM ’23) specializes in commercial underwriting, evaluating the risk associated with acquisitions for the firm, one of the nation’s largest owners of senior housing...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Alumni
The Freeman School’s Executive MBA program has long attracted unconventional students – doctors, engineers, government officials, entrepreneurs — but few have backgrounds as unique as Leslie Williamson’s. Williamson (MBA ’25) is the owner of Leslie Dalton Taxidermy,...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Alumni
Henry Harteveldt takes leisure very seriously. In a career spanning 40 years, Harteveldt (BSM ’81), founder and president of San Francisco-based Atmosphere Research Group, has become one of the travel industry’s leading experts, delivering market insights to clients...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Alumni
It’s not that unusual for Tulane graduates to return for MBAs, but when those graduates are identical twin doctors — and when they already have multiple Tulane degrees — that stands out. When they graduate from the Professional MBA program in May 2025, Neel and Jagan...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Alumni
Ashley Langford (BSM ’09) was named head coach of the Tulane women’s basketball team in April, making history as the first African American to lead the program. Langford comes to the Green Wave from Stony Brook, where she served as women’s basketball head coach for...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Alumni
Dan Brouillette (MBA ’24), president and CEO of the Edison Electric Institute and former U.S. Secretary of Energy, delivered the luncheon keynote address at the 45th annual Tulane Business Forum. The forum, an annual presentation of the Tulane Association of...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Alumni
Melissa Lavigne-Delville (MBA ’25) may be Generation X, but she knows more about TikTok and the latest memes than most 17-year-olds. Lavigne-Delville is founder of Culture Co-op, a boutique market research company that specializes in youth culture analysis and trend...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Class Notes
1970s Joseph F. Toomy (A&S ’71, MBA ’73) has been elected by the board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans to serve as board chairman. Toomy worked as an insurance broker from 2000 until 2016 and served in several administrative capacities with Delgado...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, In Memoriam
James Franklin Brent (’45) Willie Dorothy Gowland (BBA ’45) Margaret Elaine Grundmann Woods (BBA ’45) Charles Stanley Cook (BBA ’47) Angela Moynan Bose Baker (BBA ’48) William Manasseh Cady III (BBA ’48, L ’51) George Bierce McCullough (BBA ’48, MBA ’52) Barbara...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Closing Bell
With more than 700 combined degree candidates set to participate in 2024 graduation festivities, the Freeman School did something it had never done before: Host three ceremonies. On May 17, the Freeman School hosted two diploma ceremonies for undergraduate candidates...
by freemanschool | Nov 8, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Upcoming Events
November 2024 Nov. 7–10 Wave Weekend ’24 TULANE UNIVERSITY Nov. 8 Pitch Friday – Second Round GOLDRING/WOLDENBERG BUSINESS COMPLEX Nov. 13–15 Future of Energy Forum LAVIN-BERNICK CENTER AND GOLDRING/WOLDENBERG BUSINESS COMPLEX December 2024 Dec. 4–5 Clean Energy...
by freemanschool | Nov 6, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Perspective, Research
By Pradeep Muthukrishnan More than 50 years ago, Milton Friedman published his seminal essay “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” At the core of this manifesto, Friedman asserts that as long as a firm operates within the existing legal...
by freemanschool | Nov 6, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2024 -, Research
A new Freeman School of Business study explains why politically charged content gets more engagement from those who disagree with it. Researchers found a “confrontation effect,” where people are more likely to interact with content that challenges their views than...
by mark | Jan 4, 2024 | - Fall/Winter 2023 -, From The Dean
I had just arrived in New York when it happened. It was May 8, and I had flown in for an alumni reception the next evening in the Bank of America Tower. After dropping my bags off at the hotel, I headed down to get a bite to eat. As I walked up Sixth Avenue, admiring...
