Millie Pilié Bradley (A&S ’73, MBA ’75) was a few weeks into maternity leave her second child when she got an unexpected phone call from her boss. It was 1983, and Bradley, a systems manager in Exxon’s chemical division in Houston, had recently decided...
Winning a seat in Congress is a steep challenge for any candidate, much less a political newcomer, but Derrick Edwards (BSM ’97, MACCT ’98), who recently announced his candidacy for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate seat, has been defying the odds his entire life. In 1989,...
1970s John Heyman (A&S ’74, MBA ’76) and his wife, Kathy, recently visited New Orleans, where they met with members of the intercollegiate athletic department and the Freeman School’s accounting department. Heyman now lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, and last...
A. Elmer Massey Jr. (BBA ’32) Arnold J. Bennett (BBA ’39) Maurice V. Duvic (’40) Ruth de la Gueronniere (BBA ’40) Edwin B. Raskin (BBA ’40) Gertrude Balkin Cohen (BBA ’42) George H. Harpster (BBA ’42) Edward C. Hingle Jr. (’43) Janet Worrell Sommerville (BBA ’43)...
When David Heikkinen (MBA ’98) retired from energy investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. in 2012, he wasn’t quite ready to sail off into the sunset. Heikkinen had devoted nearly 20 years of his life to energy, starting out as an engineer with Shell and...
September 2016 Sept . 23 Tulane Family Business Forum, Lavin-Bernick Center, Tulane University Sept . 30 Tulane Houston Alumni Fair, 1700 West Loop South, Houston New Orleans Executive MBA Breakfast Information Session, Goldring/Woldenberg Hall II October 2016 Oct . 1...
As I write this message, Tulane University is busy preparing for the arrival of the Class of 2019, but here at the A. B. Freeman School of Business, the academic year is already well underway. In July we welcomed more than 250 students to campus for our Master of...
Albert Lepage (MBA ’71), retired chairman of Lepage Bakeries Inc., has committed $12.5 million to the A. B. Freeman School of Business to establish a new center dedicated to the study, teaching and practice of entrepreneurship. The Albert Lepage Center for...
What does it take to run the world’s largest professional services network? For Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CEO Barry Salzberg, who delivered the Freeman School’s 2014 R. W. Freeman Distinguished Lecture, the key is understanding how to lead by influence instead of line...
Big data is one of the business world’s biggest buzzwords, offering organizations the promise of revolutionizing the way they generate value for customers and shareholders. Now, a new MBA concentration gives students the skills they need to help companies transform...
Liz Cowle grew up with cancer. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer just a few weeks before Liz was born. She died a month after Liz’s fourth birthday, leaving her grieving father to care for her and her two young sisters. “All the pictures that I have of my...
For business school students, getting a good internship is the first step toward landing a great job, but for students without previous professional experience, that’s often easier said than done. To help ease the transition from classes to the professional world, the...
Kelsey Chan-Chin graduated from Tulane University in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in public health and a deep desire to help people eat healthier. “I like the part of public health that involves interacting with the community, so I eventually would like to run a...
One of the top priorities identified in the Freeman School’s 2013 strategic plan was the need to investigate the potential revitalization of the school’s dormant PhD programs. This summer, Freeman takes a big step toward realizing that goal by relaunching the PhD...
