There is a lot of reflection of late about how far we’ve come in the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina and how far we still have to go. Katrina was one of those experiences that had such an impact you find it hard not to divide recent history in Pre-K and Post-K terms....
Megan Baumgartner (BSM/MACCT ’14) has been named a 2014 recipient of the American Institute of CPAs’ Elijah Watt Sells Award. The AICPA bestows the prestigious award upon candidates who obtain a cumulative average score above 95.50 across all four sections of the...
Roma de Lucas Gibson (BBA ’36) Roswell J. Weil (BBA ’37) Gustave A. Manthey Sr. (BBA ’39) Leonard Weil (‘39) Louis V. Carambat (’41) Ralph R. Rugan Jr. (BBA ’41) Samuel H. Andrews III (’44) Milton P. Levy Jr. (’44) J. James Shiver Jr. (’44) Yvonne Duckworth Williams...
It’s more than 2,200 miles from the A. B. Freeman School of Business to Quito, Ecuador, but in that faraway South American community, accounting professor Beau Parent is fondly remembered. Thanks to the efforts of Freeman alum Augusto Martinez (BSM ’90), a new...
Two Freeman School students were named Tulane University’s 2015 Scholar-Athletes of the Year. Jackie Wegner, a junior finance major from Clearwater, Florida, received the female Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award and Brandon Schmidt, a senior finance major from...
September 2015 Sept . 2 Tulane Executive MBA Webinar, To register, visit http://emba.tulane.edu/infosessions. Sept . 11 Tulane Family Business Forum, Lavin-Bernick Center, Tulane University Energy Expo Networking Reception, Hyatt Regency, Houston Sept . 12 Tulane...
One hundred years ago this month, some very exciting things were happening at Tulane University. In August 1914, the Board of Tulane had voted to establish a college of business administration if, and only if, the business community could guarantee the college’s...
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the leading accrediting body for university business education, has approved the re-accreditation of all degree programs at the A. B. Freeman School of Business. The re-accreditation culminates a...
As a Tulane freshman in 2006, Teddy Nathan saw firsthand the power of public service. Now, as a young entrepreneur, he’s hoping to tap into that spirit of service to address some of the city’s biggest needs. Nathan (LA ’10, MBA ’16), senior program coordinator at the...
Tympanogen, a biomedical startup founded by Tulane biomedical engineering doctoral students Elaine Horn- Ranney (SE ’14) and Parastoo Khoshakhlagh (SE ’17), took home the grand prize of $25,000 at the 2014 Tulane Business Model Competition. The competition took place...
Christopher Conoscenti (MBA/JD ’01) has served as a judge for the Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition for the past five years, but he says the 2014 contest, which took place at the Freeman School on March 28, was without a doubt the toughest yet....
To commemorate the Freeman School’s 100th anniversary, NASDAQ sent out a special congratulatory message via its famed MarketSite Tower in Times Square. For more than 20 years, NASDAQ has been a dedicated corporate partner of the Freeman School. The company has...
A Texas-based convenience store chain was sold just three days after its executives presented at the 18th annual Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference. Susser Holdings Corp., parent company of Stripes Convenience Stores, was acquired for $1.8 billion by Energy...
As director of the Burkenroad Reports program, Peter Ricchiuti has spent more than 20 years highlighting the small, profitable companies that often fly under the radar of Wall Street. Now, Ricchiuti has collected some of the lessons he’s learned over the years in a...
