As John Trapani listened to the names of graduates at this year’s Freeman School diploma ceremony, a thought struck him: Nearly half of the 700-plus degree recipients were from outside the U.S. “I leaned over to one of our faculty members and said, ‘What you’re...
Within moments of the announcement, the tributes began to pour in. “He was a legend. Gone but never forgotten.” “Hands down, the best accounting professor I ever had.” “My favorite professor. Loved him so much that I became a CPA.” “Great professor. Even better...
The Freeman School has partnered with the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, one of the premier academic institutions in China, to establish a new international master’s program for finance professionals. The Tulane-GSCASS Professional Master...
A legal studies instructor who sends her students into New Orleans courtrooms to help improve the city’s criminal justice system and a finance professor whose students are actively managing more than $3 million in Tulane University endowment funds were the 2013-2014...
The Freeman School honored restaurateur Ti Martin (MBA ’84) and philanthropists Dana (N ’80, L ’84) and Stanley (BSM ’80) Day as its 2014 Entrepreneurs of the Year. The awards were presented at this year’s Tulane Council of Entrepreneurs Awards Gala, which took place...
Dean Ira Solomon is pleased to announce the following appointments to the faculty of the A. B. Freeman School of Business. C. Edward Fee joins the Freeman School as the Morton A. Aldrich Professor of Business and professor of finance. Fee, a visiting professor at the...
Michael Burke’s paper “Statistical Significance Criteria for the rWG and Average Deviation Interrater Agreement Indices,” co-authored with Kristin Smith- Crowe, Ayala Cohen and Etti Doveh, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Burke...
The U.S. Postal Service has lost $20 billion in the last two years as it struggles to adapt to a fast-changing, increasingly digital business environment. Could the agency help right itself by taking a page from its online competitors? The Freeman School’s Geoff...
Professor of Accounting R. Lynn Hannan has been named to a three-year term as an editor of Contemporary Accounting Research. The appointment, which began May 1, is a prestigious one. Published since 1984 by the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, CAR is...
Jasmijn Bol, above right, gave a keynote address at the XIV Congresso USP de Controladoria e Contabilidade, XI Congresso USP de Iniciação Científica em Contabilidade at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil. Bol’s talk was titled “Innovative Research:...
It was advertised as the “Party of the Century,” and for the more than 650 alumni, faculty and staff members, and guests who turned out, the Freeman School’s Centennial Celebration just might have lived up to that billing. After more than a year of...
On Oct. 19, 2014, the A. B. Freeman School of Business will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. In recognition of this historic milestone, the Freeman School is producing a special book highlighting the past, present and future of business education at...
By Maggy Bacinelli Ti Martin emerges through a black door labeled “NO.” The gold lettering warns staff heading towards the kitchen of Commander’s Palace that the door is for exiting, as Martin, the restaurant’s co-owner, has just done. The adjacent “YES” door is for...
The A. B. Freeman School of Business gratefully acknowledges in the following pages those individuals, corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations that made gifts to the school in fiscal year 2014 (July 1, 2013–June 30, 2014). Donors who requested anonymity...
