Goldring brings the world to Freeman this summer
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.
Remembering Beau Parent
Within moments of the announcement, the tributes began to pour in for Freeman School accounting instructor Beauregard J. “Beau” Parent Jr., who died unexpectedly on July 20 while vacationing with his wife in New Mexico. He was 73.
Freeman launches new MFIN program in China
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.
Groome and Tice honored with Dean’s Teaching Awards
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 recipents of the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
Ti Martin, Dana and Stan Day named Entrepreneurs of the Year
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. Martin was named the Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year while the Days received the Tulane Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs of the Year Award.
Freeman welcomes 10 to faculty for 2014-15
Dean Ira Solomon is pleased to announce 10 appointments to the faculty of the A. B. Freeman School of Business.
Selected Faculty Research
Lingling Wang’s paper “Culture and R2,” co-authored with Cheol Eun and Steven Xiao, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics.
Can “Smart Mail” help solve USPS woes?
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...Hannan appointed editor of top accounting journal
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...Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.
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.
Party of the Century
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.
“A Temple to Trade”
The A. B. Freeman School of Business was founded in 1914, but its roots can be traced back to 1847. Louisiana had been a state for just 35 years when J.D.B. DeBow — the founder of New Orleans commercial journal DeBow’s Review — was appointed professor of commerce at the University of Louisiana, the forerunner to Tulane University. DeBow’s appointment made him the first professor of business in Louisiana and, some say, in the entire nation.
A Day with the Cocktail Chick
On this day in April, a longtime dream of Martin’s will become a reality. By five o’clock, if negotiations go according to plan, the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI), a new educational venture spearheaded by Martin, will close on a $6.2 million deal to purchase the Louisiana ArtWorks building. NOCHI will at last have a home.
2014 A. B. Freeman School of Business Honor Roll of Donors
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).
Follow Freeman
