The Tulane Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) has begun accepting applications for the 2012 Tulane Business Plan Competition, the only business plan competition in the nation dedicated to the principles of Conscious Capitalism.
John M. Trapani III and Yiorgos Bakamitsos have been appointed as the new heads of executive education at the Freeman School.
While all this might sound like 21st century Wall Street-style art dealing, nothing could be further from the truth. Research into past art markets has revealed the existence of sophisticated dealer networks in the 19th century and possibly even earlier.
So it turns out there’s a reason why you could never throw out that wobbly old bookcase you put together in college. It’s the Ikea effect. In a new article in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Freeman School’s Daniel Mochon argues that consumers tend to value products they build themselves— such as furniture from Ikea—more than similar professionally built products
John Elstrott spoke to students, business leaders and entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colo., on Sept. 29 as part of An Evening at the Epicenter, a series of interactive talks dedicated to promoting local, socially responsible and green businesses.
New Dean Ira Solomon hopes to make Freeman a “school of choice” for business students from around the world, but first he plans an ambitious effort to grow the school’s faculty by 40 percent in the next few years.
Well, my Tulane family, as they say, “Time flies when you’re having fun!” I have truly enjoyed every moment of serving as president of TABA, and as my journey as president comes to an end, what better time to assess where TABA is as an organization and what lies for the future.
The A. B. Freeman School of Business would like to thank the Tulane Association of Business Alumni (TABA) for its extraordinary service and support over the last year. Freeman Days New York is just one of the many events and programs made possible in part through the generous support of TABA.
This year’s Graduate Alumni Reunion Party—honoring MBA, MACCT and MFIN grads from the milestone classes of ’62, ’67, ’72, ’77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97, ’02 and ’07—will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 4, at Parkview Terrace in City Park (second floor of the Casino building).
Mildred L. Buerkle (BBA ’40)
Floyd M. Hodge (’42)
Frederick J. Corales (BBA ’43)
Fred J. Schuber Jr. (BBA ’43)
Harry J. Batt Jr. (BBA ’48)
Rene R. Naccari (BBA ’49)
Charles R. Sang (BBA ’49)
As I sit here in my office preparing for my final days as dean, a number of thoughts cross my mind. First and foremost, I’m struck by the realization that the job I’ve done for the last six years was not at all the job I thought I’d be doing back in 2005 when Scott Cowen asked me to become dean of the business school.
If you’re like most people, you probably don’t remember McDonald’s short-lived experiment with 55-cent Big Macs, but to Neil Golden, chief marketing officer of McDonald’s USA, the ill-fated 1997 price promotion is a bitter reminder of everything that had gone wrong at the Golden Arches.
Ira Solomon thinks business schools should do more to address societal issues, and the newly appointed dean of the Freeman School thinks Tulane University is just the place to take on that challenge. “I like the strategic direction I see the campus going,” says Solomon, “and I think the Freeman School is well positioned to move in that direction.”
