A team featuring Freeman students Amanda Diamond, Carly O’Meara and Beckie Warren was recently one of 10 finalists in the Honda CR-Z Media Challenge, a national marketing competition that asked students to devise social media campaigns to generate a buzz for the sporty new hybrid car.
With recruiter visits to college campuses down by an estimated 20 percent in the last year, business schools have had to get creative to connect students with employers, and that’s just what Freeman’s Career Management Center has done.
Peter Ricchiuti, clinical professor of finance and research director of the Burkenroad Reports program, led a group of Burkenroad Reports analysts and investment research managers on a tour of the New York Stock Exchange during Freeman Days New York.
Twelve teams of Freeman School students put their skills to the test in October as participants in the PricewaterhouseCoopers xACT Competition, one of the nation’s leading case competitions for accounting and business students.
John Elstrott and Ralph Maurer are part of the management team behind the New Orleans Startup Fund, a new nonprofit venture capital fund created to provide local high-potential ventures with seed capital.
A psychological mechanism referred to as the “dread factor” helps explain the enhanced effectiveness of high-engagement training relative to low-engagement training when workers are being prepared to deal with particularly ominous hazards.
While the Freeman School has long placed graduates in general finance positions with energy companies, a new generation of students is finding success in more specialized roles including energy finance, trading, sell-side analysis and risk management.
The A. B. Freeman School of Business gratefully acknowledges in the following pages those individuals and corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations that made gifts to the school in fiscal year 2010.
The A. B. Freeman School of Business salutes DuVal Frederick Dickey (June 16, 1916-October 13, 2010), alumnus and long-time Freeman supporter.
As a new year begins, TABA and all Freeman alumni should look back proudly on what we accomplished in a difficult economy.
Celebrating a milestone reunion this year? Make plans to attend the 2011 Freeman School Graduate Alumni Reunion Party. This year’s event takes place on Friday, April 15, at 6 p.m. in the courtyard of Goldring/Woldenberg Hall II.
Edward A. Laroussini (’38)
DuVal F. Dickey Sr. (BBA ’39)
Arthur C. Reuter (BBA ’39, L ’46)
Morris E. Burka Jr. (BBA ’40)
Albert C. Martin Jr. (BBA ’41)
Leo B. Rosenzweig (BBA ’42)
Reflecting back on the start of his career, Al Goldman (BBA ’56) doesn’t hesitate when asked what advice he’d give to current students starting their careers.
For more information on these and other Freeman School events, visit the online Freeman calendar at http://freeman.tulane.edu/calendar or e-mail freeman.info@tulane.edu.
