As of Sept. 1, just under 90 percent of our MBAs looking for jobs had found one, and over 75 percent of our undergraduate students who were looking for jobs had found one. This is a huge improvement over last year’s numbers, which should make everyone breathe a little easier.
Circle Food Store served the New Orleans community until 2005, when Hurricane Katrina filled the historic structure with five feet of water. Now, thanks in part to the efforts of four Freeman School MBA students, Circle Food Store may finally be on the verge of a rebirth.
Since April 20, when an explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the worst accidental oil spill in history, journalists from around the world have looked to Tulane for scholars to comment on the spill and its aftermath.
ConocoPhillips, the nation’s third-largest integrated energy company, has donated $35,000 to the Freeman School over the last year to support the school’s energy trading program.
For the 17th Burkenroad Symposium on Business and Society, nationally respected experts in the areas of nanotechnology, alternative energy and regenerative medicine offered their thoughts on what it takes to bring cutting-edge technologies to market.
In its latest ranking of global MBA programs, leading Latin American business magazine AméricaEconomía has ranked the Freeman School 35th internationally and 22nd among U.S. business schools. The ranking appeared in the magazine’s June 2010 issue.
What a difference a year makes. At last year’s Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference, 33 of the 34 companies that participated posted negative returns for the preceding 12 months. This year, 28 of 33 companies posted positive returns.
Poverty and lack of access to safe, affordable lighting are two of the biggest challenges facing populations in the developing world. A startup company hopes to solve both of those problems with an innovative new product, and now, with the help of the Freeman School, it’s a little closer to achieving that goal.
The Callais family, whose businesses include marine transportation, banking and waste management services, was named the 2010 Outstanding Family Enterprise by the Tulane University Family Business Center.
Jack and Jake’s Market plans to bring locally grown food to customers in underserved neighborhoods within three days of harvest, but to achieve that goal, the company first needs a top-notch distribution system. That’s where a team of MBA students from Tulane, Loyola and UNO comes in.
Dean E. Taylor, president and chairman of Tidwater Inc., will talk about how Tidewater distinguishes itself in an increasingly commoditized business as luncheon keynote speaker at this year’s Tulane Business Forum.
The Wilson family, owners of Barriere Construction Co., received the Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneur(s) of the Year Award and Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, founding director of Birthing Project USA, received the Tulane Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the 2010 Tulane Council of Entrepreneurs Awards Gala.
Rebirth Financial, a new company started by the second-year MBA students, was one of four finalists chosen from among more than 30 applicants to participate in Investor Idol, a showcase for New Orleans small businesses seeking investors.
It’s not that unusual for business students to read cases on companies like Google, General Electric and Time-Warner in their management classes. What is a little unusual is for the students themselves to write the cases.
