Thanks to a unique new partnership between the Freeman School and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), students can earn a master’s degree in risk management while simultaneously preparing for the FRM examinations.
The Freeman School jumped seven spots in the latest Financial Times ranking of executive MBA programs. Freeman’s EMBA program is now ranked 64th in the world and 22nd among U.S. programs.
Twenty-eight of the nation’s best student traders traveled to New Orleans on Nov. 14 to test their skills trading simulated live oil and gas futures, but unlike most competitions, the winners of this event weren’t necessarily the ones with the biggest profits.
More than 40 Freeman School BSMs introduced New Orleans public school students to business skills as part of Junior Achievement Day at Ben Franklin Elementary.
Since the founding of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute in 1991, entrepreneurship has grown to become one of the Freeman School’s most popular programs.
Capitalism has gotten a bad rap lately, and John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc., thinks that’s a bad thing.
Innumerable daily news reports plus a large body of scholarship affirm stock analysts’ price-moving influence to be considerable, a presumption with profound effects on matters ranging from regulatory statutes to theories of market efficiency to the ample pay of analysts themselves. But now new research by two Freeman School finance professors raises fundamental doubts about this reputed power.
Young, socially motivated entrepreneurs are helping to build a better New Orleans, and the Freeman School is playing major part in that effort.
Social entrepreneurship is limited to organizations founded to address social problems, but what about organizations with non-social missions? The answer, John Elstrott says, is conscious capitalism.
With an ambitious plan to transform a long-neglected section of New Orleans, developers Matt Schwartz and Chris Papamichael epitomize the spirit of conscious capitalism.
As we look back on 2009, all Freeman School alumni should be proud of our many accomplishments. The 30th annual Tulane Business Forum was a tremendous success with a record number of attendees, outstanding speakers and incredible participant feedback.
MBA student Carolina Rojas (MBA ’10) interviewed Pedro Padierna, president and CEO of Sabritas Central America and Caribbean Foods, in Mexico City in August 2009.
Boating, you might say, is in Jeff Lichterman’s blood. He spent his summers growing up on the shore of Lake Hopatcong in New Jersey and cut his teeth on his father’s 17-foot runabout. Lichterman developed such a passion for boating that he eventually sent a letter to the president of Concord Yachts asking for the rights to open a local dealership. He was 11 years old at the time.
