Freeman School of Business Upcoming Events
April 2010
APRIL 16
Tulane Business Plan Competition, Goldring/Woldenberg Hall II
Tulane Council of Entrepreneurs
2010 Awards Gala,
Westin Canal Place Hotel
From the Dean: Rankings, Commencement and More
As I write this, we have just concluded our largest commencement ceremony since the undergraduate class became part of Newcomb-Tulane College. Let me also add that we recently returned to the top 50 MBA programs in U.S. News and World Report, received another high ranking for entrepreneurship in Entrepreneur magazine, and earned a top 15 ranking in finance by the Princeton Review.
Freeman reaches out to Latin America
Latin America represents a growing market for management education, but recruiting those potential students—many of whom are unfamiliar with U.S. business schools—can be difficult. The Freeman School has developed an innovative way to target that market, one that...
Tulane Business Forum looks at corporate consciousness
The Tulane Business Forum celebrates its 30th anniversary this year with a program dedicated to corporate consciousness. A distinguished lineup of speakers from retail, health care, energy, banking and other industries will discuss doing business in a more socially...
Burkenroad Fund among best of the best
The stock market may have been dismal in 2008, but the end of the year did bring one piece of positive news. According to mutual fundtracker Morningstar, since its inception in 2001, the Hancock Horizon Burkenroad Fund ranks as the 38th best performer out of 4,823...
Freeman ranked top 15 in finance
The Freeman School has been named one of the top 15 graduate business schools in finance by the Princeton Review. The ranking, based on a survey of MBA students, appeared in the April 2009 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. The Princeton Review contacted 19,000 MBA...
New alumni group hopes to improve rankings
A new alumni group hopes to improve the Freeman School’s national ranking by reaching out to recent graduates. The Freeman 50 is the brainchild of Edward Crawford (MBA ’08, MGM ’09), who says he was inspired to start the group after seeing the success that other...
Business students win big with plans to combat “brain drain”
New Orleans experienced an unprecedented influx of young professionals in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but the challenge now, civic leaders say, is how to keep these talented 20- and 30-somethings in New Orleans. MBA student Ishaneka Williams came up with one idea...
Burkenroad Symposium puts eye on innovation
When Burkenroad Institute Director Laura Cardinal selected the topic for this year’s Burkenroad Symposium—“Leadership and the Eye for Innovation”—she knew it was a subject of interest to business students and executives. She just didn’t realize how relevant it would...
MBA receives McGowan Scholarship
Aisha Acres (MBA ’09) was named the 2008–2009 William G. McGowan Scholar. For the past two years, the Freeman School has had the distinction of being a recipient of a scholarship grant made possible through the generosity of the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund Inc....
Sequent Energy awards scholarships
Max Correa (MBA ’09) and Damion Mathis (BSM ’09) were named recipients of the 2009 Sequent Energy Management Scholarships. The students, both of whom are majoring in finance with a specialization in energy, were recognized at a Feb. 12 reception hosted by Sequent in...
Tears mean cash for biz plan competition winner
Tears for Life, a company founded by a group of University of Arkansas students to develop a screening tool to detect breast cancer using tears, won the grand prize of $20,000 in the business innovation track of this year’s Tulane Business Plan Competition, but the...
Optimism reigns at Burkenroad Conference
Thirty-three of the 34 companies that presented at this year’s Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference posted negative returns since last year’s conference, but that didn’t stop a record crowd from turning out for this year’s event. “After the last year in the stock...
U.S. News ranks Freeman among the best
In the latest edition of its America’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Freeman School 48th on the list of the best business schools in America. Highlights of the ranking survey appeared in the May 2009 issue of U.S. News &...Follow Freeman
