What does an executive who leads a company that manufactures electric vehicles — and who is still struggling to address the challenges of that industry — know about managing a largely unprofitable social media company? Even in the best of circumstances, it would have been a questionable decision.
Airbnb, Uber and SiriusXM are each examples of what business scholars call beacons, companies that shine a light on a particular market space and confer legitimacy upon those that follow. But what happens to those followers when a beacon fails?
Gans Narayanamoorthy, professor of accounting, was selected as a 2022–23 Duren Professor by Newcomb-Tulane College. Narayanamoorthy was selected for his new undergraduate Risk Analytics course.
Cameron Verhaal’s paper “Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars,” co-authored with Oliver Hahl and Kevin Fandl, was accepted for publication in Organization Science. Verhaal is an assistant professor of management.
For a forthcoming paper, Assistant Professor of Accounting Lisa LaViers studied the voluntary CEO pay ratio disclosures of every firm in the S&P 1500, documenting and categorizing each example and analyzing its effect on share prices.
The Freeman School’s new strategic plan leverages Freeman’s historic strengths and unique capabilities to deliver the knowledge, skills and experience that businesses need in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
Zach Engel (BSM ’10) and Andres Clavero (BSM/MACCT ’10) and co-owners of Galit, the acclaimed modern Middle Eastern restaurant in Chicago that recently earned its first Michelin star.
Stuart Haselden, right, CEO of high-performance outerwear and equipment company Arc’teryx, discussed his life and career in retail as the Freeman School’s 2022 R. W. Freeman Distinguished Lecturer.
As senior project manager for New Orleans real estate developer Gulf Coast Housing Partnership, Anna Labadie (SLA ’08, MBA ’15)
plays many roles.
PwC partner Emily Pillars (BSM ’97) doesn’t back down when challenges arise. Instead, she meets them head on with a positive energy that’s contagious.
As a business student, Brian Egwele (BSM ’01) learned valuable lessons from the entrepreneurs and alumni who shared their experiences with his classes. Now, he’s paying it forward as a Lepage Center Innovator-in-Residence.
Diana Garvis Purcel (BSM ’88) has been appointed to the board of directors of PetMed Express Inc. She will serve as independent director and chair of the board’s audit committee. Purcel currently serves as chair of the audit committee for the Ocean Power Technologies Inc. board of directors and is chair of the finance committee for the board of the Animal Humane Society.
Four Freeman School graduates are among the 14 Tulanians to win 2022-23 Fulbright awards. The graduates will receive grants through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the U.S. Department of State’s flagship international educational exchange program, to either study for a graduate degree, conduct an individually designed research project or participate in an English Teaching Assistant Program outside the United States.
Philip Abbott Masquelette (BBA ’45)
Fred White Dixon Sr. (BBA ’50)
Anna Charlotte Bartels Schroer (BBA ’50)
Lawrence William Schwarz Jr. (BBA ’50)
Francis Leonard Miller (BBA ’51)
