by mark | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Perspective, Research
By Tuhin Chaturvedi The spring of 2022 will always be remembered as the time when Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, made a rather audacious bid to acquire Twitter. However, as spring turned to summer and summer turned to fall, the positivity around the deal gave...
by mark | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Research
When new market categories emerge, there’s often a standout company that gains traction and blazes the trail for subsequent entrants. Airbnb, Uber and SiriusXM are each examples of what business scholars call beacons, companies that shine a light on a particular...
by mark | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Research
Adrienne Colella, professor of management, received the 2022 Eric Sternberg Award for Faculty Research, which recognizes Freeman School faculty members for significant contributions to their academic field of interest. John Healey, assistant professor of marketing,...
by mark | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Research
Musa Caglar’s paper “An Interpretable Decision-Support Systems for Daily Cryptocurrency Trading,” co-authored with Hamidreza Ahady Dolatsara, Eyyub Kibis, Serhat Simsek, Ali Dag, Gelareh Ahadi Dolatsara and Dursun Delen, was accepted for publication in Expert Systems...
by mark | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Research
In 2018, thanks to a new Security and Exchange Commission disclosure rule, Marathon Petroleum Corp. revealed that CEO Gary Heminger earned 935 times that of the company’s median employee. The eyebrow-raising ratio dwarfed that of refining industry peers like Valero...
by freemanschool | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Cover Story
The A. B. Freeman School of Business completed its last strategic plan in the fall of 2013. That plan yielded a host of significant achievements, including the construction of the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex, the establishment of the Lepage Center for...
by freemanschool | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Alumni
IN FOCUS The day started out as a normal Tuesday morning. Zach Engel (BSM ’10), executive chef of Galit, the Middle Eastern restaurant in Chicago he co-owns with Andrés Clavero (BSM/MACCT ’10), was interviewing a potential cook when he got a call. On the line was the...
by freemanschool | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Alumni
Stuart Haselden (MBA ’98) became CFO of Lululemon Athletica in 2015, just as the once high-flying athleisure-wear company was recovering from a costly product recall and a series of strategic missteps. Over the next five years, the company underwent a dramatic...
by freemanschool | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Alumni
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Anna Labadie (SLA ’08, MBA ’15) As senior project manager for New Orleans real estate developer Gulf Coast Housing Partnership, Anna Labadie (SLA ’08, MBA ’15) plays many roles. One day she’s thinking like an architect. The next day, a banker. Or a...
by freemanschool | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Alumni
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Emily Pillars (BSM ’97) 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. “Let’s not think about all the problems on the way, but think, ‘We want this...
by freemanschool | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Alumni
As a business student, Brian Egwele (BSM ’01) learned valuable lessons from the entrepreneurs and alumni who shared their experiences with his classes at the Freeman School, lessons that gave him a leg up in launching his career as an investment banker on Wall Street....
by freemanschool | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Class Notes
1970s Jay Bourgeois (A&S ’68, MBA ’70) recently completed his fifth book, The Tao of Strategy: How Seven Eastern Philosophies Help Solve Twenty-First-Century Business Challenges. The book is designed to help leaders solve workplace challenges through lessons from...
by freemanschool | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, Alumni
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...
by freemanschool | Nov 17, 2022 | - Fall 2022 -, In Memoriam
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) Stanley Starr (BBA ’51) Sylvan Conrad Weil Jr. (BBA ’52) James O’Brien King (BBA ’54)...
