by mark | Jun 24, 2021 | - Spring 2021 -, Research, Selected Faculty Research
Stephanie Cheng’s paper “The Information Externality of Public Firms” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Accounting Research. Cheng is an assistant professor of accounting. Oleg Gredil’s paper “Do Private Equity Managers Have Superior Information on...
by mark | Jun 24, 2021 | - Spring 2021 -, Cover Story, Features
IRA SOLOMON likely surprised a few people in November when he announced he would not be seeking a third term as dean of the A. B. Freeman School of Business. Since his arrival in 2011, Solomon had embraced the dean’s role with missionary zeal. His charge had been to...
by mark | Jun 24, 2021 | - Spring 2021 -, Alumni
IN FOCUS Before coming to New Orleans to pursue his MBA at the Freeman School, Vignesh Krishnan (MBA ’10) spent three years working as an engineer with Dell Perot Systems. The company was anything but a startup, but Krishnan says the experience helped lay the...
by mark | Jun 24, 2021 | - Spring 2021 -, Alumni
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT David Olk (BSM ’98) In 2011, David Olk teamed up with Jason Richelson to raise $2 million to build a company with the goal of taking small businesses where they’d never gone before: the cloud. As co-owner of a specialty grocery store and wine shop in...
by mark | Jun 24, 2021 | - Spring 2021 -, Alumni
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Jim Burke (A&S ’91, MBA ’91) A scholarship made Tulane University possible for Baton Rouge native Jim Burke. That generosity — from someone he didn’t even know — transformed his life and ultimately led him to create the same opportunity for future...
by mark | Jun 24, 2021 | - Spring 2021 -, Alumni
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Steve Jarmel (BSM ’93) and John Findlay (BSM ’07) For Freeman alumni Steve Jarmel and John Findlay, the decision to strike out on their own in private equity presented an opportunity to not only generate superior returns but also to build a company...
by freemanschool | Jun 24, 2021 | - Spring 2021 -, Alumni, Class Notes
1970s Ralph Brennan (A&S ’73, MBA ’75) has been elected the 21st chairman of the board of the Culinary Institute of America. Brennan is owner and operator of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group, which includes Red Fish Grill, Ralph’s on the Park, Café NOMA, Ralph...
by freemanschool | Jun 24, 2021 | - Spring 2021 -, Alumni, In Memoriam
Herbert Barton (BBA ’43) Marion Zevely Mason (BBA ’44) Thomas Carey Wicker Jr. (BBA ’44, L ’49, L ’69) Charles Leverich Eshleman Jr. (BBA ’45) August Joseph Selzer ( ’45) Norman James Haupt (BBA ’46) Kenneth G. Blackwell Sr. (BBA ’47, MBA ’48) Val D. Hickman (BBA ’47)...
by freemanschool | Jun 24, 2021 | - Spring 2021 -, Upcoming Events
September 2021 Sept. 17 Tulane Family Business Forum LOCATION TBA Sept. 23 Tulane Business Forum LOCATION TBA November 2021 Nov. 5 Tulane Family Business Forum LOCATION TBA Nov. 12–14 Wave ’21: Homecoming, Reunion and Family Weekend TULANE UNIVERSITY January 2022 Jan....
by mark | Nov 29, 2020 | - Fall 2020 -, From The Dean
In early February, not long after China locked down the city of Wuhan to prevent the spread of a new and deadly virus, the Freeman School made the decision to move the start of our one-year graduate programs — which typically draw a large number of international...
by mark | Nov 29, 2020 | - Fall 2020 -, News
Under the specter of a global pandemic, the 2020–21 academic year has been one unlike any other in the history of the Freeman School, and the process of preparing for it began almost immediately after Tulane University made the decision last spring to shut down...
by mark | Nov 29, 2020 | - Fall 2020 -, News
When Otis Tucker, founder and CEO of New Orleans trucking and logistics firm T.I. Contracting, was featured in this year’s Inc. 5000, the magazine’s annual list of America’s fastest-growing privately held companies, one person may have been even prouder than Tucker....
by mark | Nov 29, 2020 | - Fall 2020 -, News
The Freeman School will begin its first online graduate degree program in January 2021. The Master of Management in Entrepreneurial Hospitality teaches students how to craft extraordinary customer experiences through the joint lenses of hospitality and...
by mark | Nov 29, 2020 | - Fall 2020 -, News
When A. J. Brooks (MBA ’12) was hired to help develop the Freeman School’s new real estate programs, he knew immediately what kind of courses he wanted to build. “At Freeman, we’re focused on action learning — taking students out of the classroom and into the...
