In partnership with Tulane and ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) Foundation, the Maurin Ogden Tulane Real Estate Fund focuses on academic and professional development for graduate students enrolled in the A. B. Freeman School of Business and the Tulane School of Architecture.
When Dr. Rizwan Aslam enrolled in the Freeman School’s PMBA program, he expected to get a peek inside the business world. He didn’t expect to save someone’s life.
Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of nine faculty members for the 2020-21 academic year. The appointments include seven tenure-track assistant professors, one professor of practice and one lecturer.
The Tulane University 2020 Peace Corps and Fulbright Initiative provided graduate scholarships for Peace Corp volunteers (PCVs) called back from international placements due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An annual presentation of the Freeman School’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, this year’s competition was originally scheduled to take place in March as part of New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. When NOEW was canceled due to the pandemic, the Lepage Center quickly reorganized the competition as a virtual event, with teams presenting to judges via video conferencing software.
To better prepare energy professionals for the changing marketplace, the Freeman School launched a new specialization this fall that offers students a deep dive into the business of renewables.
When Associate Dean John Clarke told me that Freeman had identified hospitality entrepreneurship as an emerging opportunity area for the school, I got very excited. I distinctly remember his pitch — “creating competitive advantage through customer experience” — and while that tidy summation is still accurate, the more practical question for me was, “What does a specialization in Entrepreneurial Hospitality actually look like?”
New research by a Freeman School professor offers fresh insights about knowledge exchange in the workplace as well as strategies managers can use to promote knowledge sharing whether their employees are working in the office or from the comfort of their living room.
On Feb. 13, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, head of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, sold between $628,000 and $1.7 million in stock shortly after receiving classified briefings on the threat of COVID-19. A week later, the stock market began a steep decline.
As local small businesses struggled with the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the Lepage Strategic Advisers Program offered much-needed assistance, connecting business owners with highly qualified students and recent graduates committed to helping them navigate the changing environment.
As director of Make It Right Solar, the for-profit renewable energy subsidiary of Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation, Pierre Moses completed more than 250 solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in New Orleans in the early 2010s. But when he began working on his MBA at the Freeman School in 2014, he noticed a gap in the school’s energy courses.
For the third consecutive year, an alumnus of the Freeman School has been recognized with the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award.
