The Freeman School honored business executive James J. Buquet III (MBA ’90) as Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year and ALS activist Steve Gleason (MBA ’11) as Tulane Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2017 Albert Lepage Center for...
What does it take to create an insanely great product? According to John Clarke, it’s probably not what you think. “It’s kind of a myth that there has to be some kind of epiphany,” says Clarke, a professor of practice in management at the Freeman School. “The reality...
You might think you’d have to be nuts to try to compete with Frito-Lay, but the co-owner of Germack Pistachio Co. says snack foods are actually a very good business to be in. “[The snack foods industry] is growing at 3.5 to 4 percent per year, and it’s also very...
The A. B. Freeman School of Business welcomed six new full-time faculty members to the school for the 2016-17 academic year. Gus De Franco, professor of accounting, came to the Freeman School from the University of Toronto, where he served as an associate professor of...
A team of Freeman School Master of Finance students won first place at the TIPS 2017 Student Portfolio Managers Competition. The competition, which took place on Feb. 25 at the University of Houston, is part of the Texas Investment Portfolio Symposium (TIPS), an...
When Paul Ballard was an undergrad at Tulane, his future wife turned him on to a drink that would change his life. “She was a PJ’s customer and I did not drink PJ’s,” Ballard recalled. “She got me drinking Iced Mochas.” Inspired by their shared love of PJ’s, Paul and...
