How to run a successful crowdfunding campaign

How to run a successful crowdfunding campaign

More and more innovators are turning to platforms like Kickstarter to support their new products or services, but what does it take to run a successful crowdfunding campaign? Two new studies from professors at the Freeman School offer fresh insights for startups and...
The growing importance of tacit knowledge

The growing importance of tacit knowledge

Businesses have long recognized the importance of skills such as teamwork, communication, self-management and the ability to prioritize tasks, but previous research suggested that these and other hard-to-teach skills — referred to by scholars as tacit knowledge — were...
Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

Gus De Franco and Hila Fogel-Yaari organized the Freeman School’s second annual Mini-Financial Accounting Research Conference in February. The conference attracted nearly 50 participants from prominent business schools in the U.S. and Canada and featured presentations...
Selected Faculty Research Publications

Selected Faculty Research Publications

Oleg Gredil’s paper “Do Private Equity Funds Manipulate Reported Returns?,” co-authored with Gregory W. Brown and Steven N. Kaplan, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics. Gredil is an assistant professor of finance. Lynn Hannan...
Green Wave

Green Wave

  It began with the trees. Bill Butler, principal with the architecture firm Pelli Clarke Pelli, was keenly aware of the challenge before him as he began to design the proposed expansion of Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business. Ira Solomon, dean...
Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex Honor Roll of Donors

Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex Honor Roll of Donors

The A. B. Freeman School of Business gratefully acknowledges the following individuals, families, corporations and foundations whose generous support made the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex possible. Building Anchor Gifts Goldring Family Foundation The Marshall...