The Myth of the Ivory Tower

The Myth of the Ivory Tower

By Ira Solomon, dean, A. B. Freeman School of Business A few weeks ago, I was discussing the strategy behind the Stewart Center CBD, our new facility in downtown New Orleans, when a colleague casually referenced a concept we’ve all heard before: the ivory tower. His...
MBAs Go the Distance to Fight Hunger

MBAs Go the Distance to Fight Hunger

Banco de Alimentos serves the poor of Buenos Aires by collecting and distributing food donations to more than 900 soup kitchens across the metropolitan region, but deploying the organization’s army of nearly 6,000 volunteers had become an increasingly difficult...
Senior Wins $10K in Weber State Business Competition

Senior Wins $10K in Weber State Business Competition

Jamie Milstein (BSM ’19) won third place and a prize of $10,000 in the final round of Weber State University’s “Outdoor Weber” Competition. The event, sponsored by Camping World, is a three-day outdoor recreation idea contest that took place in March in Ogden, Utah....
Internet Pioneers Highlight NOEW 2019

Internet Pioneers Highlight NOEW 2019

Netscape Communications Corp. revolutionized computing in 1994 with the release of the world’s first commercial web browser, which helped jump-start the World Wide Web and launch the dot-com era. But in a talk at this year’s New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, company...
Study Abroad & Exchange Announces Spring 2019 Scholarship Winners

Study Abroad & Exchange Announces Spring 2019 Scholarship Winners

Kendall Gardner (BSM ’20) and Matthew Johnson (BSM ’20) were named spring 2019 recipients of the Freeman Travel Abroad Award (FTAA), a new scholarship awarded by the Freeman School’s Office of Study Abroad & Exchange that offers financial assistance to students...