Lepage Center Announces Inaugural Faculty Fellows

Lepage Center Announces Inaugural Faculty Fellows

The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has awarded eight career-development grants as part of the newly launched Lepage Faculty Fellows program. The grants, which support faculty engaged in research, teaching or commercialization efforts in...
Selected Faculty Publications

Selected Faculty Publications

Jasmijn Bol’s paper “The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Auditor Expertise and Human Capital Development,” co-authored with Cassandra Estep, Frank Moers and Mark Peecher, has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Accounting Research. Bol is the...
Burkenroad at 25: A Quarter Century of ‘Stocks Under Rocks

Burkenroad at 25: A Quarter Century of ‘Stocks Under Rocks

In 1993, Peter Ricchiuti was teaching part time at the A. B. Freeman School of Business and working full time as the assistant Louisiana treasurer. As manager of the state’s $3 billion investment portfolio, Ricchiuti regularly fielded requests from investors for...
Burkenroad Timeline

Burkenroad Timeline

1993 Peter Ricchiuti founds Freeman Reports, a non-credit equity analysis program that initially features 16 students covering six Louisiana public companies. The program would eventually be renamed Burkenroad Reports.           1995 Borden...
Experience for a Lifetime

Experience for a Lifetime

Burkenroad Reports has rightly earned the reputation as one of the nation’s most innovative experiential learning programs, but it’s just one example of active learning at the Freeman School. In recent years, Freeman has introduced a growing number of courses that...