When I was at the University of Connecticut in the early 2000s, I became the faculty director of edgelab, a collaboration between UConn and General Electric that brought students, faculty members and GE managers together to work on projects for the company. This was...
Humans produce more than 440 million tons of plastic annually, and much of that production ends up in landfills. A new company hopes to help solve that problem, and to do that, they teamed up with a surprising partner: The Tulane Energy Institute. Fluence Analytics is...
Undergraduate students looking to break into one of the most competitive industries in the world of business just got a leg up on the competition. The Investment Banking Development Program, an application-only extracurricular offering that launched last spring, gives...
Tulane University recognized Jim Coulter, executive chairman and founding partner of the global private equity firm TPG, as Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year and Daryn Dodson, managing director of social impact fund of funds Illumen Capital, as Outstanding Social...
The A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of five faculty members for the 2022–23 academic year. The appointments, which were effective July 1, include four tenure-track assistant professors and one professor of practice. Abhishek...
Freeman School faculty members Anyi Ma and Myke Yest were named co-recipients of the inaugural Albert Lepage Faculty Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Ma, assistant professor of management, received the award for her research related to EDI while Yest, senior...
Tulane University honored Ashley Keller Nelson (MBA ’98) with the 2022 Barbara E. Moely Service Learning Teaching Award. Nelson, a senior professor of practice in business and legal studies, received the award at a reception in Cudd Hall on April 15 along with fellow...
By Tuhin Chaturvedi The spring of 2022 will always be remembered as the time when Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, made a rather audacious bid to acquire Twitter. However, as spring turned to summer and summer turned to fall, the positivity around the deal gave...
When new market categories emerge, there’s often a standout company that gains traction and blazes the trail for subsequent entrants. Airbnb, Uber and SiriusXM are each examples of what business scholars call beacons, companies that shine a light on a particular...
Adrienne Colella, professor of management, received the 2022 Eric Sternberg Award for Faculty Research, which recognizes Freeman School faculty members for significant contributions to their academic field of interest. John Healey, assistant professor of marketing,...
Musa Caglar’s paper “An Interpretable Decision-Support Systems for Daily Cryptocurrency Trading,” co-authored with Hamidreza Ahady Dolatsara, Eyyub Kibis, Serhat Simsek, Ali Dag, Gelareh Ahadi Dolatsara and Dursun Delen, was accepted for publication in Expert Systems...
In 2018, thanks to a new Security and Exchange Commission disclosure rule, Marathon Petroleum Corp. revealed that CEO Gary Heminger earned 935 times that of the company’s median employee. The eyebrow-raising ratio dwarfed that of refining industry peers like Valero...
The A. B. Freeman School of Business completed its last strategic plan in the fall of 2013. That plan yielded a host of significant achievements, including the construction of the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex, the establishment of the Lepage Center for...
IN FOCUS The day started out as a normal Tuesday morning. Zach Engel (BSM ’10), executive chef of Galit, the Middle Eastern restaurant in Chicago he co-owns with Andrés Clavero (BSM/MACCT ’10), was interviewing a potential cook when he got a call. On the line was the...
