Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurship’
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Freeman School of Business is one of the top five graduate schools in the nation for entrepreneurship, according to a new survey by Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review. The Freeman School is ranked No. 4 on the list of Top Graduate Programs for Entrepreneurs. The ranking appears in the October issue of Entrepreneur and is available online at www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges.
“We are grateful for this ranking that recognizes the quality and uniqueness of our entrepreneurship programs,” said John Elstrott, executive director of the Freeman School’s Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship. “This ranking reflects the commitment of our students, faculty and staff to engage in the reinvention and rebuilding of New Orleans through entrepreneurship. The programs and courses at the A. B. Freeman School of Business are dedicated to teaching and implementing the principles of conscious capitalism and social entrepreneurship that are redefining how free market economies function around the world.”
 John Elstrott, executive director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship The Freeman School has built a strong reputation in recent years for social entrepreneurship, which refers to the use entrepreneurial principles to address social problems. More recently, under Elstrott’s guidance, the Freeman School has become a leader in promoting conscious capitalism, which calls for organizations to consider what is best for all stakeholders–employees, shareholders, the community and the environment–rather than solely focusing on shareholder returns. The 2010 Tulane Business Plan Competition, which will take place April 16, will be the first in the country to incorporate principles of conscious capitalism into its requirements.
Entrepreneur and the Princeton Review surveyed more than 2,300 schools to come up with this year’s ranking. Entrepreneurship programs were evaluated based on key criteria in the areas of academics and requirements, students and faculty, and outside-the-classroom experiences. “Each school that made the list demonstrates excellence in one or more areas–whether in regards to course offerings, the success of students post-graduation, sponsored mentorship programs or other important factors,” said Amy Cosper, VP/editor in chief at Entrepreneur. “While each program is unique, their inclusion in this ranking solidifies their place in an elite category of institutions offering a superlative level of education and preparedness that will play a key role in ensuring the success of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.”
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
 Have a business idea to improve New Orleans? Interested in honing your pitch? Want to network with likeminded entrepreneurs? Enter PitchNOLA, an “elevator pitch” competition for entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to create value and solve pressing social problems in New Orleans.
While there is no cash prize for the winners, the competition is a great way for entrants to promote their ideas, hone their elevator pitches and network with similarly motivated entrepreneurs and business people. Coaches for the workshop part of the program will include Ralph Maurer, visiting assistant professor of management at the Freeman School, and Chris Schultz, founder of LaunchPad.
PitchNOLA is co-sponsored by SENO (Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans), the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association, Tulane University Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives and LaunchPad. Deadline for entry is Aug. 21. For more info, visit SENO’s website.
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Tears for Life, a company developing a technology to screen women for breast cancer using proteins found in tears, and KAIEN, a company that plans to leverage the unique talents of people with high-functioning autism to provide software testing services for the Japanese auto industry, were the big winners at the 2009 Tulane Business Plan Competition.
The competition, an annual presentation of the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association, took place at the Freeman School on April 17.
Tears for Life earned the grand prize in the business innovation division while KAIEN won the grand prize in the social entrepreneurship division. Each of the winning teams received a $20,000 cash prize to help fund the venture.
To learn more about this year’s competition, see the story Tears for Life business wins big in New Wave, Tulane’s online newspaper.
Tags: entrepreneurship, Levy-Rosenblum Institute, Tulane Business Plan Competition, Tulane Entrepreneurs Association
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Technology that transforms coal into fuel that burns as clean as natural gas, a non-invasive test for breast cancer that uses tears instead of blood and a new dental device to better spot early tooth decay are some of the innovations behind student-led business plans competing in the 9th Annual Tulane Entrepreneurs Association Business Plan Competition this week.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Graduate students from some of the nation’s top business schools and working professionals from Google and salfesforce.com visited the Freeman School from March 21-28 to participate in the IDEAcorps Challenge ‘09.
The Challenge, a program of local entrepreneurial consulting firm the Idea Village, connects MBA students with New Orleans entrepreneurs in need of assistance. Six local businesses–Feelgoodz, Naked Pizza, Don Kelly Productions, Alternative Housing Support Corp., Sustainable Environmental Enterprises, and InSites(s)–benefited from an intensive week of business consulting with the goal of helping the ventures grow quickly.
To learn more about the workshop, read Jacquetta White’s story in the New Orleans Time-Picayune.
Tags: entrepreneurship, IDEAcorps, John Elstrott, Levy-Rosenblum Institute, The Idea Village
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
The Freeman School has been named one of the top 15 graduate business schools in finance by the Princeton Review. The ranking, based on a survey of MBA students, appears in the April 2009 issue of Entrepreneur magazine.
 
The Princeton Review contacted 19,000 MBA students attending 296 business schools to compile its “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools” in six core areas: finance, accounting, general management, global management, marketing and operations. The top 15 schools in each category according to the MBAs are listed alphabetically and are not ranked from one to 15.
For more information about the survey and the lists, visit entrepreneur.com/topcolleges.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
For the third straight year, Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review have named Freeman one of the nation’s top business schools for entrepreneurs.
The Freeman School was ranked 17th on this year’s list of the Top 25 Graduate Programs for entrepreneurs. The ranking appears in the October issue of Entrepreneur.
“This ranking reflects our commitment to providing students with the practical skills, real-world experience and inspiration to fulfill their aspirations to start and build companies that make the world a better place,” said John Elstrott, clinical professor of business and director of the Freeman School’s Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship. “In that last 17 years, more than 75 successful new businesses have been launched by graduates of our entrepreneurship program, each one creating jobs and wealth in its community.”
The Freeman School offers a wide range of courses aimed at entrepreneurs, including New Venture Planning, Marketing Planning and Implementation, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Marketing Research, and Management of Technology and Innovation.
The Freeman School also sponsors the annual Tulane Business Plan Competition, which awards cash prizes to promising new businesses. Recent ventures launched through the competition include Rethos.com, a social networking site devoted to socially responsible individuals and businesses; INExchange, a fair-trade boutique selling arts and crafts from around the world; and NOLA 180, an educational non-profit that helped create the Langston Hughes Academy Charter School in New Orleans.
Entrepreneur and The Princeton Review surveyed more than 2,300 entrepreneurship programs to come up with this year’s Top 25 graduate and undergraduate rankings. Schools were evaluated based on key criteria in the areas of academics and requirements, students and faculty, and outside-the-classroom experiences.
To learn more about this year’s survey, visit www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The Freeman School has named two distinguished businessmen with close ties to New Orleans as this year’s Tulane Entrepreneurs of the Year.
James J. Reiss Jr., a private investor and manager of Reiss Companies, was honored as the 2008 Tulane Most Distinguished Entrepreneur, and Allan Houston, former NBA player and founder of the Allan Houston Foundation, was honored as the 2008 Tulane Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
The awards were presented at the annual Tulane Council of Entrepreneurs Awards Gala on Friday, April 18, at the Westin New Orleans at Canal Place. The Freeman School’s Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship presents the awards each year to highlight individuals whose support of for-profit and nonprofit entrepreneurial initiatives improves the community.
“Jimmy Reiss and Allan Houston each exemplify the true spirit of entrepreneurship and philanthropic generosity,” said John Elstrott, executive director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute. “Jimmy has spent his career growing businesses and creating wealth while remaining committed to the community. Allan, through his foundation, created an entrepreneurship education program to help young adults in New Orleans achieve economic empowerment.”
The Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship trains students for entrepreneurial careers through coursework, community service projects and internships. In 2007, the institute’s entrepreneurship program was ranked 15th in the nation by Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review.
The Freeman School of Business was established in 1914 and is a founding member of AACSB, the premier accrediting body for collegiate schools of business. Today, Freeman is a leading, internationally recognized business school with more than 1,800 students in programs spanning three continents. The Freeman School is consistently listed among the nation’s best business schools by publications including U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, Forbes, London’s Financial Times and Latin America’s AméricaEconomía.
Tags: Allan Houston, awards, entrepreneurship, James J. Reiss, John Elstrott, Levy-Rosenblum Institute, Tulane Council of Entrepreneurs
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Can small loans up to $250 be enough to fight global poverty? A group of students from the Freeman School and University of Texas at Dallas are banking on it. They got an endorsement from peers and faculty Friday at the 8th annual Tulane Business Plan Competition.
The Audubon Global Opportunities Fund won a first place prize of $10,000 in the social entrepreneurship track for a plan to raise $30 million to invest in stable micro-finance intuitions across the globe. These institutions provide small loans and lines of credit to those living in poverty in the hopes of spurring economic development in small communities. The fund was one of 10 businesses plans university-based entrepreneurs presented to a panel of judges assembled by the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association.
“We definitely want to pursue this,” says Edward Crawford, a second-year MBA student and one of nine people behind the business venture. “We got some hard questions (from judges), but we were able to answer them. Now we feel prepared to where we can actually send the business plan off to investors.”
Crawford said he has had inquiries from two investment groups and one hedge fund since winning the competition.
The second-place winner in the social entrepreneurship track was Shallow Crossing, a startup that plans to use renewable energy sources to provide clean water and ice for food and medical storage in developing countries. Banque Pour Tous, which plans to offer banking services to mobile users in Africa, took third place. Second place teams each received $5,000 and third-place teams received $2,500.
In the business entrepreneurship division, Just-In-Time Logistics, a technology startup servicing the waste management industry, took the $10,000 grand prize. EnviroBlinds, a company that plans to market window blinds equipped with solar panels, took second place, and Coursepack.net, a service to deliver security-free, ad-subsidized electronic course reading materials to high school and college students, took third place.
The Tulane Business Plan Competition began in 2000 with the goal of teaching students interested in entrepreneurship the skills needed to start a new venture as well as to expose these young entrepreneurs to investors who could fund their businesses.
The competition, which is sponsored by the Freeman School’s Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, has been held annually, with one exception following Hurricane Katrina, and has attracted for-profit and not-for-profit business plans from local, regional and national university students.
–Keith Brannon
Tags: Audubon Global Opportunities Fund, Edward Crawford, entrepreneurship, Just-In-Time Logistics, Levy-Rosenblum Institute, Tulane Business Plan Competition
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