Louisiana Looking Up 2011, an event curated by the LSU Flores MBA Alumni Association and the E.J. Ourso College of Business took place on Thursday at LSU’s Baton Rouge campus. The event brought together well-known businessmen and women and aspiring entrepreneurs. Seven speakers, including president and CEO of Waste Management, David Steiner, were joined by [...]
Tulane University will have groundbreaking ceremony for Flower Hall, a new hub for science & engineering, at the uptown campus in New Orleans on Friday, September 9th at 4:30 p.m. Flower Hall will replace Taylor Laboratory; the outdated facility, built in 1949, has become unsuitable for contemporary research. When completed, Flower Hall will serve as [...]
The Louisiana Economic Development Association (LEDA) is enrolling young people ages 17-21 for a fall business camp as part of the Business Innovation Program. The program runs from 9AM -3PM on Saturdays throughout the fall of 2011. Students participating in the program will learn basic and intermediate business skills to prepare them for a fast-paced [...]
New Orleans-based Rebirth Financial, America’s first person-to-business lending platform and marketplace was featured today on Businessweek.com. The series covers MBAs and undergraduate business students who developed their ideas or launched their businesses while still in school. Rebirth Financial was founded by Tulane MBA graduates Chonchol Gupta and Xavier Cabo founded Rebirth Financial in response to the recession. [...]
Yesterday the Pennington Biomedical Research Center announced their selection for a new competitively awarded $6 million, three-year grant to discover novel ways to increase warfighter resilience, combat readiness, and optimal performance of soldiers. The new research project is based upon a 23-year history of collaborative research between Pennington Biomedical and the U. S. Department of Defense [...]
Got an idea to improve life in New Orleans? Enter PitchNOLA and you could win $1,000 to help make it a reality. Budding entrepreneurs have about a month to submit entries to PitchNOLA 2011, an “elevator-pitch” competition for ventures designed to effect positive social or environmental change in New Orleans. PitchNOLA is run by the [...]
Louisiana Tech is nearing the completion of Tech Pointe, the first multi-tenant facility on its new Enterprise Campus. Enterprise Campus is an addition to the main campus and will serve as a home for high-tech companies looking to use the intellectual and research strengths of the university. Tech Pointe is a 42,000 s/f, multi-tenant facility [...]
Yesterday, CAP Technologies founder and President Edward Daigle announced an $8.1 million capital investment for a metal coatings facility in Denham Springs that will lead to 43 new direct jobs with an average salary of $52,000 a year, plus benefits — and an estimated 60 new indirect jobs, creating a total of more than 100 [...]
