Peter Ricchiuti is an assistant dean at the Freeman School of Business

Freeman School of Business

The Freeman School of Business, at Tulane University, is located in New Orleans, LA. The school offers undergraduate programs, a full-time MBA program and other master's programs, doctoral programs, and many executive-education programs, and consistently ranks among the top business schools...

 at Tulane University

Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...

, and former chief investment officer for the State of Louisiana. In 1993 he founded the Burkenroad Reports

Burkenroad Reports

Burkenroad Reports are widely circulated financial reports on small- to medium-sized companies between Texas and Florida that are traditionally under-followed by bulge bracket stock analysts. Colloquially the Burkenroad-followed companies are referred to as "stocks under rocks". The reports are...

. He is a popular public speaker on Finance, and regularly provides consulting to groups like NFL players, and commentary for national media entities like NPR

NPR

NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...

. In 1997, he was appointed to the board of Amedisys, Inc.

Awards

Ricchiuti has twice been voted the Top Professor of the Year by students at the Freeman School of Business. His teaching style is typified by injecting humor into technical finance lectures.

Burkenroad Reports

Ricchiuti founded the Burkenroad Reports in 1993. The Burkenroad Reports is an innovative student-run investment research program at Tulane University. The reports focus on stocks of small-cap companies in six southern states, ranging from Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 to Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. The Burkenroad program has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC, CNN, Nightly Business Report, et al.

External links

• Faculty profile at the Freeman School of Business.
• CNN Interviews Peter Ricchiuti, CNN
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  , April 2006.
• 6-minute YouTube piece for the American Program Bureau, posted June 4, 2008.
• Ricchiuti’s Business Educators Member Profile