Out Of Business

By Peter Ricchiuti

Published November 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM CST

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Mary Lee Murphy, Peter Ricchiuti and Kendra Jones Morris.

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Kendra Jones Morris, founder of Rural Revolution.

Grant Morris / It's New Orleans

Though we usually talk about going into business, on this week’s show Peter talks to two women who got out of business.

Kendra Jones Morris walked away from consulting Fortune 500 companies to found Rural Revolution, connecting women artisans in the developing world with direct marketing women in the United States. Mary Lee Murphy left the business world to become Development Director of the education non-profit City Year.

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Peter Ricchiuti

Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.

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