The surge in CEO pay across the U.S. economy owes in part to the overall growth in size of major U.S. corporations, which increases the scale of compensation on offer for a chief executive, Lisa LaViers, a professor at Tulane University's Freeman School of Business who studies executive pay and its effect on workers, told ABC News.

“It was news to investors because investors didn’t have their own pay to make a ratio of,” said Lisa LaViers, an assistant professor at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business who has studied how disclosing the pay gap affects workers.

Aryeh Levy, Tulane University, A.B Freeman School of Business is one of fifteen recipients of the Member Family Scholarships for this year.

To investigate this, a team of researchers led by Eugina Leung of Tulane University conducted a series of studies into the consumer psychology of identity-based consumption.

“The credibility capital has been shot,” said Christine Smith, an accounting professor at Tulane University.

“Companies (like Cox) have borrowed money to take over these wells and are pumping the last little bits out of them,” said Eric Smith, an energy expert at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business.

“The great thing about a public company is that it’s for sale every single day,” notes Peter Ricchiuti with Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business.

“The truth is the economy is doing much better than you think it is,” Peter Ricchiuti, a business professor at Tulane University, told members of the Gulf Coast Business Council at the annual economic outlook last week at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino.

In 1975, while in graduate school at Tulane University, Bud Brimberg had to come up with a project for a business class.

Greg R. Oldham is a professor emeritus at Tulane University.