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Deloitte Consulting sponsored its third annual case competition which invited students from LeBow College of Business, College of Engineering and the College of Computing and Informatics to work together.

Accounting Professor Anthony Curatola has some advice for the U.S. Government: Give the self-employed the option to pay their taxes more often, and you’ll reduce the size of your deficit.

LeBow's Dragon Fund had its best year yet in 2013, and it’s one of the largest student-management investment portfolios in the nation.

Corporate boards encouraged to examine CEO succession plans and monitor effectiveness of corporate social responsibility efforts.

Thirteen new scholars and teachers are joining LeBow College of Business for the 2013-14 academic year.

Three teams of Drexel LeBow professors and students are dividing $30,000 in winnings for their proposed course innovations that take advantage of the technology and other enhancements featured in the College’s new 12-story academic center opening this fall.

Board meeting

Interested in joining a board? And if so, are you prepared? Unless you have participated on a corporate or nonprofit board of directors, it is unlikely that you have a complete understanding of a board member’s responsibilities. The Directors Academy at Drexel LeBow’s Center of Corporate Governance can help with that.

Some people wait well into their careers for their “aha” moment. Joseph Ferreri already had his — and he’s only a junior.

In about one in every four deals, the CEO of an acquired firm is awarded a merger bonus according to a recent study. Also target shareholders received inferior premiums when their firms were sold while their CEOs received a merger bonus.

Wesley Gray, Ph.D., assistant professor of finance, recently co-authored a book, Quantitative Value, which addresses intelligent investing and eliminating behavioral errors associated with choosing stocks.

By offering potential investors more choices with respect to fees charged and the required time for keeping their capital invested, Erik Benrud, Ph.D., clinical professor of finance at Drexel LeBow, demonstrates in his recent article in Financial Decisions that hedge fund managers can keep more capital invested even in the face of a financial crisis and a declining number of such investors.

Teams of Drexel LeBow professors and students are competing in a course-innovation contest that will take advantage of the technology featured in a new 12-story, $90 million building opening in fall 2013.