Christopher Montepara, a business administration student concentrating in marketing and entrepreneurship, received a $5,000 scholarship from the Philly Ad Club.
Rina Patel, a LeBow marketing and legal studies student, became inspired to make a difference after visiting India and witnessing extreme poverty first-hand.
A group of Drexel LeBow students made some new friends both near and far during an MIS outsourcing class that connected them with students at Pennsylvania State University’s Mont Alto campus, between Chambersburg and Gettysburg, and at Ahmedabad University in Gujarat, India.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is increasingly viewed as a topic of strategic importance. The vast majority of Fortune 1000 companies now engage in social and environmental responsibility activities, and CSR spending has reached unprecedented levels. For example, in 2010, Walmart gave more than $340 million in cash to charity, and Alcoa gave away 6.2 percent of its pre-tax profit. Keep in mind that these numbers represent only a portion of total CSR spending; others include environmental initiatives, volunteering programs, and workplace safety.
The recent governance headlines concerning the fallout from the inability of Penn State’s board to govern have focused on what the board knew or didn’t know and the lack of a process to assess and manage risk. As always, there is a great temptation in our culture to serve as judge, juror and key consultant to those who have stumbled and failed. Numerous articles, speeches, panel discussions and webinars from key thought leaders in the field of board governance continue to discuss what went wrong and what should be done to ensure that the same incident could not happen again.
When it comes to innovation, no company is nimble, rich or smart enough to go it alone, according to experts from Comcast, AT&T and Independence Blue Cross.
The founder, Chairman and CEO of SEI Investments Co. Alfred P. West, Jr. is Drexel University's LeBow College of Business 59th Business Leader of the Year.
Jianhong Chen has been elected to serve as the chair of the New Doctoral Student Consortium (NDSC) at the 2013 Academy of Management Meeting. NDSC is the largest and one of the most prestigious professional development workshops at the Academy meeting.
Retailers may inspire consumers to use mobile promotions; a Drexel study shows that targeted mobile offers can boost in-store exploration and unplanned spending
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.
Many business schools across the globe use the business simulation tool MikesBikes, yet Drexel LeBow undergraduate students landed in two of the top eight spots in the 2012 MikesBikes World Championship. Weilei Yu, Aaron Hartmann, Summer Rose Horan and Daniel Pinto comprised the team SAPYU, which placed second in the competition. Jerome Lynch was the sole member of his team, Vanquish Cycles, which placed eighth.
We are pleased to announce the establishment of the C.A. Srinivasan & Henry Jaenicke Endowment Fund, in honor of the well-respected professors. The fund was designed to assist doctoral candidates specializing in behavioral accounting research.
