Marjorie Brody, an executive coach and president of her namesake professional development business, addressed the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association last week at Gerri C. LeBow Hall, offering tips for self-branding.
Dean Frank Linnehan will lead a group of MBA students on their international residency to Vietnam. The trip is the culmination of a nine-week international business course that invites students to look at the country's emerging economy as well as its cultural, historical and social fabric.
Drexel alumnus Michael Baum, chairman and founder of Founder.org, will present "Building a Billion Dollar Company Takes More than Just a Big Idea" at Gerri C. LeBow Hall on Drexel's campus on March 12.
LeBow senior Skyler Logsdon has just launched [MyKlipsPics](http://myklipspics.com), a new mobile app, to help users keep track of their favorite hairstyles. He developed the app after having too many disappointing experiences with bad haircuts and with barbers who didn’t deliver what he wanted.
Shawkah Hammoudeh, professor of economics, recently penned an op-ed about the rising usage and price of natural gas due to increased demand and decreases in supply.
Ph.D. marketing student Alex Cohen has taken his visual impairment, which has deteriorated to the point that he relies on special accommodations for work and home, and uses it to improve society. His disability currently fuels his research, and one can say it has become his life’s work.
In many ways, venture capital firms are the “parents” of the business world. They provide money and guidance to their offspring (startups), which they hope will be tomorrow’s success stories. So perhaps this should come as no surprise: New research led by Drexel LeBow’s Dali Ma suggests that just like people looking to start a family, VCs should choose their partner VC firms carefully.
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.
Ira M. Lubert, co-founder of Independent Capital Partners, a family of private equity and real estate investment funds, is Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business 60th Business Leader of the Year.
