After 663 days, Gerri C. LeBow Hall is officially open for business. On September 23, both students and faculty walked through the enormous glass doorways into a stunning, five-story atrium with rich woodwork and a dramatic red accent wall, a fitting stage on which to begin a new chapter in the history of LeBow College of Business. [See photo gallery.](http://www.lebow.drexel.edu/node/53414)

In a roomful of MBA students looking hesitant and perhaps a bit out of place, Samantha Ortiz jumps up when the tango instructor asks for a volunteer. While Ortiz is charged with ensuring that all 44 MBA students benefit from a well-planned residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demonstrating the tango is not part of her job description. But Ortiz doesn’t hesitate. Following the impressive demonstration, the instructor says in his thick accent, “You’re a dan-cer!” At least she used to be.

Last week, LeBow welcomed 677 freshmen from 40 different countries to campus so a new breed of Drexel Dragons could mingle with some dinosaurs.

Rina Patel's mission to bring Aahana to the poor and powerless in rural India.

If Mad Men imagined their business 50 years into the future, this is what they might have seen.

Christopher Gray on overcoming adversity, his entrepreneurial superpowers and his quest to save the world.

It has been an eventful year for the Department of Accounting & Taxation.

The Accounting Department is pleased to welcome 4 new faculty members and a new staff member to our department and congratulate 4 professors on their promotions

We thought you may want to get to know our faculty a little better, so we asked around to see if anyone had interests outside of the field.

PhD candidate Tom Zylkin recently accepted a visiting assistant researcher position at Yale University under the supervision of Professor Costas Arkolakis.

Join us for coffee, catch up with fellow alumni, meet our faculty and mingle with our Beta Alpha Psi students.

The Accounting Department welcomes scholars from around the country to present relevant accounting research and topics to our faculty and students.

One of the most challenging events for a board is the departure of a company’s CEO. A study by Booz & Company found that 14.2 percent of CEOs at the world’s 2,500 largest public companies were replaced in 2011. This rate of turnover implies that a typical CEO is on the job for about seven years.

Not long after being sworn in as the new Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Jo White presided over her first open SEC meeting on April 10, 2013. At that meeting, the SEC adopted rules requiring certain businesses regulated by the SEC to adopt and implement programs to detect and respond to indicators of possible identity theft.