Yanatha Desouvre ’01, who studied MIS and Marketing at LeBow, has co-authored a book with a very unlikely collaborator — his four-year-old daughter, Reanna.
Alexandra “Lexie” Miller, a Drexel LeBow senior counting down to her upcoming graduation this June, loves to travel and has big dreams. She’s been to 26 countries and 5 continents so far, and jokes with her parents about a future career involving running her own tourism company from Thailand, where she would like to live in a beach bungalow.
Christopher Montepara, a business administration student concentrating in marketing and entrepreneurship, received a $5,000 scholarship from the Philly Ad Club.
Sophomore 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. (NASDAQ:SEIC) Alfred P. West, Jr. is Drexel University's LeBow College of Business 59th Business Leader of the Year. He will be honored at a luncheon attended by hundreds of Greater Philadelphia’s top executives on March 5.
Anne Duchene gave up an apartment with a view of the Eiffel Tower to come to Drexel LeBow, and she has no regrets. “We still can’t believe how big our house is compared to our shoebox Parisian apartment,” she says.
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.
