Assistant Professor of Marketing Daniel Korschun, Ph.D., who was just honored with a top University teaching award, offers his students a "lifetime guarantee."
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.
Guest blogger, Yelena Barychev was excited to see the SEC’s press release about its report of investigation related to Netflix and social media issues.
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.
