Drexel LeBow’s Business Learning Community (BLC), an exceptional group of 37 freshmen devoted to both leadership development and social responsibility, has more than a respite after finals to be thankful for this holiday season.

By offering potential investors more choices with respect to fees charged and the required time for keeping their capital invested, Erik Benrud, Ph.D., clinical professor of finance at Drexel LeBow, demonstrates in his recent article in Financial Decisions that hedge fund managers can keep more capital invested even in the face of a financial crisis and a declining number of such investors.

Teams of Drexel LeBow professors and students are competing in a course-innovation contest that will take advantage of the technology featured in a new 12-story, $90 million building opening in fall 2013.

Bradley Ericson and Christopher Gray have been chosen as members of the 11-student board overseeing the recently established Dorm Room Fund.

Like many cable news personalities, Ali Velshi, anchor and business correspondent for CNN programs World Business Today and Your Money, doesn’t mind saying things that are controversial.

This year five students traveled to New York City to participate in Deloitte's tax case competition. The team met with their client to finalize pressing tax issues and present their solutions. The LeBow team include Gloria Liu, Joseph Hutchinson, Brooke Schneck, Jonathan Abramson and Gregory Menio. 

At its sixth annual National Distance Leaning Week ceremony earlier this month, Drexel University Online honored Samantha Ortiz, program manager for the online program MBA in Healthcare. She was awarded the Outstanding Online Professional Staff Award.

Stanley K. Ridgley, Ph.D.’s book, “The Complete Guide to Business School Presenting: What Your Professors Don't Tell You…What You Absolutely Must Know,” has been named the winner of 2012 USA Best Book Awards in the Business Careers category. The book was also a finalist for the Education/Teaching category.

Based on his research, Wes Gray, PhD, assistant professor of finance, thinks that CFOs can overcome biases to reduce forecasting errors.

Robert Grondwaldt was recognized at the Accounting Excellence Banquet for his exemplary career in acounting; his dedication to Drexel; and for his establishment of a $20,000 scholarship for first generation Philadelphia School District students attending LeBow College. 

On Tuesday November 13, the Drexel Entrepreneur Association held its second annual Dragon Alumni Entrepreneurs event featuring three Drexel alumni.

Drexel University’s Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) has won its bid to host the PRSSA National Conference at the Loews Hotel in Philadelphia in October 2013. Melissa Clawson, the PRSSA member who is serving as the 2012 national conference coordinator, says the group expects more than 1,000 attendees.

In the future, health care may look very different than it does today. Drexel LeBow’s Corporate and Executive Education recently presented an expert panel on what innovations in health care could mean for insurance companies, employers and consumers.