On November 1, Drexel President John Fry hosted a casual fireside chat with Bill McDermott, co-CEO of SAP, a multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.

One of the country’s most respected leaders in branding, Marc Brownstein, president and CEO of the Brownstein Group, has been named the interim director of Drexel LeBow’s Center for Corporate Reputation Management.

Victor Abiamiri, a former defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles, was a second round draft pick out of Notre Dame in 2007. This year, when he became a free agent, he joined a new team – Drexel LeBow’s one-year MBA cohort.

The Honorable Thomas M. Davis, a former Virginian congressman and director of Deloitte and Touche, shared his perspectives on what will be “The Implications of the 2012 Elections for the Boardroom.”

Depending on their personalities, CEOs facing identical strategic situations will make different decisions when managing strategic change. That’s according to the paper “Managing Strategic Change: The Duality of CEO Personality,” co-authored by Sucheta Nadkarni, Ph.D., assistant professor of management at LeBow, forthcoming in the Strategic Management Journal.