Media Mentions

BBC Radio

Elliot Schreiber, Ph.D., executive director of Drexel LeBow’s Center for Corporate Reputation, was recently quoted in a BBC Radio news story about the Philadelphia Orchestra’s recent financial struggles. “If [Philadelphia] can’t afford good schools, can it afford to have symphonies? I think our society would be depleted without the arts," Schreiber says. "But by the same token you have to wonder whether the market is just saying keep the symphony, but maybe you can’t be world-class anymore.”

Bloomberg

A Bloomberg story about benefactors who make large gifts to academia mentions Dean George Tsetsekos and Bennett S. LeBow, who recently gifted $45 million toward the construction of a new home for the College. In choosing to make this gift, Tsetsekos says LeBow "is a businessman and looks at metrics and objective measures of performance."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mark Stehr, Ph.D., associate professor of economics, was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on April 21, in an article about a metro Atlanta city that is considering letting its residents decide whether or not Sunday sales of alcohol should be legal. Stehr's research on this topic has shown that allowing alcohol purchases on Sunday has a minimal effect on overall alcohol sales -- usually increasing sales by less than 2 percent."I think even 2 percent is high for what you can expect," Stehr said. "It will have minimal impact."

Financial Post

Donna De Carolis, Ph.D., associate dean of strategic initiatives and head of the Management Department at the LeBow College of Business, was quoted in a Financial Post article about managing stress in the workplace.

Associated Press

An Associated Press story on specialty camps for kids highlights Camp Xchange, a weeklong commuter camp for High school students at LeBow College of Business. Camp Xchange lets students act as traders as they learn the intricacies of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and other floors around the world. Drexel LeBow also offers the following camp programs for high school students: Camp Business, Summer Economics Institute, Startup!, and Camp Impact.

CNBC

Ralph Walkling, Ph.D., executive director of Drexel LeBow's Center for Corporate Governance, was featured in a CNBC "Squawk On The Street" segment about shareholder and executive compensation. During the interview, Walkling spoke about CEO pay, golden parachutes and the potential benefits of say on pay.

Entrepreneur

Donna De Carolis, PhD, associate dean of strategic initiatives at Drexel LeBow, is quoted in an Entrepreneur magazine article this month. “Entrepreneurs need to have periods of intense activity, but if it’s not balanced out with reflection, relaxation and doing something to take your mind off work, you won’t be able to be innovative, creative or find solutions to problems,” she says.

Fox Business

Ralph Walkling, Ph.D., executive director of Drexel LeBow's Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in a Fox Business article entitled “Will Insider Charges Make CEOs More Tight Lipped?”“If the allegations hold up, I’m stunned,” says Walkling, referring to insider trading charges again Goldman Sachs executives.  

National.com

Shawkat Hammoudeh, PhD, professor of economics, was quoted in a National.com article about the increase of the price of oil.

Fox News

Shawkat Hammoudeh, Ph.D., professor of economics, was featured in a Fox News broadcast about the prospect of gasoline prices rising due to the unrest in Arab countries.

Philadelphia Inquirer

A Philadelphia Inquirer article about rising gas prices quotes Drexel LeBow's Shawkat Hammoudeh, Ph.D., professor of economics. Hammoudeh says recent manufacturing data showed a resurgence of economic activity in Germany, China, and India, which has helped push up crude oil prices to match increased demand. "The economic fundamentals are getting stronger, and that means there will be more demand."  

Bloomberg

Shawkat Hammoudeh, Ph.D., professor of economics at LeBow College, spoke with Bloomberg about the political unrest in the Middle East and northern Africa and its impact on oil-producing nations in the region. 

Philadelphia Inquirer

Drexel LeBow College of Business student and Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship protégé Christopher Young is featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about Async Recruiting LLC, the company Young co-founded to market a new business solution that could revolutionize the traditional job interview process.     

Flying Kite

Flying Kite, a new online weekly magazine in Philadelphia, quoted George Tsetsekos, Ph.D., dean of Drexel LeBow, in a story on the College's new building."A new and beautiful building will help us to better connect with the Philadelphia business communities and allow our students to learn in a setting that is less like a classroom and more like the corporate environment," Tsetsekos says.

Chicago Tribune

LeBow College's Camp Xchange was listed among "camps of note" in a Chicago Tribune article about innovative and specialized summer camp options. Camp Xchange offers outstanding rising high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to experience the fast-paced, high stakes world of securities trading. Designed with LeBow College's Department of Finance, Camp XChange is a dynamic, five-day summer program that enables participants to gain an overview of trading through firsthand experience with TraderEx simulation software. Learn more at 

6abc

George Tsetsekos, Ph.D., dean of LeBow College of Business, was featured in a 6abc story on products made in America, which aired on March 4. “Overall I think consumers are not all that patriotic, to be frank with you, when they purchase products,” says Tsetsekos. “They are more concerned with quality and price.”

Bloomberg

Research conducted by Drexel LeBow’s Ralph Walkling, executive director of the Center for Corporate Governance; Eliezer Fich, associate professor of finance and a Center fellow; and Anh Tran, who recently earned his Ph.D. at LeBow and is now a professor at the Cass Business School at City University London, has recently been covered by Bloomberg and the New York Times Blog, as well as a number of French publications including ZoneBourse, Le Monde, and NewsBanque. The researchers found that chief executives with over-generous severance pay arrangements sell out significantly more cheaply when weighing up a takeover bid. Company bosses with so-called golden parachutes that are 10 percent more generous than the average agreed to sell their companies for a 5 percent smaller takeover premium.

PRSay

Elliot Schreiber, Ph.D., director of Drexel LeBow’s Center for Corporate Reputation Management, wrote an article published by the PRSA’s forum, PRSay, about why CEOs need to make reputation a priority. “In past AON studies before the current financial crisis, reputation was the top-ranked CEO risk factor,” Schreiber writes. “But, what is troubling is that two-thirds of the respondents still have no ‘formal reputation risk plan’ in place, and that figure has not changed substantially.”

The Placer Herald

Sacramento MBA alum Sam Applebaum is featured in a Placer Herald article about the challenges of achieving work-life balance when you add graduate school to the mix. “We are very proud of Sam,” says Carl (Tobey) Oxholm III, senior vice president and dean of Drexel’s Sacramento Center for Graduate Studies. “Not only did he overcome lots of hurdles that could have stopped him, but he is perfectly positioned to become a healthcare leader in [the Sacramento, Calif.] region – an industry critical to the region’s economic success, a field where visionary and well-prepared leaders are especially needed in today’s economic crisis, and will be in even greater demand when the Boomers retire.” Applebaum is a member of the first graduating class of Drexel LeBow MBA in Sacramento.

The Philadelphia Business Journal

Philadelphia Business Journal editor Craig Ey wrote a column about the Eighth Annual Global Business Conference 2011 titled “Here Comes the Economic Optimism.” “By the end of [the conference]” – which was presented by LeBow College of Business and the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia – “I was feeling pretty good about the future,” Ey says.

The Wealth Channel

Anthony Curatola, PhD, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting, recently spoke to The Wealth Channel about retirement income, longevity, and government action, the subject of his research article “Retirement Planning in Light of Life Expectancy and Gender Issues,” published recently in the Journal of Financial Professionals. Curatola says that women have less retirement savings than men on average. “Some of the research has actually shown as much as $1,000 less contributed by women in comparison to men on an annual basis” leading up to retirement, Curatola says. This is a real problem, because women live longer than men, on average.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Bennett S. LeBow has been named among the top 50 philanthropists of 2010 by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. LeBow donated the generous sum of $49 million in 2010. He donated $45 million toward a new academic center for LeBow College of Business – Drexel University’s largest-ever donation. He also donated $4 million to several groups which support cancer research. Drexel’s business school was named for LeBow in 1999 after he made a $10 million gift, bringing his total giving to LeBow College to $55 million.

Marketing Magnified

Pravin Nath, PhD, assistant professor of marketing at LeBow College of Business, co-authored an article for Marketing Magnified that discusses his research study on CMO power and how it relates to firm performance. This study, titled “Marketing in the C-Suite: A Study of Chief Marketing Officer Power in Firms’ Top Management Teams,” appears in the January 2011 issue of the Journal of Marketing. “CMO power does matter to firm performance, but it is conditional on the structure of the top management team (TMT) and the firm’s diversification strategy,” Nath says.

The Wall Street Journal

Research by Ralph Walkling, Ph.D., director of the Center for Corporate Governance at Drexel LeBow, is referenced in the Wall Street Journal article "A Chance to Veto a CEO's Bonus." Walkling has found that voting against directors may discourage them from acting like rubber stamps. Each 1 percent increase in "no" votes knocks up to $222,000 off the excess compensation of the chief executive officer the next year—and even raises the odds that the CEO will be replaced, his research suggests.

MSNBC

Mark Loschiavo, director of LeBow College's Laurence A. Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship, was quoted in an MSNBC article on "How to Start a Food Truck." He says, "As with most retail, this is about … the ability to move from location to location."

Treehugger.com

In December, CityRyde, LLC, a company currently operating out of the University's Laurence A. Baiada Incubator and co-founded by Drexel LeBow graduates Jason Meinzer and Timothy Ericson, submitted a methodology for determining greenhouse gas emission reductions through bicycle sharing projects to the Voluntary Carbon Standard, the global program for approval of credible voluntary carbon offsets. Meinzer estimates the first-of-its-kind methodology, in the form of CityRyde's Inspire software that's three years in the making, has a better than 90 percent chance of approval, paving the way for an enormous shift in transportation. FlyingKiteMedia.com also covered the debut of this technology: http://www.flyingkitemedia.com/features/cityrydeinspire1203.aspx 

Philly.com Advertising

Ads running around the region for Philly.com’s App for smartphones feature the Philadelphia Inquirer’s coverage of Bennett S. LeBow’s $45 million gift toward the new LeBow College of Business building, which is slated for completion in 2014. The ad, which reads: “Never again get stuck having to stare at a sign like this,” pictures three smartphones displaying the Inquirer’s Nov. 16 story about the gift and the building, including an image of what the building will look like upon completion and the headline, “Drexel Receives $45 Million Gift.”

NJ.com

Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business signed an agreement signed with Gloucester County Institute of Technology (GCIT), offering automatic acceptance to eligible students from GCIT’s Academy of Finance and Business Management to LeBow. “Drexel University’s LeBow School of Business graduates are highly sought after as industry leaders in today’s business world,” said Freeholder Director Stephen M. Sweeney. “It is a coup for our students to be eligible for automatic acceptance.”

SportsBusiness Daily

SportsBusiness Daily reported that Philadelphia Eagles owners Jeffrey and Christina Lurie have been named Drexel University's LeBow College of Business 2010 Business Leaders of the Year. The Lurie's will be honored at a luncheon attended by hundreds of Greater Philadelphia's top executives on December 2.

Philadelphia Business Journal

Two LeBow College graduates and their startup company, Ridaroo, are featured in a Philadelphia Business Journal article. Ridaroo is a website that matches potential carpool partners. “We’re revolutionizing the way people go about carpooling,” said Aksel Güngör, who co-founded Ridaroo LLC with Andy Guy.