LeBow Professor Writes Book About Programming Language
Drexel LeBow College of Business Assistant Professor Elea McDonnell Feit and Google researcher Chris Chapman recently published the book R for Marketing Research and Analytics. The two wrote the book in order to teach marketers the free open-source statistical programming language, R. Professor Feit spoke with LeBow about what the R language is and why it is important for business leaders to learn.
“R is a programming language that is designed specifically to work with data and statistics. When you are dealing with ever larger sets of data from increasingly diverse data sources, you really want to use a programming language to process and analyze the data. While it can be a bit more difficult to learn, switching to R will make analysts much more efficient in the long run and the analyses they produce will be much more reliable. R has become the most popular data analysis tool and is used in finance, statistics, economics and lots of other data-focused disciplines,” she said.
LeBow Professor Wins Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award
LeBow College of Business professor, Rajneesh Suri has been awarded the 2015 Lamb-Hair-McDaniel Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award from the Academy of Marketing Science. Professor Suri will join his two fellow 2015 awardees at the Academy of Marketing Science’s annual conference held in May. The winners will also serve as members of the 2016 Selection Committee. During the conference, Professor Suri and the other award winners will give a presentation that details their teaching philosophy.
The AMS Outstanding Marketing Teacher program was initiated in 1999 to recognize and reward excellence in teaching and to provide a forum for outstanding teachers to share their classroom success with colleagues. The award program is sponsored by Cengage Learning Lamb-Hair-McDaniel. Award winners receive a framed certificate and official recognition at the AMS annual awards lunch, make a presentation on teaching philosophy in a special session at the conference along with the other award winners and publish a one-page abstract on teaching philosophy or pedagogy in the conference proceedings.
LeBow Hosts EMBA Information Session
The LeBow College of Business at Drexel University will be hosting an upcoming information session for its Executive MBA program. The event will be held March 18 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Prospective EMBA students can join the EMBA staff at LeBow for hors d’oeuvres and discussion about the program. Attendants will have the opportunity to learn more about the curriculum and the application process. Those interested in attending can complete a registration online. Free parking will be provided to registered attendants.
The Drexel Executive MBA is directed towards professionals with at least seven years of professional experience, although the average years of experience for students in the EMBA program is 15 years. The Drexel LeBow Executive MBA program curriculum and collaborative working environment are focused toward shaping the way students think and approach business as well as creating and expanding personal and business networks.
LeBow Holds MBA Information Session
The Drexel University LeBow College of Business will host an information session for its MBA programs Feb. 18. The information session will be held at Gerri C. LeBow Hall at the Drexel Campus. Registration for the event will begin at 5:30 p.m. The information session will being at 6 p.m.
During the event, there will be an introduction of all Admissions and Career Services Staff in attendance followed by detailed information about the LeBow College of Business, the different MBA program offerings at LeBow and the application process. At the end of the event, there will be a raffle for the Drexel sponsored GMAT prep course and a question and answer session with the Admissions Staff.
LeBow Holds One-on-One Info Session for Malvern MBA
The LeBow College of Business at Drexel University will be hosting a One-On-One information session for its MBA at Malvern program. The event will be held Feb. 3 at the Drexel Malvern campus. The MBA program offered at Malvern is an accelerated MBA program. Prospective students can register for a 30-minute time to meet with the director of admissions and staff. Attendants can choose a time to meet from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. or from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
During the 30-minute meeting, prospective students will have the opportunity to speak with the director of admissions and admissions staff about the MBA program at Malvern and have questions about the admissions process answered. Attendants are asked to bring a copy of their professional resume as well as any admissions materials they would like to submit or have reviewed by the admissions staff with them to the meeting.
LeBow Students Win Second at Accounting Comp
A team of students from Drexel LeBow College of Businss competed in the 2014 Deloitte FanTAXtic Regional Competition. The team of five LeBow students received second place and an honorable mention for their efforts in the competition. The event was held in New York City last month.
The 2014 Deloitte FanTAXtic Regional Competition is an accounting competition. It is an issues-based tax case study competition that focuses on a hypothetical, real life scenario. This year’s competition required teams to engage in a simulation exercise, role-play with Deloitte professionals and to make a presentation. Following the regional events, the top teams (one first place team from each region) advances to the National Competition.
