By Jonathan Ziegert Imagine that you are at a hospital seeking treatment for a serious ailment, and your doctor makes a diagnosis based on gut feeling, tangential experiences and information gleaned from vendors’ promotional materials. […]
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Self-Employed Small Biz Owners Can Help Reduce $345 Billion Tax Gap
About $345 billion in owed taxes goes unpaid each year, according to the IRS. A large part of this shortfall, about 68 percent of it, can be attributed to self-employed small business owners, who are […]
The Trick to Being App-y With Haircuts
After two years and trips to 15 different barbershops and stylists, senior entrepreneurship student Skyler Logsdon has finally created what Philadelphia magazine hails as the “Hair App of the Future.” MyKlipsPics, which Drexel University LeBow […]
Factors Affecting Oil Prices This Winter
By Shawkat Hammoudeh The cold weather arrived early this fall in the Northeast and Midwest of the United States, which are the major natural gas consumers in this country. The arctic air marched through those […]
Is the World Running Out of Wine?
According to a report released in October 2013 by Morgan Stanley, it’s time for wine drinkers to “whine” a bit since increased consumption levels and poor harvests have raised the risk of a global wine […]
Shoppers Beware: Black Friday Pressures May Lead to Overspending
Black Friday shopping mania is almost here and will begin a bit earlier this year as many retailers are announcing their best deals will now be available on Thanksgiving Day. The National Retail Federation projects […]
Tweeting All the Way to the NYSE, Will Twitter’s Shares Continue to Rise?
Twitter Inc. made its trading debut at the New York Stock Exchange with a $1.82 billion share sale that made it the second largest Internet IPO in the world, relegating Google Inc.’s stock market debut […]
Health Care Reform: Can it Work From a Business Perspective?
The Affordable Care Act, more widely known as Obamacare, has sparked heated debates across the country and was the focal point of the first government shutdown in almost two decades. Drexel professor Dr. Michael […]
Fables in the Boardroom: Seven Tales for Strategic Success
Strategic initiatives fail far more often than they succeed despite the massive amount of resources organizations devote to the development and execution of these strategies, according to Vadake (V.K.) Narayanan, professor and director of the […]
Drexel Business Professors Comment on Potential Next Fed Chair
As the current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke prepares to step down in Jan. 2014 and the media buzz over who will succeed him grows louder, three finance professors from Drexel University’s LeBow College […]