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Dwight Carey

Title: Instructor (Practice)
Department: Strategic Management

Office: Alter Hall 504B
Phone: 215.204.4153
E-mail: dcarey@temple.edu

Dwight Carey started his first business immediately after receiving his undergraduate degree. For the last forty three years he has started an additional sixteen more companies both in the United States and abroad. Those companies are in service, engineering, robotics and support systems and factory automation industries. One of these companies, American Productivity Group, LLC., of which Prof. Carey is Managing Member and President, is a joint venture with Samsung Electronics Corp. In addition to running companies he sits on boards of domestic and international organizations and is an active member of the Committee for Monetary Research and Education and the von Mises Institute at Auburn University. His graduate studies have been both at Harvard Business School�s case studies and as a member of the James Madison program at Princeton University.

He has been awarded the Congressional Business Man of the Year for 2003, 04, 05 and 06, 2005 winner of the Ronald Reagan Gold Medal for Outstanding Business Leadership, winner of the Congressional order of Merit, twice awarded the medal for Business Leadership and awarded The Technology Partner Award by Specialty Publications for co-developing a new robotic control system. His writings appear regularly in trade publications, as book chapters, most recently, Mending Manufacturing, and a soon to be published article in Fortune Magazine�s Small Business.

At Temple University, Prof. Carey teaches in the Engineering School, Fox School of Business, both undergraduate and MBA courses. He is also on the Board of Advisors for the Enterprise Management Consulting program. He was chosen to create and coach the CIBER International Business Plan competition team for the Ohio State 2006 competition cite against some of the top 11 Universities in the world. Team Temple�s first such contest lead to its losing to the two time Grand Champions � Brigham Young University.