Rosella Eleanor LaFevre

Building on recent efforts toward funding and commercializing entrepreneurial ideas, Temple University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI), based at the Fox School of Business, recently held its first-ever TechConnect Idea to Invoice Workshop to help develop new Temple technologies and increase their likelihood of commercial success.

Temple’s Office of Technology Development and Commercialization (OTDC) and the IEI hosted the first TechConnect on April 26 at Alter Hall.… Continue Reading

The Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management (RIHM) at Temple University’s Fox School of Business has received a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Educational Foundation via a donation from property insurer FM Global.

The $50,000 Loss Prevention Education Grant will be used to develop course materials to help Temple students understand how engineering plays a role in loss prevention for property and safety risks, said Michael McCloskey, an instructor in the RIHM Department.… Continue Reading

At the May 16, 2013, joint commencement ceremony of Temple University’s Fox School of Business and School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM), nearly 725 Fox School undergraduates and 175 graduate students are scheduled to receive their degrees.

The students represent at least 11 countries, as well as 14 states and the District of Columbia.

The Fox School of Business will celebrate its most recent class of impressive graduates at 4 p.m.… Continue Reading

Geoff Kalish, partner of global private-equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners, entertained the pitch with caution.

James W. Hutchin, an insurance-industry veteran who landed a faculty position at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, was proposing that Aquiline sign on to an experiential learning program, the Enterprise Management Consulting (EMC) Practice, in which MBAs consult for paying clients.

“We pride ourselves on being a specialist investment manager, and we think that the domain knowledge we have is part of the appeal to our limited partners,” Kalish said recently at firm headquarters on Madison Avenue in New York.… Continue Reading

The Executive MBA (EMBA) and MBA concentrating in Health Sector Management at Temple University’s Fox School of Business are the only programs in the Philadelphia region to be ranked Top 25 programs nationwide for physician executives by Modern Healthcare magazine.

Fox is ranked 16th nationally among executive education programs for physicians. The ranking is based on each program’s age, length, tuition and number of graduates, as well as the number of days its students visit campus in an academic year.… Continue Reading

Sixteen students from Temple’s Association for Information Systems (AIS) recently traveled to Walmart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., for the second annual international AIS student chapter competition, and nine of those students were in teams that won first, second or third place in the categories they entered.

In another competition hosted by Walmart shortly thereafter, two Temple AIS students led an intercollegiate team that created a mobile application that won them first prize.… Continue Reading

A team of three Fox School of Business MBA students took first place – beating teams from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and other area universities – at the Association for Corporate Growth’s seventh annual ACG Philadelphia Cup competition.

Rinor Gjonbalaj, Perdeep Thind and Tyler Sagardoy competed April 11 against 10 other Fox School teams for the opportunity to represent Temple at the local competition, where they made the winning presentation with their solutions to a complex business case that required a combination of corporate strategy, finance and valuation skills.… Continue Reading

A 3-on-3-basketball tournament, a science lab day for high schoolers and a field day to recruit Temple students as volunteers are all events that were held this spring by Temple University honors students to benefit charity. The students’ service projects are all part of The Leadership Experience, a human resource management course developed and taught by Assistant Professor Crystal Harold.

Harold, who completed her undergraduate degree in the Temple Honors program, sought to create a course that would have broad appeal within the honors program.… Continue Reading