FeedFox School marketing grad combines taste for entrepreneurship and crepes
By: Carl O’Donnell | February 8th, 2012 | 
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Topics: Creperie | Entrepreneurship | marketing | Zacharatos
Outside the Tyler School of Art, two brightly painted food trucks resembling 18-wheelers loom over a smaller, hand-painted truck with rusty doors. The small vehicle, known as The Creperie, makes big business by blasting danceable pop music and serving more than two dozen varieties of crepes.
Creperie owner Vasilios “Bill” Zacharatos also has a secret advantage. He’s a ’95 marketing … Continue Reading
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Fox professor takes new approach to risk, insurance in Acts of God and Man book
By: Christine Fischer | February 8th, 2012 | no comments
Topics: Acts of God and Man | insurance and healthcare management | Risk Management
Fox School Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management Professor Michael Powers begins his new book Acts of God and Man with a quote from The Great Gatsby and calls his text an adventure – one that delves into a world of risk and insurance that traditional approaches often exclude.
In Acts of God and Man, Powers emphasizes what he calls … Continue Reading
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Fox hosts naturalization ceremony and celebrates nearly 50 new U.S. citizens
By: Christine Fisher | January 30th, 2012 | no comments
When Lee Krukowski was 6 years old he and his family moved from Argentina to a diverse neighborhood in the United States. Speaking only Spanish, Krukowski made friends with a boy who had also recently relocated and spoke only Japanese. Somehow that friendship worked.
Krukowski went on to graduate from the Art Institute of Philadelphia, work in video game design, … Continue Reading
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Fox professors discuss likely social media response to State of the Union address
By: Staff Writer | January 24th, 2012 | no comments
President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address at 9 p.m. EST tonight before a joint session of Congress. We asked two Management Information Systems professors, who study the Internet and politics, what they predict the online reaction will be to tonight’s speech.
David Schuff, Associate Professor, Management Information Systems, Fox School of Business, Temple University:
“Social … Continue Reading
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Fox School announces Executive MBA Alumni Referral Program
By: Christine Fisher | January 24th, 2012 | no comments
Topics: Alumni | EMBA | Financial Times | Malvern | Referral
Temple University’s Fox School of Business has announced a new Executive MBA (EMBA) alumni referral program, an initiative that allows Fox EMBA alumni to easily nominate colleagues, coworkers, friends and relatives to Fox’s top-ranked EMBA program.
Through a simple online form, Fox EMBA alumni can enter prospective students’ contact information and a brief personal note. Fox will then send each … Continue Reading
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Temple student film-production startup releases ‘Ready, Set, Go’ to inspire future entrepreneurs
By: Brandon Lausch | January 20th, 2012 | no comments
Sink or Swim Productions, a film startup launched by eight Temple University undergraduates in an experiential entrepreneurship course at the Fox School of Business, recently debuted its first-ever production, “Ready, Set, Go.”
The three-part series explores the challenges and triumphs of a dozen Greater Philadelphia entrepreneurs, including Philabundance founder Pamela Rainey Lawler; Victory Brewing Co. co-founder Bill Covaleski; Saxbys CEO … Continue Reading
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Grandfather of International Business retires from Fox with a global legacy
By: Christine Fisher | January 18th, 2012 | no comments
Topics: Arvind | International Business | Phatak | Retired
When Dr. Arvind Phatak moved to the United States from India in 1960 to earn his MBA at Temple University, he told himself he could not fail. Far from failure, Phatak met great success, and after earning his PhD at UCLA, Phatak returned to Temple and built the Fox School’s international business program into one of the university’s most prized … Continue Reading
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Statement from Fox School Dean M. Moshe Porat on the death of Kevin Kless
By: Staff Writer | January 16th, 2012 | no comments
The Fox School of Business community was stunned and saddened to learn of the death this weekend of Kevin Kless, a May 2010 graduate of our school.
Kevin, a risk management and insurance major, was an active member of our Sigma Chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma and went to work for the Berkley Group in Harrisburg after graduation. He recently … Continue Reading
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Ethics Case Competition blends powerful concepts with high-stakes application
By: Carl O’Donnell | January 11th, 2012 | no comments
Topics: Ethics | ethics case competition | pracademics | steven pyser
More than grades were at stake during human resource management Assistant Professor Steven Pyser’s recent Ethics Case Competition.
Six teams of undergraduates each advocated for a top-tier client competing for a multi-million dollar contract awarded by fictional “Bain and Company’s” expert hiring committee. Flashy PowerPoints wouldn’t win this bid. Pyser set a higher standard, requiring that the winning team craft … Continue Reading
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Senior Design Day collaboration transcends disciplines, kick-starts inventions
By: Carl O’Donnell | January 10th, 2012 | no comments
Topics: Alter Hall | Dr. Bharadwaj | E2E | MBA | Senior Design Day
Applause erupted when Dr. Raza Bokhari stepped into Alter Hall’s MBA Commons. More than 200 Temple engineering and Fox School of Business students awaited the doctor-turned-entrepreneur’s vision for synergizing technology-developing engineers and business-strategizing MBAs.
Decades spent building and marketing multiple medical technology firms equipped Dr. Bokhari, EMBA ’01, with the tools to prepare students for the day ahead: Temple’s … Continue Reading
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