Mark Gale shared the business insights he’s gained as Philadelphia International Airport’s CEO with Fox International and Full-time MBA students during a three-hour conference at the airport on May 11.

The airport was one of several companies the Fox students have visited in the region. The students in the one-year International MBA program study in France, Japan, China and India as well as the United States.… Continue Reading

After years of reducing their contact with pharmaceutical sales representatives, physicians now risk an unintended consequence: Doctors who rarely meet with pharmaceutical sales representatives — or who do not meet with them — are much slower to drop medicines with the Food and Drug Administration’s “black box” warnings and to adopt first-in-class therapies.

According to a study published May 21 in The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, doctors whose access to pharmaceutical sales representatives is limited can take more than four times longer to change prescriptions based on new information than their peers who have more frequent contact.… Continue Reading

Fifteen students from the Fox School’s Association for Information Systems (AIS) student chapter recently traveled to Provo, Utah, where they participated in the first-ever international AIS student chapter competition and earned first or second place in each of the categories they entered. The event included approximately 150 participants from 24 schools.

AIS is the premier global organization for information systems. The Fox School’s AIS chapter was the first student chapter in the world and was named a 2010 and 2011 Outstanding Chapter.… Continue Reading

Fox School of Business MBA students placed third in the region in the 2012 ACG Case Competition, a mergers and acquisitions case-study competition offered by the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).

ACG members judged the competition, which engaged business school teams in analysis, valuation and strategy development. The intense competition provides feedback from real-world experts and links the next generation of top-tier business-school talent with potential mergers and acquisitions employers.… Continue Reading

The Fox School of Business recently sponsored the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 pre-event/reunion party for the annual awards ceremony recognizing the region’s brightest business leaders under age 40.

The event, held April 12 at SugarHouse Casino’s The Refinery Restaurant, drew nearly 75 people, including winners from the 40 Under 40 Class of 2012, awards alumni and guests.

In addition to networking and hors d’oeurves, Class of 2012 winners participated in a formal photo shoot.… Continue Reading

A mobile healthcare technology company aiming to improve efficiency and reliability in home healthcare won the grand prize at the 14th annual Be Your Own Boss Bowl®, a Temple University-wide business plan competition.

PHmHealth, co-founded by CEO Michael Mittelman, MBA ’10, Chief Innovation Officer Jennifer Hinkel, and marketing and sales Vice President Dirk Rassloff, took home more than $125,000 in cash, products and professional services during the April 26 finalist presentations at the Fox School of Business.… Continue Reading

The Center for Student Professional Development (CSPD) will hold its last Wednesday Webinar featuring Why Should We Hire You? author Brooks Harper with advice on how students can translate their experience and skills into a stellar  interview. The final webinar of the spring series is at 3 p.m. May 2 in the Undergraduate Commons of Alter Hall.

The spring series started March 28 and was delivered via TalentMarks, a company providing college students and graduates access to information to help build successful careers.… Continue Reading

Patience Lehrman is getting familiar with the White House.

To commemorate the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s Champions of Change initiative, Lehrman made another visit to Washington, D.C., where less than a year ago she sat with top immigration policymakers and fellow Champions of Change at a roundtable discussion.

Lehrman, a Fox Executive MBA graduate and national director of Temple’s Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders), was awarded the E Pluribus Unum Prize in 2011.… Continue Reading

Graduating Fox School of Business students have power – to influence the value of their degree, the quality of the Fox brand and even the rankings of the school.

How? By making a gift to Fox and increasing the percentage of their class, and the percentage of alumni, who support the school. To accomplish this, a student committee representing freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors founded the Fox Cherry Society.… Continue Reading