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

Temple University’s Fox School of Business and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) are collaborating to create a program – resembling Fox’s renowned Enterprise Management Consulting (EMC) Practice – in which Australian MBA students will provide professional-grade consulting services.

For more than a decade, Fox School MBAs have participated in a required and closely supervised consulting project for paying clients. These EMC teams have completed more than 200 projects – and generated $278 million of new investment – for high-technology startups, social ventures and large corporations, including 60 foreign businesses across 10 countries.… Continue Reading

Professors never know the long-term impact and influence they have on their students. Similarly, Fox School of Business Professor Norman Baglini said, “we the faculty learn from our students; we learn about you and we learn from you.”

“And we certainly, all of us, learned from Eric and Kevin about how to give the gift of life,” he continued. “The lesson they left with us is exactly that.… Continue Reading