Our Vision

The Translational Research Center strives to magnify the impact of the research conducted by the faculty and students of the Fox School of Business and the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management. Since our founding in 2018, our goal has been to help faculty and students ask better questions and make new knowledge more useful and accessible to a broad audience of decision-makers.

Our Approach

For decades, business schools have been discussing the problem of translating the insights of academic research into practical applications in industry. Many challenges—from language barriers and relevant questions to academic infrastructure and misaligned incentives—keeps research from impacting industry and society.

The Fox School reaffirmed its commitment to research leadership as one of the four pillars of the Fox Strategic Plan 2025. The Translational Research Center plays a critical role in helping researchers positively impact the world through innovative curricula, applicable research insights and teaching methodologies.

We focus on

Research Connect: Connecting researchers to business leaders and policymakers to ask and answer better research questions.
Evidence-based Teaching & Learning: Integrating research practice and insights into the classroom while informing teaching and learning practice with the latest pedagogical research.
Research Reach: Supporting the diffusion of research insights to a variety of audiences.
Impact & Infrastructure: Working to build the platform, incentives and impact measures that support ever more insightful and useful research.

Activities

The Translational Research Center manages programs and event series designed to connect researchers, business leaders and policymakers in asking better research questions, distribute research insights widely, inform teaching and learning with research, and build a platform to increase the impact of business research.

Resources

Closing the gap between research and practice takes time—and effort. The Translational Research Center has developed a series of resources that capture the contextual and systemic challenges, summarize the thoughts of leaders in the field, and outline the suggested paths forward.

Events

PhD Student Paper Competition

October 1

Research Connect: Engaging Race at Work

October 7

Effective Case Writing: Identifying the Key Business Decision…

October 16

News

Do you use empathy in the classroom?

September 9

Magnifying the impact of research

June 25

Philadelphia’s hub for innovations in healthcare

January 20

Translating research to spark change in the real…

August 13

Changing How Research Makes an Impact

May 6

Fox School Research Achievements, Three Ways

May 9

Driving Real Impact at the Fox School

March 15

Fox School Launches Translational Research Center to Unite…

March 6

Leadership

Sudipta Basu

Accounting

Associate Dean, Research and Doctoral Programs

sudipta.basu@temple.edu

215.204.0489

Office LocationAlter Hall 371
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Titles & RolesAssociate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs

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Theodore (TL) Hill

Strategic Management

Professor

tl.hill@temple.edu

215-204-3079

Office Location1810 Building Room 548
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Titles & RolesManaging Director, Fox Management Consulting and Center for Executive Education
Managing Director, Translational Research Center

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Monica Wadhwa

Marketing and Supply Chain Management

Associate Professor

monica.wadhwa@temple.edu

215-204-5051

Office LocationAlter Hall 510
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Titles & RolesResearch Impact Director, Translational Research Center

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Marilyn Anthony

Assistant Professor of Practice

tuf38224@temple.edu

215.204.5708

Titles & RolesStrategic Outreach Director, Translational Research Center

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Daniel Funk

School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management

Professor

dfunk@temple.edu

215-204-1972

Titles & RolesDirector of Research and PhD Programs, STHM
Senior Advisor, Translational Research Center

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Megan Alt

Marketing and Communications

Associate Director

megan.alt@temple.edu

215-204-2383

Office Location1810 Liacouras Walk, Office 247
Titles & RolesAssociate Director of Strategic Marketing and Communication, Office of Research and Doctoral Programs
Communications and Research Reach, Translational Research Center

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