Alumni

Through the Institute for Business and Information Technology, students create digital services and e-commerce for Merchants Fund clients affected by COVID-19 PHILADELPHIA, April 9, 2021 — Eileen Teti was thinking 2020 was going to be her year. She was in the process of renovating Hair Way to Beauty, a Northeast Philadelphia salon she had purchased […]

 Dominick Leuzzi and Matthew McCabe, BBA ’22, founded the Tea Shirt Company in 2019.   The Tea Shirt Company offers screen printing and embroidery services. The company’s name is a play on words, inspired by Leuzzi and McCabe’s beverage of choice during the initial stages of the creation of their business.  “I got to Temple and […]

The Master of Accountancy (MAcc) program is celebrating its 10th anniversary in an unusual year due to COVID-19. All classes have been virtual for the fall and spring semesters. The 10th cohort MAcc students have adjusted to the virtual environment, but are looking forward to changes this summer.  “We plan to move to a hybrid […]

Marcus Collins, DBA ’21, considers himself one part academic, one part practitioner. He finds himself putting his ideas in the world as an advertiser and putting people in the world as an instructor.  Collins recently was among the eight inductees selected to enter the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement for 2020. The inductees were […]

 Autumn Moore, BBA ‘10, has made it her mission to empower entrepreneurial women. That mission led her to start her own small business and it’s the impetus behind her dissertation, Race, Generation, and Gender: Reflections of African American Millennial Women Entrepreneurs on their Career Development.  A Bill Gates Scholarship recipient, Moore pursued her undergraduate degree […]

When Megan Kristel, BBA ’02,  founded her blog The Well Dressed Life in 2015, she did not expect it to become the primary avenue for achieving her goals of connecting with people and fostering a community in the world of retail fashion.       “I had used it [the blog] for traditional marketing. I thought, ‘I wonder […]

Like many good ideas, the first Temple University American Marketing Association (TU-AMA) Talent Show was born from a joke among colleagues and friends.  “There are so many people in our organization with cool talents. For years, we joked about doing a talent show,” says Kevin Cassidy, Class of 2022 and co-director of the Social Impact […]

“We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don’t get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.” Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, UCLA Law Professor In February, the Department of Legal Studies at […]

In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Fox School’s Master of Accountancy (MAcc) program, we recently reconnected with students from the first cohort. Daniel Fox, Albert Merkin and Stephanie Smith reflect on their time at Temple and how the Fox MAcc program set them up for success.   The Master of Accountancy program was established […]

The hardest part of change management isn’t coming up with an idea, it’s reaching out and lining up support for each stage of the process. “You need to find those people who will get behind your idea, to champion it, to implement it,” says Marilyn Anthony, assistant professor of strategic management and one of the […]

Shaun Cole, BBA ’25, is somewhat of an anomaly amongst their peers at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. At the age of 42, Cole is returning to academia to continue an education that they walked away from almost two decades ago. Cole attended Delta State University in the late 90s, pursuing a degree in […]

In 2017, David Larsen, BBA ‘17, was in his final year as a finance student when he met up with Jason Jiang, assistant professor in the Department of Finance, and asked to pick his professor’s brain. This conversation led to a partnership with Professor Jiang and a published paper in a good academic journal — […]

With the release of his single, “Un1ty: An Anthem for Humanity,” Rushil Vishwanathan, Class of 2023, draws from the music that has surrounded him since he was a child. He comes from a musical family, but early on, he only saw music as a hobby. It was not until he started to sing, become more […]

It’s a common misconception that empathy is lacking in many business people’s ideologies. According to Michael Zuckerman, an associate professor of instruction in the Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, that is not the case. “You can’t ask someone to do something or help an organization unless […]

As a business school, we want to continuously provide our community with the best options for small business shopping, whether you’re looking for books, makeup, sweet treats, art or cleaning services. Here are some of our favorite Black-owned businesses, comprised of Temple alumni, students, North Philly neighbors and more. Amalgam Comics & Coffee  Pound Cake […]