PhD Students

As innovative technology captures increasingly intricate bodily responses to advertisements, Fox researchers collaborate with industry leaders on how to harness the influx of new data. The most successful advertisements can quite literally get beneath a viewer’s skin. Increasingly, researchers are using advanced technology to measure the neurophysiological responses that people have while viewing their advertisements.  […]

Being a PhD student isn’t easy. Between researching, writing and teaching, the pursuit of a PhD may feel like a complete departure from the undergraduate or master’s degree experience.   While working toward a PhD can be incredibly rigorous, it’s often a rewarding experience for aspiring researchers—especially for those with the guidance of supportive faculty and […]

Earning a doctorate degree is an enormous accomplishment. It comes after many years of dedication to a field of study, intense research training and forming collaborative relationships with world-class faculty. But once you have the degree, what comes next?  Before embarking on the next phase of his journey, the Fox Editorial team had the chance […]

The 2008 financial crisis caused financial institutions on Wall Street to hold trillions of dollars of near-worthless investments. Some critics argue that the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act of 1933 played a big role in accelerating the financial crisis. The Glass Steagall Act separated investment banking from commercial banking. Banks that offered commercial loans […]

John D’Arcy, PhD ’05, shares how his love for cybersecurity shaped his professional life Nothing is more rewarding than achieving something you have been working towards for a long time. For John D’Arcy, PhD ’05, that rang true when he was appointed senior editor for MIS Quarterly, the preeminent academic journal in his field, in […]

Leaders in several countries—India, China, the U.S. and Brazil to name a few—have witnessed some level of public outrage towards the mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic. But how will their political ratings be affected as a result? Jenson Lau, a current PhD student in the Fox School’s Department of Human Resource Management, posed this question […]

A PhD student at Temple University’s Fox School of Business has accepted a position at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. Michelle Andrews, who is pursuing a Marketing PhD at Fox, will join Emory’s Goizueta Business School in August 2015 as a tenure-track assistant professor of marketing. U.S. News and World Report included Goizueta in its […]

Fox School of Business PhD candidate Kevin Yili Hong, whose research interests include economic and behavioral issues in online labor markets, has received a tenure-track assistant professorship at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Hong came to the Fox School from China in 2009, to work with Paul A. Pavlou, Milton […]

Fox School of Business PhD candidate Mike Obal, whose research includes disruptive innovation adoption, interorganizational relationships, new product development (NPD), and online marketplaces, has been hired as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Obal won the 2013 Robert Robicheaux Best Supply Chain Management Dissertation […]

A research paper authored by a current PhD student at Temple University’s Fox School of Business has earned international acclaim. Pauline Milwood recently received the Best Paper Award at the second biennial Advances in Destination Management Conference, for her paper titled, “Knowledge, Innovation and the Role of the Destination Management Organization: Integrating Stakeholder and Network […]

A PhD student from Temple University’s Fox School of Business proved she can stand out in a crowd. Michelle Andrews received the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2014 American Marketing Association Summer Educator Conference Aug. 2 in San Francisco. Andrews’ paper, titled, “Using Mobile Technology to Crowdsense,” employed crowdedness as an environmental factor that […]

Finance PhD student Jamie Weathers would not have chosen the Fox School had it not been for the PhD Project. In the fall of 2010, Weathers applied to a conference sponsored by the PhD Project, which was held in Chicago and featured an array of speakers and various networking opportunities. “It was extremely energizing, motivational, […]

A recent graduate of the PhD program at Temple University’s Fox School of Business has received international acclaim for her research paper. Dr. Dan Zhang, a 2012 PhD alumna of the Fox School, recently was recognized as the runner-up for the Christer Karlsson Best Paper Award for her paper titled, “Affect, Attitude, and Meaning: Assessing […]

When Bernard J. Milano, BS ’61, led the formation of the PhD Project in 1994 to support African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in attaining their business PhDs and becoming professors, there were fewer than 300 people of color in the country with doctorates in business. As the PhD Project celebrates its 20th anniversary […]

Second-year PhD student Christine Wegner recently won the North American Society for Sport Management’s (NASSM) 2014 Student Research Competition. NASSM strives to promote, stimulate, and encourage study, research, scholarly writing, and professional development in the area of sport management — both theoretical and applied aspects. Wegner’s winning paper, titled Black Girls Run: Identity Creation Within a […]