Alumni News

Modern technologies are helping people make decisions in their daily lives across a broad spectrum of contexts. Ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft connect passengers with drivers while professional networking services such as Zip Recruiter connect potential employees with employers.   Platforms like these are also known as “matching markets.” While a typical online marketplace […]

In early 2021, the Young Accounting Alumni Group (YAAG) fulfilled a long-time goal in establishing the Accounting Mentor Program, spearheaded by Anne Engler, BBA ’10 and Joshua Kramer, BBA ’12 and MAcc ’13 and supported by Professor Steve Balsam. Twenty-five alumni connected with 29 students over the course of three months, creating regular opportunities for professional […]

More than ever before, women are pursuing graduate business education and stepping into management and leadership roles, according to research from the Graduate Management Admission Council. Get to know four women from different backgrounds who earned a Fox MBA and imagine what a graduate degree can do for you. Melissa DeFreece, MBA ’17, senior associate […]

Five at-large directors were elected in early May to the Board of the Fox School of Business Alumni Association (FSBAA). The board plans alumni events, develops professional development opportunities, manages the alumni association budget and works to keep the FSBAA’s 65,000 alumni connected. The at-large directors serve a three-year term beginning on July 1, 2021. […]

Many people started hobbies in 2020 due to being at home during the pandemic. However, Class of 2023 business management major Torri Burrell took her hobby to a new level. She always had a love for baking—at 12 years old, she started out making simple cakes for family gatherings. However, Burrell wanted to master the […]

Gamma Iota Sigma (GIS), the student professional organization for the Risk, Insurance and Health Management (RIHM) major at the Fox School of Business, has had to innovate over the past year. Similar to most in-person meetings, conferences and events, the student professional organization (SPO) had to transition its H. Wayne Snider Distinguished Lecture Series to […]

“So you have great experience—why did you leave your past job? Since that time, what projects have you completed?”  Many job seekers worry about being asked to explain employment gaps, and this anxiety is completely understandable. Whether this time is a result of being laid off or a decision to exit a toxic work setting, […]

In the two years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 27 million travelers with disabilities took a total of 81 million trips, spending $58.7 billion on their own travel alone.  “One of the things I’ve discovered getting my foot in the door of the hospitality industry is that accessibility often feels like a burden for […]

We’ve followed Fox School students Meredith Orme, Robert Zurzolo and Nasir Mack since their early days at Temple University, where they provided us with their hidden talents and hobbies. We were reacquainted with the trio as they started their sophomore trek. Last year, we talked about 2020 time capsules and trends. Years after our first […]

Wise’s appearance is co-sponsored by School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management and Fox School of Business; virtual event is free and open to the public PHILADELPHIA, April 21, 2021 — When it comes to combating racism in America, an important first step is recognizing the role systemic racism has played in the county’s history. […]

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 Fox 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 […]

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 […]