Executive DBA Alumni News

Earning an advanced degree requires tremendous focus, discipline as well as personal and professional sacrifice. This is especially true for working adults who may already have full-time careers, financial obligations and family responsibilities.   But degree programs like the Fox School’s Executive Doctorate in Business Administrations (DBA) program can not only enhance their lives; they can […]

Both seasoned academics and attendees with no prior research experience learned valuable lessons from the conference about social responsibility in research. For hundreds of years, business schools have operated under the principle that the primary goal of business is to build shareholders’ wealth. As the world faces looming existential issues such as climate change and […]

University spaces form something of a communal meeting place for practitioners in the field and academics that research problems faced in business. Both sets of experiences have value to offer to a discussion, and the intersection of both worlds can produce unique and unconventional approaches to solving problems and doing business.   The Fox School’s Executive […]

Fox professor publishes new book that provides career guidance for new business academics Starting a new job can pose a myriad of challenges. From learning to navigate the workplace to understanding expectations and goals, settling in a new place often takes some time. For those new to the world of academia, this rings true as […]

On Friday, April 29, the Fox School community gathered to celebrate five honorees for the 2022 Doctoral Alumni Awards.  PhD Distinguished Alumni Award: Michael Tsiros, PhD ’97, is the Patrick J. Cesarano Professor and chair of the Department of Marketing at the University of Miami. He is also the current director of the Canes Behavioral […]

As of 2017, about 24.2 million households in the United States—25% of the population—did not have access to basic financial services such as banks and online lending platforms. Some people choose not to bank with traditional financial services possibly due to lack of trust or high costs. But others lack access because financial institutions consider […]

This is one of the most common questions that people considering a DBA ask, after “What is a DBA?” We asked alumni and current students in the Fox School’s Executive Doctorate in Business Administration program to share why they believe the Fox DBA was the right choice for them. Become An Expert With many years […]

Change drives research. Research drives change. As science and research guided us through the COVID-19 pandemic with public health best practices and innovative vaccines, so can business research guide industry in our next steps. With evidence-based insights, researchers at Temple University’s Fox School of Business offer solutions to the question we’re all asking: Now what? […]

Executive MBA (EMBA) and executive DBA programs have been steadily gaining popularity in recent years. Not only do these programs provide senior-level professionals with quality higher-level education, but their flexibility and compressed time format allow professionals to balance home and work life with study.  Still, skeptics question whether the shortened and compressed format of EMBAs […]

Progress is the force that drives Shawn S. Edwards, DBA ’20, in her desire to help open pathways to diversity at the highest levels of nonprofit organizations. “I often come across individuals who want to add diversity to their boards,” Edwards says. “They are not sure where to start and they’re not sure of the […]

People are multifaceted; it’s what makes each person unique. Someone could express themselves one way in a certain situation and differently in another.  In the workplace, scholars have found that authenticity can improve an employee’s job satisfaction, commitment to an organization and even performance. But two researchers wanted to know more. How authentic does one […]

Microfinance is fairly commonplace in developing countries. But could it be a resource for female entrepreneurs, especially women of color, living and working in a city like Philadelphia? Microfinance, which includes a broad range of financial services such as deposits, loans and payments, are targeted towards underprivileged individuals seeking to provide household income and build […]

What can you say in three minutes or less? That’s what doctoral students across the Fox School of Business and Temple University were challenged to do: take their years-long dissertation research on a complex academic topic and turn it into a 180-second speech. Temple hosted its inaugural university-wide 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition in April. The […]

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 […]

“Why are there not more women in senior leadership positions?” That’s a question that has driven Melinda Hubbard for much of her career. The question also led Hubbard to pursue a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at the Fox School.