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Admittedly, Cassandra Reffner said she does not have as great of an understanding of mathematical analytics as business-school students. And she said she only understands the most basic functions of Microsoft Excel. What Reffner does know, however, is how to analyze data and display it in a creative, understandable manner. A junior graphic design student […]

Sandra Myerson’s interest in healthcare began early, dating to a conversation she had in her adolescence with her mother, Patricia Keating Myerson, a now retired registered nurse. “I think she knew I’d never be bored and that I’d be able to support myself, and those are always good things for a young person to hear […]

In City of Brotherly Love, Fox alumna prepares to open co-working space for her entrepreneurial sisters Discussed in this issue: • Fox alumna Yasmine Mustafa driven by freedom • Fox’s Global MBA leaps 20 places in The Economist’s global rankings • EMBA alum Beth Duffy inducted into Women’s Hall of Fame

Fox graduates third cohort of MAcc program Discussed in this issue: • Training in analytics, IT value, and cyber-security are a hit with NBCUniversal • New advisory council attracts national leaders in digital marketing • Alums come back for career fair

Fox graduates third cohort of MAcc program Discussed in this issue: • Recent grads establish Young Alumni Accounting Group • Alum Maxine Romano has the ingredients for success • PICPA conference inspires area high school students

The energy among the Fox Fund students is palpable. Gathered in the Capital Markets Room at the Fox School of Business, the students don’t answer to textbooks or professors, but a much-more fickle master: the major stock exchanges in New York. Students of the Fox Fund, which was introduced in 2012, meet three days a […]

The Legal Studies department at Temple University’s Fox School of Business will once again bring law to life, with what its chairperson hopes is another hot-button theme for Law Week. “We always try to do something controversial,” said Dr. Samuel D. Hodge, Jr., Professor and Chair of Legal Studies. “Last year, we discussed same sex […]

If participation in a recent Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI) competition is any indication, entrepreneurship is alive and well at Temple University. Final presentations for IEI’s Innovative Idea Competition, held Nov. 12 at Alter Hall at the Fox School of Business, featured representatives from seven of Temple University’s 17 schools and colleges: Fox, the School […]

Last month, Dr. M. Moshe Porat was in exclusive company. The Dean of Temple University’s Fox School of Business, Porat attended the Global Deans’ Forum as an invited speaker. The two-day event, held Oct. 24-25 at the HSBC Business School at Peking University, in Shenzhen, China, assembled 41 business school deans from colleges and universities […]

Leila Bouamatou doesn’t appear as though she had been traveling for two days. Her make-up is impeccable and her bright blue, polka-dotted melehfa stands out against the stoic dress of her Western classmates. She and her husband, Tah Meouloud, are at ease nearly 4,000 miles from home and surrounded by strangers. Bouamatou and Meouloud are […]

Cradling his note cards, Ira Lubert temporarily set aside his prepared remarks in order to speak from the heart. A giant in Philadelphia’s private equity and real estate sectors, Lubert is admittedly a man of few words. And from the lectern at Mitten Hall, he chose those words carefully. “I don’t like to be the […]

More than 40 students from Temple University’s Fox School of Business went from Broad Street to Wall Street last month, and they covered more ground than simply the 100 miles that separate the two East Coast cities. At the second annual Temple Wall Street Day, held in New York City, Fox School students united with […]

Cody Calafiore went from big man on campus and business-school graduate to “Big Brother” contestant. A 2013 alumnus of the Fox School of Business and former Temple men’s soccer player, Calafiore finished runner-up on the 16th season of “Big Brother.” The reality show, which airs on CBS, thrusts strangers into a shared living arrangement without […]

Dr. Hilal Atasoy received the 2014 Young Researcher Award at the fifth-annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics. The honor – conferred during the Oct. 10-11 conference, hosted by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business – recognizes the best research paper led by a junior-faculty member. “This is a tremendous achievement […]