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Launching dreams and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, the 17th annual Be Your Own Boss Bowl (BYOBB) provides a platform for today’s startups to become tomorrow’s next big hit. The event, organized by the Temple University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI), awards $160,000 in cash prizes, plus more than $40,000 in non-cash prizes including […]

The Center for Student Professional Development (CSPD) at the Fox School of Business is looking to build upon its previous networking successes to make its next event one of the best yet. The Spring Connection, which is scheduled for Feb. 11th, is set to mirror the CSPD’s Fall Connection. The Spring Connection follows up September’s […]

Three Temple University alumni, including a pair from the Fox School of Business, have been chosen for inclusion in DreamIt Ventures’ recent round of accelerator programs. Fox alums Yasmine Mustafa and Ofo Ezeugwu, and School of Media and Communication alumna Bethany Edwards, comprise Temple’s best showing in a DreamIt Ventures batch. Founded in 2008, the […]

An orthopedic surgeon and spinal specialist, Alex Vaccaro maintains a tightly organized schedule. He’s the Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Sidney Kimmel Medical Center at Thomas Jefferson University and President of Philadelphia’s Rothman Institute. He’s also pursuing his Online Master’s of Business Administration through Temple University’s Fox School of Business. In January, U.S. News […]

Jamira Burley’s professional mission involves doing what’s right, and not what’s necessarily popular, which includes her recent move away from her hometown of Philadelphia. Burley, FOX ’12, recently accepted a position as a Senior Campaigner for Gun Violence and Human Rights with Amnesty International USA, the domestic division of the global human rights organization. To […]

Big Data Institute has big ambitions for Year 2 Discussed in this issue: • Big data, the new face of statistical and computational analysis. • Big data is the collection of data sets so large that it is difficult to process them with traditional methods. •  Fox School of Business creates the Big Data Institute    

“Trailblazer” Ira Lubert honored as Musser Award recipient Discussed in this issue: • Temple University’s Fox School of Business recognized Lubert as the recipient of the Musser Award for Excellence in Leadership. • The Musser Awards dinner and reception gathered Philadelphia’s leading business executives under one roof. •Temple University President Neil D. Theobald reflected upon […]

Dressed in business-professional attire, Fox School of Business students exited Alter Hall’s elevators and streamed into the seventh-floor MBA Commons. With their shoulders straight, the students found their places beside two rows of corkboards, as industry leaders walked aisle to aisle and quizzed them on their respective research findings. These activities marked the culmination of […]

An undergraduate program at Temple University’s Fox School of Business has been recognized among those with the finest graduation rates in the country. The Fox School’s Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resource Management earned a No. 7 national rank in a recent report that highlighted the country’s top-25 such programs, published last month by […]

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 […]