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Take me out to the ballgame? Why bother? An alumnus of Temple University’s Fox School of Business is bringing the game to you. Jonathan Retano, MBA ‘02, is the co-founder of Fun Fieldz LLC, a mobile entertainment venture that converts backyards into ballfields for functions of any size. “It really started when my wife would […]

A defining moment, early in Peter Gurt’s life, shaped his career path in many unexpected ways. The youngest of eight children from Northeast Philadelphia, Gurt had a non-traditional upbringing. His father, Ray, died prior to Gurt’s second birthday. To make ends meet, and on a family friend’s suggestion, Gurt’s mother enrolled him and his two […]

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 […]

Big Data At the Fox School of Business and School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, PhD students work closely with world-renowned faculty to publish in top journals and to learn best practices in the classroom. VIEW/DOWNLOAD FLIP BOOK

Hundreds of leading management and organization scholars will descend upon Philadelphia, and professors from Temple University’s Fox School of Business professors will be among them. Philadelphia serves as the host city for the 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, which runs Aug. 1-5. More than 25 Fox School professors will participate in the […]

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 […]

Employees behave badly under “do nothing” managers Discussed in this issue: • fMRI and biometric research reveals key elements in Super Bowl ad success • The Sport Industry Research Center enters strategic partnership with Appventures • How to protect companies from advanced cyber-security threats

Fox Executive Programs Now in Center City Discussed in this issue: • International business scholar Ram Mudambi shows another side in The Empire of the Zon • Temple’s Be Your Own Boss Bowl® Awards $225,000 to mobile tech platform for autistic children • Fox alumnus a major player in inspiring Disney’s Million Dollar Arm movie

Most college-bound students opt to spend their summer months coasting into the next stage of their lives. Coasting doesn’t suit Ryan Rist. Coasters, on the other hand… An incoming freshman student at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, Rist turned his senior capstone project at Brookfield High School in Brookfield, Conn., into an exercise in […]

Floor-to-ceiling windows at The HUB at Commerce Square accentuate the views of Market Street from one of its many breakout rooms. Even on a soggy night, the sight was something to behold. “Just amazing,” one current Executive MBA student was overheard saying to himself. Temple University’s Fox School of Business welcomed more than 100 guests […]

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 […]

Ask people to describe the quintessential leader and it’s unlikely you will hear the word “passive.” One reason that passivity and leadership are not equated is that a passive manager can cause a host of problems. According to researchers at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, one such problem is the increase of workplace incivility, […]

The 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium on Decision Neuroscience (ISDN) was held at Stanford University in California June 6-7, marking the conference’s first West Coast appearance.  Temple University and the Fox School of Business, home to the first three ISDN conferences, was once again the key sponsor for the event. The conference organizing committee included Drs. […]

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 […]

International exchanges are a common occurrence for Global Executive MBA (EMBA) students. For the first time, however, the Fox School has taken travel out of the equation and brought students from its Philadelphia campus together with those from its international campuses for a two-hour Global EMBA integration workshop using WebEx™ conference technology. While distance learning […]