Press & Media

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Chief Judge Theodore McKee, a member of the Temple University board of trustees, gave a public presentation Feb. 21 at the Fox School of Business on the topic of free speech in education. McKee, who visited the Fox School in his capacity as the Department of Legal […]

Gum. Plastic bags. Tipped over. People don’t want to touch trashcan handles. Those were some of the dozens of observations about trash and litter in Philadelphia that were handwritten on colorful sticky notes hanging on the windows of the rooftop Hamilton Garden at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Thanks to an outpouring of […]

Many companies and organizations have set up defenses to keep hackers on the outside, protecting the information of their customers and clients. However, with increasingly sophisticated use of malware, some hackers can sit silently within a company’s information systems for years without being detected. A new report from the Temple University Institute for Business and […]

Temple University’s Fox School of Business and partner school ENPC School of Management in France have received Tier One rankings from the International Graduate Forum’s (IGF) 2013 Winter MBA Rankings. IGF compiled its rankings based on key performance indicators (KPIs) that are valued and of interest to prospective students. KPIs included: international diversity, class sizes, […]

Paper resumes, a staple at career fairs, recently got an upgrade. In a first for the Philadelphia region, Temple University’s Fox School of Business used Recpass mobile technology to allow undergraduate and MBA students to submit their resumes to recruiters through personalized QR codes and a mobile application. The Fox School’s Feb. 19 Spring Connection, […]

The Time Warner Medialab, Innerscope Research and Temple University’s Center for Neural Decision Making (CNDM) at the Fox School of Business have announced the results of a comprehensive study of this year’s Super Bowl ads that reinforced the power of emotion and compelling storytelling. The research teams used a combination of biometric and fMRI (functional […]

Seeing is believing, but smellizing – a new term for prompting consumers to imagine the smell of a product – could be the next step toward more effective advertising. Researchers came to this conclusion through four studies of products most of us would like to smellize: cookies and cake. Professor of Marketing Maureen Morrin of […]

Fox Online MBA ranks Top 10 in U.S. News survey of Best Online Business Programs Discussed in this issue: • Fox School ranks No. 12 for International Management in QS Global 200 ranking • Philadelphia surpasses U.S. average in rate of global connectedness • Fox students make their movie debut in The Wolf of Wall […]

Fox BBA in MIS moves into the Top 15 in US News and World Report Discussed in this issue: • MIS alum ranked Fortune’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business • 100% placement (again)! Congratulations to the class of May 2013! • Interview: Jonathan Brassington, CEO of LiquidHub

Todor Raykov’s journey from Bulgaria to Philadelphia, where he is one of two Fulbright Scholars studying at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, began in 2007 with a blog post he sent out into the then incipient Bulgarian blogosphere. The post discussed political apathy among Bulgarian youth and gained widespread attention. The response inspired Raykov […]

The cement and concrete industry – an industry that has not substantially changed its production methods in 80 years – may not be the first place one would expect to find innovation, but innovating seems to come naturally to Juan David Penagos, director of new business for Colombian-based Argos, the fifth-largest cement producer in Latin […]

Assistant Professor Steven N. Pyser, jointly appointed to the Legal Studies and Human Resource Management departments of Temple University’s Fox School of Business, has contributed his insights on the impact of trust on business success in a new book, Trust Inc.: Strategies for Building Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset. Trust Inc.’s editor, Barbara Brooks Kimmel […]

As the saying goes, “A group that works together, stays together.” Therefore, a group or community based on trust can reap benefits from one another. Trusting communities tend to foster self-employed people or entrepreneurs whose successes are one in the same with the community. Self-employment ranges from about 5.7 percent in areas with very low […]

CEOs tend to overstay their welcome, hurting firm performance, new study finds Discussed in this issue: • Di Benedetto ranks sixth among innovation management scholars • Investments in operations can improve pharmaceutical business • Alumna authors book with scientific advice from Fox faculty member

Fox MS in Human Resource Management program grows in Philadelphia and expands to Singapore Discussed in this issue: • Dr. Portwood improves health conditions in Cameroon • Fox hosts 27th Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference • Students organize charity events through leadership HR course