Press & Media

Michael E. Porter discusses regional and global competitiveness in Innovation Leadership Speaker Series Discussed in this issue: • Fox offers 5% scholarship to Temple alumni returning for graduate programs • Milton Hershey School exec, a Fox alumnus, partners with Temple • Fox Global MBA elevates to Top 50 in U.S. News rankings

Fox School of Business Strategic Management Professor Ram Mudambi’s day-to-day routine may seem to include teaching and conducting research on international business, but that’s not all Mudambi does. He works to cultivate the people of Zon. Mudambi’s first fantasy novel, The Empire of Zon, imagines a society in which two megatrends shape the way of […]

Although the HBO series Boardwalk Empire is a work of historical fiction, Fox School alumnus Edward McGinty, BBA ’89, the show’s research advisor, helps ensure that the writers’ words are backed up with historical facts. Here, he talks about how growing up in Atlantic City helped land him a job on the acclaimed series.

Analytics has rapidly integrated into the sport industry to optimize scheduling, assist with resource allocation, and examine the legal environment within sports organizations. A new report from the Temple University Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT), based at the Fox School of Business, examines the history and current state of analytics and Big Data […]

It started as an April Fools’ Day joke: Members of Gamma Iota Sigma-Sigma Chapter – the academic fraternity for students in risk management, insurance and actuarial science – were going to have their heads shaved to raise money and awareness for the fight against childhood cancer. Just nine days later, that joke got serious. Thirteen […]

Upon completion of the Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program (MECEP) Jeffrey Simonton, BBA ’13, was able to finish his undergraduate degree in legal studies at the Fox School of Business and earn the rank of second lieutenant. As homage of his hard work and time devoted to finishing his degree, he held his Officer Commissioning […]

Fox School of Business adjunct professor of entrepreneurship Chris Rabb will be one of the speakers at this year’s TEDxPhiladelphia, which will examine the conference theme The New Workshop of the World and will be held at the Temple Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 28. Rabb was nominated by his colleagues to be a […]

Temple University’s Fox School of Business is honoring three top technology leaders at its 14th annual Information Technology Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, on Temple University’s Main Campus. The nationally ranked Department of Management Information Systems (MIS) and the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) organize this premier event for Greater Philadelphia’s technology […]

In a recent day-long visit to the Fox School of Business, legendary business strategist Michael E. Porter addressed two different audiences – Fox MBAs and Philadelphia executives – on two different topics: creating shared value through business and addressing the looming challenges of U.S. competitiveness. While his presentations differed in substance, they were unified in […]

The Association for Information Systems (AIS) has named Temple AIS the Chapter of the Year, the highest honor any student chapter can receive. And it’s not just for the glory, either: with this distinction comes $1,000 in grant money, allocated for student initiatives. Temple’s first-place win follows three years of having been named runner-up as […]

Philadelphia surpasses U.S. average in rate of global innovation connectedness Discussed in this issue: • Trusting communities tend to produce more entrepreneurs • Smellizing increases consumer desire • Theoretical model on sport coaches’ employment outcomes

Michael E. Porter discusses regional and global competitiveness in Innovation Leadership Speaker Series Discussed in this issue: • Global MBA elevates to Top 50 by U.S. News & World Report • Temple Knowledge Map Research Program Launches • Journal of International Management Reaches High Impact Factor

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 […]