James E. Nevels, founder and chairman of The Swarthmore Group and chairman of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, will receive the eighth annual Musser Award for Excellence in Leadership on October 27 at an awards dinner and ceremony presented by Temple’s Fox School of Business and Management.

At a major national conference on Thursday, and Friday, October 7-8 in Washington, DC, mayors and other government officials, academic experts, and technology leaders from across the country will examine federal, state and local governments response to the homeland security challenge during the Mayors’ Technology Summit on Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Economic Development. The conference is jointly hosted by Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams and the Center for Competitive Government at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and Management.

“The economies of the future will be based on Brazil, Russia, Israel and China,” explained David Freschman, entrepreneur-in-residence at The Fox School and president of the Delaware Innovation Fund at The Fox School's sixth annual International Venture Fair on June 3, 2004.

How can women enter the global marketplace and find success? The Fox School’s 2nd annual Developing Women Entrepreneurs conference, presented by Temple University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), addressed this growing segment of women entrepreneurs, who either are currently in the global marketplace or who want to become part of that marketplace.

Everyone knows that it’s the movers and shakers who make the best business leaders. Rebecca Davis, however, took that to another level when she presented her idea to the Business Plan Competition sponsored by The Fox School’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI).