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An analysis of over 5,300 job market entrants shows that race and gender influence job market success. Our results reveal a systematic pattern of disadvantages using the theory of intersectionality, which looks at combinations of race and gender.
Learn more in a guest post for Technical.ly by Michael Dinger and executive director Munir Mandviwalla. The results are based on data from IBIT’s Information Systems Job Index.
The Digital Innovation Foundry is pleased to announce that Movision Pro is the recipient of the 2023 Digital Innovation Award in partnership with Temple University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI) Innovative Idea Competition.
Movision Pro will receive $1,000 and mentorship to develop their idea for the Be Your Own Boss Bowl (BYOBB) in Spring 2024. The Digital Innovation Award is open to all Temple University students, alumni, faculty and staff.
Entries were selected by the DIF team based on the following criteria:
At a panel session during Temple University’s MIS Academic Leadership Conference, Vince Ford, SVP, Curtis Institute, Jeff Hamilton, SVP, Pfizer Digital, Tarun Kapoor, MD, MBA, SVP, Virtua Health, Christopher Kearns, VP, Kyndryl, & George Llado, Board member, Charles River Lab, identified five best practices for increasing and sustaining academic-industry collaboration:
The Fox School hosted the MIS Academic Leadership Conference (MALC), October 26-28, 2023. MALC is the exclusive forum for MIS academic leaders including Business School Deans, Associate Deans, Department Chairs, Editors, and Program Directors to network with and learn from each other.
Topics included research impact, new directions and opportunities for Undergrad and Master’s programs, academia-industry partnerships, and redefining MBA in the age of AI.
The panel was moderated by Executive Director Munir Mandviwalla and included IBIT board members and partners Ford, Hamilton, Kearns, and Llado.
The Fox School hosted the MIS Academic Leadership Conference (MALC), October 26-28, 2023. MALC is the exclusive forum for MIS academic leaders including Business School Deans, Associate Deans, Department Chairs, Editors, and Program Directors to network with and learn from each other.
Topics included research impact, new directions and opportunities for Undergrad and Master’s programs, academia-industry partnerships, and redefining MBA in the age of AI.
President Richard Englert, Provost Gregory Mandel, and Dean Chip Hunter welcomed the participants which included over 75 senior leaders from across the nation and abroad. President Richard Englert opened the conference with the comment: Fox MIS is one of the crown jewels of Temple University.
IBIT advisory board chair, Bruce Fadem welcomed the participants at the evening reception.
The two days of intense thought-provoking discussions and brainstorming will change the shape of business education. Keynote speaker Michael Bradshaw, CIO, Kyndryl and member of the IBIT advisory board, presented a new vision for organizational IT.
The conference also featured Dean Chip Hunter who led a session on “Measuring Impact: Unraveling the Metrics and Insights from B-School Deans” with Deans Sulin Ba (DePaul), Ajay Vinze (George Mason), Saby Mitra (University of Florida) and Gert-Jan de Vreede (University of South Florida).
A session featuring Vince Ford (SVP, Curtis Institute), Jeff Hamilton (SVP, Pfizer Digital), Tarun Kapoor (SVP, Virtua Health), Christopher Kearns (VP, Kyndryl), & George Llado (Board member, Charles River Lab) identified best practices for academic-industry collaboration, while citing the IBIT advisory board as a role model.
MALC was co-chaired by Professors Sunil Wattal and IBIT Executive Director Munir Mandviwalla. IBIT co-sponsored the event.
The 2022-2023 annual report of the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) is now available to view online or download.
The report highlights our work with nationally recognized industry partners and the IBIT advisory board.
Meta: Digitally transforming workforce management at scale and with agility is a case by Munir Mandviwalla, Laurel Miller, and Larry Dignan featuring IBIT board member and Meta CIO Atish Banerjea.
The case outlines how Meta digitally transformed recruitment and enabled remote work for 70,000+ employees in a few months. Banerjea’s team pivoted their office-centric culture to remote work by applying Agile MVP principles.
The case sets the stage to investigate and research the future of work, workforce digital transformation, and Agile MVP principles as a management tool.
