Quoted: Glenn Fox in The Washington Post
FOX, assistant professor of clinical entrepreneurship, spoke with The Washington Post about his research connecting the practice of gratitude to social bonding and joy.
Dr. Glenn Fox is a faculty member at the University of Southern California's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, in the Marshall School of Business. His current projects focus on neural systems for emotion regulation, high stakes training, and developing entrepreneurial mindset skills in founders and business leaders.
Glenn received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from USC, where he focused on the neural correlates of gratitude, empathy, and neuroplasticity. Currently, Glenn is the Director and Founder of the USC Found Well Initiative which aims to understand and promote entrepreneurial mindset in founders and business leaders.
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Quoted: Glenn Fox in The Washington Post
FOX, assistant professor of clinical entrepreneurship, spoke with The Washington Post about his research connecting the practice of gratitude to social bonding and joy.
Quoted: Glenn Fox in Seattle Medium
Seattle Medium cites research from FOX, assistant professor of clinical entrepreneurship, that found practicing gratitude can positively affect your physical health.
Quoted: Glenn Fox in the Los Angeles Times
FOX, assistant professor of clinical entrepreneurship — who introduced the founders of Drumboxing — speaks to the heightened demand on working memory and associated benefits of this new "brain fitness" technique.
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Greif Professor Shares New Research on How To Be More Grateful
Glenn Fox finds dignity, “need-matching” are key elements in building gratitude for startups.
Neuroscientist Teaches Students the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Glenn Fox’s commitment to gratitude and empathy garners high regard from Marshall students.
Faculty and Staff Awards Honor Stand-Out Members of Marshall School
The Marshall community recognized their fellow faculty and staff for leadership, inclusivity, and excellence in teaching and research.
Demo Day Showcases Over 50 Startups
Founders exhibited cutting-edge companies at TroyLabs’ annual marquee event.
Summer Program Culminates with New Strategy Competition
USC Marshall Pre-College students took four weeks of courses on topics spanning from analytics to entrepreneurship. The summer was capped by a friendly case competition, the inaugural “Marshall Strategy Challenge."
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Reconnaissance Marine training is deliberately difficult, to assure that graduates have the capabilities required to function successfully in the high-risk military occupational specialty. The majority of training attrition is due to voluntary withdrawal and previous research has identified certain predictive factors such as demographics, mental status, and physical performance. While some characteristics of training attrition have been identified, there is still a lack of understanding related to an individual’s profile that is more apt to complete Recon training. Retrospective survey data was analyzed from 3,438 trainees within the Reconnaissance Training Company. Surveys were related to trainees’ military recruitment history and other military experience, prior life experience, athletic experience, self-identified personality characteristics and motivations, and reasons for voluntary withdrawal if applicable, as well as physical performance metrics. Various demographic factors, self-reported hobbies, motivations, aquatic experience, and physical performance were associated with success in Recon Marine training courses. Subjects who voluntarily withdrew from training most commonly cited mental stress and aquatic rigor as the reason and less commonly cited reasons were physical and family reasons. These results could potentially increase training success, but more research is needed to understand the relationships between the observed trainee characteristics and success in elite warfighter training.
Infusing a culture of gratitude into an organization can enhance employee engagement and effectiveness. This note makes the case that focusing on this lever of culture-building can pay major dividends for small and large organizations alike. In the accompanying exercise, students work in groups to create and pitch an innovative workout or dance for Action Potential Enterprise, a firm that specializes in predicting fitness trends and launching new workout products. APE used to be a leader in the industry, but poor management and a lack of innovation has recently caused a decrease in their popularity. The teams must work quickly to help fix APE's stagnant culture and generate new products, each led by a manager with an assigned approach to gratitude and accountability. Students will gain insight into how different managerial styles affect team dynamics and workplace culture.
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