Dr. Donald T Wargo, Assistant Professor (Instructional Track)
Donald T. Wargo, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Economics and Business Ethics. At Temple, he has taught courses in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, International Monetary Economics, Global Economics, Business Ethics, Managerial Economics and statistics to undergraduate and to MBA students for the last seven years. Dr. Wargo is regularly rated by the students as one of the best professors at Temple University. He is also currently the advisor to the Temple Economics Society.
In addition, Dr. Wargo is a founding member of the Business Ethics Curriculum Committee and has collaborated in designing, implementing and teaching the business ethics courses at Temple. In conjunction with this, Dr. Wargo is also a founding member of the Fox School Center for Ethics and Organizational Integrity, a multi-faceted organization that will engage in research and programs in Business Ethics.
Dr. Wargo brings a wealth of academic experience and real world business experience to his Temple teaching. Prior to accepting a position at Temple, he spent thirty years in the business world as an executive for some of America’s largest companies and also for small family-owned companies. For the fifteen years immediately prior to teaching at Temple, he was President and CEO of his own Commercial Real Estate Development Company, where he developed, either for his own account or in joint venture with some of the country’s largest public real estate development companies, over a dozen large grocery-anchored shopping centers.
Dr. Wargo holds an M.A. and a PhD in Economics and B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy. His current areas of research include business ethics, neuroeconomics, the neuroscience of decisions and how students learn. He has articles and books either in publication or forthcoming in the areas of business ethics and neuroeconomics.
Dr. Wargo is a member of the American Economic Association, the Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Neuroeconomics and the National Association for Business Economics. He is very active in Community Service, particularly for his church, both at the local and national level and is an active advisor to a number of corporate and non-profit organizations around the country.