Prior to joining Temple, he was a senior financial executive at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas. He has taught courses at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive MBA (Philadelphia and Tokyo). Dr. Scott was awarded the 1998 SBM Honors Teacher of the year, 1999 Andrisani-Frank Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2000 Musser Award for Leadership in Teaching. Dr. Scott’s research activities focus on small business access to credit markets and he is an adjunct scholar with the National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation. His publications have appeared in Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economics and Business, Financial Analysts Journal, and Financial Review.