Faculty
Management and Organization
Paul Adler
Building
HOH
Room / Office
516
Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy, Professor of Management and Organization, Sociology, and Environmental Studies
PhD, University of Picardie; DEA, EHESS
Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization, of Sociology, and of Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. He holds the Marshall Business School's Harold Quinton Chair in Business Policy. He began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974, where he received his doctorate in Economics and Management while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the USA in 1981, and before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering.
Eric Anicich
Building
HOH
Room / Office
411
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, Columbia University; MSc, Oxford University; BA, Northwestern University
Eric Anicich studies the forms and functions of social hierarchy within groups. His research has been published in leading academic journals including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Psychological Science. Additionally, accounts of his work have appeared in numerous popular media and business outlets including Forbes, The Economist, CNN, New York Times, TIME, Sports Illustrated, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Fast Company, and the Harvard Business Review. In 2021, Poets & Quants recognized him as one of the “Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors.”
Marco Aponte-Moreno
Building
HOH
Room / Office
419
Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
PhD, CUNY Graduate Center; MBA, Nicholls State University; BA, University of Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle.
Dr. Aponte-Moreno’s teaching and research focus on leadership development, strategy and global business. His main work examines how the arts in general, and theater in particular, can be used to develop leadership skills. Prior to joining academia, he worked in global corporate finance for international financial firms including Crédit Lyonnais (France), Mizuho (Japan) and ED&F Mann (UK). In his work on leadership development through theater, he draws on more than twenty years of experience in stage productions in New York, London and the San Francisco Bay Area. He is originally from Venezuela and has lived and worked in the US, France and the UK.
Arvind Bhambri
Building
HOH
Room / Office
517
Associate Professor of Management and Organization
DBA, Harvard University; MM, Indian Institute of Management; BTech, Maharaja Sayajirao University
Arvind Bhambri specializes in strategic change, competitive strategy, business development, and leadership. He has twice received the Golden Apple Award for MBA teaching and the Management & Organization Outstanding Teacher Award four times. In 2008, a Wall Street Journal special report profiled him as one of the fourteen best EMBA professors worldwide. In 2009, he received the Evan C. Thompson Award for Learning and Teaching Innovation. Professor Bhambri has served on on the faculty of the Getty Museum Leadership Institute, Bocconi University, University of Hawaii's Advanced Management Program, and the Owner Managed Business Institute in Boston.
Christopher Bresnahan
Building
HOH
Room / Office
417
Assistant Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
Dr. Christopher Bresnahan is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Management and Organization department at the Marshall School of Business. Dr. Bresnahan teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level. His courses focus on organizational behavior, leadership, and understanding individual differences. His research interests focus on individual differences in the workplace.
Peter Carnevale
Building
HOH
Room / Office
510
Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, SUNY-Buffalo; BA, University of Delaware
Peter Carnevale does research on negotiation, mediation, and organizational conflict resolution systems. He has published two books and more than 100 articles in leading scientific and management journals, often supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. He has served as the President of the International Association for Conflict Management as well as Chair of the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management.
Melody Chang
Building
HOH
Room / Office
503
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
Ph.D., Yale University; B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Melody Chang is an Assistant Professor at USC's Marshall School in the Management and Organization Department. Her research is in the areas of entrepreneurship, labor markets, and innovation. One stream of her research examines how firms can efficiently hire and manage entrepreneurial and innovative human capital. In another research stream, she studies how the background and experience of founders and investors shape the performance and survival of early-stage ventures.
She holds a Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. in Management from Yale University, and B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was an investment banking associate at Goldman Sachs.
She holds a Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. in Management from Yale University, and B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was an investment banking associate at Goldman Sachs.
Thomas Cummings
Building
HOH
Room / Office
514
Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, UCLA; MBA, BS, Cornell University
Tom Cummings is a leading expert in designing high-performing organizations and strategic change. He has published 25 books, including Handbook of Organization Development and Organizational Development and Change, and more than 80 articles. He has served on the editorial board or as editor for 10 journals, including Academy of Management Review. He received best paper awards in 1990 and 1994, and in 2007 received a Book of the Year Award from the Academy of Human Resource Management. Professor Cumming served as President of the Academy of Management, the leading professional organization for scholars in management and organization.
John Eklund
Building
HOH
Room / Office
522
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, University of Pennsylvania; MBA, University of Notre Dame; DPhil, MA, Oxford University
John Eklund is an Assistant Professor at USC's Marshall School in the Management and Organization Department. His research lies at the intersection of strategy and innovation, with an emphasis on how firms’ organization designs can shape their performance outcomes. These outcomes can relate to firms’ innovation efforts as well as their broader performance. In examining this phenomenon, John studies the underlying mechanisms such as incentives, knowledge flows and the breadth of strategies firms pursue that both shape organization design choices and their consequences. Prior to his PhD at the Wharton School, John was a management consultant at A.T. Kearney, Booz & Company and PwC. John also holds a doctorate in physical chemistry and was previously a research scientist at Unilever.
Christine El Haddad
Building
HOH
Room / Office
421
Associate Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
PhD, University of Southern California
Dr. El Haddad specializes in business, corporate and global strategy and has taught these topics in Marshall’s MBA and undergraduate programs. She has received the Douglas Basil Award for Junior Faculty and is a three-time winner of Marshall’s Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching. Her research interests lie in social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility. As a management consultant, she has advised various businesses and leading nonprofits including Habitat for Humanity.
Nathanael Fast
Building
HOH
Room / Office
404
Jorge Paulo and Susanna Lemann Chair in Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor of Management and Organization; Director of the Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making; Co-Director of the Psychology of Technology Institute
Ph.D., Stanford University
Nathanael Fast studies the psychological underpinnings of power, leadership, and technology adoption. His research examines how power and status hierarchies shape decision making, how people’s identities shape their professional networks, and how AI is shaping the future. Fast is Director of the Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making and Co-Director of the Psychology of Technology Institute. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University and has been recognized for both teaching and research, including USC’s Golden Apple Teaching Award, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, and Poets & Quants "best 40 B-school profs under the age of 40.”
Daniel Fehder
Building
HOH
Room / Office
519
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, MIT; MA, University of Pennsylvania; AB, Harvard University
Daniel Fehder is an Assistant Professor at USC's Marshall School in the Management and Organization Department. His research focuses on the emergence and evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems and the growing role of entrepreneurship programs (e.g. accelerators, hackathons, pitch competitions, etc) in catalyzing these processes. To that end, he has helped manage the Seed Accelerator Ranking Program and has worked closely with the top management at MassChallenge. He is a recent graduate of the PhD program at MIT Sloan from the TIES Group. Prior to his PhD education, Daniel helped lead a startup as the Senior VP of Business Development for PriceSCAN. He holds an AB from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and a MA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Peer Fiss
Building
HOH
Room / Office
521
Jill and Frank Fertitta Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organization, and Sociology (by courtesy)
PhD, Northwestern University; MA, University of Hamburg
Peer is broadly interested in how meaning structures shape organizational actions, his current research topics include framing and social categorization. His work has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organizations Science, and the Strategic Management Journal, among others.
Peer has also been working for almost two decades on the use of set-analytic methods in the social sciences, specifically on the use of fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in management and related fields. Most recently he has been working on applying set-analytic methods to policy analysis, specifically the intersectionality of poverty. His recent book with Charles Ragin (UCI) is entitled “Intersectional Inequality: Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty” (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Erin Frey
Building
HOH
Room / Office
HOH 505
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
Harvard University (PhD), Harvard College (BA)
Erin Frey is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Organization Department at the Marshall School of Business at USC. She studies leadership following crises, scandals, and failures in organizations. Using a a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, she examines how organizations and leaders respond to challenging situations and how they can give employees second chances. Her research has been published in outlets like Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Geoffrey Garrett
Building
BRI
Room / Office
100
Dean; Robert R. Dockson Dean’s Chair in Business Administration & Professor of Management and Organization
Dr. Geoffrey Garrett holds the Robert R. Dockson Dean’s Chair in Business Administration and is Professor of Management and Organization. He previously served as dean of the Wharton School from 2014 until 2020. Garrett taught at USC from 2005-2008 as a professor of international relations, business administration, communications and law while also serving as the President of the Pacific Council on International Policy. A distinguished international political economist, Garrett has held academic appointments at Oxford, Stanford and Yale universities. Garrett holds a BA (Honors) from the Australian National University, and an MA and Ph.D. from Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Shaun Harper
University Professor of Business and Education; Provost Professor of Management and Organization; Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership; USC Race and Equity Center Executive Director
Ph.D., Indiana University; B.S., Albany State University
Shaun Harper teaches MBA students and advises companies on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). He has worked with more than 400 businesses, agencies, and institutions; published 12 books and over 100 academic papers; and procured $21.5 million in foundation grants and $13.1 million in contracts for the center he directs at USC. His research has been cited in over 20,000 published studies. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and hundreds of other news outlets have quoted Shaun and featured his research. He writes for Forbes and has interviewed on CNN, ESPN, NBC, and NPR. Prior to USC, Dr. Harper was a tenured full professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Rebecca Heino
Building
HOH
Room / Office
413
Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
2012 Certificate in Leadership Coaching, Georgetown University; 2003 Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
Dr. Rebecca Heino is a Professor of Clinical Management and Organization. She teaches courses in cross-cultural intelligence and diversity, leadership and organizational behavior (including mindfulness, EQ, resilience, and teaming), and critical conversations for undergraduates, graduate students, and executives. Currently she leads the Marshall Leadership Fellows Program for MBA students. Previously, she was on faculty at Georgetown and Columbia Universities. Her extensive global work in executive education includes clients such as KPMG (Brazil, Mexico), International Finance Corporation, Rio Tinto (Australia), Jasoor (Qatar), and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
Shon Hiatt
Building
HOH
Room / Office
406
Associate Professor of Management and Organization
MS, PhD, Cornell University. BA, MPA, Brigham Young University
Shon Hiatt is an associate professor at USC Marshall School of Business and faculty affiliate of the Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. He is a global energy and agribusiness expert, examining entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation and sustainability. Professor Hiatt’s research has been published in academic journals and featured in media outlets.
He is the recipient of numerous scholarly and teaching honors, including the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship and the Academy of Management and ARCS Emerging Scholar Awards. Prior to joining USC, he was on the faculty at Harvard Business School.
He is the recipient of numerous scholarly and teaching honors, including the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship and the Academy of Management and ARCS Emerging Scholar Awards. Prior to joining USC, he was on the faculty at Harvard Business School.
Nan Jia
Building
HOH
Room / Office
518
Dean's Associate Professor in Business Administration
PhD, University of Toronto; BA, Peking University
Nan Jia is Dean's Associate Professor in Business Administration. She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (Canada). Her research interests include corporate political strategy, business-governance relationships, emerging technology in management, and corporate governance in international business. Nan’s research has been published in multiple top journals in strategic management. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Strategic Management Journal and on the editorial boards of multiple leading academic journals.
Hyo Kang
Building
HOH
Room / Office
513
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
Ph.D., UC Berkeley; M.A. & B.A., Seoul National University
Hyo Kang is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at USC Marshall School of Business. Hyo’s research broadly lies in firm strategy and business economics, with a focus on technological innovation and entrepreneurship. The key question in his research is how entrepreneurs as well as established firms strategically manage their innovation processes and outcomes in response to ever-changing business environments – both market and nonmarket dimensions. His works explore three different types of competition – product market competition, competition for labor forces, and competition for intellectual property rights – and how relevant policies reshape firm innovation strategies.
Hyo earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business (Business and Public Policy Group). He holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Business Administration from Seoul National University.
Peter Kim
Building
HOH
Room / Office
515
Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, MS, Northwestern University; BA, Wesleyan University
Peter Kim studies the dynamics of social misperception and its implications for negotiations, work groups, and dispute resolution. His research has been published in numerous scholarly journals, received ten national/international awards, and been featured by the New York Times, Washington Post, and National Public Radio. He serves as a Senior Editor for Organization Science, as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Trust Research, and on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. He is also a past Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review and past Chair of the Academy of Management’s Conflict Management Division.
Edward Lawler
Building
ATT
Room / Office
950
Distinguished Research Professor of Business, Professor of Management and Organization, & Director of the Center for Effective Organizations
PhD, UC-Berkeley; BA, Brown University
Ed Lawler is Director of the Center for Effective Organizations and Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business. He is the author of over 450 articles and 52 books; his most recent book is Human Resource Excellence: An Assessment of Strategies and Trends (2018). For more information, visit http://www.edwardlawler.com and http://ceo.usc.edu.
Kyle Mayer
Building
HOH
Room / Office
502
Chair and Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, MS, UC-Berkeley; BS, UC-Davis
Kyle Mayer studies how firms govern relationships with other firms, with particular attention to the contract and its role in establishing a framework for the relationship. His research has been published in Organizational Science, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, and Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. He served on the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He received a Golden Apple Award in 2003, Marshall's Educator of the Year Award in 2006, and a Mellon Mentoring Award from USC in 2006.
Michael Mische
Building
HOH
Room / Office
415
Lecturer of Management and Organization
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan. Certificate in AI. New York University, Stern. MBA. Golden Gate University, Graduate School of Taxation. MS. New York University, Stern. BS, With Honors.
Professor Michael A. Mische is widely sought for his independent and objective perspective, exceptional consulting acumen, boardroom skills and direct, Socratic, data driven and client centric style of addressing highly complex and critical strategic, organizational, operational and positioning issues.
A member of the USC faculty since 1997, Mische is responsible for teaching and coordinating USC’s Marshall management consulting undergraduate and graduate curricula and programs.
Mische brings over 43 years of global management consulting experience in strategic planning, mergers, turnarounds and strategic innovation to both the classroom and clients.
A member of the USC faculty since 1997, Mische is responsible for teaching and coordinating USC’s Marshall management consulting undergraduate and graduate curricula and programs.
Mische brings over 43 years of global management consulting experience in strategic planning, mergers, turnarounds and strategic innovation to both the classroom and clients.
Joe Raffiee
Building
HOH
Room / Office
512
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joe Raffiee is an Assistant Professor of Strategy. Joe's research focuses on employee mobility and entrepreneurship. Joe's research has been published or is forthcoming in Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Academy of Management Perspectives. His research has also been covered and cited by media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine, and Wired. In 2021, Joe was recognized as one of the “Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors" by Poets and Quants.
Nandini Rajagopalan
Building
HOH
Room / Office
523
Joseph A.DeBell Chair in Business Administration
PhD, University of Pittsburgh; MBA, Indian Institute of Management - Ahmadabad; BC, Bombay University
Nandini Rajagopalan is the Joseph A. DeBell Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organization. Her research examines platform-based markets, diversification and strategic alliances, CEO succession, and corporate governance. She has published in the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Management, and Business Horizons among others. She is a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at USC’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, and recipient of USC’s Provost’s Mentoring Award. She is past Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal.
Violina Rindova
Building
HOH
Room / Office
511
Interim Vice Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Captain Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship, Director of Research for the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, NYU
Violina Rindova teaches and studies strategic innovation -- how firms create value, intangible assets, and new market opportunities through unconventional strategies across a variety of industry contexts. Her work has been published in the premier management journals and has been covered frequently in the business media, including the Economist, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She is the recipient of multiple grants and awards, including the “Thought Leadership” award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management (2009), and the award for outstanding scholarly contribution from Strategic Organization (2012). She served as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review and is currently part of the leadership team of the Behavioral Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society.
Florenta Teodoridis
Building
HOH
Room / Office
520
Associate Professor of Management and Organization
Ph.D., University of Toronto; MBA, York University; BS University of Bucharest
Florenta's main areas of interest are the economics of innovation and science, creativity and the impact of technology on society. She investigates factors that influence the rate and direction of technological advancements, such as research tools, collaborations and breadth and depth of expertise, and the impact of technological advancements, such as artificial intelligence, on business strategy and productivity.
Johanna Tolan
Building
HOH
Room / Office
430
Assistant Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
EdD Organizational Change and Leadership and MBA, University of Southern California; BA, Smith College
Jody Tolan specializes in leadership and organizational development. She has created programs to build leadership skills among emerging managers, middle managers, and senior executive teams to meet strategic and organizational goals. She has also led workshops on leading teams, management communications and strategy development. She has designed and facilitated programs in Marshall’s Office of Executive Education and consulted with Wescom Credit Union, Honda Financial Services, Allergan, BDO Seidman and Thailand Government Savings Bank. Professor Tolan began her career on Capitol Hill followed by positions in several boutique consulting firms in New York City.
Leigh Tost
Building
HOH
Room / Office
436
Associate Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, Business Administration, Duke University
Leigh Plunkett Tost studies the psychological and sociological dynamics of hierarchy and diversity in organizations. Her research on hierarchy focuses on questions about how power differences in teams and organizations affect team performance and ethical decision making. Her work on diversity examines people’s attitudes about diversity and explores the unintended consequences of diversity initiatives. Her research has been published in a broad range of academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Review, and Psychological Science. In addition, the implications of her research have been discussed in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.
Sarah Townsend
Building
HOH
Room / Office
403
Interim Assistant Vice Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Associate Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara; BA, MA, Stanford University
Sarah Townsend studies the psychological foundations of inequality. Her research reveals the dysfunctional behaviors and physiological costs that can result when individuals’ cultural norms collide with the dominant cultural norms of organizations. She examines how these“cultural divides” are often a hidden source of inequality, but how they can be used to lessen opportunity gaps and fuel greater cross-group understanding. The director of the Culture, Diversity, and Psychophysiology lab (CPD Lab) at USC, Dr. Townsend has received recognition including,being named a “Rising Star” by the Association for Psychological Science and “Professor of the Week” by Poets & Quants.
Carl Voigt
Building
HOH
Room / Office
504
Academic Director for International Business Education and Research & Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
PhD, UCLA; MBA, Andrews University; BA, Pacific Union College
Carl Voigt teaches business policy, competitive strategy, entrepreneurship and venture initiation, and global strategy and international management. He is a three-time winner of the Golden Apple Award, and has served as Associate Dean for the undergraduate, executive MBA, and Marshall MBA programs.
Cheryl Wakslak
Building
HOH
Room / Office
402
Associate Professor of Management and Organization & McAlister Associate Professor in Business Administration
PhD New York University
Cheryl Wakslak’s research focuses on how people interact with others across various forms of distance. Much of her recent research looks at communication, exploring when people use more big-picture, abstract language versus more specific language, and how this influences the way they are perceived by others. Projects here focus especially on the role of gender, power, diversity, and perceptions of leadership and future potential. Cheryl is further interested in how these dynamics -- and other communication signals -- play out in the entrepreneurial space. She explores these interests using a variety of approaches, including experiments, field studies, and archival data analysis.
Scott Wiltermuth
Building
HOH
Room / Office
405
Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, AM, Stanford University; MBA, INSEAD; AB, Harvard University
Scott Wiltermuth researches how socio-environmental factors affect people’s reactions to unethical behavior and their likelihood of behaving unethically themselves. He also researches how interpersonal dynamics, such as synchrony and dominance, affect people’s willingness to cooperate with others. He has published papers in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and numerous other academic journals. His work has been reported in many media outlets, including: The Economist, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Previously, he worked in the airline industry as a strategy consultant.
Adjunct and Part-time
Reza Bavafa
Building
ACC
Room / Office
B1A
Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics
PhD, Economics, University of California, Riverside
Reza Bavafa has twenty-five years of consulting and executive management experience. For six years he directed a strategic planning team at AT&T evaluating and recommending strategic opportunities for advanced communications services. He then joined IBM where he led strategic outsourcing accounts involving large global teams. His experience spans multiple industries--communications, health, aerospace, auto, media and entertainment-- and Fortune 500 companies including Providence Health, Kaiser Permanente, Boeing, Nissan, and The Walt Disney Company. For three years he also led the Executive Leadership Program for IBM Global Business Services on the effective leadership of global accounts.
James Bogle
Building
Other
Room / Office
2900
Director, Master of Business for Veterans program, and Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
MBV, MA, University of Southern California; BA, Arizona State University
James Bogle joined Marshal in 2013 with a background in leadership, public policy and international affairs following 25 years of service in the U.S. Army. James commanded two artillery units and led troops in combat in Iraq. Later, he served on the staff of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the Office of European and NATO Policy. He also served at the U.S. Embassy in Paris coordinating a range of conventional and special military operations with the French Joint Staff. He completed his military career as an instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
James is now the Director of the Master of Business for Veterans program and an Adjunct Professor at Marshall. He holds a BA in History from Arizona State University, an MA in International Relations from USC Dornsife and a Master of Business for Veterans from the USC Marshall School of Business.
Amy Bresnahan
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
MBA, University of Southern California
Courtney Brunious
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professors of Management and Organization
JD, MBA, University of Southern California; BA, University of Michigan
Courtney M. Brunious is the Associate Director of the University of Southern California’s Sports Business Institute and instructor at the Marshall School of Business. Mr. Brunious is also a consultant on issues involving non-profit organizations, sports business, and real estate. He has continued to study the sports business industry for years and has provided insight into issues ranging from sports anchored real estate development to technology. He has also spoken on or moderated panels at the USC Body Computing Conference, NBPA Tech Summit, and USC Marshall Diversity conference. His media work has included appearances on the CBS evening news and KTLA as well as radio and print such as NPR, CNBC, ESPN, Variety, Fast Company, the Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Business Journal. He is also admitted to the state bar of Illinois.
David Carter
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professors of Management and Organization
MBA, BS, University of Southern California
David M. Carter is a national authority on sports business and strategic marketing, and the author of four books about the sport business industry. He founded the Sports Business Group in 1999 following more than ten years of consulting for the sports and entertainment industries. As a sports business consultant specializing in strategic marketing, Professor Carter has consulted for corporations, sports organizations, sports and entertainment venues, law firms, municipalities, and individual athletes. He regularly provides sports business commentary to national media concerns.
Quentin Fleming
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
Quentin Fleming has taught courses in Strategic Management and in Global Leadership since Spring 2001. He is also a management consultant with nearly thirty years of experience. Quentin has worked with wide a rage of clients across diverse industries – from Fortune 500 companies to small entrepreneurial firms – to identify and understand the root cause of their challenges and to create a strategy for improved profitability. In addition, Quentin is the author of three business books and is a sought after expert both as a speaker and as a media resource.
David Logan
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Lecturer in Management and Organization
Dave Logan is co-founder and president of CultureSync, a Senior Lecturer at University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business, and New York Times bestselling author.
He is co-founder and president of CultureSync, a management consulting firm focused on the intersection of strategy and culture. CultureSync has consulted dozens of Fortune 500 companies, major nonprofits, and governments around the world.
He has been on the USC faculty since 1996 and has a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from the Annenberg School at USC.
Dave authored or co-authored six books, including the bestseller Tribal Leadership and The Three Laws of Performance.
Cynthia McCloud
Building
ACC
Room / Office
216
Director, Food Industry Programs, and Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
EdD USC; MBA UCI; BS USC
Dr. Cynthia McCloud joined USC in 2014 with a 40 year career in the food industry. She has led teams in both the U.S. and in international markets including: France, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, India, Singapore and Australia. She is a certified executive coach and has held leadership roles in multi-national companies and start-ups. Her focus today is on organizational leadership and development.
Cynthia is the Director, Food Industry Programs and an Adjunct Professor at Marshall. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with an undergraduate at USC, and later completed an MBA from the UC, Irvine, and a Doctorate at USC, Rossier School of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership.
Cynthia is the Director, Food Industry Programs and an Adjunct Professor at Marshall. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with an undergraduate at USC, and later completed an MBA from the UC, Irvine, and a Doctorate at USC, Rossier School of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership.
Robert Myrtle
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
Doctor of Public Administration, University of Southern California
Master of Public Administration, University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science, B.A., California State University at Long Beach
Robert Myrtle is the former Director of the Executive Master of Leadership programs and Prof. Emeritus of Public Administration in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. His key research interests are leadership, executive development, and organizational and management effectiveness. His current projects include the influence of managers’ behaviors on perceptions of overall leadership effectiveness, factors influencing the performance of surgical teams; the analysis of the influence of job change on career growth and progression; and the assessment of the factors influencing organizational legitimacy during and following major natural disasters.
Gregory Nahass
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
• Adjunct Professor at USC Marshall; M&A Management and Corporate Governance
• Partner at PwC, leading practice focused on M&A Integration and Divestiture Separation
• US and Global leader for PwC’s M&A Integration service offering
• Delivered on client projects and PwC firm practice building in 24 countries, completing over 275 transactions
• Delivered M&A Management and Operations training in 10 countries to over 500 PwC practitioners from 35 different countries
• Published 40+ thought leadership papers on M&A topics; frequently quoted in business publications
• MBA from USC, MS in Business Taxation from Golden Gate University, and BS in Accounting from CSU, Northridge
• CPA in California
Alan Nelson
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
EdD, University of San Diego; MA, CSU Sacramento
Alan E. Nelson teaches leadership, org change, human performance and motivation, communication for managers and OB as an adjunct professor at USC Marshall School of Business and as a Lecturer of Management at the Naval Postgraduate School. His primary research interest the last decade focuses on identifying and developing students gifted in organizational leadership, between ages 3-18. He’s the founder of KidLead Inc. (501.c.3) and LeadYoung Institute and has written a number of books and articles in the professional and popular arena, related to these topics.
Kenneth Perlman
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
Ken Perlman is a consultant, facilitator and presenter with 25 years’ experience consulting to executives and teams at Fortune 500 companies. Ken has built his expertise in leadership, change, program management, culture, organization design, communication, innovation, business process improvement and technology adoption. His clients include Levi Strauss & Co., Warner Bros., Kaiser Permanente, NetApp, Coty, Nordstrom, Southern California Edison, and Nestlé.
Bringing in his experience implementing large IT systems like SAP, and with process improvement methodologies like Lean Six Sigma, Ken recognizes that leadership is the greatest single differentiator between high-performing organizations and those that that struggle.
Ken earned his M.B.A. from USC and his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College, where he served as research assistant at the Kravis Leadership Institute.
Arvind Ramakrishnan
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professor of Management Organization
EdD USC Rossier; MBA, USC Marshall, BA, University of Michigan
Arvind is an Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization. He teaches Strategy courses in both the BBA and EMBA programs. Arvind has over 15 years of global business experience working for Fortune 500 companies across Strategy, Talent, Operations, and Finance roles.
He is currently a Strategy and Transformation Partner/Principal at EY focused on the TMT sector. Prior to EY, he worked in various industry roles in both the M&E and Diversified Industrials sector. In addition, he founded and led a start up in the social media networking space.
Education/Certifications:
Ed. D in Org Change and Leadership, MBA in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, BA in Economics and Asian Studies, Six Sigma, and PMP
He is currently a Strategy and Transformation Partner/Principal at EY focused on the TMT sector. Prior to EY, he worked in various industry roles in both the M&E and Diversified Industrials sector. In addition, he founded and led a start up in the social media networking space.
Education/Certifications:
Ed. D in Org Change and Leadership, MBA in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, BA in Economics and Asian Studies, Six Sigma, and PMP
Michael Summerlin
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; MA, Clinical Psychology, Pepperdine University; MA, Psychology, Pepperdine University; BA, Business/Behavioral Science, Oglethorpe University
Dr. Michael Summerlin joined the USC Marshall Department of Management and Organization in 2015. He teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on the subjects of organizational behavior, culture, management, and leadership. In 2010, Michael founded Emotive Knowledge Psychology (EKP), which now provides psychological services at locations throughout southern California and Nevada. His research focuses on the regulatory function of the autonomic nervous system and its influence on personality development, and behaviors that mediate social engagement.
Terance Wolfe
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Other
Room / Office
2921
Executive Director of Executive Education & Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, UCLA; MBA, BS, Old Dominion University
Terance Wolfe is known for his work in strategic planning, executive development through team-building and coaching, and organizational assessment and change. He has authored book chapters and journal articles, and presented at conferences in the United States and abroad. Professor Wolfe's current interests are strategic mindsets, the development of strategic sense-making, and dimensions of high performance management. He has been a member of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, World Future Society, World Affairs Council, Asian Business League, Institute of Management Consultants, and Society for Human Resource Management, and consults for a variety of private, public and not-for-profit organizations.
Joint Appointments
Christine Beckman
Price Family Chair in Social Innovation; Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Management and Organization (by courtesy)
PhD, Stanford University
Christine Beckman is the Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy. She is an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and Past Division Chair of the Organization and Management Theory division of the Academy of Management. She previously served on the faculty at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. At Maryland, she was the Academic Director for the Center for Social Value Creation, diversity officer, and facilitated a peer network for junior faculty women. At UC Irvine, she was a Chancellor’s Fellow from 2008-2011 and Faculty Director of the Don Beall Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She was the 2006 Western Academy of Management Ascendent Scholar.
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Sarah Bonner
Building
ACC
Room / Office
118
Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting
PhD, University of Michigan; MA, George Washington University; BS, Wake Forest University
Sarah Bonner is a leader in the study of judgment and decision making. Her book, Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting (2008) develops a framework that synthesizes research in psychology and economics. She has published in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. She serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research, and previously served on the board of The Accounting Review. Professor Bonner has received two National Science Foundation grants, the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Dissertation Award, the USC-Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring, and the Evan C. Thompson Faculty Mentoring and Leadership Award.
Gerard Tellis
Building
HOH
Room / Office
614
Jerry and Nancy Neely Chair in American Enterprise, Director of the Institute for Outlier Research in Business & Professor of Marketing
PhD, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor; MA, Xavier School of Management: BS, University of Bombay
Gerard J Tellis (PhD Michigan) is Neely Chaired Professor of American Enterprise, Director of the Institute for Outlier Research in Marketing, Director of the Center for Global Innovation, at the USC Marshall School of Business. Dr. Tellis is an expert in innovation, advertising, social media, new product growth, and global market entry. He has published 7 books and over 200 papers (http://www.gtellis.net ) that have won over 27,000 citations in Google Scholar. His publications have won over 20 awards. He is President-elect of ISMS and was an Associate Editor of Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing Research.
S. Mark Young
Building
ACC
Room / Office
123
George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports Entertainment Business & Professor of Accounting
PhD, University of Pittsburgh; MAcc, The Ohio State University; BA, Oberlin College
S. Mark Young studies management control system design in entertainment. He has published in JAR, TAR and JMAR. His book, The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America, is a New York Times Best Seller. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Management Accounting, the Notable Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award, and the Notable Contributions to the Management Accounting Literature Award (three times). He is the Official Historian of the USC Men’s Tennis Team and author of, Trojan Tennis: A History of the Storied Men’s Tennis Program at the University of Southern California. Young is also a distinguished fellow of the Center for Excellence in Teaching.
Emeriti
Philip Birnbaum More
Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization
PhD, University of Washington; BA, UC-Berkeley
Phil Birnbaum-More specializes in competitive strategy formulation and implementation, especially in high technology firms in global markets. He has published three books on R&D management and organization design and more than 100 articles in scholarly and practitioner journals. He served as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management and on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, and the Journal of High Technology Management. Business Week twice named Professor Birnbaum-More as one of the top faculty members at Marshall. Before joining USC, he was on the faculty at Indiana University.
Judith Blumenthal
Building
Other
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Management and Organization and Marketing
PhD, MBA, University of Southern California; BA, Hunter College of the City University of New York
Judith Blumenthal is an expert in strategic management; organizational design and implementation; corporate governance; and retailing. Her research has been published in the Journal of Management Inquiry, the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Performance Improvement Quarterly, and Human Resources Management, among others. In addition to her responsibilities at USC, she has served on Boards of Directors of several organizations, both public company and not-for-profit, including Guess?, Inc., the California Council on Economic Education and the Advisory Board of USC Radio (KUSC). From 1996 to 2000, she served as Associate Dean of the Marshall School of Business, and from 2000 to 2006, as USC's Chief Alumni Officer and Executive Director of the USC Alumni Association.
John Boudreau
Building
HOH
Room / Office
505
Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization
PhD, MSIA, Purdue University; BBA, New Mexico State University
John Boudreau is recognized for breakthrough research on human capital, talent, and sustainable competitive advantage. His research studies the future of the global HR profession, HR measurement and analytics, decision-based HR, executive mobility, HR information systems, and organizational staffing and development. He has published more than 200 books and articles, and his research has been featured in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Business Week. Professor Boudreau serves as Research Director for Marshall's Center for Effective Organizations. He advises numerous organizations, including early-stage companies, global corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.
Trudi Ferguson
Building
HOH
Room / Office
428
Lecturer in Management and Organization
PhD, UCLA; MDance, CSU-Long Beach; BA, UC-Berkeley
Trudi Ferguson has consulted widely with large and small organizations in many areas of organizational development including strategic planning, team building, executive coaching, diversity, and woman's issues. She serves on the Board of L.A. Best and Ready Set Read.
Janet Fulk
Building
ASC
Room / Office
324E
Professor of Communication, Emerita, in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Professor of Management & Organization, Emerita, in the Marshall School of Business
PhD, MBA, The Ohio State University; BA, Michigan State University
Dr. Janet L. Fulk is Professor of Communication, Emerita, in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Professor of Management & Organization, Emerita, in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where she also is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Effective Organizations. She holds an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences from Ohio State University. Her scholarship covers topics including knowledge networks, information technology for strategic alliance networks, social aspects of knowledge and distributed intelligence, social media use, networking strategies of nongovernmental organization, multilevel expertise, and crowdsourcing
Katharine Harrington
Building
TGF
Room / Office
200
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Management and Organization
Ph.D., University of Southern California; MBA, Pepperdine University; B.S. Business Administration, Redlands University
Katharine Harrington is Professor of Clinical Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. She came to USC in 1992 after a career in consumer and mortgage banking. Her scholarly interests include organizational ethics, social entrepreneurship and crisis management. In addition to her faculty responsibilities, Katharine currently serves as USC’s chief enrollment officer.
Morgan McCall
Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization
PhD, Cornell University; BS, Yale University
The assessment, development, and derailment of executive talent is the focus of Morgan's research and writing. Winner of the "Distinguished Professional Contributions Award" from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Marion Gislason award for "Leadership in Executive Development" from The Executive Development Roundtable at Boston University, his authored or co-authored books include the trilogy on developing executive talent, The Lessons of Experience ("New Perspectives on Executive Leadership Award"), High Flyers (Athena Award for Excellence in Mentoring), and Developing Global Executives. "Developing the Expert Leader," co-authored with George Hollenbeck, received the Human Resource Planning Society's Walker Award.
Morgan is on the editorial boards of Leadership Quarterly and Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and was as an expert judge in Fortune's ranking of the "Top Companies for Leaders" in North America. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Peter Monge
Room / Office
ASC307D
Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business and Professor Emeritus of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
PhD, Michigan State University; MA, CSU-San Jose; BA, Pacific Union College
Peter Monge studies communication and knowledge networks, ecological theories, and organizational change processes. He is the author or coauthor of Reasoning with Statistics (2001) and Theories of Communication Networks (2003) and has 70+ publications in top journals including Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Communication. He served as editor of Communication Research from 1986 to 1993. Professor Monge was president and is an elected fellow of the International Communication Association. In 1998, he received the Presidential Citation Award from the National Communication Association. Professor Monge teaches in the Annenberg School for Communication.
James O'Toole
Research Professor of Management and Organization
Jim O'Toole is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where he was Founding Director of the Neely Center for Ethical Leadership. He began his academic career at the USC business school in 1973 where he held the University Associates' Chair of Management, served as Executive Director of the Leadership Institute, and editor of New Management magazine.
O'Toole's research and writings have been in the areas of leadership, ethics, and corporate culture. He has addressed dozens of major corporations and professional groups, and has over one hundred published articles. Among his seventeen books.
Kathleen Reardon
Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization
Ph.D (with distinction) University of Massachusetts, Amherst; BA, University of Connecticut
Kathleen Kelley Reardon, Professor of Management and Organization in the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business has served on the faculty of the MBA, Executive MBA International MBA Programs and the faculty of Preventive Medicine. She is a leading authority on persuasion, politics in the workplace, negotiation, health and interpersonal communication. She is the author of seven books and numerous articles published in communication and business journals, including the Harvard Business Review reprint “Bestseller” case The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk and the book following from that, They Don’t Get it, Do They? Communication in the Workplace - Closing the Gap Between Women and Men. The Secret Handshake: Mastering the Politics of the Business Inner Circle released in early 2001, rapidly became a business best seller in the United States. She published It’s All Politics and The Skilled Negotiator (Doubleday and Jossey-Bass/Wiley) and in 2007 wrote Courage As A Skill published in The Harvard Business Review. She is co-author of Childhood Denied released in 2009 as part of her philanthropic work to better the lives of children at risk.
Robert Turrill
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Management and Organization
PhD, MBA, BS, UCLA
Bob Turrill specializes in organizational behavior and design. He has won numerous awards for his teaching, including a Golden Apple Award and the Evan C. Thompson Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching.
In Memoriam
Warren Bennis
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Management and Organization (Deceased)
PhD, MIT; BA, Antioch College
Warren Bennis is one of the world's leading experts on leadership. A lecturer, consultant, and writer, Professor Bennis has been an advisor to four U.S. presidents, including John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. He is the author of numerous books, including the classic On Becoming a Leader. He chairs the advisory board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University Kennedy's School of Government. Professor Bennis is a former Distinguished Research Fellow at Harvard Business School, former president of the University of Cincinnati, as well as the former Provost and Executive Vice-President of SUNY-Buffalo.
Robert Coffey
Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization
Robert E. Coffey, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, retired from USC’s Marshall School of Business in 1998 after 35 years of service. During his USC career he was an early director of the Entrepreneur Program, Director of the M.B.A. Program, and served twice as department chair. He co-authored two textbooks in organization and management, was President of the USC Faculty Senate, and served several years on the Senate Executive Board. He was elected to the Fellows of The Academy of Management in 1976.
Larry Greiner
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization (Deceased)
DBA, MBA, Harvard University; BS, University of Kansas
Larry Greiner is an expert on strategic change, organization growth and management consulting. He has published in Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, and Journal of Management Inquiry, and serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Education and Learning Journal and the Strategic Management Education Journal. His article, "Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow," was named a "classic" by Harvard Business Review. Professor Greiner received an award for outstanding service to the Management Consulting Division of the Academy of Management, and chaired of two divisions of the Academy of Management.