"BUCO courses prepare students to communicate strategically and effectively in a highly competitive, interconnected, and communication-rich global marketplace."
— Kirk Snyder
Department Chair and Professor of Clinical Business Communication
Departments
Dean Garrett’s flagship teaching chair program ensures the school will attract and retain the most innovative, inspiring educators, and mentors for Marshall and Leventhal students.
Causal inference can rigorously inform executive decision-making about the actual impacts of difficult decisions on real outcomes.
Faculty recognized for exceptional teaching are honored with excellence awards and endowed teaching chair positions.
Departments
USC Marshall houses seven academic departments that span the breadth and depth of a comprehensive business education. Business disciplines include finance, data sciences & operations, marketing, management, and business communication, as well as a school of accounting and a dedicated entrepreneurship center. Students at all levels benefit from a faculty of globally known scholars and working practitioners, who offer cutting-edge insights into the most pressing business issues of the day, as well as robust hands-on learning opportunities and professional networks.
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
"BUCO courses prepare students to communicate strategically and effectively in a highly competitive, interconnected, and communication-rich global marketplace."
— Kirk Snyder
Department Chair and Professor of Clinical Business Communication
LATEST FROM BUCO
USC Marshall Welcomes 21 New Faculty
These faculty bring their varied expertise into the classroom, with a mix of academia, research, and real-world experience.
OpEd: Stephen Lind for USC Annenberg Relevance Report
LIND, associate professor of clinical business communication, writes in the USC Annenberg Relevance Report how programs like Synthesia and other AI-augmented communications tools need to be used with a healthy balance of both boldness and care.
Marshall Faculty Publications, Awards, and Honors: April 2024
We are proud to highlight the amazing Marshall faculty who have been recognized this month for their leading-edge work and expertise.
DATA SCIENCES + OPERATIONS
“Faculty are applying research to current problems and sharing their expertise with businesses, government, and media.”
— Greys Sošić
Department Chair and Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
LATEST FROM DSO
Quoted: Nick Vyas on Spectrum 1 Los Angeles
VYAS, Founding Director Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute, tells Spectrum LA that Covid broke the office paradigm proving remote work could be productive and successful, and remains a recruiting tool for top talent.
USC Marshall Welcomes 21 New Faculty
These faculty bring their varied expertise into the classroom, with a mix of academia, research, and real-world experience.
Marshall Faculty Publications, Awards, and Honors: August 2024
We are proud to recognize the many accomplishments of Marshall’s exceptional faculty, including recently accepted and published research and achievements in their field.
Quoted: Nick Vyas in Inside Supply Management
VYAS, Founding Director of the Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute, remarked during the institute's 12th annual summit that three major forces will drive the future of supply management: geopolitics, digital transformation and human capital.
Quoted: Vishal Gupta in Los Angeles Business Journal
GUPTA, Dean’s Associate Professorship in Business Administration, explains to the LA Business Journal that future AI applications will required training data curated by skilled labor.
FINANCE + BUSINESS ECONOMICS
“Faculty and students in the Finance and Business Economics Department examine economic decision-making and the role of markets in the allocation of real and financial resources.”
— Kevin Murphy
Department Chair, Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance, and Professor of Finance and Business Economics
LATEST FROM FBE
Interview: Erica Jiang in Los Angeles Business Journal
JIANG, assistant professor of finance and business economics, chats with the LA Business Journal about current trends disrupting how banks do business.
Quoted: Marco Giacoletti on CNN
GIACOLETTI, assistant professor of finance and business economics posits to CNN the recent change to positive in the Treasury yield curve (uninversion) is not necessarily a recession indicator without further analysis of other contributing factors.
Interview: Larry Harris on KCBS-AM San Francisco
HARRIS, Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance, explains Kamala Harris's small business tax cut proposal with The State of California radio program in San Francisco.
USC Marshall Launches Financial Services Career Hub
Two gifts from Marshall alumni establish the new program to advance undergraduate career pathways.
LEVENTHAL SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING
"A student with accounting training can track not only dollars and cents related to financial initiatives, but also value humanitarian aid, environmental impacts of business decisions and initiatives related to equity and inclusion."
— William Holder
Dean of the Leventhal School of Accounting.
LATEST FROM LEVENTHAL
Recap: 40th Annual SEC and Financial Reporting Conference
DEAN WILLIAM HOLDER [Leventhal] and RICHARD SLOAN, professor of accounting, are mentioned in a recap of this year's conference by ACCOUNTING TODAY.
Setting the Sustainability Reporting Standards Investors Demand
“There is a whole ecosystem evolving to support preparers and users of sustainability reports…These roles are in high demand and require new skills and so should present valuable career opportunities for our students.”
— Richard Sloan, Deloitte and Touche LLP Chair in Accounting and Professor of Accounting, Finance, and Business Economics
Guiding Exceptional Minds (GEMS)
Guiding Exceptional Minds (GEMS) brings the best students to the best employers, thanks to the efforts of Professor Mike Paranal and the Trojan Family Network.
Next Generation Auditors
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) awards competitive scholarships to two USC Leventhal students.
LLOYD GREIF CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES
“Our students learn a mindset that sets them apart. It is about adaptable, flexible thinking; assessing and managing risk in dynamic, uncertain environments; and finding and pursuing new opportunities.”
— Elissa Grossman
Department Chair, Orfalea Director's Chair in Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship
LATEST FROM GREIF
USC Soccer Star Builds on Family Legacy at Marshall
Trojan forward Simone Jackson is succeeding off the field by diving headfirst into Marshall’s many opportunities.
Marshall Students’ App is Changing the Way Athletes Recover from Injuries
Identifying a gap in the digital fitness app space, Greif Center alumni are giving physical therapy patients power over their own healing with their new app: Kenko.
USC Iovine and Young Academy and USC Marshall Announce Joint Degree in Business and Innovation
BS Business of Innovation (BUIN) degree combines Marshall’s business acumen with IYA’s creativity to prepare innovators to imagine, build, and scale impact.
Industry Insiders Teach Entrepreneurship in Entertainment Industry
Professors Sherry Gunther and Michael Napoliello are providing students a behind-the-scenes look into the endless entrepreneurial possibilities in the ever-changing entertainment industry.
USC Marshall Welcomes 21 New Faculty
These faculty bring their varied expertise into the classroom, with a mix of academia, research, and real-world experience.
MANAGEMENT + ORGANIZATION
“As society faces unprecedented change in multiple areas, it is more important than ever that we have strong leaders that understand how to think strategically. We teach students key aspects of strategy and leadership to thrive in dynamic environments.”
— Kyle Mayer
Department Chair and Professor of Management and Organization
LATEST FROM MOR
Quoted: Shaun Harper in Inside Higher Education
HARPER, Provost Professor of Management and Organization, tells Inside Higher Education the negative effects on diverse enrollment will compound over time due to the SCOTUS ruling against affirmative action.
USC Iovine and Young Academy and USC Marshall Announce Joint Degree in Business and Innovation
BS Business of Innovation (BUIN) degree combines Marshall’s business acumen with IYA’s creativity to prepare innovators to imagine, build, and scale impact.
MARKETING
"Our marketing faculty operate on the cutting-edge of the discipline. Many of our professors are scholars who conduct research that expands the understanding of the practice, while others come with a wealth of practical marketing experience."
— Anthony Dukes
Department Chair, Robert E. Brooker Chair in Marketing, and Professor of Marketing
LATEST FROM MKT
Quoted: Shantanu Dutta in Business Insider
DUTTA, professor of marketing, tells Business Insider the popularity of iPhone 16's improved features may not be enough in some global markets to offset the high cost.
Quoted: Dina Mayzlin on Marketplace
MAYZLIN, professor of marketing, points out to Marketplace the majority of consumers ignore relentless company surveys, which also doesn't hurt their bottom line.
Interview: Davide Proserpio on WKRC-TV (Cincinnati)
As bankruptcies are on the rise in Ohio, PROSERPIO, associate professor of marketing, tells CBS Local 12 there's a clear causal relationship between declining personal finances and the rise in online sports gambling.
Quoted: Anthony Dukes on CBS Mornings
DUKES, Robert E. Brooker Chair in Marketing, tells CBS Mornings that a Albertsons and Krogers merger could lower consumers prices, but also create a stark business outlook limiting purchasing power for mom-and-pop small businesses.
Quoted: Anthony Dukes on CBS Evening News
DUKES, Robert E. Brooker Chair in Marketing, explains to CBS Evening News that lower grocery prices could result from a Albertsons and Krogers merger if they combine their stores and local supply chains.