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 draws from and contributes to knowledge on leadership, teams, and social cognition. Professor Anicich's research has been published in leading academic journals including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, and Perspectives on 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, Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Scientific American, Inc. Magazine, and Times Higher Education (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 of 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.
Courtney Brunious
Building
HOH
Room / Office
423
Lecturer 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.
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.
David Carter
Building
HOH
Room / Office
419
Associate Professor of Clinical 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.
Michael Coombs
Building
HOH
Room / Office
426
Associate Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
PhD, University of Southern California; MPA, BA, BS, Brigham Young University
Michael Coombs specializes in strategic management, individual and organizational development, globalization, and negotiation. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Man of America and of the U.S. Navy Achievement Medal. He has consulted for a variety of organizations, including ARCO Transportation Company and The Aerospace Corporation.
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 more than 20 books, including Handbook of Organization Development and Organizational Development and Change, and more than 60 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
Associate Professor of Management and Organization
Ph.D., Stanford University
Nathanael Fast studies the underpinnings of power and influence in organizations and society. His research examines the psychological determinants and consequences of hierarchy, social networks, and new technology adoption, with implications for the future of work. He directs the Hierarchy, Networks, & Technology Lab (HiNT Lab) at USC and is 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.
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.
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).
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
Provost Professor of Management and Organization; Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership; USC Race and Equity Center Executive Director
PhD, Indiana University
Shaun Harper studies racial, gender, and LGBT issues in corporations, law firms, Hollywood production companies, K-12 schools, and universities. He also is an expert on college sports. Dr. Harper has consulted with more than 200 businesses and institutions on strategies related to equity, diversity, and inclusion. He has published 12 books and over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and other academic publications, and procured $13 million in research grants. His research has been cited in over 10,000 published studies. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Washington Post, Black Enterprise, and several thousand other news outlets have quoted Professor Harper and featured his research. He has interviewed on CNN, ESPN, and NPR. Prior to becoming a faculty member, he was Assistant Director of MBA Admissions for the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Dr. Harper spent a decade at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a tenured full professor.
Katharine Harrington
Building
TGF
Room / Office
200
Professor 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.
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 researches entrepreneurship, strategy, regulatory affairs, and business sustainability in domestic and international contexts. 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
Associate Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, University of Toronto; BA, Peking University
Associate Professor Nan Jia 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, and corporate governance in international business. Nan’s research has been published in the Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Politics. She serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and the Journal of International Business Studies. Nan’s teaching interests and experience encompass Strategic Management and International Business.
https://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty-research/labs-and-institutes/usc-marshall-china-research-group
Hyo Kang
Building
HOH
Room / Office
503
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 interpersonal perceptions and their implications for negotiations, work groups, and dispute resolution. His research has been published in numerous scholarly journals, received ten national/international awards, and has been featured by the New York Times, Washington Post, and National Public Radio. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Trust Research, on the editorial boards of Organization Science and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, and as Chair of the Academy of Management’s Conflict Management Division. He received a teaching award from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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
Serving on the Marshall faculty since 1997, Michael teaches management consulting, strategy, team performance and turnarounds. As a former consulting partner/principal in the global firms of SCG, KPMG and A. T. Kearney, Michael brings over 35 years of experience in management consulting into the classroom. Michael has worked on M&A transactions and strategic repositioning efforts for some of the most well-known and respected companies in the world and has consulted to a wide range of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, prominent management consulting and investment banking firms, state and local governments and global companies. Michael has testified before legislative and judicial bodies as an expert witness and in a number of litigation cases. His primary teaching and research interests are in management consulting and professional services firms and strategy.
Thomas Olson
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
DBA/PhD, University of Southern California; MBA, UCLA
Thomas Hilton Olson's research and consulting focus is on strategy development and implementation, organization and human capital, leading change, and psych assessment and intervention. He has authored four books in the last five years, written 100+ scholarly articles, and made numerous presentations at national and international conferences. He was a founding member, Careers Division, and Officer/Representative-at-Large, of the Academy of Management, Officer of the Personnel Testing Council, and member of the Board of the APA and three corporations. Professor Olson is the Director of the Consulting Concentration at USC, prior equity holder (Partner) with Booz and has led hundreds of consulting engagements for private and public organizations across the globe in industry and for USC.
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 in the Management and Organization Department within the Marshall School of Business at USC. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2016. Joe's research is focused on understanding the causes and consequences of employee mobility and entrepreneurship. Joe's research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, 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.
Nandini Rajagopalan
Building
BRI
Room / Office
101L
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
522
Captain Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship, Director of Research for the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and 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.
S. Amy Sommer
Associate Professor of Clinical of Management and Organization
PhD, Ivey Business School, UWO; MIR, University of Toronto; BA, University of Western Ontario
Amy Sommer completed a post doctoral fellowship at Harvard and her research and teaching focuses on leadership and teams. She specializes in how organizational crisis and temporal dynamics influence teams and leaders to enhance healthcare management, creativity, and cross-cultural management. To study these topics, she is developing new research methods, including crowdsourcing science for large-scale data collection and data analytics. Her research appears in a number of scholarly journals, including Nature Scientific Data, The Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, and Group and Organization Management. She has received honors and awards, including funding from three federal governments and a number of universities. She has worked with students across programs at undergraduate, masters, MBA, executive, and PhD levels, at Columbia University, West Point Military Academy, and HEC Paris School of Management in France. Examples of her course creation include Leading High Performance Teams and Mixed Methods in Health Systems Research.
Christopher Stewart
Building
DML
Room / Office
314
Interim Director, MMLIS Program and Associate Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
EdD, University of Pennsylvania; MBA, Illinois Institute of Technology; MLIS, Dominican University; BA, University of Illinois, Chicago
Christopher Stewart’s research and professional interests include strategic management, organizational culture, staffing trends, and organizational development. His book, The Academic Library Building in the Digital Age: A Study of Construction, Planning, and Design of New Library Space was published by the Association of College and Research Libraries. His work has appeared in journals including the Journal of Academic Librarianship and Library Leadership & Management. As a management consultant, he has worked with library leaders on projects ranging from benchmarking and assessment to facilities planning and design. Prior to joining the MMLIS program at USC, he was an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at Dominican University. Before he began his teaching career, his leadership experience included serving several years in an academic library deanship.
Florenta Teodoridis
Building
HOH
Room / Office
520
Assistant 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, creativity and the impact of technology on society. Her research agenda is composed of two research streams: factors influencing the process of knowledge production at the individual researcher level, and the relationship between knowledge advancement and markets. Through her first research stream, she examines various factors influencing the rate and direction of technological advancements, such as research tools, breadth and depth of expertise, collaboration and ideology. As part of her second stream, she is interested in the impact of technological advancement on business strategy, productivity and labor markets.
Johanna Tolan
Building
HOH
Room / Office
430
Assistant Professor of Clinical Management and Organization
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
Kenneth King Stonier Associate Professor of Business Administration & Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara; BA, MA, Stanford University
Sarah Townsend is the Kenneth King Stonier Assistant Professor of Business Administration. Her research reveals the dysfunctional behaviors and physiological costs that can result when individuals’ cultural beliefs collide with the dominant cultural beliefs of organizations. She studies these “cultural divides” in the context of diversity in organizations, differences in meritocracy beliefs, social class, gender, and race. Her work demonstrates how cultural divides can be both a source of and solution to inequality. Dr. Townsend's research has been published in numerous scholarly outlets, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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, 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
Associate 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.
Qingyuan Yue
Building
HOH
Room / Office
513
Dean’s Associate Professor in Business Administration & Associate Professor of Management, Organization, and Sociology
PhD, Columbia University; MA, Peking University; BA, Renmin University
Qingyuan (Lori) Yue has published research papers on how businesses mobilize collective action and how they strategically interact with social movement challenges. Her recent research investigates the economic and social issues in the digital transformation of the economy and in emerging markets. Lori is an associate editor of Management Science, a former consulting editor of the American Journal of Sociology, and a former chair of the Organizational Management Theory Research Committee of the Academy of Management. Lori has also received awards for her teaching.
Adjunct and Part-time
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
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.
Deborah Glynn
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
EdD University of Southern California, MS Regis University, BA University of Iowa
Deborah Glynn is the Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Lieberman Research Worldwide, a globally recognized market research firm. She has over 20 years of proven success across the advertising, big data, and technology industries at companies ranging from Vail Resorts to Oracle. Leveraging experience in operational leadership for large-scale organizations, she has consulted with start-up to established mid-size companies in developing growth, talent acquisition, executive leadership, executive search, and executive coaching strategies. Her broad areas of expertise include diversity and inclusion, human resources, talent acquisition, organizational change, team leadership, infrastructure development, and best practice implementation.
Deborah earned a BA from the University of Iowa and a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Regis University. She recently completed her EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education.
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
BS USC; MBA UCI
Cynthia McCloud joined Marshall in 2014 with a background in the food retail and manufacturing industries. She has leadership experience in both the U.S. and international markets including: France, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, India, Singapore and Australia. She has held executive roles in several startups as well with large retail and marketing services organizations.
Cynthia is the Director, Food Industry Management programs and an Adjunct Professor at Marshall. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California and later completed her MBA from the University of California, Irvine. She is also a 1990 graduate of the USC Food Industry Management program.
Michael McGrath
Building
HOH
Room / Office
431
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
Ph.D. SUNY at Albany; M.P.A, SUNY at Albany; B.A. Siena College
Michael is an Adjunct Professor in the Management & Organization Department. Prior to rejoining USC in August, 2017 he was an Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Ross Graduate School of Business. He has worked, taught, coached and consulted in executive, management & organization development for over 30 years. Michael was the faculty director & principle faculty member for the Ross School’s Leadership in Action & Driving Organizational Change & Culture programs. Michael served as Vice-President of Executive Education & Development at Charles Schwab Company and Senior Vice President & Executive Consultant at Personnel Decisions International (now Korn Ferry).
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
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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
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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
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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.
Maurice Rahimi
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431
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
MA (Economics), MPA, PhD (Public Administration), University of Southern California
Dr. Maurice Rahimi has more than 30 years of experience in teaching, consulting, and practicing in the fields of organizational development and change, as well as strategic management and performance optimization.
He has previously taught at numerous institutions of higher education including University of California at San Diego, where he also served as Director of Global Leadership Institute. Internationally, he has taught in the executive MBA program at Zhejiang University and lectured at Beijing, Shenyang, and Shenzhen Universities in China.
His consulting clients have included DMJM Aviation, Jacob Carter and Burgess, Metrus Group, San Diego International Airport, and Southern California Association of Governments.
His practical experience has included serving as Director of Policy and Research at Denver Regional Council of Governments and Executive Director of Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments in Colorado.
Arvind Ramakrishnan
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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 at Marshall in both the Undergraduate and Graduate level. Arvind has over 15 years of global business experience working for Fortune 500 companies across Strategy, Operations, and Finance roles.
He is currently a Management Consultant at EY. His areas of focus include the Technology, Media, and Telecom industry. Arvind’s global experience spans across Europe, Asia, South America, Mexico, and the Middle East.
Ed. D in Organizational Change and Leadership, MBA in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from USC, and BA in Economics and Asian Studies from University of Michigan.
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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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.
Bob Zukis
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Adjunct Professor of Management and Organization
MBA U Chicago; BBA Texas Tech
Bob Zukis is a leader in corporate governance and pioneer in digital risk oversight. He has over thirty years of applied business strategy, operations, and technology experience as a retired PwC Advisory Partner where he worked and lived on 4 continents across 20 countries. He is the founder of Digital Directors Network, where he's working with leading firms to advance their boardroom ability to understand and govern systemic risk in complex digital systems. He is an author and keynote speaker.
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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Judith Blumenthal
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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.
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.
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
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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
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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.