Institutes + Centers

The new director of the USC Marshall Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making talks about his role and vision for the Center.

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USC Marshall/Greif Incubator helped bring a good idea into reality. Now Frontida Records has been recognized by the United Nations as a global digital solution.

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With the gift from insurance executive Arkley, the USC Marshall School of Business will transform the risk management program into an institute bearing his name and will enhance the program to graduate new leaders in risk management.

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INSTITUTES

Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute

The USC Marshall Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute (Kendrick GSCI) exists to help predict, mitigate, and alleviate supply chain disruptions and risks. We are capitalizing upon our global network, industry experience, and renowned faculty, through Network, Education, and Advanced Research (NEAR).

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Peter Arkley Institute for Risk Management

The Peter Arkley Institute for Risk Management educates the next generation of risk management leaders for an increasingly complex and interconnected business environment. A curriculum focused on stimulating critical thinking and sharpening analytical skills equips students to meet the risk challenges of tomorrow.
Born out of a collaboration with the Southern California risk management industry, the Institute emphasizes professional development through internships, mentorships, and networking events.

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Institute for Outlier Research in Business (iORB)

iORB’s core mission is to nurture and grow outlier research, defined as rigorous and relevant academic work that positively impacts the business community and society in general. We envision iORB as the home of renowned thought leaders across business disciplines and from around the world, conducting highly impactful research.

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Centers

Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

The Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies is the oldest entrepreneurship program in the United States and the largest entrepreneurship hub on USC’s campus. From ideation to launch, growth, and scaling, the Greif Center supports founders through dynamic programs, competitions, funding, coaching, and a thriving investor network that includes industry partners, executives, and thought partners in Los Angeles and around the globe. Alumni have launched hundreds of successful companies including Salesforce, Box, FedEx Office (formerly Kinko’s), Bird, Hype & Vice, and more.

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Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab

The Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab is a Center of Excellence at the USC Marshall School of Business building an ecosystem of students and professionals equipped with the business skills and resources to advance market-based approaches to pressing societal issues. Through education, community building, research, professional development, and narrative change, the Lab is a nucleus for social impact at Marshall, USC, and beyond.

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Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making

Today's leaders are burdened with ever-growing expectations and dilemmas. The Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making provides leaders with tools at the intersection of ethics and technology so they can make wise decisions for their organizations while feeling confident about the future. The center aims to help solve what we believe to be the most difficult, but most important, challenge of our time: how to align emerging technologies with ethical, human-centered values.

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Center for Effective Organizations

Founded in 1979, the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) brings over 40+ years of experience in conducting cutting-edge research and helping forward thinking leaders and companies bridge research and practice to solve complex organizational effectiveness challenges.

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Center for Investment Studies

The mission of the Center for Investment Studies is to enable students to acquire experiential learning in investment management, to support faculty in conducting research, and to facilitate industry practitioner interactions with faculty and students.

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INITIATIVES

Initiative on Digital Competition

The continued and rapid growth of E-commerce has generated questions about the consequences for society, business, and the global economy. The USC Marshall Initiative on Digital Competition, which started in January 2021, aims to discover insights on these questions through a collaboration of industry practitioners and academics from business disciplines as well as non-business disciplines (e.g., computer science, economics, law, communications); and disseminate these insights to a broad set of audiences that includes academics, business leaders, and the public.

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VanEck Digital Assets Initiative

The VanEck Digital Assets Initiative at USC’s Marshall School of Business is a hub for education, research, industry partnerships, academia-meets-industry events, and promoting the ecosystem of digital assets, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens, and the metaverse.

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INSIGHT + ANALYSIS

Quoted: Ravi Iyer in The Timberjay

IYER, managing director, Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making, tells The Timberjay why user agency over social media privacy controls are important, as part of proposed legislation based on the center's Design Code recommendations.

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Quoted: D. Daniel Sokol in Naver (in Korean)

SOKOL, affiliated professor of marketing, sat down with Naver warning South Korea's Trade Commission should analyze data from other country's digital platform regulations as analysis shows the proposed law may hinder competition instead of increasing it as hoped.

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Quoted: Ravi Iyer on Al Jazeera

IYER, managing director of the Neely Center, posits with Al Jazeera that companies bear the responsibility of redesigning algorithms to eliminate polarizing content, especially in light of global elections taking place in 2024.

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Quoted: Dean Geoffrey Garrett and Nick Vyas in BW Education

Dean Geoffrey Garrett and Nick Vyas, founding director Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute, discussed with BW Education in Mumbai Marshall's efforts to nurture Indian talent into influential business leaders.

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OpEd: Hovig Tchalian in The Conversation

Based on his research, TCHALIAN writes in The Conversation that EVs are an old new technology, but its widespread adoption has had a long road affected by technical, economic, and social factors.

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