Institutes and Centers

The Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies is the hub for entrepreneurship at USC. We are world-classs entrepreneurship educators, collaborators, knowledge creators, and venture catalysts. Along with our curricular offerings, we provide co-curricular activities that engage student entrepreneurs, startup enthusiasts, students in general, and campus leaders. These activities support students from opportunity recognition through succession/exit. Our organized programming includes the, Blackstone LaunchPad, New Venture Seed Competition, Athena Initiative, Marshall Greif Incubator, Startup Survival Workshop Series, Catalyst Microgrant program, eCouncil, the Marshall Venture Fund, and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.