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S. Mark Young

  • George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports and Entertainment Business
  • Professor of Accounting

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.

S. Mark Young
Press Inquiries: COMMUNICATIONS@MARSHALL.USC.EDU

Areas of Expertise

Accounting
Activity Based Costing (ABC)
Entertainment
Entertainment Business
Management Fraud and Control
Narcissism
Personnel Control Issues
Teaching and Innovation

Departments

Leventhal School of Accounting

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RESEARCH + PUBLICATIONS

COURSES

Spring 2024
  • ACCT-604
    Management Accounting and Control Systems Research
    Theories underlying management accounting research. Types of research methods used including laboratory and field experiments, survey studies and archival methods.
  • GSBA-555
    Management and Organization of the Creative Industries
    How creative industries (motion pictures, television, publishing, radio, music, arts, games) operate and are organized. Critical discussion of pressing issues that these industries face.
  • GSBA-562
    Management of Operations
    Analysis of operations management and business functions; managerial accounting; finance; marketing; production; data processing and information systems; human resources management.
  • GSBA-576
    Business Management and Operations
    Thematic focus on the formulation and implementation of business strategies related to issues affecting businesses including managerial accounting, operations, financial, and legal.
  • GSBA-593
    Independent Research in Business
    Independent research beyond normal course offerings. Proposal, research and written report/paper required. Open only to Masters Students. Graded CR/NC.
  • MOR-443
    The Business of Digital Hollywood
    An overview of how the media and entertainment (M&E) industries operate. History and changing organizational structures in film, television, music and video games.