As new and rising students return to campus for the 2024–2025 academic year, USC Marshall and USC Leventhal are pleased to welcome 21 professors to its teaching core. The new faculty join all six departments, including BUSINESS COMMUNICATION, DATA SCIENCES AND OPERATIONS, FINANCE AND BUSINESS ECONOMICS, LLOYD GREIF CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION, and MARKETING, as well as the LEVENTHAL SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING.
From the C-Suite to the classroom, the new faculty members bring extensive backgrounds rooted in academia and business. These award-winning researchers and thought leaders have made impacts in their field, and Marshall students will benefit from their extensive knowledge and real-world experience.
We welcome the following new faculty to USC Marshall:
DAPHNE BALDASSARI, Assistant Professor in the Management and Organization
Daphne Baldassari’s research examines gender and racial inequality in organizations as well as how firms formulate strategic responses and how social movements impact firm behavior. Baldassari received the Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant from the Strategic Management Society, and her research has been a finalist for four different conference awards. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Toronto.
Zachariah Berry, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
Zachariah Berry studies morality in the workplace, with a focus on how people think about moral values and navigate interpersonal conflicts. Much of his work explores topics related to the benefits and drawbacks of loyalty, the development of moral character, and diversity, equity, and inclusion within organizations. He recently earned his PhD in organizational behavior from Cornell University.
Robert (Bobby) Carnes, Associate Professor of Clinical Accounting
Robert (Bobby) Carnes is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and previously worked at EY and for a NASDAQ-listed company in Honolulu. He brings his award-winning teaching experience, accounting practice, and research productivity to the Leventhal School of Accounting.
Giovanni Luca Cascio Rizzo, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Luca Cascio Rizzo’s research focuses on how language shapes consumer behavior and examines how the words, the vocal cues, or body language can influence others. As part of his studies, he employs a multimethod approach, combining automated text, visual, and audio analysis in the field with controlled experiments.
Andrea Dittman, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
Andrea Dittmann studies the sources of and solutions to inequality in organizations and communities. In one stream of research, she examines how to increase opportunities for upward mobility for people from working-class backgrounds. She also explores how to improve relationships and trust between police and their communities.
Jonathan Gomez Martinez, Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
Jonathan Gomez Martinez studies the unplanned consequences of digital platforms’ policies, primarily a privacy policy’s unintended destruction of value in the digital ads market, the inadvertent silencing of minorities by AI-based content moderation, and the competitive implications of content moderation policies.
Daniel Gottlieb, Arkley Chair in Risk Management and Professor of Finance and Business Economics
Daniel Gottlieb joins Marshall from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he served as a professor of managerial economics and strategy and led the Managerial Economics and Strategy Group. Gottlieb’s research focuses on contracting and behavioral economics, with many of his published papers having applications to insurance markets. He is the inaugural recipient of the Arkley Chair in Risk Management.
Gordon Ho, Professor of the Practice in Management and Organization
Gordon Ho joined Marshall as an adjunct professor in 2022 and has been instrumental in the school’s efforts to create a Graduate Certificate in Product Management, including developing multiple graduate and undergraduate electives. Currently the CEO of Xpertainment, a strategy consulting firm, Ho brings his extensive industry background to the classroom from his C-Suite roles at Disney and Princess Cruises.
Jessica Jackley, Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship
Jessica Jackley is an entrepreneur and investor and is best known as a cofounder of Kiva, the world’s first P2P microlending website; since its founding in October 2005, Kiva has facilitated over $1B in loans worldwide to individual entrepreneurs. Jackley’s work has focused on financial inclusion, the sharing economy, and social justice. She returns to USC Marshall to teach Social Entrepreneurship.