Full-Time MBA (FTMBA)

Scott Abrams is a Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics at the USC Marshall School of Business. He specializes in corporate finance, financial analysis and valuation, and portfolio management. Professor Abrams teaches these subjects in the MBA, MS Finance, and Undergraduate Programs. He is a two-time winner of the Golden Apple Teaching Award for the Full-Time MBA Core Program (2016 and 2021), a winner of the Golden Apple Teaching Award for Undergraduate Electives (2023), and winner of the Golden Apple Teaching Award for Graduate Electives (2024). He has been recognized with other awards including the Evan C. Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award (2024). In addition, he serves as the Academic Director for the Full-Time MBA Program.

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.

Sriram Dasu's research interests focus on sustainability, including peak load energy management and maintenance of energy distribution systems to reduce wildfire risks. He also studies mass customization and supply chain management. In healthcare, his work applies data science to improve healthcare operations. His work has been published in Queuing Systems, Operations Research, and Management Science. He has served as associate editor of Management Science and senior editor of Manufacturing and Service Operations. He has published a book on design of service operations by leveraging principles of consumer psychology.

Shaun Harper teaches MBA students and advises companies on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). He has worked with more than 400 businesses, agencies, and institutions; published 13 books and over 100 academic papers; and procured $26 million in foundation grants, $19 million in contracts, and $6.5 million in investments and philanthropic gifts for the center he founded. His research has been cited in over 26,000 published studies, in multiple amicus briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, and on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Black Enterprise, The Atlantic, Business Insider, Sports Illustrated, and hundreds of other news outlets have quoted Shaun and featured his research. He has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ESPN, PBS NewsHour, and NPR. More than 3 million people have read articles he has written for the Washington Post, Forbes, Rolling Stone, CNN.com, Fortune, and the Los Angeles Times.

The U.S. Air Force, Nike, Zoom, T-Mobile, Google, Microsoft, Mattel, NBC Universal, Anheuser-Busch, Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and the City of Los Angeles are among the organizations with which Dr. Harper has worked. Prior to USC, he was a tenured full professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Harper is the recipient of dozens of top awards in his fields and six honorary degrees. The Los Angeles Times named him a top diversity, equity and inclusion visionary in 2023 and 2024, as well as one of the top 100 Hollywood entertainment industry business leaders in 2025. In addition, Los Angeles Business Journal presented his center an award in 2023 for its impact on DEI in companies locally, nationally, and globally.