Part-Time MBA (MBAPM)

Miriam Burgos specializes in multi-cultural marketing, brand management, and sales management. Prior to joining USC, Professor Burgos worked in the consumer packaged goods industry with Procter & Gamble and Colgate Palmolive where she developed expertise in how a multi-national corporation successfully takes a product to market in a global economy from initial concept to branding, and ultimately to consumers' homes and workplaces. She worked in Procter & Gamble's multicultural business development organization (MBDO) and also has experience in marketing strategy, cause-marketing, and small-business marketing plan development.

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.

Shane’s work in tech, media, and investing has been featured by TenOneTen’s LA Venture Podcast, Google Developers, and Forbes. Shane founded Cinematica Labs to develop mission-oriented entrepreneurial ecosystems in partnership with Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition and others. He has led investments for Wolverine Angels and CrowdSmart’s Titan Fund to invest in startups including Neurable, Air, and Syntiant. He is an Investment Committee member for Cap Table Coalition and Investor in Residence for HBCUvc. Previously, he served as EIR for Techstars Los Angeles. Shane helped capitalize a slate 20 motion pictures generating over $250 million at the box office.​​​​

Stephen Lind, an Associate Professor of Clinical Business Communication at USC's Marshall School of Business, is an award-winning educator known for his expertise in presentation skills, strategic messaging, technology in communication, and consulting. Recognized with the Marshall Teaching Excellence Award, he teaches a range of Marshall programs, from undergraduate courses to graduate electives and traveling global programming. Lind's research, explores unique communication choice, such as communication technology use for business and the risk-laden communication he explores in his industry insight biography, “A Charlie Brown Religion.” With a PhD from Clemson University, Lind also founded BizComm Ally, a consultancy that empowers businesses, from global corporations to local L.A. startups, to elevate their communication strategies.

Kirk Snyder is nationally recognized as an expert on the contemporary workplace. His most recent book, Finding Work You Love: 3 Steps to Getting the Perfect Job After College (Penguin Random House, 2020), is written specifically for college students navigating a brand new world of work. He is also the author of two critically acclaimed books, The G Quotient and Lavender Road to Success. His work has been featured in publications that include the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TIME Magazine, Fortune, strategy + business, and Wall Street Journal . He is the recipient of two USC Marshall Golden Apple Awards as well as a USC Mellon Mentoring Award.

Hovig studies how the social conversation around new technologies impacts how and whether markets emerge around them. His research focuses on nascent and specialty contexts, where the socio-cultural meaning of markets is especially prominent.

In particular, Hovig studies the strategic categorization efforts of auto manufacturers launching into the problematic Electric Vehicle (EV) category. He also has a few ongoing studies on the impact of digital technologies on exchange in upscale handicrafts such as specialty coffee and craft whisky.

Hovig has also developed computational methods for studying large-scale emergence, including a well-cited paper with co-authors on using topic modeling to render theory.