Why Marshall
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BS Business Administration (BUAD)
Business Emphases
BS Accounting (ACCT)
World Bachelor in Business (WBB)
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MS Business Administration (MSBUSAD)
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MS Finance (MSF)
MS Global Supply Chain Management (MSGSCM)
MS Marketing (MSMKT)
MS Social Entrepreneurship (MSSE)
Master of Business for Veterans (MBV)
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Accounting Masters
Master of Accounting (MAcc)
Master of Business Taxation (MBT)
Master of Business Taxation for Working Professionals (MBT.WP)
PhD Program
Accounting
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Marketing
Graduate Certificates
GC in Business Analytics
GC in Financial Analysis + Valuation
GC in Management Studies
GC in Marketing
GC in Optimization + Supply Chain Management
GC in Strategy + Management Consulting
GC in Sustainability + Business
GC in Technology Commercialization
GC in Library and Information Management – Online
Executive Education
Departments
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Faculty
Data Sciences and Operations (DSO)
Finance + Business Economics (FBE)
Leventhal School of Accounting (ACCT)
Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (BAEP)
Management and Organization (MOR)
Marketing (MKT)
Institutes + Centers
Randall R. Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute
Peter Arkley Institute for Risk Management
VanEck Digital Assets Initiative
Institute for Outlier Research in Business
Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Incubate USC
USC Marshall Venture Fund
Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab
Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making
Center for Effective Organizations
Center for Global Innovation
Center for Investment Studies
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Undergraduate
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Student Organizations
The Dean’s Cabinet is comprised of faculty members and executive-level staff who serve as advisers to Dean Geoff Garrett in setting and executing his strategic plan for the Marshall School of Business.
Rahsan Akbulut
Associate Vice Dean for Graduate Programs
Rahsan Akbulut is an Associate Professor of Clinical Finance & Business Economics. She is also serving as Academic Director of the MBA.PM Program. Rahsan previously served as Academic Director of the MS Finance Program. Her teaching focuses on Microeconomics. She is also a recipient of the Golden Apple Teaching Award.
Sara Bamossy
Chief Marketing Officer and Associate Dean Marketing & Communications
Sara is a marketing strategist and creative leader; previously, she ran an ad agency as a CSO and CEO. She spent her agency years driving growth for the world’s largest brands including Toyota, P&G, PepsiCo, Roche, Microsoft, Netflix, and Westfield. Her campaigns have won Cannes Lions, Effie, and Chiat awards.
April De La Rosa
Chief of Staff
April is a higher education administrator and culture champion. She has worked in higher education institutions on both coasts including a liberal arts college, a large 2-year system as well as public and private R1 research universities.
Peer Fiss
Associate Vice Dean for Research
Peer’s research and teaching are in the fields of organization theory and strategic management, with a focus on modeling and understanding causal complexity. He has also been working for more than two decades on the use of set-analytic methods such as fuzzy set QCA in management and the social sciences.
William Holder
Dean of the Leventhal School of Accounting
William Holder is an expert on financial reporting, and auditing. His research has been published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accountancy, Financial Executive, International Journal of Accounting and others. He received the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Service (the highest honor provided) by the AICPA and numerous other awards.
Janet Horan
Chief Financial Officer and Vice Dean of Finance & Administration
Janet previously served as the Vice Dean for Finance and Administration at Columbia’s Business School. Along with responsibility for administrative operations and financial oversight of a $280 million budget, she was instrumental in the transformational $500M capital project building two new facilities in Manhattan.
Christopher Jones
Chair of the Faculty Council
Christopher Jones conducts research on empirical asset pricing and financial econometrics. He is an expert on volatility modeling and option pricing. He currently teaches courses in investment management. Prior to USC, Professor Jones was on the faculty at the University of Rochester.
Suh-Pyng Ku
Vice Dean for Graduate Programs
Suh-Pyng Ku is a Professor of Clinical Finance & Business Economics and serves as the Vice Dean for Graduate Programs and Director of the Center for Investment Studies. She is the 2014 Golden Apple Teaching Award Winner for the Full-Time MBA Program. She received her Ph.D. in Finance from USC.
Shirley Maxey
Associate Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Professor Maxey specialized in professional development and leadership communication at the Leventhal School of Accounting where she served as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and was the recipient of the Diamond Teaching Award, Instructor Excellence Award, the Marshall Dean's Award for Community, and the Marshall Award for Innovation in Teaching.
Patricia Mills
Vice Dean for Teaching & Innovation
Patricia Mills specializes in partnership, real estate, and individual tax issues. She is a co-author of CCH’s treatise Taxation of Partnerships and Partners, and has earned several Marshall and Leventhal teaching and mentoring awards. Previously she spent 20 years in private practice and is a frequent speaker on tax topics.
Rachel Morrell
Chief Development Officer and Associate Dean External Relations
Rachel’s advancement career spans nearly 30 years at USC. She leads a dynamic team that raises transformational gifts, and engages alumni, parents and friends to accelerate Marshall’s trajectory through groundbreaking research, student support, experiential learning opportunities, and capital projects.
Ramandeep Randhawa
Vice Dean for Undergraduate Programs
Ramandeep S. Randhawa is an operations research scholar whose research interests include designing service systems, revenue management, stochastic modeling, and machine learning, and he has numerous publications on these topics in the leading journals. He currently serves as an Area Chair for the Operations Research journal.
Leigh Tost, Interim Vice Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Interim Vice Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Leigh Tost studies the psychological and sociological dynamics of hierarchy and diversity in organizations. Her research on hierarchy focuses on questions about how power differences in teams and organizations affect team performance and ethical decision making.
Sha Yang
Senior Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Professor Yang’s research focuses on deriving insights on consumers and competition through modeling and data analytics, covering topics like internet advertising, social media, pricing and platforms. She is also an expert in Bayesian methods. She has published 20+ top-tier journal articles and serves as an Associate Editor at top-tier journals.
Staff Council Representative (Rotating)
The Staff Council members rotate on the Dean’s Cabinet so that every member will have the opportunity to participate. Special thanks to inaugural members: Tonii Brady, Aum Leonard, Dan Lewis, Terry Lichvar, Sara McLachlan, Wayne Wilmeth and Matt Wilson.