Faculty Council
Faculty Council
The Marshall Faculty Council (MFC) serves as an advisory body, playing a crucial role in fostering the intellectual vibrancy of the university and faculty governance. As the leading voice of the faculty, the MFC actively participates in decisions related to school procedures and academic matters. It conducts studies, produces reports, and provides recommendations on faculty-related academic affairs.
Joseph Nunes is an expert on loyalty programs, status and luxury goods, pricing, immersive experiences and consumer and managerial decision-making. He has published numerous papers in top marketing journals including the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing, and Harvard Business Review. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Psychology. In 2006, he received Marshall's Dean's Award for Excellence in Research. Professor Nunes has consulted for a variety of companies including Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Kampgrounds of America, Nestlè, and Abbott Laboratories.
Dr. Christopher Bresnahan is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Management and Organization department at the Marshall School of Business. Dr. Bresnahan teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level. His courses focus on organizational behavior, leadership, and understanding individual differences. His research interests focus on individual differences in the workplace.
Shane Heitzman specializes in the economic consequences of corporate and individual taxation, mergers and acquisitions, and information quality in capital markets. His research is published in top accounting and finance journals and he serves an associate editor for the Journal of Accounting and Economics and The Accounting Review.
Scott Joslin is a financial economist whose research focuses on capital markets, in particular, the study of bond and options markets and their interaction with the macroeconomy. His research involves sophisticated econometric and statistical techniques, and development of methods to solve computationally difficult problems. Professor Joslin's work has been published in journals that include American Economic Review and Review of Financial Studies. Prior to joining USC, he was on the faculty of MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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.
Milan Miric is an associate professor in the Information Systems Group. He joined USC in 2016 following the completion of his PhD at Copenhagen Business School.
Albert Napoli is an award-winning instructor at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California, having taught the Entrepreneurial Family Business course for over a decade. During this time, he has gained the unique perspective of the next generations’ insight into productive family business successions and has been able to implement them into his consultations.
Andrew (AJ) Ogilvie teaches courses in business writing and communication. Dr. Ogilvie has designed and taught university writing and communication courses at the undergraduate and MBA level for nearly a decade.His primary research interests are writing development, knowledge transfer, and communication curriculum in higher education. His publications include articles on contemporary liberal arts education as well as writing curriculum in general education courses. Prior to academia, Dr. Ogilvie worked in strategic communications at Booz Allen Hamilton where he developed stakeholder outreach initiatives for the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
Joe Raffiee is an Associate Professor of Strategy. Joe's research focuses on strategic human capital, employee mobility, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Joe's research has been published or is forthcoming in Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Research Policy, and the Academy of Management Perspectives. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation and covered by media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine, and Wired. In 2021, Joe was recognized as one of the “Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors" by Poets and Quants.
