Faculty Council

Marion Philadelphia studied American and English literature combined with journalism and mass communication at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She began her professional career in Los Angeles, where she worked in public relations, journalism, marketing, and the themed entertainment industry. As an independent writer and translator, she is credited with numerous non-fiction book projects, including the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology, and she is a published novelist. For more than two decades she has been faculty at the Marshall School of Business, where she chaired the department of business communication for seven years. She earned her doctorate in educational leadership from USC’s Rossier School of Education.As a communication and educational leadership expert, she specializes in pedagogy, curriculum, instructional design, and faculty professional development. She was instrumental in the John H. Mitchell Business of Cinematic Arts program’s transformation to become the first joint undergraduate degree at USC between the School of Cinematic Arts and the Marshall School of Business. She is also the Academic Director for the World Bachelor in Business Program. In her teaching, she focuses on human aspects, spanning topics from developing emotional intelligence and leadership skills to investigating the forces of internal and external organizational communication interactions. She is the recipient of the USC Mellon Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring, the Evan C. Thompson Faculty Mentoring and Leadership Award, and the Provost’s Mentoring Award.

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.

Arvind Bhambri specializes in strategic change, competitive strategy, business development, and leadership. He has twice received the Golden Apple Award for MBA teaching and the Management & Organization Outstanding Teacher Award four times. In 2008, a Wall Street Journal special report profiled him as one of the fourteen best EMBA professors worldwide. In 2009, he received the Evan C. Thompson Award for Learning and Teaching Innovation. Professor Bhambri has served on on the faculty of the Getty Museum Leadership Institute, Bocconi University, University of Hawaii's Advanced Management Program, and the Owner Managed Business Institute in Boston.

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.

Cheryl Wakslak’s research focuses on how people interact with others across various forms of distance. Much of her recent research looks at communication, exploring when people use more big-picture, abstract language versus more specific language, and how this influences the way they are perceived by others. Projects here focus especially on the role of gender, power, diversity, and perceptions of leadership and future potential. Cheryl is further interested in how these dynamics -- and other communication signals -- play out in the entrepreneurial space. She explores these interests using a variety of approaches, including experiments, field studies, and archival data analysis.