The USC Marshall School of Business is the business school of the

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. It is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. In 1997 the school was renamed following a $35 million donation from alumnus

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.As of May 13, 2010.

History

The Marshall School began as the College of Commerce and Business Administration in 1920. The Graduate School of Business Administration was established in 1960. The

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Program, the first of its kind in the United States, was established in 1972 and is internationally recognized. It has now been renamed The Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The Pacific RIM Education (PRIME) program was implemented in 1997 as the first ever MBA course of its kind to require all first year full-time MBA students to participate in an international experience. The Leventhal School of Accounting was formed within the school on February 7, 1979. All of its classes are offered at the University Park campus in Los Angeles.

James G. Ellis James George Ellis (born 9 Jan 1947 Tacoma, Washington) is an American academician, professor, and former business executive who, for the last years, was the dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in Los ...

was the dean from 2007 through June 30, 2019. The interim dean is Gareth James, the E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration, director of the Institute for Outlier Research in Business, and Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, who has held a number of roles in his more than 20 years at Marshall. On June 11, 2019, it was announced that Geoffrey Garrett would be leaving the

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at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year to become dean of the Marshall School of Business. Garrett will begin his tenure as dean of Marshall in July 2020.

Campus

The school occupies five multi-story buildings on campus: Hoffman Hall (HOH), Bridge Hall (BRI), the Accounting building (ACC), Popovich Hall (JKP) and Jill and Frank Fertitta Hall (JFF), which houses the Marshall School's undergraduate programs.

Popovich Hall

This is the main building of the Marshall School's MBA programs. The $20 million, building opened in 1999 as one of the most technologically advanced business school buildings in the United States. It was named after alumni J. Kristofer Popovich and Jane Hoffman Popovich for their $5 million gift.

Bridge Hall

Bridge Hall (built in 1928) housed all undergraduate offices for the Marshall School of Business until the opening of Jill & Frank Fertitta Hall in the fall of 2016. Fertitta Hall, a 104,000-square-foot, five-story building, was built expressly for Marshall's undergraduate community. It houses USC Marshall's Undergraduate student services, admissions and advisors' offices. The Office of the Dean, staff offices and a few classrooms continue to be housed at Bridge Hall.

Hoffman Hall

The H. Leslie Hoffman Hall of Business Administration, which opened in 1973 and stands eight stories tall, is the former home of the Crocker Business Library (now renamed the Gaughan & Tiberti Library on the first floor of Fertitta Hall). It is named for H. Leslie Hoffman, father of Jane Hoffman Popovich. It was designed by architect

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. The building was extensively renovated in 2015-16 into faculty offices.

Programs

Undergraduate

The Marshall School offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. There are several joint programs that offer studies with International Relations and Cinematic Arts in combination with Business Administration. New students take a business core and have other time to fulfill the USC Core and take elective classes. The undergraduate program offers a variety of international opportunities. The Global Leadership Program (GLP) comprises a two-semester seminar on business leadership in China and a spring break trip to China.

Graduate

Marshall's two-year full-time

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comprises a straightforward intensive core and a diverse range of electives and concentrations. USC Marshall also offers an MBA program for Professionals and Managers (MBA-PM), an online MBA (OMBA), an executive MBA (EMBA) and a one-year international MBA (IBEAR). The School offers 11 specialty master's degrees, offering specialized business education on a number of topics, including finance, business analytics, marketing, social entrepreneurship and global supply chain management. Leventhal2012

''Executive Education'' For individuals, Marshall Executive Education offers open enrollment programming with business certificate programs – online and in-person – geared towards professional and personal development.

Ph.D

Ranked within the top 15 world business research institutions, the Marshall School offers a full-time doctoral program within the five academic departments. The program generally lasts 4–5 years with up to two years of dissertation. Along working with notable faculty, doctoral students also receive substantial financial aid, such as graduate assistantship and a living stipend, during their study.

Trojan Family

The Marshall School has more than 82,000 alumni worldwide in 123 countries. Events at Marshall often emphasize the importance of networking within the Trojan Family.

Rankings

2023 QS Business Masters Rankings * Masters in Supply Chain Management - 5th in the world. * Masters in Business Analytics - 9th in the world. * Masters in Marketing - 16th in the world. * Masters in Finance - 29th in the world. 2022 Poets and Quants * Undergraduate Program is 3rd in the US * Online MBA program No. 1 in the US.

People

Notable alumni

* Dan Bane (B.S. '69) Chairman and CEO of

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(B.S. '86) Founder and CEO of

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* John Campbell (M.B.T. '77)

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(B.S.) Founder of Dollar Rent-A-Car *

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(B.S. '68) Chairman and CEO of Casden Properties *

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(M.B.A) Chairman of

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and

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in Hong Kong *

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(M.B.A. '79) President and CEO of

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and Chairman of the

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* Chris DeWolfe (M.B.A. '97) Co-founder and CEO of MySpace * Vic Edelbrock, Jr. (B.S. '59) President and CEO of Edelbrock Automotive *

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(M.B.A. '78) Director of the

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(JPL) *

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(B.S. '84) CEO of

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* Robert M. Fomon (B.S. '51) Former Chairman and CEO of E. F. Hutton & Co. and governor of the

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(B.S. '58) General manager of the Philadelphia Phillies * Ivan Glasenberg (M.B.A. '83) CEO of Glencore *

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(M.B.A. '66)

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astronaut * Chris R. Hansen (M.B.A. '96) Founder of Valiant Capital Management *

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(B.S. '85)

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(M.B.A. '70) Businessman and owner of English soccer team

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* Bradley Wayne Hughes (B.S. '57) Founder and CEO of

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* Jon Huntsman, Sr. (M.B.A.) Founder and Chairman of Huntsman Corporation; benefactor of the Huntsman School of Business * Hyekyung "Shelly" Hwang (M.B.A.) Co-founder of

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(B.S. 2009) TV reality star *

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(B.S. '47) Co-founder and former president of

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(B.S. '98) Olympic gold medalist *

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(B.S. '65) Chairman and CEO of

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(B.S. '38) Author, management consultant and former professor at the Harvard Business School * Paul Locatelli (Ph.D '71) President and professor of accounting at Santa Clara University * Armen Margarian (B.S. 2001, M.B.A. 2006) - Co-Founder and CEO of NexusLab Inc. (an Inc.5000 Company) *

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(B.S. '47, M.B.A. '48) Founder of the PMI Mortgage Insurance Company; former Vice Chairman of the

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(B.S. '84) Founder and president of Now & Zen, Inc.; an influential writer in the field of

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(B.S. '76) Former

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Offensive Lineman *

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(B.S. '37) Former First Lady *

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(M.B.A. '71) Founder of

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and benefactor of the

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(B.S. '04)

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pitcher * Edward P. Roski (B.S. '62) Chairman and CEO of Majestic Realty Co., part owner of the

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and Los Angeles Lakers * Steve Saleen (B.S.) Founder and CEO of Saleen Performance, Inc. *

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(M.B.A. '91)

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sportscaster *

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(born 1954), tennis player *

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(B.S. '86) CEO of

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* Ronald N. Tutor (B.S. '63) Chairman and CEO of Tutor Perini Corporation * Ben Wanger (M.S. '20), American-Israeli Olympian, baseball pitcher, Team Israel *

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, (B.S. '17) actress *

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(M.B.A. '95) Minister,

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Faculty

* Richard B. Chase – Justin Dart Professorship in Operations Management * Thomas W. Gilligan – E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration *William Holder – Ernst & Young Professorship in Accounting * Lloyd Levitin – Professor of Finance * Kenneth Merchant – Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair in Accountancy *

Ian Mitroff Ian Irving Mitroff (born 1938) is an American organizational theorist, consultant and Professor Emeritus at the USC Marshall School of Business and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California He is noted for a wi ...

– Harold Quinton Distinguished Chair in Business Policy and Professor of Management and Organization * Kevin J. Murphy – Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance *

Kirk Snyder Kirk Patrick Snyder (born June 5, 1983) is a former American professional basketball player. College Snyder grew up in Upland, California, and spent his college career at University of Nevada. In 2004, he led the Wolf Pack to its first Sweet 1 ...

- Assistant Professor of Clinical Management Communication; expert on LGBT issues. *

Gerard Tellis Gerard J. Tellis is a professor, author, speaker, and thinker. He has a PhD in Business from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He currently holds the Neely Chair of American Enterprise at the USC Marshall School of Busines ...

– Jerry and Nancy Neely Chair in American Enterprise *

S. Mark Young S. Mark Young is a professor and writer focused on management accounting and control, particularly in relation to the entertainment industry. He was born in Sydney, Australia and attended Homebush Primary and High Schools. After he and his family ...

– KPMG Foundation Professorship in Accounting, Marshall School of Business.

References

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