Marshall School of Business

The Marshall School of Business (also known as USC Marshall School of Business) is the business school at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools. The current Dean is James G. Ellis. The school was named after alumnus Gordon Marshall, who gave $35 million in 1997 to name the school.

Background

The USC Marshall School of Business was established in 1920. It is the oldest AACSB accredited school of business in Southern California. The Entrepreneur Program, the first of its kind in the United States, was established in 1972. 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.

Campus

The main building is $20 million, 55,000 square feet Popovich Hall (named after alumni J. Kristofer Popovich and Jane Hoffman Popovich ’65, with their $5 million gift) which opened in 1999 as the most technologically advanced business school building in the United States with eight case study rooms with audio-video teleconferencing, thirteen Experiential Learning classrooms with the ability to transmit lectures and presentations throughout the building, more than 1,100 data hookups throughout the building and courtyard and more than 15 miles of fiber-optic and cable wiring in its Modern Career Resource Center. In addition, seven story Hoffman Hall (an eight story I.M. Pei designed building named for Leslie Hoffman, father of Jane Hoffman Popovich that opened in 1973) nearby houses the Crocker Business Library and Computer Services.

Marshall is related to the Leventhal School of Accounting, which was named after Elaine and Kenneth Leventhal after their $25 million gift. Ph.D. degrees in accounting are offered. Accounting classes are offered in a renovated historic building.

In 2004, the Executive MBA (EMBA) program was available in Shanghai, China. Additionally, MBA.PM program (part-time) students can take first year classes at the Orange County campus in Irvine. In 2006, Marshall opened a San Diego satellite campus for the EMBA program at the La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, north of San Diego.

Rankings

The school is considered a top 25 business school by both "U.S. News & World Report" and "BusinessWeek" (at times it has been a top 20 in both publications).

The degrees offered are multiple. In addition to the undergraduate (ranked 9th by "U.S. News & World Report", 2006) and Ph. D. programs, there are:
*Marshall MBA (full-time) - ranked 21st by "BusinessWeek", 2007, 21st by "U.S. News & World Report", 2008
*Marshall MBA.PM (part-time) - consistently ranked in the top 10 by "U.S. News & World Report", 3rd by BusinessWeek, 2007
*Marshall Undergraduate Program (Bachelor of Science) - ranked 9th by "U.S. News & World Report", 17th by "BusinessWeek", 2008
*EMBA (Executive MBA) - ranked 9th by "U.S. News & World Report", 2007, 5th by "BusinessWeek", 2007
*EMBA in Shanghai
*IBEAR MBA (International) - ranked 10th by "U.S. News & World Report", 2006, 8th by "Financial Times", 2008, Best in International Business (Global Ranking)
*Master of Accounting - ranked top five by "Public Accounting Report"
*Master of Business Taxation - ranked 8th by "U.S. News & World Report", 2006
*Master of Medical Management
*Master of Science in Business Administration
*Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization
*Global Executive MBA Program (Shanghai)

Alumni Network

The number of alumni is over 67,000 worldwide in 44 countries. USC has the largest population of foreign alumni of any university in the U.S., and its members are often referred to as part of the "Trojan Family Network."

Notable alumni

"See also:" List of University of Southern California people
*Dan Bane (B.S. '69) Chairman and CEO of Trader Joe's
* Stephen Barackman (Did Not Graduate), President of BIBofCA.com Los Angeles, CA
*Marc Benioff (B.S. ’86) Founder and CEO of Salesforce.com
*David Bohnett (B.S. ’78) Founder and former CEO of Geocities.com
*John Campbell (M.B.T. ’77) United States Congressman
*Henry Caruso (B.S.) Founder of Dollar Rent-A-Car
*Yang Ho Cho (M.B.A. ’79) President and CEO of Korean Airlines and Chairman of the Hanjin Group
*Chris DeWolfe (M.B.A. ’97) Co-founder and CEO of MySpace
*Vic Edelbrock, Jr. (B.S. '59) President and CEO of Edelbrock Automotive
*Charles Elachi (M.B.A. ’78) Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
*Pat Gillick (B.S. ’58) General manager of the Philadelphia Phillies
*Ivan Glasenberg (M.B.A. ’83) CEO of Glencore
*Steve Goodall (B.S., M.B.A.) President of J.D. Power and Associates
*Henry C. Gordon (M.B.A. ’66) X-20 Dyna-Soar astronaut
*Lloyd Greif (M.B.A. ’79) President and CEO of Greif & Co.
*Tom Hicks (M.B.A. ’70) Businessman and owner of English soccer team Liverpool FC
*Bradley Wayne Hughes (B.S. ’57) Founder and CEO of Public Storage
*Richard Knerr (B.S. ’47) Co-founder and former president of Wham-O
*Lenny Krayzelburg (B.S. ’98) Olympic gold medalist
*Terrence Lanni (B.S., M.B.A. ’67) Chairman and CEO of MGM Mirage
*Paul Locatelli (Ph.D. ’71) President and professor of accounting at Santa Clara University
*General William Lyon (B.S. ’46) Chairman and CEO of William Lyon Homes
*Gordon S. Marshall (B.S. ’46) Founder of Marshall Industries (acquired by Avnet in 1999) and benefactor of the Marshall School of Business
*Bob McKnight (B.S. ’76) Chairman and CEO of Quiksilver
*Anthony Munoz (B.S. '76) Former National Football League Offensive Lineman
*Pat Nixon (B.S. ’37) Former First Lady
*Paul Orfalea (M.B.A. ’71) Founder of Kinko's
*Andrall Pearson (B.S. ’44) Founder of Yum! Brands, Inc.
*Mark Prior (B.S. ’04) Major League Baseball pitcher
*Edward P. Roski (B.S. ’62) Chairman and CEO of Majestic Realty Co., part owner of the Los Angeles Kings and Los Angeles Lakers
*Steve Saleen (B.S.) Founder and CEO of Saleen Performance, Inc.
*Michele Tafoya (M.B.A. ’91) ESPN sportscaster

Notable faculty

*Warren Bennis - Distinguished Professor of Business Administration; named the "dean of leadership gurus" by Forbes magazine
*Sarah Bonner - USC Associates Professorship in Accounting
*Tim Campbell - Charles F. Sexton Chair in American Enterprise
*Richard Chase - Justin Dart Professorship in Operations Management
*Harry DeAngelo - Charles E. Cook/Community Bank Chair in Banking
*Linda DeAngelo - Kenneth King Stonier Chair in Business Administration
*Mark DeFond - Joseph A. DeBell Professorship in Business Administration
*Shantanu Dutta - Dave and Jeanne Tappan Chair in Marketing
*Valerie Folkes - USC Associates Chair in Business Administration
*Thomas Gilligan - E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration
*Gary Frazier - Richard and Jarda Hurd Chair in Distribution Management
*Lawrence Harris - Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance
*William Holder - Ernst & Young Professorship in Accounting
*Edward Lawler III - Distinguished Research Professor of Business and Director of the Center for Effective Organizations
*Thomas Lin - Accounting Circle Professorship in Accounting
*Lloyd Levitin - Professor of Finance
*Deborah Macinnis - Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Professor of Business Administration
*Kenneth Merchant - Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair in Accountancy
*Ian Mitroff - Harold Quinton Distinguished Chair in Business Policy and Professor of Management and Organization
*Theodore Mock - Arthur Andersen & Co. Alumni Professorship in Accounting
*Kevin Murphy - E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration and Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance
*C.W. Park Joseph A. DeBell Chair in Business Administration
*Nandini Rajagopalan - Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Entrepreneurship
*Alan C. Shapiro - Holder of Ivadelle and Theodore Johnson Professorship in Banking and Finance.
*David Stewart Robert E. Brooker Chair in Marketing
*K.R. Subramanyam Elaine and Kenneth Leventhal Research Fellow in Accounting
*Gerard Tellis Jerry and Nancy Neely Chair in American Enterprise
*Allen Weiss Dave and Jeanne Tappan Chair in Marketing
*Randolph Westerfield - Charles B. Thornton Professorship in Finance
*S. Mark Young - KPMG Foundation Professorship in Accounting, Marshall School of Business.
*Fred Zufryden - Ernest Hahn Professorship in Marketing, Marshall School of Business.

ee also

*List of United States business school rankings
*List of business schools in the United States

External links

* [http://www.marshall.usc.edu/ Marshall School of Business website]