University of South Carolina Moore School of Business

University of South Carolina Moore School of Business

RECRUITMENT AND SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS

What programs and initiatives has your school found successful in the recruitment of minority and/or female students? The Moore School of Business is committed to fostering diversity among its graduate (and undergraduate) student population. To that end, we make efforts to recruit minorities and female candidates.

Specific to minority recruiting, we purchase lists of minority candidates from the Graduate Management Admissions Search Service throughout the calendar year. We send direct mail and email communications to these candidates to promote awareness about graduate business programs, events and application deadlines.

The Moore School recruiting efforts almost always include visits to historically Black colleges/universities (HBSUs) to attend graduate school fairs.

Recruiting women to the Moore School of Business has been less of a challenge owing to the fact that the school's namesake is Ms. Darla Moore who donated more than $75 million to the school. Moore was the first woman to grace the cover of Fortune magazine and has served as a role model for women in business for more than two decades. However, we do have a specific recruiting brochure, Moore Women, that features many of our successful students, alumni and faculty. This brochure is sent to female inquiries and prospects throughout the calendar year. Additionally, we purchase GMASS lists that include women, and send direct mail and email about the Moore School graduate programs to these high-potential female candidates.

Please describe any scholarship and/or fellowship opportunities for minority and/or female students attending your school. While no particular scholarship or fellowship is set aside for minority candidates, the Moore School is fortunate to have the ability to award financial awards (including fellowships) each year to the incoming international MBA class. These merit-based awards are available to all qualified candidates. Below is a list of a few of the fellowships available:

The Darla Moore Fellowship Program, established in 2000, is awarded to incoming IMBA students. The students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.6 at the end of the first year to receive funds for the second year. About 35 students are awarded annually with Darla Moore Fellowships.

The Hipp Fellowship, established in 2007, provides full-program fee subsidy for three South Carolina residents for the IMBA program. IMBA candidates who are ultimately selected for the Hipp Fellowship should convey long-term goals to include, but not limited to, being positive change agents for the state and committed to serving the South Carolina community at large. Strong candidates will be able to clearly illustrate leadership qualities and commitment to community initiatives.

The BMW Manufacturing Corp. International Business Fellowships have been established to recognize outstanding IMBA candidates with either engineering or finance backgrounds. The selection process involves an on-site interview at the BMW campus near Greenville, S.C.

Golden Key International Honour Society Member Fellowship provides a fellowship for an entering IMBA student who is a member in good standing with GKIHS.

Cantey Memorial Fellowship is awarded every year to qualified South Carolina resident candidates.

Wachovia Fund for Excellence Fellowship, established in 1967, is awarded to an outstanding academically qualified candidate enrolling in the IMBA or MHR programs. The fellowship is awarded to an incoming master's program student who has demonstrated the potential for making a significant contribution in business leadership through previous academic and/or professional accomplishments.

SCANA/Sonat Fellowship, established in 1988, is awarded to outstanding entering students in the MBA [IMBA] or MHR programs.

PROMINENT ALUMNI/FACULTY

Please provide information about prominent minority faculty members at your school. Thomas Lopez, special assistant to the dean for diversity initiatives and associate professor of accounting Dr. Lopez joined the South Carolina faculty in 2004. Prior to that, he was on the accounting faculties at Georgia State University and Texas A&M University. He teaches financial statement analysis primarily to undergraduate finance students. His research interests are in the areas of corporate restructuring, executive compensation and various aspects of analysts' forecasts. Lopez has published his research in journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. Lopez is the current program coordinator for business at Moore and student organization advisor for the National Association of Black Accountants.

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In July 2008, he was named special assistant to the dean for diversity initiatives to assist in setting strategy, directing programs and managing issues related to student, faculty and staff diversity.

He has a BS in business from Florida International University, an MS in tax from California State University, Hayward, and a PhD in accounting from Arizona State University.

Sanjay L. Ahire, professor of management science Professor Ahire joined the Moore School of Business as a tenured professor in the management science department in fall 2006. He comes from the University of Dayton (Ohio) where he taught operations management. He holds a PhD in management science from the University of Alabama. He also holds a master's degree in management studies and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Bombay (India).

Ahire's research interests include conceptual and empirical analysis for operations and business process improvement strategies, including lean, Six Sigma, business process reengineering and supply chain optimization. He has conducted descriptive and prescriptive research and has also undertaken research to identify linkages among various strategies and approaches to improving operations and processes. Finally, he has put his teaching and research into practice through numerous research projects. Ahire has published numerous articles in various journals, including Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Interfaces and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. His research has been well cited and used by researchers and practicing executives. His 1996 article in Decision Sciences has been recognized as the second most cited article in that journal in the last 35 years.

Ahire is also an accomplished teacher and professional advisor of operations improvement strategies and techniques. He received the 2002 Wickham Skinner Award for Teaching Innovation Achievements from the Production and Operations Management Society, the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Dayton, and the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from the Southwestern Ohio Council on Higher Education. These awards have been based on his ability to link teaching and students in his operations management classes with real-world consulting projects in a wide range of manufacturing and service firms. For example, during his last appointment with the University of Dayton, he led the development of a state-of-the-art program in operations management and managed actual operations/business process improvement consulting student projects that identified potential savings in excess of $15 million in the client firms.

Ahire has served on the editorial review boards of Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences and Quality Management Journal. He was also the track chair for the teaching innovations track for the national annual conferences of the Production and Operations Management Society (Chicago, April 2005) and Decision Sciences Institute (San Francisco, November 2005).

David K. Crockett, associate professor in the marketing department David Crockett's primary research interest is in sociological aspects of consumer behavior, particularly the consequences of social inequality. His research investigates the creation, manifestation and resolution of class, gender and racial inequality in the marketplace, and addresses consumer, managerial and public policy initiatives designed to alleviate inequality. Emerging areas of interest in his research include health-related policy and social enterprise. His research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Consumer Culture, American Marketing Science Review and Journal of Macromarketing. Crockett has received awards and fellowships for his research. These include the 2005 Journal of Consumer Research Robert Ferber Award (Honorable Mention), the 1998 American Marketing Association/Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellowship, the 1996 University of Houston Doctoral Symposium Fellowship and the 1996 National Black MBA Association Fellowship. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer of numerous journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing and Journal of Consumer Culture.

Prior to joining the University of South Carolina, Crockett was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Business School and taught at Marquette University and the University of Arizona. Today, he serves on the USC Values, Ethics and Social Responsibility Task Force and the Faculty Senate Subcommittee. In addition, he is a member of the Moore School of Business Faculty Advisory Committee and the Wachovia Scholars Business at Moore Summer Program Planning Committee and Faculty. Outside the university, Crockett is a member of the Marketing Ethnic Faculty Association's organizing committee, the Association for Consumer Research, American Marketing Association, American Sociological Association, the PhD Project and the National Black MBA Association. He serves as a consultant to the NAACP National Board of Directors and is a member of the South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council Advisory Board.

Please provide information about prominent minority alumni from your school. Jose Joaquin Mora Hernandez, MIBS, international vice president, Johnson & Johnson Jose Joaquin Mora Hernandez is the international vice president, Latin America and Puerto Rico, of Johnson & Johnson. Named to this position in August 2002, he is responsible for pharmaceutical operations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, the Andean countries, Colombia, Venezuela, and Central America and the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico. A native of Bogota, Colombia, Mora joined Johnson & Johnson in 1983 as a sales representative in the United Kingdom. He was later transferred to Belgium and then Mexico. He earned an industrial engineering degree from the University of Andes in Bogota, as well as his master's of international business studies degree from USC. He received the USC Distinguished Young Alumni Award in 2005. He and his family live in Mexico.

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Luis Federico Deza, BS, MIBS 1990, chief operating officer, Nextel de Peru Luis Federico Deza is chief operating officer of Nextel de Peru. Born and raised in Trujillo, Peru, he had a double major of marketing and finance while earning his BS degree at Moore. As an undergraduate, he was a marketing scholar and a member of the versatile track and cross country team. Deza received a presidential scholarship and earned his master's of international business studies degree in 1990. That same year, he joined Merck Sharp & Dohme under a management development program and became a medical sales representative in New York City, later managing the Caribbean and Western Caribbean regions. In 1997 he started a small analog radio trunking operation that later became Nextel de Peru, the leading wireless provider for Peru's corporate segment with more than 650 employees.

Monroe Miller, former vice president of human resources IBM networking division, IBM Corporation Mr. Miller began his career with IBM in San Jose in 1966 where he served as administrative assistant to the San Jose Lab personnel manager. From 1968 to 1971, he served as assistant for personnel administration and systems development division. In 1972 he was appointed manager of SDD employment and manpower in Harrison, New York. Later he became manager of personnel programs in the Raleigh, N.C., systems communications division. He was appointed manager of personnel system products division and, in 1978 became site personnel manager for the systems communications division in Charlotte, N.C. After a series of promotions, he was appointed vice president of human resources, networking hardware division in 1994. He is a member of the Johnson C. Smith University Board of Trustees, the Riegel & Emory Human Resource Research Center, and the Advisory Council for the Master of Human Resources Program at USC.

Darrin Todd Thomas, president, Thomas Media Group, LLC/Black Pages USA Mr. Thomas began his career as a marketing representative for Xerox Corporation in Greenville, S.C. In 1991 he and his former partner founded Thomas-McCants Media, Inc., known throughout the market as Black Pages USA. Since then, Thomas has formed Thomas Media Group, LLC headquartered in Columbia, S.C. Thomas Media Group operates five offices in the Southeastern United States. He also serves on the board of directors of Boy Scouts of America, is a member of SCANA Corporation Advisory Board and is active with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. His awards include South Carolina Small Business Administration Minority Business Person of the Year and Columbia Chamber of Commerce Minority Small Business Person of the Year. He received the Boy Scouts Indian Waters Council Whitney M. Young Jr. Service Award for volunteer service implementing scouting opportunities for low-income and disadvantaged youth.

Lawrence I. Scott, senior vice president, finance group, Bank of America Lawrence I. Scott is senior vice president of the finance group for Bank of America Corporation. Scott, who began his career with Kraft Foods in New York, also worked for Seagram's Tropicana Products and the Phoenix Management Company before joining Bank of America in 2000. In 2002 he was named the senior finance executive for the bank's special assets group, which is responsible for loan restructurings, turnarounds and workouts for a multibillion-dollar portfolio of problem assets. He has been active in the Bank of America corporate community by serving as chairperson of the Finance Diversity Council, chairperson of the 2000 United Way fund-raising drive and as a mentor to employees. He is chairperson of the board of advisors for Johnson C. Smith University.

Please provide information about prominent female faculty members at your school. Hildy Teegen, dean of the Moore School of Business and professor of international business Dr. Hildy Teegen is the current dean of the Moore School of Business. She has written extensively about global business, most recently about interactions between firms, governments and nongovernmental organizations. She has edited two books and co-authored two more, Case Studies of Economic Sanctions: The Chinese, Cuban and Iranian Experiences and U.S. Economic Sanctions: Philosophy and Efficacy, both published by Praeger Books. Her research has been widely published in such journals as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management International Review and many others.

Teegen received The George Washington University School of Business Dean's Scholar Award for 2006-2007, and the school's Board of Advisors Award for Faculty Service in 2005. In 2005, she won the Best Reviewer Award from the international management division of the Academy of Management. She is a member of the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Management and the Business Association of Latin American Studies. She previously served as department editor (institutions and comparative capitalism) for the Journal of International Business Studies, the premier academic journal in the field; an editorial board member for Journal of International Management from 1999 to 2006; and a founding executive board member of the Women of the Academy of International Business.

Tatiana Kostova, Moore Research Fellow and professor of international business Dr. Kostova has published articles in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Group and Organization Management, among others. In 2007 she was recognized as the "Rising Star" in Economics & Business by Incites for the high impact of her publications. She has served as a department editor and member of the editorial board of Journal of International Business Studies, the leading academic journal in international business in the world. She is actively involved in the Academy of International Business and the Academy of Management, where she is incoming chair of the international management division.

Kostova teaches international management in the IMBA and PMBA programs at the Moore School of Business, and the executive IMBA program jointly run with Tech de Monterey, Guadalajara, Mexico. She also teaches in the faculty development in international business program at the University of South Carolina Moore School of Business where she helps colleagues from other business schools develop their international management courses. Kostova is actively involved in the executive education programs offered by USC and some other schools.

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Helen Doerpinghaus, vice provost for academic affairs, dean of undergraduate studies and professor of insurance Dr. Doerpinghaus has authored articles on insurance, employee benefits and health care in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Inquiry, Risk Management and Insurance Review, Benefits Quarterly, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Managerial Issues, Journal of Financial and Strategic Decisions and others. She co-authored the seventh edition of an introductory textbook entitled Risk Management and Insurance and contributed to the text, International Risk and Insurance. She serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Risk and Insurance, Benefits Quarterly, and The Journal of Financial Services Professionals.

She is past president of the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Southern Risk and Insurance Association, and education chair of the Palmetto Chapter of the Risk and Insurance Management Society. Doerpinghaus has received the Moore School of Business Alfred G. Smith Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as a University of South Carolina Michael J. Mungo Teaching Award and the university's Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award. She has worked with the university's center for health services and policy research and several governor's committees on health insurance reform. She has consulted with business organizations and governmental agencies on various insurance and employee benefit projects.

Please provide information about prominent alumnae from your school. J. Michelle Childs, MA 1991, justice at large, South Carolina Circuit Court The Honorable Michelle Childs is a specialist in employment and labor law. She began a six-year term as a commissioner for the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission in July 2002. Formerly, she was deputy director for the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation's Division of Labor, where she administered programs concerned with wages and child labor, elevators and amusement rides, labor/management mediation, migrant labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and OSHA voluntary programs. She was previously a partner in the law firm of Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard in Columbia. She is the recipient of the University of South Carolina's Compleat Lawyer Award, the Silver Medallion Award (1997), and the Richland County Bar Association's Civic Star Award (1999). She was recently named by The State newspaper in Columbia as one of the Top 20 Under [age] 40 successful people in South Carolina.

K. Susan Billiot, BS 1993, MHR 1994, senior vice president of human resources, Patriot Coal Corporation Ms. Billiot is the senior vice president of human resources for Patriot Coal Corporation. She is responsible for all human resources functions, including employee relations, compensation, benefits and organizational development. She joined Patriot Coal in 2008. Billiot was formerly the vice president of human resources for SYSCO Corp., a global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, health care and educational facilities, and lodging establishments. Prior to joining SYSCO, Billiot served in director-level HR leadership positions for both Continental Airlines and Darden Restaurants.

Billiot is also an advisory board member for the University of South Carolina's MHR program, from which she graduated in 1994. She won the USC Distinguished Young Alumni Award in 2008.

Catherine Spearman Brune, BS 1974, senior vice president and chief information officer, Allstate Insurance Company When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed into New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, Catherine Spearman Brune and her team were ready. Brune, senior vice president and CIO for Allstate Insurance Company, had dealt with hurricanes in Florida during the previous few years, and had convinced the insurance giant that "sudden disaster demands flexibility."

Within 72 hours of the Gulf hurricanes, Allstate had advance units of its national catastrophe team in place along with many of its 30 wireless-enabled satellite vans up and running in the affected areas so customers could file their claims at the mobile catastrophe claim centers. Eventually, more than 400,000 Allstate customers did so.

Ms. Brune took over as CIO for Allstate, the nation's largest publicly held personal-lines insurer, in September 2002, more than 25 years after she first joined the company as a management trainee in Charlotte, N.C. She worked in operations and underwriting, then sales and claims, and data center management, always keeping an eye on the technology implications of her work. Today, Brune is responsible for the company's enterprisewide technology strategy, network infrastructure, enterprise applications and technology-related governance, security, privacy and compliance activities. She also oversees Allstate's technology subsidiary in Northern Ireland.

Kellie Cooper Johnson, senior product manager, GlaxoSmithKline Based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., she is responsible for the strategy group on the Boniva brand team. (Boniva is a prescription product for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women.) Johnson has also led the direct-to-consumer efforts for Flonase nasal spray and Advair. Previously, she worked for Bayer Consumer Care; she has also worked for an advertising agency and as a finance manager for several magazines.

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CURRICULUM AND RESEARCH

Please provide information on any classes and concentrations that focus on issues related to women or minorities. IBUS 717/MGMT 729T: Managing Cross-Border Teams The trend toward team structure in organizations has become a primary factor in the management of organizations in recent years. Most people now work in teams at one point or another in their careers. More people also work in cross-functional contexts, at different locations from those with whom they must coordinate, and with people from a variety of national and cultural backgrounds. This course works toward helping individuals reach a better understanding of how people behave and interact in teams of all types. The processes of change and development that must occur for an organization to successfully utilize different types of team structures will be examined. Teams are not viewed as a ready-made solution to organizational problems, but as a tool that must be closely adapted to the organizational context to contribute to organizational effectiveness. The underlying knowledge bases for the class are applied experience, empirical data and theoretical considerations drawn from the literature on teams and groups.

Instructional objectives of the course include:

? To improve understanding of how context and the global environment influence team structure and behavior ? To learn to diagnose when teams are an appropriate tool for an organization, and for what levels and functions ? To develop specific skills for implementing team structures in organizations

- how do I design the appropriate team structure? - how do I motivate diverse team members? - how do I lead in a team environment? - how are human resource applications adapted for teams? ? To understand interpersonal behavior in teams - how does a diverse group of individuals become a team? - how do diverse people influence team decisions? - how can I resolve conflict in diverse teams?

DMSB 714: International Management Focuses on the management of the multinational corporation (MNC). The objectives are to discuss specific managerial challenges and opportunities faced by MNCs, to provide knowledge and conceptual frameworks necessary for understanding and managing MNCs, and to train and develop skills for effective global leadership.

Please describe any faculty and/or student research projects that focus on diversity, multiculturalism and minority issues. We support diversity through our development of faculty in the area of international business research. The University of South Carolina was among the first five universities selected by the U.S. Department of Education to serve as a Center for International Business and Education Research (CIBER).

Dr. Douglas P. Woodward, economics professor and research director at the Moore School of Business, and a team of international business graduate students in the Moore School interviewed 381 Mexican immigrants from all regions of the state in 2005 in order to better understand the Latino labor market. Their findings represent the first phase in an ongoing effort by Woodward to understand more fully this exploding segment of the employment base and are part of a larger research program underway at USC coordinated by the Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies. This part of the research was supported by students from the IMBA program, the CIBER program at the Moore School, and the USC Research and Productive Scholarship program.

Professor McKinley L. Blackburn's current research interests lie in three areas: (1) The economics behind family formation decisions; (2) The appropriate method for estimating the effects of individual characteristics on their wages; and (3) Racial discrimination in lending. He received the 1998 Research Development Award for the Moore School of Business. He is currently the graduate coordinator for economics, overseeing the MA and PhD in economics programs. His publications include:

"Racial Discrimination in Bank-Level and Market-Level Models of Mortgage Lending Decisions." Journal of Financial Services Research, April 2006. (With Todd Vermilyea).

"Racial Disparities in Bank-Specific Mortgage Lending Models." Economics Letters, December 2004 (With Todd Vermilyea).

"The Role of Test Scores in Explaining Race and Gender Differences in Wages." Economics of Education Review, December 2004.

"Racial Discrimination in Home Purchase Mortgage Lending Among Large National Banks." Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings, 2003 (With Todd Vermilyea).

"Income Inequality, Business Cycles, and Female Labor Supply." Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 1. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1989, pp. 327 to 342 (With David Bloom).

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