Dr. Sidney Harman, founder and chairman of audio-equipment giant Harman International Industries, has been named the first Judge Widney Professor of Business at the University of Southern California by school President Steven Sample.
With a $3.9 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USC researcher Katrina Edwards will lead a first-of-its-kind drilling expedition to study subseafloor life. The little understood "deep biosphere" may affect ocean chemistry, the marine food web, global climate--and may also hold clues to the origins of life.
CTM, the USC Marshall School of Business research center devoted to the networked digital industry, has become an institute, with a new name and a broader research portfolio reflective of the industry's rapid transformation.
The USC Marshall School of Business will host the world's largest case competition beginning today as student teams from 30 top schools on four continents take on challenging real-world problems facing major companies.
USC Marshall expert available to discuss election impacts of social networking and other new-media technologies. How are social-networking technologies transforming this year's election? With Super Tuesday's tsunami of state primaries about to crest, some campaigns have effectively harnessed the power of many-to-many communications technologies such as social networking, while others have struggled. Social networking is this generation's equivalent of the television in 1968 or radio in 1932, a once-a-generation transformative media platform that reshapes the political discourse for those politicians savvy enough to understand it.
The Food Industry Management Program at the USC Marshall School of Business will honor David Dillon, Chairman and CEO of The Kroger Company, as "Food Industry Executive of the Year" at its annual graduation banquet in April. "David Dillon has exemplified the managerial traits we inculcate in participants of USC Marshall's Food Industry Management Program," said Professor Thomas Arnold, the program's director.
It's not exactly "Halo 3," and it won't be found on the shelves at GameStop, but a new "serious gaming" simulation from IBM has hit the computer labs at the USC Marshall School of Business, training students in the rudiments of business-process management.
Biologists achieve 10-fold life span extension in ordinary baker's yeast. Discovery provides insight into aging mechanisms shared with humans and other mammals.
How much is quality worth? Do good reviews have more impact on a company's stock price than bad reviews? And do reviews have a bigger impact on small companies or big ones? Those questions and more are answered in a just-published analysis of what happens to company stock prices in the days after Wall Street Journal technology writer Walt Mossberg has published a review of their products.
The USC Marshall School of Business has received more than $5 million in three contributions through a newly approved type of charitable remainder trust that gives donors the likelihood of much better investment returns while they support the school. While many universities offer charitable remainder trusts, the University of Southern California's new program is one of very few that allows trust principal to be invested in the university's endowment. Traditional remainder trusts don't allow such investments in a university's endowment.
From shooting pain to shiver, fluorescence study confirms role of gatekeeper protein in sensing cold. Neuroscientists visualize cold fibers for first time.
MBA.PM, EMBA earn BusinessWeek top 5 rankings.
Chrysalis CEO to head social responsibility initiatives.
DVD-ROM co-produced by USC Shoah Foundation Institute wins award from British Academy.
Immelt points path to success for USC MBAs.
The first study on progesterone and Alzheimer's disease has found no clear preventive benefit for the widely prescribed hormone in an animal model.
Leadership Excellence magazine has named six current or former professors at USC's Marshall School of Business in its top 100 thought leaders on leadership issues.
Chimpanzees crave roots and tubers even when food is plentiful above ground, according to a new study in PNAS that raises questions about the relative importance of meat for brain evolution.
The USC Marshall School of Business will host its second annual Women in Business Challenge this week, a case competition featuring four-person teams of female MBA students from eight top schools.
More than 94 percent of full-time MBA graduates of the USC Marshall School of Business had jobs within 90 days of receiving their degree, according to final numbers compiled by the school's Fred Keenan MBA Career Resource Center.
The Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC's Marshall School of Business has been named the nation's No. 1 graduate program in just-released 2007 rankings from Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review.
USC Marshall unit, Big Four accounting firm to study effects of parade and game on region's economy.
USC Marshall team presents findings at APEC summit.
The organs that produce sperm also may make it easier for mutations to pass to offspring, USC biologists say in PLOS Biology.
Starting your own company is difficult but the journey is worth it, say most Southern California entrepreneurs in a first-ever survey by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the USC Marshall School of Business.
The Los Angeles basin appears to be in a seismic "lull," while the Mojave Desert is experiencing more and bigger earthquakes, according to a study in the September issue of Geology. The study suggests that seismic activity alternates between the two regions, and that seismic hazard models assuming random quake activity may need to be updated.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) more than 15 million service units of computer processing time on supercomputers nationwide.
Tony Michaels is able to speak about hurricanes, climate and castastrophe reinsurance - what affects the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and how that influences the insurance industry's ability to transfer catastrophe risks through reinsurance and capital markets.
Heat loss from Earth's interior varies greatly with time and depends on size and number of plates, says PNAS study.
Get rid of bacteria or let the body fight them? In flies, it's a wash. USC study in Cell Metabolism finds no cause-and-effect link between increased bacterial load and aging. Study challenges the assumption that bacterial load taxes an organism.
USC has begun to ship six new houses - at 47 tons or more apiece - from Los Angeles' Terminal Island to Catalina Island as part of construction of the new George and MaryLou Boone Center for Science and Environmental Leadership at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center.
USC Law professor and respected legal scholar publishes memoir about her struggles and successes battling schizophrenia and acute psychosis.
USC Structural Biologists Reveal Workings of Nicotine Receptor in "˜Landmark Accomplishment.' A new study in Nature Neuroscience online proposes a role for sugar as the hinge that opens a gate in the cell membrane and brings news of nicotine's arrival. Findings could lead to improved treatments for substance addiction, depression, epilepsy and other disorders.
The rare El Segundo blue butterfly is back. Once relegated to a few small and fragile reserves, the nearly extinct butterfly with electric blue wings has expanded its territory to take up residence along the bluffs of a popular beach south of the Los Angeles International Airport, says University of Southern California research assistant professor Travis Longcore.
USC's Space Sciences Center wins a grant to study solar rays that influence weather and radio traffic.
USC study finds immigrants from Mexico in better health than Mexicans-Americans born in the United States. Hardy immigrants mask poor vital signs of American-born Hispanic community, say researchers.
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