Newswise — 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.
"USC Marshall has been blessed for many years now to be the intellectual home of these great professors, thinkers, writers and researchers on leadership issues," said USC Marshall Dean James G. Ellis. "It's wonderful that Leadership Excellence magazine has recognized their achievements as well. We're proud of all that they've done and all that they've brought to USC Marshall."
University Professor Warren Bennis of USC Marshall is ranked No. 4 on the list. Bennis, co-author of the about-to-be-released "Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls" and 27 other books on leadership issues, has advised four U.S. presidents and more than 150 CEOs in his storied career.
Other USC Marshall professors on the Thought Leaders list include No. 34 Morgan McCall Jr., professor of management and organization. McCall recently was named the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the group's highest honor.
Ed Lawler, No. 57 on the magazine's list, is director of USC Marshall's Center for Effective Organizations and Distinguished Professor of Business. Earlier this year, he became the only person to win both of the most prestigious prizes of the Academy of Management when he received its 2007 Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award.
Also on the Leadership Excellence list are former long-time USC Marshall professors James O'Toole at No. 23, Jay Conger at No. 25 and Ian Mitroff at No. 89. O'Toole and Lawler collaborated on the influential 2006 book, "The New American Workplace." Mitroff retired from USC Marshall in 2006.
About the USC Marshall School of Business Based at the crossroads of the Pacific Rim, in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, the USC Marshall School of Business is dedicated to training global leaders to make a difference. USC Marshall is the best place to learn the art and science of business.
The school's complete array of programs annually serve more than 5,000 undergraduate, graduate, professional and executive-education students, who attend classes at the main University Park campus in Los Angeles, and in satellite facilities in Irvine and North San Diego County.
In conjunction with Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, USC Marshall also operates a Global Executive MBA program in China. Marshall's many highly ranked programs and centers of excellence include the Leventhal School of Accounting. For more information, go to www.marshall.usc.edu
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