Moore magazine 2018 by Darla Moore School of Business

MOORE DARLA MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS / UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA / 2018

THE NEW CURRENCY Moore School enriches curriculum as data analytics unlocks new value in business.

PRECISION BA SE BALL Three business professors formulate a game plan to enhance the science behind the sport.

THE SUPPLY CHAIN IN SPACE Researchers help chart a new course for conducting business in outer space.

The Darla Moore School of Business represents something deeply personal to me: an opportunity to show the rest of the country, and indeed the world, the quality of practical and meaningful business education and professionals that we are developing in South Carolina. Chris Campbell B.S. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12, USC J.D. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;15 Young Alumni Board

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MOORE DARLA MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

A Message from Dean Brews

Distinguished Awards

Alumni Spotlights

Over There Studying abroad is a quintessential college experience, but is the student motivation for going abroad studying or sightseeing? The Moore School capitalizes on both by sending students to more than 60 international partner schools to learn alongside the top students in the country.

Balancing Act Risk is an inherent aspect of business, regardless of the times, but what are risk managers doing today to combat things like impending trade wars, cybersecurity threats and hostile work environments?

Precision Baseball Raw data from Gamecock baseball’s new tracking system transforms into heat maps and interactive dashboards that track the baseball’s every move with help from Moore School analytics professors.

The New Currency Business analytics is becoming increasingly important in this digital age. Soon, no business student will be able to graduate without taking at least a basic analytics class. The Moore School has adjusted its curriculum to equip every student with the analytics skills to be competitive in today’s job market.

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The Supply Chain of Space What happens when you take normal, everyday business functions and move them to space? Researchers at the Moore School are looking at the way operations function beyond this world.

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A MESSAGE FROM

DEAN BREWS

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hough my being halfway through my fifth year at the Moore School with a second term starting next year is hard to believe, I remain as humbled to be your dean now as I was starting in January 2014. The highlight of my professional career has been working with our faculty, staff, alumni, corporate partners and friends to serve the students who entrust us with their education, and I am truly honored to continue working alongside all in the Moore School community. In the past two editions of Moore magazine, you were told of the transformation taking place across the school, and you learned about how constructs such as rigor, analytics, soft skills and experiential learning were being applied to improve what the school offers overall. Further, you were told of increases in faculty and staff, of enhancements to our offices of Career Management and Alumni Engagement, and that now, more than ever, the help of alumni and friends across the country is essential as we strive to ensure all students have the opportunity to complete internships and, more importantly, are able to find good jobs upon graduation.

Building on many of these themes, in these pages you will learn of the innovative alumni Hub Networks being established by our oﬃces of Career Management and Alumni Engagement, as well as about our continuing steps to build student data and analytical proficiency through establishment of the Moore School Virtual Data Lab. As far as I can tell, our school is the first in the country to establish a data lab that every undergraduate student will utilize. The school is moving to standardize quantitative education by ensuring all students are able to use R in performing basic analytical computation, use SQL in data base management, and are proficient in Power BI when required to visualize and report data, as you can read in The New Currency on p. 18. The stronger foundational preparation, combined with the business analytics concentration already oﬀered, will provide an unsurpassed data, analytical and functional education to undergraduate students. Where applicable, equivalent steps have already been taken or are currently underway at the graduate level. Our cover article, Precision Baseball on p. 14, illustrates the kinds of work one can do applying these types of analytics skills to optimize performance in a particular activity — in this case, pitching a baseball. Take a look at what some of our business analytics professors created to help USC’s baseball team use the

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raw data from their new tracking system to improve their pitching in the latest season. This and other articles provide a glimpse of the world-class research being conducted by our research faculty. You will also read in this magazine the changes made to our fulltime MBA programs, as well as of activities organized through our Diversity and Inclusion Council and exciting developments taking place in our recently formed Center for Sales Success. Many other updates are also included in the Moore News section, starting on p. 25, such as the new president of the Moore School’s Business Partnership Foundation (Jean Duke) and how alumni can engage to serve students and contribute to the school. Look also for details on the Moore School’s centennial celebration next year.

MBA program rankings are currently 44 and 65, respectively, while our Financial Times MBA ranking is 77. Improving overall rankings such as these while maintaining or enhancing our excellent niche rankings is essential over the coming years, and my hope over the next five years is our undergraduate and full-time MBA program rankings will rise to join the top 25 or 30 in the nation. Please help where you can as our faculty, staﬀ and students strive to accomplish these outcomes.

Be sure to download my 2018 Dean’s Report (moore.sc.edu/ deansreport), published in July, to learn in greater detail about the overall state of the Moore School. The report contains insights ranging from faculty, staﬀ and student numbers to undergraduate SAT score trends over the past seven years. Freshmen SAT scores have risen notably following our move to a four-year undergraduate program in 2016, increasing from an average of 1219 between 2011 and 2015 to 1299 in fall 2018. Important information on changes to our graduate programs, placement, and salary data on all our programs and financial data on the Moore School and its operations is also provided. The research and teaching excellence of our faculty, the generosity of our donors over the past two years, and where the school hopes to go in the foreseeable future are also highlighted.

The best (though imperfect) way to measure such progress is through school-wide rankings. Should all students receive educations closer to Moore School’s best, and should the jobs they acquire match their enhanced preparation, overall rankings will rise too. U.S. News & World Report’s undergraduate and full-time

For the Moore School and best regards,

Dean Peter Brews

peter.brews@moore.sc.edu / 803-777-3178

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With these exciting initiatives underway, I will summarize our future hopes here. Building on the No. 1-ranked international business and No. 13-ranked supply chain programs, and on the stellar education Finance and Marketing Scholars, MHR, MACC and top MBA and other master’s students already receive, the Moore School’s finest are competitive with the very best, evidenced by their employment at leading organizations across the globe. When the history of the Moore School’s next decade is written, progress should be assessed by whether this educational excellence is more widely spread than it is now. The prime motivation behind the changes now underway is to achieve this broadening. For example, in the undergraduate program, our student numbers permit a greater array of classes than smaller schools are often able to oﬀer, and when four years of rigorous business education is matched with overall student performance, the result is a larger number of higher-quality students.

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RECIPIENTS OF THE DARLA MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS’

2018 DISTINGUISHED AWARDS DEVELOPING A GLOBAL MINDSET Distinguished Alumni winner Barry Saunders (B.S.

tees, including the Moore School’s Folks Center for

’81, MBA ’89) credits the international emphasis he

International Business, the South Carolina Chamber

saw while studying at the Moore School for guiding

of Commerce, the Byerly Foundation, SPC Coop-

him toward the career path he followed, ultimately

erative Credit Union, Coker College Investment

landing him where he is today — senior vice presi-

Committee, Thomas Hart Academy and Pacific

dent and chief financial officer at Sonoco Products

Life Insurance Company Client Advisory Board. He

Company. “I quickly gained a sense of association

also served as chairman of the university’s Young

with ‘global’ that drove my interest in pursuing a

Alumni Association.

career that would have significant international exposure,” he says. Before joining Sonoco in 1989, Saunders worked

opportunities to stay engaged with the school and,

as an audit manager with Ernst & Young and held

as an employer, to interact with and recruit students

various leadership positions within the company,

from such strong programs that help companies

including director of finance for the company’s

such as Sonoco succeed in today’s marketplace.”

European operations. He credits much of his suc-

BARRY SAUNDERS

In addition to his experience studying at the Moore School, Saunders says the impact continues “through

cess to those he surrounds himself with. “Clearly the people all around me are the key to my success,” he says. “It’s about ‘we,’ not ‘me.’” Over the years, Saunders has served on numerous civic and business-related boards and commit-

Saunders lives in Hartsville, South Carolina, with his wife, Lea (USC B.S. ‘82), and their three dogs. They have two grown children, Bennett and Elizabeth (B.S. ‘15, MHR ‘16). Saunders loves travel, food and wine, and spending time outdoors, especially at the beach and lake.

PUTTING IN THE WORK ON AND OFF THE GRID IRON

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As a placekicker for the Tennessee Titans, Distin-

All-Rookie team and won the Mack Lee Hill award

guished Young Alumni winner Ryan Succop (B.S.

as the team’s most valuable rookie. He joined the

’09) understands the importance of focus. While

Tennessee Titans in 2014, and in 2017 broke the all-

attending the Moore School, he honed that focus

time NFL record for most consecutive field goals

on the field and in the classroom.

made under 50 yards.

“There’s more on your plate when you’re an athlete

Succop says his success comes from his faith and

because much of your time is spent in practice,”

never taking his position for granted. “The moment

he says. “I had to stay focused in order to make

you get comfortable with your position, that’s a

the grades I needed and get a quality education.”

dangerous place to be,” he says. “I’m a hard worker

The Hickory, North Carolina, native says playing

RYAN SUCCOP

and I put in the time necessary to be successful.”

in the NFL seemed like an unreachable dream, so

In addition to his professional achievements, Suc-

when it came time to go to college, a good business

cop shares his time with community organizations

school was one of his top priorities. “The Moore

such as Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Fuel Up to

School is a very good business school, so it was a

Play 60, Team Smile, Songs for Sound, the Need to

nice fit for me,” he says.

Breathe Golf Classic, and the Hannah and Friends

After graduation, Succop was chosen by the Kansas City Chiefs with the final pick of the 2009 Draft. In his first season, he was named to the NFL

golf tournament. In the off-season, Succop lives in Nashville with his wife, Paige (USC B.S. ‘10), son, Cooper, and daughter, Reese.

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HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO HUMBLE ATTITUDE Distinguished Alumni winner Terrance Williams

Williams is thankful for the path the Moore School

(B.S. ’90) was surprised to learn he’d won this

set him on and plans to continue giving back.

award because he didn’t think he’d “done significant things for the school.”

“Even though the business school is a large school, it had a small feel, and I always felt like

“I show up on campus a few times a year to

someone genuinely cared about me and what I

talk to students, but that to me is something all

was trying to accomplish as a student,” he says.

of us should be doing,” he says. “To me, that’s not anything that’s set me apart, so I was just very humbled and honored to have been selected.” Williams lives with his wife and two sons in Central Ohio, where he serves as Nationwide’s chief marketing officer and president of emerging businesses. In 2017, Forbes recognized him as one of the World’s Most Influential CMOs. He visits the Moore School periodically as part of the board of directors for the Ad Council. Most recently, he was on campus as the main speaker for the Moore School’s second CMO Summit. “The Moore School has positioned me for many of the things I’ve been able to accomplish from a professional and personal standpoint,” Williams says. “Because giving back matters so much there, that’s something I’ve always taken with me.”

" The Moore School has positioned me for many of the things I’ve been able to accomplish from a professional and personal standpoint." In addition to being active in several local and national organizations, Williams is a classic car enthusiast and avid reader. On weekends, he

The Ridgeville, South Carolina, native calls

can often be found enjoying one of his sons’

himself a “Lowcountry kid” who went to public

sporting events or attending — and sometimes

schools and “grew up in humble beginnings.”

participating in — local car shows.

TERRANCE WILLIAMS

THE IMPORTANCE OF RELATIONSHIPS Distinguished Young Alumni winner James Wolf

of Commerce and Charlotte Jaycees and is a

(B.S. ’05) says part of his key to success is “sur-

STANDOUT Charlottean Board Member for the

rounding [himself] with really good people.” While

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

at the Moore School, he learned alongside, and from, students and professors from around the world, many of whom he’s still close with today.

He credits these and other connections with putting him where he is today. “I’m grateful to be a part of such a great network of family and friends in the Carolinas because I couldn’t have

as life goes on, it’s not just about your education,

gotten to where I am without their support,”

"he says. "It’s about the people.”

Wolf says.

Wolf works in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a

In addition to this award, Wolf was a finalist

senior financial advisor, senior portfolio advisor,

for the Charlotte Chamber YP Business Leader

vice president and retirement accredited financial

of the Year in 2016. He was named the National

advisor at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.

Most Valuable President for the Gamecock Club

He serves as the president of both the MyCaro-

in 2014 and was named a 2012 Top 30 Under 30

lina Alumni Association of Charlotte and the

Future Leader of Charlotte by Elevate Lifestyle.

Charlotte Gamecock Club and is a member of the marketing and executive committee of the board of directors for the Gamecock Club. He is also an active member of the Charlotte Chamber

“Hands down, it’s all about consistently working hard and evolving, staying true to your values, and surrounding yourself with really good people,” he says.

JAMES WOLF

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“Spend time to develop relationships because,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS KNOWING YOUR BRAND IS KNOWING YOURSELF Jill Griffin (B.A. ’77, MBA ’79) This year’s Moore School hooding speaker

advance her speaking career — by dropping her Southern accent.

is an NYSE corporate board director,

After a failed appointment with a voice coach, Griffin realized that

Forbes contributor, five-time author and

her Southern drawl is part of what makes her unique. “Never let

Moore School Distinguished Alumni Award

anybody remove what is special about you because that truly is

recipient. Her drive to motivate women inspired her to found Jill Griffin Executive Learning with the mission of directly influencing professionals, especially women, who want to achieve executive leadership and serve on corporate boards.

your brand,” she said. She closed by encouraging everyone present to never turn down a chance to grow. Griffin, like many in the business world today, at one point found herself in a job for which she didn’t feel qualified. Despite experiencing imposter syndrome, she embraced the

Her message to the new Moore School graduates was simple: “Know yourself, be yourself and grow yourself.” The South Carolina native went on to illustrate how easy it can be to think you know yourself, and yet how quickly she tried to change part of herself to

opportunity to do something new and excelled at it. “When you have an opportunity to say yes, say yes,” she said. “When you have an opportunity to grow, you grow.”

"NEVER LET ANYBODY REMOVE WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT YOU BECAUSE THAT TRULY IS YOUR BRAND." - JILL GRIFFIN

GIVING WOMEN A VOICE Catherine Porth (B.S. ’09) Building relationships goes beyond creat-

more meaningful conversation between women. The first event was

ing connections and making small talk. It

held in March. “I tried to make it a comfortable enough environment

requires deep, sometimes vulnerable con-

that, whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, every woman had

versation and understanding that everyone has struggles just like you. That’s the kind of community engagement Catherine Porth is working to build among DA R L A M O O R E S C H O OL O F B U S I N E SS

the businesswomen of East Tennessee.

The conversation ranged from time management and work-life integration to self-confidence and women building each other up. “People had this instant sense of community and felt like they

“‘Business 101’ says that people will want to work with you the

could share things that were typically difficult to share, like they

more they know you, but these women weren’t getting that out of

were in a safe environment,” she says.

simple connections,” she says of the networking events she found herself going to when she moved to Knoxville less than two years ago. “So much of those meet-ups were focused on people talking about what their businesses are and what they do rather than on getting to know each other as people.”

Since the initial workshop, Let Her Speak has grown into a bimonthly event that Porth says will focus on community service as well as personal, professional and relational development. She also is partnering with Girls Inc. of Knoxville to create a junior version of Let Her Speak. “With social media, people are constantly

The marketing and entrepreneurship alumna says she saw an

connecting but aren’t having conversations anymore,” she says.

absence of female business mentor relationships in her community

“This is really trying to bring back essentially the ‘old-school art’

and a disconnect between speakers at these events and the women

of having a conversation with someone you’ve never met before.”

attending them who had similar experiences, but no opportunity to

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follow up with out-of-town speakers.“That leaves women in a community wondering what they’re supposed to do next,” Porth says. With these issues in mind, she developed “Let Her Speak” through

the opportunity to say something if she wanted to,” Porth says.

the Knoxville Entrepreneurship Center as an avenue for inspiring

In the next few years, Porth hopes to make Let Her Speak its own nonprofit that will branch into a series of cohorts across East Tennessee. She also is looking to add a funding aspect to the organization to help women who want to start their own businesses.

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INNOVATION AS A CORE CONCEPT Olivia Myers (B.S. '14) Change is inevitable. In the ever-chang-

try power equipment in a safe, virtual space. It is just one of several

ing business climate we live and work in,

experiences Myers and her team has developed to boost customer

having a team focused on adapting to

confidence. The lab also uses VR to help customers visualize what

change is highly beneficial. Some might

their home renovations could look like. “The customer wants to see

argue it’s essential. That’s where Lowe’s Inno-

what it will look like and share their vision with their family before

vation Lab comes in.

they actually do it,” she says. “This immersive experience allows

For the past two years, Olivia Myers has worked in Lowe’s Innovation Lab, progressively more in project management than in the marketing coordinator role she was hired for. But she’s not complaining. She and the team she leads won the Auggie Award for Best Enterprise Solution at the Augmented World Expo this year for their use of augmented and virtual reality in solving real customer problems. “In the experience we created, you actually go to this virtual garage and pick out a hedge trimmer and go out back to trim the hedges,” she says.

people to do that.” Myers and other members of the Lowe’s Innovation Lab have used other technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics and 3D printing to improve how their customers and associates make decisions. Myers says she didn’t know a job like hers even existed when she was in college, but she’s excited to be part of such an important area of business. “Bigger companies especially get so focused on the core areas of the business that there aren’t people dedicated to looking toward the future and searching for new opportuni-

This virtual reality power equipment experience, called Holoroom

ties,” Myers says. “I think that’s so important, so it’s great that my

Test Drive, utilizes haptics, sound, scent and visuals to let customers

team does that.”

"I’M SO HAPPY IN MY CAREER RIGHT NOW, AND I HAVE THE MOORE SCHOOL TO THANK FOR THAT..." - ERIN SAVITZ

SHARING YOUR JOURNEY TO INSPIRE STUDENTS Erin Savitz (MHR ’14) Once she joined the program and left her full-time job, Savitz decided to find a graduate assistantship on campus. She was placed in the

thing. Every person’s career journey has

Office of Career Management, where she helped students with

the potential to inspire the next person. Mas-

things like revising their resumes and identifying their strengths

ter of Human Resources alumna Erin Savitz has

and skills. Sometimes she was able to share parts of her career

found that to ring true throughout her career. “I

journey with students, which helped them better define their own

did some soul-searching to identify my skillsets and passions and

career paths. “For me, it felt like I was giving back,” she says. “I’m

talked to a few different people, and I realized human resources —

so happy in my career right now, and I have the Moore School to

the opportunity to help grow people and businesses — is something

thank for that, so having the opportunity to give back to students

that really interests me,” she says.

still at the school is my way of giving back to the school that has

The South Carolina native started her career in marketing and

given me so much.”

sales, but after a few years and several roles in the field, she felt

For her MHR internship, Savitz worked with Pepsi, where she went

like something was missing. After some reflection and investiga-

on to work full time, first as an HR business partner and now as an

tion into the Moore School’s MHR program, she decided it was just

organizational development manager doing talent management and

what she needed to achieve her new career goals. “As I was asking

data analytics work. She continues to work with the Moore School’s

around about the program, I heard nothing but good things as far

Office of Career Management through Pepsi’s HR recruiting at USC.

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Although it’s often underestimated, telling your personal story can be a powerful

as company partnerships and job placements and the wealth of knowledge in the professors,” she says.

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PARTNERSHIP MEANS FRIENDSHIP Erich Spencer (MIBS ’84) In any kind of business, trust is key. When it

School’s Department of International Activities. “He was so enthusi-

comes to international business, this state-

astic, always bringing new ideas about nourishing our cooperation,”

ment is especially applicable as working

Spencer says of Dessau when they began forming a partnership

across cultures requires a certain level of understanding and flexibility. It is on this kind of trust that Erich Spencer (MIBS ’84) has worked to build a partnership between his two alma maters, the Moore School and the University of Chile. “What is important, particularly for Latinos, is to develop friendships,” he says. “I consider the Moore School to be a group of friends.”

between the Moore School and the University of Chile. What began as an exchange of undergraduate students between the two schools has grown into the two-year International Business of the Americas program, a doctoral program partnership, and, most recently, a dual-degree program. In addition, more than eight other Moore School MIBS alumni have served as guest speakers or lecturers at the University of Chile, “providing very good quality support on

Spencer, now the head of international affairs at the University of

international business topics covered and making the Moore School

Chile, was looking for a university in the United States to attend for

more visible among students and faculty here,” Spencer says.

his master’s degree in the early 1980s. After seeing a brochure for the MIBS program, now known as the International MBA program, and speaking with a few faculty members, he decided to attend the program. “It was very intensive, but it was definitely worth it,” he says. “The program was well-structured, and the people involved were fully committed. I love that.”

He is most excited about the relationship’s growth over the years because of how important he feels it is to what both schools have to offer to the educational community. “If you want to become relevant, you have to do something extra,” he says. “It makes a whole lot of difference having a partner that you can see really wants to cooperate and is excited about doing new, valuable things.” Looking to the

This kind of commitment is the same thing he found several years

future, he is eager to continue developing the programs already in

after completing the program when he made a connection with

place as well as branching out to other schools within the university.

Louis Dessau, the senior manager of employer relations in the Moore

"IF YOU WANT TO BECOME RELEVANT, YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING EXTRA." - ERICH SPENCER

FAMILY MATTERS Sara Krisnow (B.S. ’08) DA R L A M O O R E S C H O OL O F B U S I N E SS

Born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina,

they need for a healthy diet,” Krisnow says. As a mother of two, going

management and marketing alumna Sara

on three, she understands the importance of this kind of flexibility,

Krisnow knows what it’s like to have deep Southern roots. In 1977, her grandparents founded Lizard’s Thicket, the South Carolina restaurant chain known for their authentic Southern home cooking. Krisnow has worked as Lizard’s Thicket’s community relations manager since 2010. “Every day is different, especially when you work for family,” she says. “I go out in the community and help coordinate events and maintain relationships with charities and foundations. Some days, I’m in the restaurant; some days, I’m at political events; some days, I’m just at my desk, working on our latest marketing campaign.” That’s her favorite thing about her job — the variety and flexibility. She says Lizard’s Thicket was founded on these and other ideals

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as a place to buy “home replacement meals” at a time when more women were joining the workforce. “If both your mother and father are working, you could swing by Lizard’s Thicket on your way home

to make sure your children are getting the meats and vegetables

and her family does, too. “That’s one of the pros of working with my family — they understand when I have appointments or obligations I have to make it to,” she says. “Then there are other days when we work 13 or 14 hours because we’re opening a new restaurant, so it’s definitely not your average marketing job.” Through all of this, Krisnow has found the most value from her Moore School experience in the connections she made while in school. “I’m a proud graduate of the Moore School,” she says. “It’s helpful to still be in contact with people, and it’s neat to catch up and hear about what they’re doing now.” Lizard’s Thicket recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, the marketing campaign for which Krisnow spearheaded, and the family business is looking forward to serving the community for many years to come.

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2017-18 MENTOR PROGRAM VOLUNTEERS The Moore School extends a huge thank you to all of the alumni and friends who formally and informally mentored business school students last year. These are the people who served directly through the Moore School Mentor Program. For more information on how to get involved, please contact Hunter Looper, assistant director of alumni engagement, at hunter.looper@moore.sc.edu.

Rick Ackerman Columbia, SC Parrish Behles (B.S. '10) Columbia, SC Mac Bennett (B.S. '80) Winnsboro, SC Spencer Bethmann (B.S. '07) Charlotte, NC Scott Blackmon (B.S. '73) Columbia, SC Kyle Brannon (B.S. '09, USC J.D. '12) Columbia, SC Rachel Broniak Hunter (B.S. '08, MACC '09) Mableton, GA Brett Burns (IMBA '16) Kearny, NJ Christopher Campbell (B.S. '12, USC J.D. '15) Columbia, SC

Columbia, SC Chase Clelland (B.S. '98) Elgin, SC David Comeau (MIBS ' 85) Gables, FL Gabe Cossio (B.S. '11) Cayce, SC Jim Curl (B.S. '81) Charlotte, NC Jay Davis (B.S. '83) Columbia, SC Todd Durocher (B.S. '99) Georgetown, MA Warren Felkel (B.S. '08, MACC '09) Chapin, SC Doug Freeman (B.S. '76) Jacksonville, FL Danielle Gleaton (B.S. '06) Roswell, GA

Michelle Chapman (B.S. '06) Chapin, SC

Kenneth Goins, Jr. (B.S. '80) Atlanta, GA

Mary Ruffin Childs (B.S. '80) Columbia, SC

King Harrison III (B.S. '75) Marietta, GA

David Choate (B.S. '73)

Stephanie Hoyt (B.S. '14) Charlotte NC

Grant Hurd (B.S. '15) Charlotte, NC

Gina Perrotto (B.S. '15) Providence, RI

Steven Khoury (B.S. '12, MACC '13) Charlotte, NC

Scott Plyler (B.S. '92) Inlet, SC

Trevor Knox (B.S. '05, MBA '11) Columbia, SC

Kate Pollard (B.S. '10, MACC '11) Columbia, SC

Chris Krieg (B.S. '94) Bronxville, NY

Justin Runager (B.S. '08) Smyrna, GA

David Looper (B.S. '08, MBA '13) Columbia, SC

Dan Sisson Lexington, SC

Adrienne Berg Lucas (B.S. '01, B.S. '08) Elgin, SC

Zack Smith (USC B.A. '85) Richmond, VA

Joy Middleton (MACC '04, USC J.D. '11) Columbia, SC

Drew Stevens (B.S. '10) Columbia, SC

Ben Norwood (B.S. '87) Greenville, SC

John Strom (B.S. '86) Atlanta, GA

Rich Novack (B.S. '83) Roswell, GA

Andrea Tucker (B.S. '11) Lexington, SC

Ann-Marie Nunziata (B.S. '16) Decatur, GA

James Wolf (B.S. '05) Charlotte, NC

John Paul (B.S. '67) Mount Pleasant, SC

Glenn Yarborough (B.S. '61, USC M.S. '69) Thomson, GA

Kacie Payne (B.S. '08) York, NY

Chris Zimmer (B.S. '06) Chapin, SC

2018-19 YOUNG ALUMNI BOARD MEMBERS Yogini Intwala (B.S. '12) Graduate Student Columbia, SC

Kyle Ritter (B.S. '13) Colonial Life Columbia, SC

Drew Stevens (B.S. '10), Co-chair Northwestern Mutual Columbia, SC

Jason Blanco (B.S. '16) Manhattan Associates Atlanta, GA

Trevor Knox (B.S. '05, MBA '11) Terminix Service, Inc. Columbia, SC

Michael Ruiz (B.S. '11) Elissen Group Atlanta, GA

Chris Wentzell (B.S. '07) Northwestern Mutual Florence, SC

Kyle Brannon (B.S. '09, USC J.D. '12) Nexsen Pruet, LLC Columbia, SC

Lance Lipscomb (B.S. '10) Benefitfirst Charleston, SC

Justin Runager (B.S. '08) UBS Private Wealth Management Atlanta, GA

Joe Wright (B.S. '12) Kennedy and Company Charleston, SC

Moe Brown (B.S. '10) Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP Charlotte, NC

Fallon Sposato Meyer (B.S. '10, MBA '15) Wells Fargo Charleston, SC

Daniel Spieler (B.S. '16) Ernst & Young New York, NY

Rhett Craig (USC B.S. '09, MBA '15) Avison Young Greenville, SC

Blake Montgomery (USC B.S. '08, IMBA '10) Wells Fargo Columbia, SC

Kelsey Desender (B.S. '12) South State Bank Columbia, SC Danielle Gleaton (B.S. '06), Co-chair Equifax Atlanta, GA Sarah Hazelton (B.S. '13, MACC '14) Wells Fargo Securities Charlotte, NC Lauren Davis Hilderbran (B.S. '12) Michelin North America, Inc. Greenville, SC Rachel (Broniak) Hunter (B.S. '08, MACC '09) Rรถdl Langford de Kock LLP Atlanta, GA

Kevin Murphy (B.S. '10) Northwood Ravin Charlotte, NC Brendan Nagle (B.S. '15) Wells Fargo Securities Charlotte, NC Kyle Neumann (B.S. '13) Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC Charleston, SC Amber Ford Neville (B.S. '08) Deloitte Consulting LLP Washington, D.C. Bryan Payne (B.S. '08) Credit Suisse Group New York, NY

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Nick Annan (B.S. '08, MBA '14) Elliott Davis Lexington, SC

KIMBERLY SMITH

OVER THERE

By Megan Sexton

Moore School students who study abroad rub elbows with top global talent and gain valuable professional experiences.

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here are plenty of reasons students choose to study abroad — exotic locales, enhanced language skills and local cuisine, to name just a few.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and Bocconi University in Italy. Operations and supply chain students can take classes at the Copenhagen School of Business, and those interested in design thinking can attend one of the most highly regarded design/innovation universities in the world, Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland.

Darla Moore School of Business students who study abroad are interested in those things, but another prime motivation is the opportunity to take classes in the world’s best universities with other outstanding students. The Moore School has inter- “When you select a university that’s one of the most recognized national partnerships and joint programs with business schools in a particular specialization, it gives you the opportunity to in more than two dozen countries, from Western Europe to learn from faculty and fellow students who are the best in that Eastern Asia, South America to Northern Africa. Students who area,” Roth says. avail themselves of those opportunities combine intercultural And those programs are acclaimed around the world, includunderstanding with academic rigor. ing by firms in the United States. If a student studies finance “We are providing student access to exceptional business in Singapore, Tokyo or Hong Kong, for example, prospective schools throughout the world,” says Kendall Roth, the Moore employers would recognize the importance of their experience School’s senior associate dean for international programs in a major financial center. and partnerships. “In many cases, for example the Chinese Moore School students who study abroad also learn how to University of Hong Kong or Paris Dauphine, they are drawing function and excel in classrooms with different education sysfrom the 1 to 2 percent of the academic elite in their countries. tems and teaching styles. That’s something Kimberly Smith, “So it gives access to an opportunity that they really couldn’t a 2017 operations and supply chain and marketing graduate, get otherwise, and it exposes students to the academic talent found when she studied abroad. To improve her French lanthat will be their colleagues or competitors, however you see it, guage skills, she spent a sophomore semester in Paris, then in the future. Being in a classroom with other high-performing returned to the Netherlands the following year for a more students elevates one’s recognition of what quality talent is." business-centered experience at the University of Groningen. Her classes included international business law, supply chain Moore School students interested in finance, for example, can marketing and international marketing. study at schools such as the University of Warwick in England,

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“My IB program had prepared me well and taught me that when things are different, I need to adjust my way of thinking and learning.” - CAROLINE MOREY

“The academics at the school in the Netherlands were challenging, but challenging in a good way,” she says. “Everything had a global perspective, and I liked the diversity in the classroom. There were 50 percent Dutch students and 50 percent from all over Europe and Indonesia. I was the only American in my breakout groups and the only native English speaker.” Smith says the experience helped her prepare for her career — she’s now a software consultant in Atlanta with Manhattan Associates, a firm with offices around the world. Her long-term goal is to live and work in Europe.

and questions are well-received by professors. Interacting in the classroom is common. In Hong Kong, everything was lecture-based; that was an adjustment for me. I had to learn to follow that mindset. But classes were really exciting.“ After her classes in Hong Kong and visits to Cambodia, China, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, she says she wants to pursue a career in international development and hopes to begin work on her master’s in international business at the Moore School next year. She is spending the summer interning with an international consulting group in Washington.

“In terms of confidence, those classes really helped with my “For my career aspiration, I’d like to be the head of an Asiacareer,” Smith says. “I’m not afraid to speak up and contribute specific region for international development. I would like to to the conversation. In the Netherlands, you have to speak; help manage projects that happen in these countries to help professors would mark how many times you spoke in class.” the country develop more. Maybe a project that helps children Marc van Essen, faculty director of the undergraduate interna- in schools to become more literate or helping ensure that there tional business program at the Moore School, believes studying is access to clean water.” abroad is one of a college student’s most beneficial experiThat global interest is exactly what Roth says study abroad ences. International business majors are required to spend at fosters in students. least one semester in one of more than 60 elite partner universities in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe or Latin America. “I think international business is important to world commerce, but I see it bigger than that. The world has a lot of challenges “I hope that students take this opportunity to challenge themthat really stem from different peoples not understanding selves and get out of their comfort zones to make the best out each other,” he says. “For me, study abroad in any form is of their experience living and studying abroad. By immersing about building bridges between cultures through relationthemselves into a local culture, they will get acquainted and ships. There’s a lot to embrace in other cultures, other religions, form awareness and appreciation for foreign traditions and other persuasions.” customs both in business and everyday life,” van Essen says. “Cultural awareness is an essential component of a successful career in the field of international business.”

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Caroline Morey, a rising senior majoring in international business and operations and supply chain, says she had always been interested in studying in Asia, steered by her grandfather who worked in international insurance. “My background and my internship were maritime logistics and shipping. There’s no better place for that than Hong Kong,” says Morey, who attended classes at Hong Kong Polytechnic University last spring with another Moore School student. She says her two favorite classes were maritime and international focused-shipping logistics and contemporary maritime development and issues. “My IB program had prepared me well and taught me that when things are different, I need to adjust my way of thinking and learning,” she says. “At USC, my classes were discussion-based,

The IBEA cohort at Mannheim University their first semester together in spring 2017. 11

BA L A N C I N G ACT

BALANCING ACT

By Page Ivey

Managing the fallout from today’s risks to business is a Sisyphean task where new dangers pop up as soon as old ones are accounted for.

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25 percent increase in the price of steel; customer information hacked by cyber-crooks; protecting the bottom line if the CEO turns out to be a workplace bully — the thoughts that keep corporate board members and risk managers up at night.

Some risks can never be avoided entirely, like hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters. In these cases, risk managers try to reduce the damage, both economic and physical, from such storms. And while some costly issues, like cyberattacks, misbehaving employees or hostile work environments, can be avoided through careful planning and training, other threats can come out of the blue, like unexpected changes in the political landscape that affect trade, access to markets and the cost of goods sold. The 2017 BDO Manufacturing Risk Factor Report shows that the top 100 publicly traded manufacturing companies in the U.S. are worried most — as in the two previous surveys — about supplier, vendor or distributor disruption.

“Managing the supply chain is the No. 1 concern of manufacturers,” says Jack Jensen, co-director of the Operations and Supply Chain Center at the Darla Moore School of Business. “A lot of what we teach is taking internal process improvement methodologies, like Six Sigma and Lean, outside the factories and applying them to supply chain management.” However, even those best practices will be challenged with unexpected political issues, like tariffs on imported materials such as steel and aluminum — tariffs that can quickly increase the cost and availability of those materials to manufacturers who have to decide whether to increase prices to their consumers, shift production to countries not affected by the tariffs or reduce profits. Countries whose products are hit with the import tax also can affect businesses by implementing retaliatory tariffs on products exported by U.S. companies, which can affect a manufacturer’s distributionand ultimately its sales.

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“People think technology is solving the world’s ills, but it’s creating as many problems as it solves,” says Hartwig. “Businesses are having to invest big money in cybersecurity — trying to identify and mitigate every major risk they face. It’s expensive, and the threat is dynamic: It changes every day. Managers and boards of directors are absolutely paranoid about what could happen — and justifiably so.” Another area that has cropped up in recent years is misbehavior by managers or corporate cultures that create a bullying or abusive atmosphere for workers or encourage fraudulent behavior.

"PEOPLE THINK TECHNOLOGY IS SOLVING THE WORLD’S ILLS, BUT IT’S CREATING AS MANY PROBLEMS AS IT SOLVES." - BOB HARTWIG “Uncertainty creates issues for most industries, and markets tend to react adversely to uncertainty,” says Bob Hartwig, director of the Risk and Uncertainty Management Center at the Moore School. “A tremendous amount of uncertainty has been injected into the market today.” Companies dealing with the steel and aluminum tariffs, for example, might choose to get their product from a domestic supplier, possibly at a higher price than they were paying pre-tariff, or make their product outside the United States. “Retaliatory tariffs will affect thousands of goods in this titfor-tat environment,” Hartwig says.

In the risk factor report, the second-most grievous worry in 2017 was a tie between federal, state and local regulations, and the cost of labor. Again, those worries haven’t changed much since 2015. General economic conditions were a greater worry in 2017 than in 2016, while competition and pricing pressure was a slightly less concerning area in 2017 from the previous year. The fastest-growing worry was cybersecurity breaches, which were cited by 96 percent of businesses as a concern in 2017, up from 86 percent in 2015.

“The decision a board makes regarding its CEO is the riskiest decision the board will ever make,” says Patrick Wright, director of the Center for Executive Succession at the Moore School. “The average cost for a bad CEO decision is $1.8 billion in market value.” One of the biggest mistakes boards make in hiring is thinking someone who successfully ran a $5 million business can successfully run a $5 billion company. “They’re not bad people, they’re not doing anything wrong, they just couldn’t scale,” Wright says. Wright says board members tell him they know within a year whether they have made a successful hire, but it takes about two years to recognize a bad hire. Typically, he says, bad hires are characterized by individuals who are self-interested, always looking for bigger paychecks or perks, and those who are bad at receiving feedback. “Insiders are more likely to succeed in the long term over outsiders,” Wright says. “But often the outsider is seen as that shiny new object. Boards can become enamored by the good stuff that person did at their last job and overlook any potential problems.” The less risky choice for boards often is to choose a CEO from among people already at the company, he adds. The board has had a long time to see the insider’s work, and the insider has greater institutional knowledge than someone from the outside. It just goes to show, even the riskiest business decisions often have a simple solution.

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One of the first effects will be that plans for expansion will be put on hold as companies try to assess their exposure to downside risk. “This translates into jobs not being created and taxes and income not being injected into local economies and governments,” Hartwig says. “Nothing good comes from a trade war.”

In the age of the #MeToo movement and horror stories of workplaces that create hostile work environments, corporations are looking to minimize their risks by thoroughly vetting major hires — what’s known as C-suite executives — and creating rules of behavior for all workers to reduce the potential for a costly public scandal.

PRECISION

BASEBALL By Madeleine Vath

MOORE SCHOOL PROFESSORS BRING GAMECOOCK BASEBALL STATS TO LIFE. Pitching a baseball seems like simple motion to the average fan, but there is a science behind it that the casual observer is likely unaware of. The windup, the stretch, the release. The pitching motion consists of a sequence of body movements that start when the pitcher lifts his lead foot and culminates when the ball leaves his hand, headed for home plate. The batter might say the ball hops, drops, curves or breaks as it heads toward him. The pitcher says he threw a fastball, curve ball, slider or sinker. No matter how the ball is pitched or hit, the motion occurs at a rapid pace, making real-time analysis with the naked eye quite difficult.

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HUNTER TAYLOR

Having real performance data for each player changes the conversation — but you have to be able to turn data into insights to make an effective change in strategy. Enter Moore School management science professors Stacey Mumbower, Joel Wooten and Michael Galbreth. In February, Gamecock baseball reached out to the three with a problem: The coaches had lots of raw data from TrackMan, their new data collection system for capturing pitching and hitting statistics, but they needed help making sense of it. “We felt like we were trying to drink water out of a fire hose,” says Trip Couch, Gamecock baseball’s director of player development, of when they were first looking at the raw data reports. DA R L A M O O R E S C H O OL O F B U S I N E SS 201 8

TrackMan records everything related to the physical ball and anything it does. Velocity, spin rate and pitch break are all tracked, but so are measurements about the exit speed off the bat, launch angle, hang time and a dozen other variables. While the raw data in TrackMan is copious, the reports it produces are limited. “The system generates static reports in a particular format, but there are only so many questions you can answer with one document,” says Galbreth, academic director of the Center for Applied Business Analytics. The first priority for the three professors was figuring out how to wrangle all the raw data into a more useful format. “Stacey took the lead and developed a series of dashboards that lets the coaches interact with the data, instead of just looking at it — pitch location and pitcher release point visuals were two of the first,” Galbreth says.

Using Tableau, a cutting-edge data visualization software taught in the Moore School at the undergraduate and MBA levels, the group mapped the variables — such as the coordinates of the pitcher’s hand when the ball is released and the type of pitch thrown — onto a series of colorful plots. Instead of hundreds of numbers on a report resembling a tax table, it’s formatted more like a visual search on Kayak, with sliders and images overlaid on a map. After each home game, the new data sets from TrackMan are imported into the dashboards to help the coaches strategize for upcoming games. Coaches can view changes over time for the team as a whole and for individual players in the “pitcher vs. hitter battle,” as Couch puts it. Mumbower says all the players look very different in the data, and that those differences translate very clearly on the field. “What we put together is helping the coaches ‘see’ what they thought they already knew. For example, they might have a theory about a certain batter’s tendencies, and looking at a dashboard helps them see whether it’s true,” says Mumbower, director of the Center for Applied Business Analytics. “It’s amazing how visible and immediately obvious things such as pitcher release point and disguising a changeup are in the data,” she says. Couch agrees and says, up to this point, all that their coaching has really been based on is educated guesses. “These dashboards allow us to show the players graphically what their strengths and weaknesses are,” he says. “For so long, a lot of our coaching has been opinion, but now we can show them the hard data.”

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"IT’S AMAZING HOW VISIBLE AND IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS THINGS SUCH AS PITCHER RELEASE POINT AND DISGUISING A CHANGEUP ARE IN THE DATA."

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In the process of making the data more useful for coaches, the team of professors discovered as soon as the data was presented visually, it became useful for the players, too.

This team of researchers hopes to continue working with the Gamecock baseball team to tweak the dashboards and advance how the team prepares.

“This generation is very visual-oriented, so this makes it easier for them,” Couch says.

“At some point, I think we’ll move away from simply visualizing data and try to do more predictive analysis,” Mumbower says.

Now a coach can pull up all of a player’s pitches from the season to highlight whether adjustments from practice are taking hold. Or a snapshot of last night’s game can reinforce lessons — especially since human perception is imperfect (that low-and-outside strike that was complained about was actually right down the middle). Once the players are given these new areas to tweak and improve, they can work to create “new muscle memory” based on the analytics, Couch says.

Then, the team will be in the big leagues, with sophisticated data analysis rivaling some of the most advanced teams in the majors.

The collaboration between Gamecock baseball and the management science faculty has been a success. The goal after collecting any set of data for an organization is to make it useful, and the group has turned the original raw numbers into a set of visual dashboards, which has sparked a whole new way of looking at the game. “We probably haven’t even scratched the surface of what they can do,” Couch says of the Moore School analytics team. “A lot of the stuff they’ve done is probably elementary for people at their level, but for us, it was like moving mountains.”

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“Moving forward, once we have these baseline things in place, then we’d like to see some predictive modeling,” Couch says. “As this develops, it would be neat to see students get involved or potentially classes be built around this type of work.”

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THE NEW CURRENCY By Chris Horn

Business analytics is the new coin of the realm in business, and the Moore School has strengthened its curriculum accordingly. DA R L A M O O R E S C H O OL O F B U S I N E SS 201 8

hen Marco Ferrara was interviewing for jobs in the final months of his MBA program at the Darla Moore School of Business, one topic kept coming up.

“I had earned the Moore School’s certificate in business analytics, and I knew those skills would be extremely valuable,” says Ferrara, who completed his MBA this past spring. “In every interview I had, those were the first things we talked about.” Ferrara’s investment in the degree and the business analytics certificate quickly paid oﬀ. A month after graduation, he was recruited to Atlanta as a revenue management specialist for Delta Airlines. A large part of his job will involve using predictive analytics to maximize revenue for Delta’s cargo team. “Those were the toughest classes I took — absolutely challenging — but that’s how my brain works,” Ferrara says.

For the past five years, the Moore School has been ramping up its business analytics curriculum for graduate students, giving them the tools to interpret complex data sets in every business discipline, from supply chain logistics to marketing, finance and human resource management. “Data is the new currency,” says Moore School Dean Peter Brews. “We’re being drowned by data, and everyone surmises there is value in this data deluge, but the problem is how do you access it? Where do you find it? And how do you put it together and connect the analytical and business dots so that it turns from information into knowledge that drives better business decisions or outcomes? That’s why we’re building more data proficiency into our curriculum.” The increased emphasis on business analytics isn’t just for graduate students. A business analytics concentration with a required core course and completion of three other courses that address analytics from the Moore School’s majors was introduced in fall 2016. Following a highly successful pilot program this past spring, the Moore School is launching new undergraduate curriculum requirements that will dramatically increase student proficiency with complex data.

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“We know our students who are data proficient and analytically capable end up going to the best employers in the country,” Brews says. “In the first week of class, I tell all of our freshmen, ‘You must become data proficient — this is no longer optional.’ “Advice such as this is not for the top 30 percent of our students who are really good and put their minds to it — by the end of their sophomore year I want every Moore School undergraduate to be data proficient and not be cowed or scared by big data sets.” Chad Wonder already is realizing the benefits of the school’s increased emphasis on that mastery. A rising junior in international business and finance, Wonder is completing the undergraduate business analytics concentration and landed a summer internship in the commercial and credit department at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati. He was the only intern tasked with business analytics responsibilities. “What I really took away from my business analytics course is that it’s not going to take you to a certain conclusion or lead you directly to the ‘right’ answer. It’s all about problem solving,” says Wonder, who aspires to work in international finance. MBA candidate Matthew West also credits his Moore School business analytics courses with a successful internship experience at a financial services and insurance provider.

"I BELIEVE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HARNESS EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION THAT WE CAN TO BUILD SOLUTIONS OR MAKE DECISIONS."

“Just a few weeks into my internship, I had already come across Hadoop, Hive, SQL, SAS, Access and Excel used in making business decisions — all of which are part of the Moore School business analytics eﬀort,” he says.

- CAPT. JEFFREY EPPS

“R is equivalent to commercial statistical software like SAS, but it’s open source so our graduates will be able to use it at whatever company they go to work for,” Ferguson says. “It has really become the most popular statistical package out there for data analysis.”

Instilling business analytics across the curriculum is important no matter where students end up, says Capt. Jeﬀrey Epps, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot who recently completed his MBA with a certificate in business analytics.

The Moore School piloted a program this past spring in MGSC 291: Applied Statistics for Business, where six sections of the course were divided into two groups. In two of the six sections — 150 students — the students were taught R while students in the other four — 450 students — used programs they already knew such as Excel. The students who learned R outperformed their peers in the same classroom project assignment, and end-of-course evaluations were overwhelmingly positive.

“As a future organizational leader, manager, or — in my case — staﬀ oﬃcer, I believe it is very important to harness every bit of information that we can to build solutions or make decisions, as the best decisions are informed ones,” Epps says. “In my opinion, every leader should be exposed to frameworks, techniques or methods that will aid in making the best decisions to enable growth, success and prosperity for an organization and its people.”

“We think it will be feasible for all our students to learn R,” Ferguson says. “It’s going to be a challenge to scale it for the whole Add to that list of software tools a statistical programming lan- undergraduate student body, but there are lots of online tutorials already available, and we’re creating our own training videos for guage called R, which all Moore School undergraduates will be it. We think our students will be capable of engaging in some required to learn beginning this fall. The open-source program self-teaching to grasp this. can perform basic to advanced statistical tasks, and the ability to use it will give undergraduates a leg up on the competition “In addition, students who learn R will be able to easily grasp when they graduate, according to Mark Ferguson, the Wilbur coding in many other languages or packages, like SAS and S. Smith Distinguished Fellow and chair of the Department of Python. And, it will make learning database query languages Management Science. such as SQL a little less intimidating.” U N I VE RS I T Y O F SOU TH C AR O L I NA

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THE SUPPLY CHAIN IN OUTER SPACE

By C. Grant Jackson

Getting spare parts in space is no easy task. What if an astronaut on the International Space Station needs to replace a wrench that has accidentally floated away? It’s not like he or she can just order one and have it delivered in two days via Amazon Prime. But the first commercial manufacturing service in space — Made in Space — has the answer. Made in Space installed a 3D printer on the International Space Station in 2014 and now manufactures tools, devices and parts for the crew while in orbit.

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Space is increasingly becoming the province of private enterprise. Industry.” The paper, which appeared in Decision Sciences, With growing private investment and a developing private outlines operations management research opportunities in commercial industry, space is also becoming in some sense the emerging space industry. Wooten and Tang highlighted just another place to do business. “opportunities for operations researchers in three categories: manufacturing operations, supply chain management and With that realization also comes the need to address the sustainable operations.” They also identified four types of same operations management and supply chain issues that challenges — distance, gravity, inhospitable environments businesses face on Earth, says Joel Wooten, assistant professor and information — in each area. of management science at the Darla Moore School of Business. Operations management is a field of how to get things done. But how do you get things done in space? While the issues are the same, the problems are often greatly magnified. Wooten and Christopher S. Tang, Distinguished Professor and Edward W. Carter chair in business administration at UCLA, recently co-authored “Operations in Space: Exploring a New

Photos courtesy of NASA

In terms of distance, the farthest we’ve been from Earth is just to other side of the moon, and it is not that far.

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“Think about traveling to Mars,” Wooten says. “Instead of driving across town, you now have to drive to Texas.” But to cover those enormous distances requires first escaping Earth’s gravity, which costs a lot of money. “That means pizza delivery to the International Space Station is oﬀ the table.” The inhospitable environment of space poses its own challenges for doing business. Humans need air, water and food to survive, and those are either nonexistent, sparse or inaccessible. Man must also grapple with the health concerns of being in space, such as exposure to radiation and lack of gravity. Having accurate information is key to successful space operations. For example, Wooten and Tang point out that space “navigation is in its infancy and currently relies on Earth-bound equipment.” Unlike most academic papers, which generally define a problem and then either solve the problem or propose a solution, Wooten says the co-authors wanted to inspire researchers and help give them a roadmap for all the questions that need answering and a framework for how to do that within operations management. Like space itself, the questions, the opportunities and the problems are boundless. The impetus for the paper came from Wooten, whose research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship. An adviser with XPRIZE on its space contests, Wooten attended the White House Frontiers Conference in 2016 in the Interplanetary Track. “I feel like I’m pretty up-to-date with science and technology, and I was hearing things that I didn’t even know NASA was focused on,” Wooten says. One thing that Wooten came away from the conference with is the feeling that the timeline for a manned mission to Mars is shorter than most people think.

But, once the domain of national governments, space exploration is becoming more and more the province of a commercial space industry. “And one of the things that you see with this privatization is that space is becoming in some sense just another place to do business,” Wooten says. “I started thinking that all the things we know in operations management — they apply to this new realm. But basically, we’ve looked at all of this stuﬀ on Earth. And that’s a particular environment that we know pretty well. We’ve lived here at long time. But once you expand that, do those same principles hold?” Wooten and Tang note that firms like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Sierra Nevada and Rocket Lab now develop diﬀerent spacecraft. Firms like Made in Space, Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries now develop manufacturing and resource capabilities for space. Companies such as NanoRacks and Astrobotic are positioned as logistics facilitators for payloads and launches. In the manufacturing realm, firms like Made in Space are now working on how to manufacture and assemble very large structures in space.

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“I think 10 years from now, there are developments that make the space industry look very different. Whether that is the “They are going to build robots that can build a space Chinese Space Agency program putting up their own space station out in space, or build satellite dishes,” Wooten says. station — which is a possibility that they are working toward, Man won’t be limited to sending something into space might be two or three years out — or a lunar colony that has been talked about as precursor to a mission to Mars,” he says. that fits into a rocket. Assembling the International Space Station took lots of pieces, but they all had to fit into a In late 2017, NASA refocused some of the programs under rocket and withstand the g-force of takeoff. its Journey to Mars initiative into returning astronauts to the moon in preparation for a “Now you print delicate structures and build them right human mission to Mars. there, and they can be as big as a football field. You want to build a huge antenna to communicate with Mars? We’ll just build it right out in space. So that is opening up new ways of operating, which solves different problems,” Wooten says.

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Companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX are becoming the FedEx of space, with rockets that go up regularly to resupply the International Space Station or deploy satellites, and they are pushing the technology forward for reusable rockets — rockets that land themselves. But those rockets can have empty spots in their cargo bays. “Other companies are saying, ‘Researcher at university XYZ, you want to run an experiment in space? Here are the dimensions for what you can do. Build it and we’ll take it from you and get it to space,’” Wooten says. Those companies are becoming the intermediaries between the researchers and SpaceX, or SpaceX and private citizens who just want to send things up and see what happens. The prospect of rockets delivering cargo to space and then returning to land on Earth conjures up other possibilities. In addition to manufacturing items in space for use in space, firms are looking at what can be manufactured better in space for use on Earth. Wooten cites the example of fiber optic cable. Fiber optic cable manufactured on Earth is good and it’s really fast, but it has impurities in it, just because of the atmosphere. “When you do that in a zero-gravity environment with no particulates, you can create perfect fiber cable that is orders of magnitude better and faster,” Wooten says. “We can move that production to space and spool it up there and send it back on rockets that are coming back because they are empty. So instead of coming back empty, they are coming back holding a commercial product, and that is a win-win for everybody.”

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Other companies are thinking about mining in space. Can rare materials be mined on asteroids? Can we go to the moon and harvest Helium-3, a rare element that has the potential to solve the energy crisis? “There are all these companies that are starting to push out from Earth, and that is changing the whole connect-the-dots sequences of businesses and processes, because before it was NASA. NASA went up and did what they wanted, and they came back. And we reported on it and watched,” Wooten says. But that has changed. “The expanding space industry features new firms and governments contributing to the space economy,” Wooten and Tang write. They point to the Indian Space Research Organization, which “went to thousands and thousands of these small mom-and-pop shops and said, ‘Hey, we need this from you.’ That looks very diﬀerent from a single, consolidated organization’s perspective.

"SO INSTEAD OF COMING BACK EMPTY, THEY ARE COMING BACK HOLDING A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, AND THAT IS A WIN-WIN FOR EVERYBODY." - JOEL WOOTEN

So, I think you will see more of that as more and more countries or entities or companies access space,” Wooten says. And as more companies become part of the space industry, Wooten says that risk is one of the most important issues, if not the most important issue. “You do something, and some element is going to fail. So then how do you grapple with that risk when you are talking about human lives and investment, infrastructure and assets? What level is acceptable for each? How do you build out a plan or an operations structure that minimizes that? Because historically that would mean lots of redundancies. But that is really expensive.” SpaceX, Wooten says, is probably a good example of rapidly pushing technology forward to minimize risk. “I think Elon Musk gave the Falcon Heavy Rocket a 50/50 chance of blowing up, and it turns out it did great, and that is wonderful. But it is a very different story if it explodes on the launch pad.” That the world’s most recognized space entrepreneur placed coin-flip odds on successfully propelling his latest innovation off Earth perfectly captures the challenges ahead. Getting things to space is no easy task, and the business of figuring out how to operate in that environment is just taking off.

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MOORENEWS “The Office of Career Management is very excited about the strategic partnership with the Office of Alumni Engagement and the creation the hub strategy initiative,” says Georgia Doran (USC M.Ed. ’91), director of the Office of Career Management. “Both offices working in unison with key Moore School alumni will result in wonderful opportunities for internships and full-time employment for our students. Investment in this new initiative is key to our students’ success.”

NETWORK WITH MOORE’S NEW 'HUB NETWORKS' The Darla Moore School of Business is expanding its alumni engagement activities into new regions called “Hub Networks” across the United States. Activities planned for these locations will focus on leveraging the powerful Moore School alumni network to connect students with internship and full-time employment opportunities. “For the past three years, Moore School alumni have been turning Charlotte, Washington, D.C., Greenville and Charleston,” says Mary Ruffin Childs (B.S. ’80), senior director of alumni engagement. “Adding six regions and formalizing the 12 hub areas will strengthen the alumni network and increase the hiring capacity of our students by loyal alumni.” The first event in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill was well received with strong interest to strengthen the alumni

Bolded events are the newest hub cities. Go to go.sc.edu/ moorealumnievents for more information on specific events. Aug. 28 — Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill Sept. 27 — Greenville Oct. 16 — Boston Oct. 18 — New York City Nov. 1 — Dallas Nov. 8 — Charleston Jan. 29 — San Francisco

community in the region.

Jan. 31 — Seattle

Alumni volunteers will serve as ambassadors who can make

March 21 — Washington, D.C.

significant introductions to leading companies and champion networking experiences for alumni within their regions. This

Feb. 21 — Atlanta May 16 — Charlotte May 23 — Chicago

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out in record numbers for regional events in New York City, Atlanta,

Events will be held in each region on the following dates.

initiative is part of the dean’s strategic plan to provide increased value to students and alumni of the school.

Over the past year, the Moore School has seen the start of several diversity and inclusion initiatives as well as the growth and revision of several others. The Rising Scholars cohort began accepting applications from incoming business school freshmen early in the summer. The four-year cohort program serves underrepresented students in business through mentor partnerships with peers, faculty and industry leaders as well as specialized UNIV 101, MGMT 250 and BADM 300 sections and the opportunity to graduate with leadership distinction. The first cohort started in the fall with 19 students. An inclusive excellence certification for Moore School student organizations rolled out in the spring as an effort to better educate students on the importance of aware and inclusive leadership. The program teaches students how to create a strategic inclusiveness plan for their organizations. Earning the certificate requires attendance at several workshops and completion of a project detailing how that student organization plans to be inclusive of all business school students.

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The USC MBA program nurtures tomorrow’s business leaders with a unique offering of clinical faculty, experiential curriculum

MBA PROGRAMS UPDATE . different and how it could make you UNSTOPPABLE

and unparalleled immersion. Learn more about what makes us

Kristen Dozier Senior Management Consultant KPMG US New York, New York UNSTOPPABLE SINCE 2016

www.UnstoppableUSCMBA.COM The full-time MBA team at the Moore School re-assessed the program

and the marketing strategy last year based on several important insights: continued corporate demand for globally minded leaders; changing student motivation when selecting programs; the increasingly important role of MBA internships as a path to employment; and the flexibility of language training and international immersion to meet market needs. The addition of a global track for students who are already multi-lingual, combined with our strong language tracks, puts students in the driver’s seat to define a program that best meets their needs. The international immersion remains the longest in the market, while the timing has shifted from spring semester of the first year to spring semester of the second DA R L A M O O R E S C H O OL O F B U S I N E SS 201 8

year to better position students for job searches. In February, the first diversity and inclusion panel at

Students have the choice of one of three specializations: marketing,

the Moore School opened up discussion on how to

finance or supply chain. Students in the one-year MBA and international

incorporate diversity and inclusion into a company’s

MBA programs can earn certifications in analytics and supply chain in

business strategies. Panelists included representa-

addition to their degrees. A certification in global strategy also will be

tives from Eastman Chemical Company, Geico and

available to the incoming class.

UPS. In the coming spring, the Moore School plans to host another similar diversity and inclusion panel. In

As part of this assessment, a new marketing program was launched as

addition to the panel, a new course on diversity and

well: “The Unstoppables” campaign highlights four MBA alumni who have

inclusion, taught by management professor Deborah

been unstoppable since they graduated. Learn more about the program

Hazzard, will be offered in the spring 2019 semester.

and this campaign at unstoppableUSCMBA.com.

For more information on these and other diversity and

These program changes have positioned students to become even more

inclusion efforts, or to get involved with the Moore

competitive, particularly for high-potential domestic internships that have

School’s diversity and inclusion programming, please

proven to convert to full-time jobs. This year, the shift to domestic intern-

contact Alice Leri, associate dean for diversity and

ships has reached 92 percent of the class, helping to ensure stronger job

inclusion, at alice.leri@moore.sc.edu.

placement upon graduation.

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BPF UPDATE Jean Duke (B.S. ’77), former board of trustees chair of the USC-Business Partnership Foundation, transitioned to the role of president of the organization in April. Prior to joining the USC-BPF staff as president, she served on the USC-BPF Board of Trustees since 2002, including in the position of chair of the board and chair of the budget committee. “Being in this position is like coming back home,” she says. “I was actually on the search committee to fill this position, and the more I thought about, the more I realized just how much I love the business school, so I decided to put my name in the hat.”

ALUMNI STAFF UPDATE Hunter Looper recently was named assistant director of alumni engagement for the Moore School. Looper began working at the university in October 2010 at My Carolina Alumni Association as the director of student programs and alumni engagement. She became the undergraduate internship coordinator for the Moore School in November 2015, where she initiated the inaugural internship fair and major exploration day with much success. In her new role, Looper will manage and strengthen the student/alumni mentoring program, expand Moore Connect — the online alumni platform — develop the senior program in collaboration with the Young Alumni Board and support myriad other alumni engagement activities. Looper graduated from the Moore School in 2008 as a double major in management and marketing with a concentration in human resources. Her husband, David, (B.S. '08, MBA '13) also is a Moore School graduate.

RMI PROGRAM RANKINGS In Business Insurance’s 2017 rankings, the Darla Moore School of Business’ globally recognized Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) program is ranked third largest in the country with 350 undergraduates enrolled in the major and eight courses offered. RMI programs across the board have been growing in under-

On Oct. 4, the Moore School welcomed alumni chief marketing

graduate enrollment about 10 percent each year for the past

officers for our second annual Forbes CMO Summit as part of

few years, but the Moore School’s program has been growing

AMA Marketing Week.

at a much more rapid pace. Risk and Uncertainty Management Center Director Robert Hartwig credits incentives such

The summit featured USC and Moore School alumni CMOs as

as higher starting salaries and opportunities to work abroad

speakers and provided several networking opportunities and

for drawing more students into the industry.

breakout discussions for students and alumni alike. The Moore School’s RMI program is not only growing, it Terrance Williams, CMO of Nationwide Insurance, was the event's

has been recognized as being one of the best in the world.

keynote speaker for the second year. Williams (B.S. ’90) received

International Insurance Society selected the Moore School’s

the Moore School’s Distinguished Alumni Award this year, the

undergraduate RMI program as one of the top 20 Global

highest honor the Moore School bestows on alumni.

Centers of Insurance Excellence.

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CENTER FOR SALES SUCCESS UPDATE Since fall 2016, the Moore School’s Center for Sales Success (CSS) has built partnerships and put students through the Certified Professional Sales Person (CPSP) program in preparation for the center's official launch and first board meeting on March 1, 2018. The center now has five corporate partners: Red Ventures, JEAR Logistics, Signature Consultants, Townsquare Interactive and Gartner. These partners provide input on the Moore School's sales curriculum and help students prepare for sales careers. “We know that seven out of 10 students will launch careers in sales, so it’s important for us to offer opportunities for students to develop and practice sales skills,” says Beth Renninger, CSS director. “The

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center helps educate students on the sales process

The fourth annual Shuck & Shag, held on Sept. 7 — the Friday before the University of Georgia home football game — brought together 600 alumni,

and gives partners the opportunity to engage with them by providing coaching and feedback.”

faculty, staff and friends of the Moore School to enjoy several Southern traditions while networking with Moore School stakeholders.

HOOTIE JOHNSON’S LEGACY W.W. “Hootie” Johnson made an incredible impact on the life of so many during his long career in banking, retiring as chairman of Bank of America. His legacy will continue thanks to the generous contributions received in his memory. Bank of America’s scholarship investment in Johnson’s name will be awarded to rising sophomores from South Carolina with financial need and a career interest in banking from populations underrepresented in leadership roles within the financial services industry.

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George Dean Johnson Jr. and Warren A. Stephens established the W. W. “Hootie” Johnson Endowed Chair in Finance and the W. W. “Hootie” Johnson Memorial Scholarship Endowment, which will support a new endowed faculty position in the

To date, 30 students have earned CPSP credentials.

Department of Finance as well as scholarships

Each student completed a 45-day program of daily

for Moore School students from South Carolina

training videos and periodic assessments. Renninger

majoring in finance.

says the purpose of the program boils down to three things — student discovery, myth-busting and

Numerous other donors contributed to the establishment of the William W.

job placement.

“Hootie” Johnson Endowment for Student Success through gifts in memory of Johnson. The endowment supports the evolving educational needs of

“Students are discovering what sales really means,”

students studying finance and those seeking careers in the finance industry.

Renninger says. “As they learn more about the sales process, they learn more about listening to

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These generous gifts will support the needs of the Moore School’s finance

understand a customer’s problems so they can more

students and the Department of Finance, allowing Johnson’s legacy to

effectively position themselves and their products

impact countless students for years to come.

to be the solution. Sales isn’t about pushing, it’s about influencing.”

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NOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THE MOORE SCHOOL AND GAMECOCK ATHLETICS WITH ONE GIFT! The Moore School and the University of South Carolina Athletics Department have formed a partnership that offers new giving opportunities for alumni and dedicated supporters. This is appeal-

MOORE SCHOOL CENTENNIAL The Moore School will commemorate its 100th anniversary beginning in March 2019 with a variety of events and publications across 2019 and 2020. Look for upcoming information on centennial celebration events. Key events in 2019 will include: Proclamation Day — March 1, 2019 Centennial Gala — April 18, 2019 Founders Day — Nov. 1, 2019

ing to many donors, now more than ever, in light of the new tax reform laws that were put into place in January. The new initiative allows donors to set up endowments or spendable scholarships for student-athletes that attend the Moore School. A scholarship can be directed toward any sport offered at the university. For more information about investing in the Darla Moore School of Business, call 803-777-3176 and ask to speak with a member of the development team.

BRUNE CONTRIBUTIONS TO #GIVE4GARNET The university held its first Giving Day, #Give4Garnet, this year on April 18. By the end of the day, the Carolina community had come together to raise more than $3 million for various initiatives that support student success. The Moore School celebrated the

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generous donations from the Brune family that totaled $100,000

Champion of education and Distinguished Professor Emeritus

by the end of the day. All of the day’s contributions directly

John E. Stinton passed away at the end of 2017 after an extensive

benefit students through scholarships.

academic career and active retirement.

The Brune Giving Day challenge encouraged participation from

For nearly 20 years, Stinton taught graduate and undergraduate

all members of the community. At 10 a.m., it was announced

courses in insurance and employee benefits at the Moore School

that if 250 gifts were secured by 2:50 p.m., the Brunes would

and served for a number of years as chair of the undergraduate

donate $50,000. When that goal was achieved, the Brunes

scholarship committee. Following his retirement in 1987, he

issued a second challenge that they would double their gift if

remained active through volunteer service to his community.

477 total gifts — the Moore School’s overall goal for the day — were made by midnight. With 494 total gifts, the business

The Professor John E. Stinton Insurance Scholarship Endowment

school exceeded that goal.

was established in his honor by a former student to perpetuate Stinton’s values and his contribution to the insurance industry as

This is not the first time Catherine (B.S. ’74) and Cliff Brune (B.S.

an educator and role model. To date, the scholarship has assisted

’74) have given their time and money to the Moore School. Last

more than 20 Moore School students studying risk management

year, they donated $300,000 toward the Center for Sales Suc-

and insurance.

cess, sales faculty and a sales student scholarship endowment. These funds have already enabled 30 additional students to

Stinton believed the greatest gift you could give the next generation

become NASP certified through new sales lab technology and

was the gift of education. The Professor John E. Stinton Insurance

provided for the launch of a student sales club, which hopes to

Scholarship Endowment will continue to assist Moore School

participate in sales competitions this fall.

students in the attainment of their educational goals.

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donation of 494 gifts totaling $196,000, bolstered largely by

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ACHIEVEMENT Moore School Professors, Graduate Student Win Teaching Awards

Bliese Named Fellow for Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Two Moore School faculty members and a graduate student

Paul Bliese, associate professor of management, has been

won Alfred G. Smith Awards for Excellence in Teaching this year.

named to a short list of fellows for the Society for Industrial

The tenure-track faculty winner is Ling Harris, assistant professor of accounting. Many students wrote of the positive impact she had on their lives and her ability to help them understand

and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Of the organization's roughly 7,000 members, about 20 people are nominated for this honor each year. SIOP is an organizational affiliate of the Association for Psy-

the difficult material in accounting. The non-tenure-track faculty winner is Jeff Rehling, marketing lecturer and director of the Center for Marketing Solutions. Rehling teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and a common theme in the support letters was his ability to do outreach and prepare students for life after school. Students appreciate his commitment to working with businesses to solve real marketing problems.

chological Science. Its members work primarily in industrial and organizational psychology, which encompasses everything from studying job attitudes and motivations to facilitating organizational change. Bliese does a lot of work with data analysis tools for these types of topics in an attempt to make them more understandable and accessible. He joins a couple other Moore School management faculty

The graduate student winner is Breyon Williams, economics. Letters from students noted his enthusiasm and ability to use economics to explain the world.

members in earning this fellow status. Professor Robert Ployhart also is an SIOP fellow, and professor Patrick Wright is a fellow of the Academy of Management. Bliese is also a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Social Networks Exist Within Consumer Review Communities Research by professor Ramkumar Janakiraman has revealed an internet community among people who rate hotels. The study began with the question “How useful are Yelp reviews?” If you’re like most people looking for product information, you look at more than just the content of a review when determining how trustworthy it is. Janakiraman found that many DA R L A M O O R E S C H O OL O F B U S I N E SS

users focus more on the person writing the review than the review itself. Yelp classifies its reviews as “funny,” “useful” or “cool.” Janakiraman was able to construct a social network of Yelp users and, by using this network, he found that positive reviews are correlated with being perceived as “cool.” What this means is that a reviewer’s network has significant power in how their reviews are perceived.

More Severe Product Issues Typically Delay Recalls Marketing professor Satish Jayachandran found that, unlike what he expected, the more severe the problem with the product he studied — automobiles — the longer it took for companies to issue recalls. Overall, Jayachandran and his colleagues found what they expected: More reputable brands recall faulty products faster and do more

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to compensate consumers. They also found that companies take a bigger hit on the stock market the longer it takes for them to issue recalls. Jayachandran speculates that recall delays increase with problem severity for two reasons. “Nobody wants to really own up to the problem, which essentially also means internal communication isn’t as good, therefore the problem

takes longer to be addressed and solved appropriately,” he says.

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Case Competition Team Wins First Place in Ireland Judges unanimously awarded first place to the Moore School’s undergraduate team in the inaugural Dublin Institute of Technology International Case Competition for their teamwork on a case on the e-commerce battle between Walmart and Amazon. Unlike other case competitions, this competition also featured an education component. During the first few days in Dublin, students learned about the changing customer decision journey and nature of e-commerce, data and predictive analytics, which prepared them well for the final case topic: the Walmart vs. Amazon e-commerce battle.

1854 London Cholera Epidemic Affecting Housing Prices Today According to research done by Robert Gonzalez, assistant professor of economics, and a couple of his colleagues, the repercussions of the 1854 London cholera epidemic that affected just a few blocks in a small London neighborhood are still being felt in that area today. Gonzalez theorizes that families in the cholera-affected area were priced out of the neighborhood. As a result, the composition shifted from being a typical working-class neighborhood to a lower rent, poorer neighborhood. That economic shock, exacerbated by rent control laws and strong tenancy laws enforced from the 1890s until the 1980s, is likely what has caused the price discrepancy still seen today. He also found significant differences between the level of renovations in houses within the cholera-affected area and those outside of it. Overall, this research supports the theory that health epidemics can have long-term effects on the economies in which they take place.

Tatiana Kostova honored with Carolina Distinguished Professorship

Management Professors Write Global Talent Book

Tatiana Kostova, Buck Mickel Chair and professor of international

Management professor Robert Ployhart and lecturer Julian Dalzell,

business at the Moore School, was recognized this past year by

as well as UT Dallas clinical professor Jeff Weekley, published

the university as a Carolina Distinguished Professor, one of the

their book, "Talent Without Borders: Global Talent Acquisition for

highest faculty honors awarded. Kostova’s involvement above

Competitive Advantage," through Oxford University Press. This

and beyond her requirements as a professor and her dedication

is the third book for Ployhart, who says it’s a blending of science,

to her field set her apart. Kostova has been a professor at the

research, consulting and practice.

Moore School since 1996.

The book focuses on how companies attract and hire talent in a global context from the perspective of talent as a strate-

28 years ago as a Fulbright Professor at UCLA. While there, she

gic resource. Just like tangible resources, the flow of talent is

taught computer programming and management information

something companies have to manage in order to be successful.

systems before becoming interested in management, strategy and

Otherwise, firms become talent constrained and can’t pursue

the psychology and sociology of organizations. She now teaches

growth, or implement strategies, in the ways they might want

graduate classes in international and cross-cultural management

to. The book tackles these problems in such a way that, ideally,

and global strategy as well as supervising doctoral students.

someone dealing with these issues could read it like a manual.

Moore School Professors Recognized by Student Disability Resource Center Several Moore School professors received Two Thumbs Up awards from the university's Student Disability Resource Center this spring. Each year, the SDRC recognizes faculty who have gone above and beyond to improve the lives of students served by the center. Nominated by the students, the following business school faculty were celebrated at a reception in mid-April: Manpreet Gill, Abhijit Guha, John Jensen, Heather Kelly, Daniel Ostergaard and David Precht.

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She came to the United States from Bulgaria, her home country,

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WAYS ALUMNI CAN ENGAGE The Mentor Program connects you with students who want to follow a career path similar to yours and are looking for advice on career planning, networking and transferring skills. To become a mentor, contact Hunter Looper at hunter.looper@moore.sc.edu. The BADM 301: Business Careers in a Global Economy class includes a personal branding speaker series where you’ll share professional advice and answer questions. Speakers on social media, networking and building a personal brand are highly sought. Contact Amy Dawson at dawson@moore.sc.edu. As a panel member at the Moore School Major Exploration Day, you’ll share information about your career path and the major that led you there, which helps students choose their majors. Contact Jane Willis Mayer at jane.willis-mayer@moore.sc.edu. At the annual Women’s Leadership Summit hosted by the Graduate Women in Business student organization, attendees hear from speakers on issues facing women in business. To speak at the next summit, contact Elliott Cooper at elliott.cooper@moore.sc.edu. As a Research and Partnership Center Board Member, you can help with everything from boosting students’ sales success to contributing valuable insight on the international business curriculum. Contact: Stacey Mumbower, Center for Applied Business Analytics Patrick Wright, Center for Executive Succession Kendall Roth, Center for International Business Education and Research Jeff Rehling, Center for Marketing Solutions Beth Renninger, Center for Sales Success Dean Kress, Faber Entrepreneurship Center Sanjay Ahire or John Jensen, Operations and Supply Chain Center Anthony Nyberg, Riegel & Emory Human Resources Center Robert Hartwig, Risk and Uncertainty Management Center In addition to regular meetings and events, the Young Alumni Board of recent graduates provides input on the academic direction of Moore School programs. To join the Young Alumni Board, contact Hunter Looper at hunter.looper@moore.sc.edu. At the Senior Celebration Lunch, hosted by the Moore School Office of Alumni Engagement each spring prior to graduation, you can engage with graduating seniors and share career advice. Contact Hunter Looper at hunter.looper@moore.sc.edu. Our Hub Network cities leverage the powerful Moore School alumni network to connect students with internship and full-time employment. Network with alumni, faculty, staff and Dean Brews. For dates and information, visit go.sc.edu/moorealumnievents.

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MooreConnect ARE YOU CONNECTED YET? Moore Connect is a free, online platform for graduates of the Darla Moore School of Business. Members enjoy a direct connection to nearly 50,000 alumni and 300 faculty and staff in nearly 100 countries and countless organizations and businesses worldwide. “My experience has been awesome because there’s such a wide range of uses from staying connected with classmates, both undergraduate and graduate, to using it for the mentoring program to show my mentee how to build a personal brand,” says David Looper (B.S. ’08, MBA ’13). Looper has used Moore Connect since its launch in 2015. One thing he especially appreciates about the program is the closed-in network you’re a part of when you use it. “When you’re using Moore Connect, you know everybody brings with them the weight of a business school degree,” he says. The biggest benefit he gets from it is being able to scroll through and see everyone’s updates, despite being busy. “It’s a phenomenal tool, and the more alumni use it, the more valuable of a tool it becomes,” Looper says. “Whether you’re just graduating, or you’ve been out of the business school for 20 years and are looking to hire, there’s something on Moore Connect for everyone.”

You studied together. Now grow together. MooreConnect is the exclusive digital platform for the nearly 50,000 alumni, faculty, staff and students of the Darla Moore School of Business. This free service helps alumni find or share job opportunities, connect with classmates and fellow alumni, explore other network-building tools that can move your career forward, and mentor current students.

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Expand your network.

Give back with time and talent.

@ mooreconnect.com Use your LinkedIn profile (or another account) to sign up.

Re-connect with classmates.

Questions? Hunter Looper Assistant Director of Alumni Engagement hunter.looper@moore.sc.edu | 803-576-6835

Get ahead with career opportunities.

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ALUMNI NEWS enjoy skiing and cycling. They spend winters in Montana and the rest of the year in Pennsylvania or on the road.

1950 Arthur J. Ness (B.S. ‘59, MBA ‘61) passed away April 18, 2018, after 18 years living with Parkinson’s disease.

1960 Robert L. Green (B.S. ‘69, USC J.D. ‘75) has been certified by the SC Bar as a mediator for all civil actions in the Court of Common Pleas and Probate.

MIBS 1977 Reunion Members of the MIBS ’77 class met in France for a reunion trip. The following classmates attended: Rita and Ramesh Advani from Boston; Del and Ted Burgess from Atlanta; Nancy and Kevin Corrigan from West Virginia; Marcia and Ron Cowen on temporary assignment in India; Toshiko and Shigeru Sekine from Japan; Lucie (USC M.S. ’78) and Bob Stricker from Michigan; and Rosa and José Obregon from Honduras.

R. Wayne Rowell (B.S. ‘65) was re-elected for a second term to the Town Council of Ocean Isle Beach. E. Gene Sheppard (B.S. ‘64, MBA ‘65) is retired and lives on the lake after a career in textiles. Sheppard enjoys fishing and being with family, including two granddaughters, one of whom attends USC and will study abroad in Australia next semester.

1970 James Barbee (MBA ‘76) was named president of Western Wood Products Association.

Bob Berry (B.S. ‘74) is

Harry Brooks (B.S. ‘70), founder and president of National Loss Management in Norcross, Georgia, was elected to a one-year term as director of the prestigious Explorers Club, headquartered in New York City. Charlene Frye (B.S. ‘79) opened Charlene K. Frye and Associates, a commercial real estate appraisal and consulting firm. She has 39 years of appraisal experience and is a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser licensed in South Carolina and North Carolina. George A. Geiser (B.S. ‘72) is married to Elsie Acuff (USC B.S. ‘75). They have one daughter and live in Glacier National Park where they

Guy Jones (B.S. ‘74) founded River Runner Outdoor Center in 1983, specializing in paddlesports and a broad range of outdoor products, rental services and guided trips in Congaree National Park. Jones met his wife, Cynthia Caroline Flynn, (USC B.A. ‘74) through River Runner.

Leon Smith (B.S. ‘79) has transitioned to CALIBRE Systems as a financial director after a

Gary Smith (B.S. ‘71, USC J.D. ‘75) served 30 years in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, retiring as a colonel in 2005. Smith then served as an immigration judge and assistant chief immigration judge in the Executive Office for Immigration Review, retiring in 2012. Since retiring, Smith earned an MBA from Augusta University in 2014 and a bachelor’s degree in history from Augusta University in 2016. Smith was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Alpha Theta honors societies. Ricardo A. Yunis (MIBS ‘79) attended a reunion with classmates in Boca Raton, Florida, in April 2017.

1980 Cynthia Bolt (MTax ‘88) was promoted to full professor in the Citadel’s Baker School of Business, where she teaches accounting and taxation. Stacy Beck Bradfield (USC B.A. ‘89, MBA ‘93) started a new position as product marketing manager at Biamp Systems. Biamp makes exceptional AV hardware and software for enterprise and everyday applications. Ruth A. Chapman (B.S. ‘87) and Chris Chapman (B.A. ‘87) in August celebrated their 20th year in business together at The

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Albert C. Smarr (B.S. ‘62) briefly served active duty with the Army, completed a bank management training program and law school, and taught for three years at Emory University. Smarr practiced law for more than 40 years in Atlanta. He still handles probate and works some with other lawyers and firms. He currently supports another USC graduate running for Superior Court judge in Atlanta.

W. Glenn Yarborough, Jr. (B.S. ‘61, M.S. ‘69) was named Rotary Governor for District 7610 in Northern Virginia. Yarborough, a government relations professional, is a retired Army Colonel.

partner and CEO of Berry Wealth Advisors, assisting individuals and families in meeting financial goals. The company moved to a new location near Lake Murray in Lexington, South Carolina. All advisors are graduates of the Moore School.

Jerry L. Gray (Ph.D. ‘70) retired in 2005 as Dean Emeritus and Senior Scholar, I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba. He is the chair of Gendis, Inc.; a board member and lead director of Pollard Banknote Ltd.; the chair of Friends of Upper Fort Garry; the past chair of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority; a past president of The Manitoba Club; a past chair of CanTalk Canada, Ltd. and a board member for Manitoba Medical Services Foundation.

successful U.S. Army military career spanning 27 years, retiring as a colonel. After eight years as a director, he recently moved to PricewaterhouseCoopers with responsibility to assist in the headquarters audit for the U.S. Air Force.

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Chapman Company Fine Jewelers in Lexington, South Carolina. Janice C. Chestnut (B.S. ‘83, M.S. ‘86) received a Ph.D. of Pharmacy from the UofSC College of Pharmacy MUSC campus in May.

Cindy Lyons Chitty (B.S. ‘87) was appointed treasurer for Dorchester County in April 2017 by Gov. Henry McMaster. Chitty retired with 28 years service from the South Carolina Department of Revenue and was elected by her peers of the South Carolina Association of Auditors, Treasurers and Tax Collectors to serve on the executive committee for the Lowcountry region. She will run for election in November to complete the unexpired term. Roy Cummings (B.S. ‘83) was promoted to customer technical services field representative with International Paper.

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Andrea S. Dockery (B.S. ‘86) became a broker/ owner of RE/MAX Experts, serving all of Central Florida. Steven M. Doyle (MBA ‘84) is the owner of two CPR Cell Phone Repair stores located in Columbia and Lexington, South Carolina.

Max-Martin Habeck (MIBS ‘88) became an independent strategic advisor and executive coach, helping leaders in larger professional firms re-ignite their practice and career. Habeck graduated in May from Ashridge in the U.K. with an M.Sc. in executive coaching.

tion to Win in the 4th Industrial Revolution,” published in February.

Lori L. Leachman (USC B.S. ‘80, M.A. ‘82, Ph.D. ‘87) published a book, “The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen.” It is a memoir about growing up on football, the South and the death of the patriarch from CTE.

Patrick Peeters (MBA ‘85) is founder and CEO of the Cibor Group in Meerhout, Belgium, with operating divisions specialized in concrete treatment, building pathology and leak detection. Cibor opened a new office building annex warehouse in Meerhout and is active in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxemburg and the Netherlands.

Anna Mazzone (B.S. ‘83) was appointed to the board of the Open Data Institute in London. The ODI was co-founded in 2012 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, and artificial intelligence expert Sir Nigel Shadbolt to advocate for the innovative use of open data for positive change across the globe. Richard N. McIntyre (B.S. ‘80) was elected vice chairman of the airport commission, having been appointed in 2014 to represent Lexington County, South Carolina. He is the senior vice president of First Reliance Bank in Lexington, South Carolina and has more than 35 years in the banking profession, primarily serving Lexington County residents and businesses. José Salibi Neto (B.S. 82, MIBS ‘86) co-authored the book, “Managing for Tomorrow: Everything You Need To Know About Management, Leadership, and Innova-

Mary Ellen Breen Palker (B.S. ‘80) lives in Columbia, South Carolina, working for BlueCross BlueShield. Her oldest daughter is a 2011 graduate of UofSC’s College of Pharmacy.

Anthony H. Pope (B.S. ‘86) was awarded the Brunson Westbury award for a lifetime achievement of service over self by the Rotary Club of Summerville, South Carolina. Pope is a past club president and a past assistant district governor for Rotary District 7770. Pope chaired the club golf tournament for 16 years. The tournament raised more than $300,000 for local nonprofits.

Bill Rebarick (B.S. ‘89) was promoted to vice president of supply chain management with Austel USA. Rebarick is an adjunct professor at

the University of South Alabama, teaching Advanced Issues in Supply Chain Management. He also holds an MBA from Florida State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Mike Rouffy (B.S. ‘85, M.A. ‘87) works with Shaklee Nutrition. Robert B. Scearce II (B.S. ‘87) was promoted to group operations manager for Monogram Foods in Martinsville, Virginia, and is responsible for all production in the three Martinsville facilities. Steve Short, CPA, CGMA (B.S. ‘83) is proud to announce the firm’s affiliation with Maxima Speciality Group, LLC.. MSG provides seamless and scalable back-office support functions.

Lisa Lowe Stauffer (MIBS ’85) jumped from marketing to children’s literature with publication of her first book, “Two by Two,” available online and in bookstores summer 2018. William Augustus “Bill” Travis, III (B.S. ’82) and Jackie Mason Travis (USC B.S. ‘84) started Wholly Smokin’ BBQ restaurant in Florence, South Carolina. The restaurant supports the community and the beautification, growth and awareness of the Pee Dee region. Wholly Smokin’ will be featured in an upcoming book, “SC Backroads Restaurants,” along with a segment in a new Netflix series, American Road Trip, this fall. Bill died unexpectedly in August 2017 and his family pledges to carry

on his legacy of bringing joy to customers through good food. Raymond Weston (B.S. ‘89) and a senior team of three investment professionals founded Route 2 Capital Partners in 2017. With offices in Greenville and Charleston, R2CP is a private investment firm that provides $3-15 million of flexible mezzanine and equity financing to lower middle market operating companies, primarily in the southern U.S. Aprile Grant Whitesell (USC A.S. ‘80, B.S. ‘84) retired from federal government in 2015 and currently runs a sewing and embroidery business. Whitesell’s daughter is in her second year of college at the University of Alabama.

1990 David Bauman, Ph.D. (MHR ‘93) was promoted to an associate professor of business at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He teaches business ethics and is the chair of the Management and Leadership Department in the Anderson College of Business. David Bell (B.S. ‘98) married Denise Schnurr (USC M.A. ‘09) on June 7, 2017, on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Didi A. Caldwell (MIBS ‘98) is the founding principal of Global Location Strategies and was elected the first female to chair the board of the Site Selectors Guild, the association of the world’s foremost professional site selection consultants. This is Caldwell’s fourth

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consecutive year serving on the board. She was selected as one of the 50 most influential people in Upstate South Carolina by Greenville Business Magazine.

J. Wesley Kornahrens (B.S. ‘92) was promoted to manager of training and development for the South Carolina Financial Group of Prudential Advisors.

Angie Hewitt Chakeris (B.S. ‘93) and Costa Chakeris (B.S. ‘93) live in Charleston, South Carolina, and have two children. Chakeris is a walking-tour guide in historic Charleston and Costa is a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch. Their daughter just finished her freshman year at UofSC, and their son is a junior in high school and hopes to attend UofSC as well.

J. Stephen McNally (MIBS ‘93) serves on the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Global Board of Directors He chaired the board’s performance oversight and audit committee during the 2017-18 year and will chair the board’s member relations committee during the upcoming year.

Shelley Dempsey (USC M.Ed. ‘99, MBA ‘04) is director of On Your Time Initiatives for the University of South Carolina’s Office of the Provost and is working on a doctorate in education leadership and policy.

Erin Freize (B.S. ‘99) joined Capital City Financial Partners, an independent Registered Investment Advisory firm in Columbia, South Carolina. William Frick (USC B.A. ‘97, USC J.D. ‘00, MIBS ‘01) was elected chairman of the Fairfield County, South Carolina, School Board of Trustees. He is serving a second term on the board.

Daniel W. Hayes (B.S. ‘94, J.D. ‘97) was inducted into The College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers. Fellows are nominated to the college by their peers for possessing the highest professional and personal qualifications over a 20-year career. Matthew W. Jochim (B.S. ‘92) has lived west of London for the past four years, enjoying London and the ability to travel across the region. Jochim works with McKinsey, leading the U.K. consumer operations practice and European zero-based budgeting practice.

Kris McVey (B.A. ‘92, J.D. ‘96, MHR ‘96) was promoted to vice president of human resources at Coveris Americas, which, as of May 1, has oversight of plants in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and China. Tarra M. Mitchell (MIBS ‘99) was awarded the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards for her new release, “The Yoga of Leadership: A Practical Guide to Health, Happiness, and Inspiring Total Team Engagement.” She was a winner in the leadership and motivational categories and finalist in the wellbeing category. Lisa M. Padden (MHR ‘93) founded Big Toe Consulting, where TOE stands for Talent & Organization Effectiveness. She partners with staff and line leaders and HR teams to develop organization interventions that help attract, grow, optimize and retain talent. A. Victor Rawl Jr. (MIBS ‘95, USC J.D. ‘95) left McNair Law Firm after 20 years to become the managing partner of Gordon & Rees LLP’s South Carolina and Nebraska offices. Gordon & Rees is a national litigation and business transactions firm with more than 800 lawyers in 50 offices throughout the U.S.

Katherine G. Stephens (MBA ‘94, USC Ph.D. ‘11) was awarded the Conservation Leadership Award in June by the National Wildlife Federation. Stephens has served on the South Carolina Wildlife Federation board for over a decade, including a term as chair, was a leader in formation of the SC Camo Coalition in 2008, and championed the November 2010 approval of a South Carolina constitutional amendment establishing hunting and fishing as constitutional rights. Stephens is vice president for medical education at Palmetto Health in Columbia, South Carolina, and serves as associate dean for Graduate Medical Education for the UofSC School of Medicine.

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Nicholas R. Annan (B.S. ‘08, MBA ‘14) was named senior accounting manager for accounting advisory services at Elliot Davis in Columbia, South Carolina.

Jared Brewster (B.S. ‘05) is a former Presidential Management Fellow and now serves as the senior legislative advisor for the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service. Jordan Broggi (B.S. ‘04) was named vice president of FP&A for The Home Depot in 2016, leading the company’s efforts in planning, forecasting, finance analytics, vendor cost-out and procurement.

Lt. Col. Charles Cogger (IMBA ‘09) relinquished command of the U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion–Great Lakes on June 28. He was director of recruiting for active Army and Army Reserves in Michigan. He was responsible for more than 260 recruiters in 32 recruiting stations across the state that enlisted more than 3,500 volunteers. His next assignment is advisory team chief, responsible for training, developing and mentoring Saudi Arabian land forces. Jon Cowherd (B.S. ’06) and Allison Cowherd (USC B.A. ‘06) started the 501(c)3 nonprofit Pounding for Parker Foundation, headquartered in Cornelius, North Carolina, which is dedicated to advancing research for pediatric brain tumors and improving the quality of life for survivors. In April, the Cowherds presented $100,000 to the Levine Children’s Hospital neuro-oncology clinic to help fund the brain tumor survivorship clinic.

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Randall David Cook (MIBS ‘96) was named a Duke Endowment Artistin-Residence at Furman University, which premiered his horror-thriller “Kappa Kappa Scream.” His political satire “Ruba-Dub-Dub” was selected for the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. His dark comedy “Sharks and Other Lovers” was selected and workshopped as part of The Jasper Project in Columbia, South Carolina. His play “A Night at the Theatre” premiered in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and and his comedy “Hanky Panky” was performed Off-Broadway, directed by two-time Tony nominee and “Zoolander” choreographer Joey McKneely. Cook was inducted into the inaugural class of the South Carolina Theatre Hall of Fame and selected as an honorary inductee into the Furman University chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society.

John T. Drawdy Jr. (B.S. ‘94, MBA ‘03) expanded his CPA firm, Paragon Accounting & Tax Solutions, LLC, to a larger office in May 2018 in Woodstock, Georgia.

Jeff D. Reid (B.S. ‘93, MBA ‘97) was named senior vice president of Humana Wellness, leading Humana’s transformation in digital health and wellbeing using data and digital solutions to improve population health.

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Suzanne Lacombe Gibson (USC B.A. ‘01, IMBA ‘06) teaches full time for the hospitality management department at USC Beaufort. Gibson enjoys her return to the Lowcountry with her husband and toddler and looks forward to the new Hilton Head Island campus opening this fall.

battle in the jungles of Vietnam. Fifty years later, they tell their story. Amanda W. Koehler (B.S. ‘03, MACC ‘04) was promoted to the poistion of chief operating officer of Turner Padget Graham and Laney, PA, in December 2017.

Rachel Broniak Hunter (B.S. ‘08, MACC ‘09) married Benjamin Hunter of Athens, Georgia, on June 9 at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Plymouth, Michigan.

Stefana Kornicer (B.S. ‘08) married Kevin Murray on Aug. 31, in Golden, Colorado. Kornicer works as a business analyst manager at Wells Fargo Capital Finance. Her 10-year anniversary with the company was in June. Nanda Prashad Jayaseelan (B.S. ‘00, IMBA ‘08) welcomed her first child, Madeleine Grace, in October 2017.

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Haley Keisler (B.S. ‘09) opened the first Hermosa Jewelry flagship shop and studio in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Keisler started the business at age 15 and graduated from the USC Technology Incubator, where she was inspired to take on her business full-time after college.

Shawn Kelley (MBA ‘09) is directing and producing a documentary about his father’s time in Vietnam. "My Father’s Brothers" is a film about a band of U.S. Army Airborne soldiers who, against incredible odds, endure a horrific

Bruce Lawrence Jr. (B.S. ‘01, USC MMC ‘08) was married in 2015 and lives most of the year in the United Kingdom, where he is the director of international advancement at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. Timothy Michael (Ph.D. ‘03) was appointed to the Finance Field of Study (FOS) committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) in January. He is executive director of the Financial Education Association (FEA) and publisher of the Journal of Financial Education (JFEd), as well as the editor of the Journal of Finance Case Research. Michael is an associate professor of finance at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and chair of the university’s planning and budgeting committee. Abbie G. Oliver (IMBA ‘06) completed the 2017 Louisville IRONMAN and earned a doctorate in business administration from the University of

Georgia. Oliver will begin teaching as an assistant professor in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Ryan Padgett (B.S. ‘07) is the director of purchasing and a member of the project development team for Lowcountry Hotels in Charleston, South Carolina. In the fall of 2017, Padgett started an adult sports league in Charleston, Holy City Sports League, offering men’s basketball, co-ed volleyball, golf, tennis and disc golf. Katie Hendricks Perry (B.S. ‘07, MACC ‘08) and her husband, Spencer Perry (B.S. ‘06), welcomed a baby girl in December 2017.

Catherine L. Porth (B.S. ‘09) was named director of business development for Survature Inc. Porth founded “Let Her Speak,” a nonprofit program for female entrepreneurs, girls who look up to them and the community that supports them. The program promotes real conversations and professional development opportunities for women-owned businesses.

Your Path to Impact” in September 2017. Ryan Stuckey Jr. (B.S. ‘03, MHR ‘04) and Aly Stuckey welcomed their daughter, Charlotte Wright Stuckey, on Aug. 30, 2017.

Wanda Anderson Thomas (B.S. ‘01) is an IT project management professional consultant in the financial industry and owner of 2bzz2 Consulting and Management LLC, focused on travel industry consulting. Stacy E. Thompson (USC B.A. ‘94, MIBS, USC J.D. ‘00) climbed Uhuru Peak, the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the “rooftop of Africa.” At 19,341 feet, Kilimanjaro is the world’s highest free-standing mountain and the highest peak in Africa.

Michelle Elrod Priest (B.S. ‘01) was presented with the South Carolina National Guard Volunteer of the Year award at the National Guard convention in May by Major General Livingston for helping military families during their deployment cycle.

Lauren Truslow (B.S. ‘05) owner of barre3 Columbia and barre3 Lake Murray fitness studios in South Carolina, opened the Nail barre in Columbia in June. The Nail barre offers salon membership packages and walk-in appointments for full-service manicures, pedicures, waxing and spray tanning services.

Joanne Garfinkel Sonenshine (M.A. ’03) published the book “ChangeSeekers: Finding

Chris Turner (IMBA, J.D. ‘09) was named one of the 2018 Charlotte Business Journal’s 40

Under 40 for his work at Bank of America and the leadership he provides to organizations such as the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Charlotte Family Housing, Myers Park United Methodist Church and the Mecklenburg County Republican Party. Turner was named to the Presidential Honor Roll of Volunteers for the work he does in Charlotte and throughout North Carolina. John Tyler (B.S. ‘04) practices law in Columbia, South Carolina, handling litigation and outside general counselmatters. He gives back to the university by guestlecturing a senior design class in the university's College of Engineering and Computing. He provides an interactive presentation addressing ethics, liability and litigation. Tyler is married to Christine Zaepfel (USC B.A. ‘06). They have four children and live in Forest Acres, South Carolina. John C. Urbanski (Ph.D. ‘00) was promoted to professor of management and international business at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Urbanski is married to Lisa A. Neuson (USC Ph.D. ‘97). They have two children, Johnny and Eloise.

Patrick C. Wooten (B.S. ‘05) received the 2018 Charleston 40 Under 40 Award from the Charleston Regional Business Journal.

2010 Christina Dooley Abrams (B.S. ‘15) is the strategy and operations manager for the southeast with

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Roxane Debaty (B.S. ‘13) attends Yale’s School of Management, pursuing her passion of managing a global nonprofit after a year in sales and four years working for a global packaging company as its global marketing lead. DoorDash, a restaurant delivery tech startup. She uses operations management and process improvement to drive actionable change for the company. Erin Tully Bethea (IMBA ‘11) and Joe Bethea welcomed their son, Wake John Bethea, on April 19. He weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces and was 21 inches long.

Carrie Cottingham Buse (B.S. ‘15) married Matthew Buse on June 6, 2017. Jessica K. Cavett (B.S. ‘12) got engaged to Austin Mueller (B.S. ‘12) in New York City in December 2017.

Jacqueline Leonor Chiari (B.S. ‘16) graduated from Florida State University with a master’s in higher education and began a role as assistant director for student involvement and multicultural affairs at Presbyterian College. Jenna Cyran (B.S. ‘16) married her high school sweetheart, Timothy Phipps (USC B.A. ‘15), on May 5.

Muriel Hampton (B.S. ‘11) started her own company in December 2017. Mokie LLC focuses on project management and life management.

Chas Harris (B.S. ‘10) was promoted to vice president of marketing and clinical development for StimLabs.

Melodie Hunt Dillahunty (B.S. ‘15) married Jonathan Dillahunty on Oct. 27, 2017, in Richmond, Virginia. They live in Dallas, Texas, where Melodie works alongside fellow alumni at Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss. Jonathan heads R&D at a photo-editing startup. Kathrina Edwards (B.S. ‘17) accepted a position as a human resources associate at America’s Health Insurance Plans in Washington, D.C.

Christopher A. Hernandez (MBA ‘15) was promoted to chief systems engineer for electronic security and emergency management at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic. Ryan Hutchens (B.S. ’10) is a professional musician and music industry consultant, performing hundreds of shows per year and advising ontour management in the evolving music industry. Kara Patrice Jones (B.S. ’18) published two books, “Heavensent” and “Coffee at Midnight,” and another, “Blue Eyes,” will be released soon. Tyler Kehoe (B.S. ‘11) accepted a public-sector consulting position with Reveille Group, LLC, in Washington, D.C.

Kalesha Hicks Ervin (B.S. ‘11) married Ketravious Ervin on Oct. 14, 2017, in Locus Grove, Georgia. Ben Hagood (B.S. ‘10) married Ashton Ryon on Aug. 6, 2016, in Concord,

Hannah Kuntz (MHR ‘11, PMBA ‘18) and Matt Pangle (PMBA candidate, December 2018) were married in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sept. 15. Forrest Langsam (B.S. ‘16) has a new job with PPD.

Brennan Lyles (B.S. ‘16) celebrated a one-year work anniversary at Goepper Burkhardt LLC. Olivia R. Myers (B.S. ‘14) works as producer for Lowe’s Innovation Labs, the technology hub at Lowe’s Home Improvement and in May received the Auggie Award for Best Enterprise Solution for the Holoroom Test Drive she helped develop. R. Aaron Ness (B.S. ‘11, USC J.D. ‘15) married Alexandra L. (Corey) Ness of Kingstree, South Carolina. Aaron Ness practices law at a general practice litigation firm, handling personal injury, criminal defense, probate, real estate and business formation and litigation cases. Pierce Owen (B.S. ‘14, MIBS ‘16) married Ghazal Owen on Aug. 19 in Yorkshire, England. Michelle Phillips (IMBA ‘10) works with the Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association to develop brand licensing programs for consumer products that have recently won Best Licensing Program of the Year. Allyson Rice Pittman (B.S. ‘14) married James Bryan “JB” Pittman, III (B.S. ‘14) on Aug. 26, 2017, in Dillon, South Carolina. Cocky made a guest appearance at their wedding reception. Allyson Pittman graduated from Charleston School of Law in 2017 and is awaiting bar results. JB Pittman is General Manager at Buckhead Ranch in Latta, South Carolina. David Pitts (B.S. ‘16) graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in May with a Master of Health Administration. He was elected student body president of the College of Health Professions. After completing an internship at MUSC, he is employed as a fiscal analyst.

Kasey Thomas Rosenhaus (B.S. ‘10) married Robert Lowell Rosenhaus on Jan. 27 at the Brooklyn Winery in Williamsburg, Virginia. Kasey is an executive assistant at One Rock Capital Partners, a private equity firm in Manhattan. Deanna Schnaufer (MBA ‘14) welcomed her daughter, Shelby Rose Schnaufer, on Nov. 7, 2017. Jonathan Steele (B.S. ‘15) graduated from Drake University Law School in May and took the Georgia bar exam in July. Drew D. Stevens (B.S. ‘10) was given the Live United award by the United Way of the Midlands for his work with them and their partner agencies. Patrique Veille (B.S. ’11) was named a 2017 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Star by the Institute of Supply Chain Management. Jonathan Walker (B.S. ‘15) accepted the position of Class Reunion Campaign Development Officer at The Citadel Foundation after serving as the assistant director of Annual and Special Giving at UGA for the past two years. Sara McNeill Williams (MHR ‘14) and Chase Williams (B.S. ‘13, MHR ‘14) were married on Oct. 15, 2017, in Beaufort, South Carolina. They met in the Master of Human Resources program.

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Jonathan Chandler (MBA ‘13) and his wife, Christina C. Chandler (MBA ‘17), welcomed a baby boy, Harrison Elliott Chandler, on Dec. 23, 2017.

Tenley Desjardins (B.S. ‘11, MACC ‘12) joined Blueprint as a financial advisor in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is on a mission to make financial planning affordable and accessible by helping families organize, protect and plan their financial future.

North Carolina. Ben was promoted to senior consultant with Deloitte in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Margaret M. Williams (B.S. '46) on Jan. 22, 2018

1940s Robert C. Brown (B.S. '48, USC J.D. '57) on Sept. 10, 2017 Jeanne T. Clemons (A.S. '49, USC B.A. '51) on May 12, 2018 Caroline B. Graham (A.S. '48) on March 4, 2018 Henry L. Johnson (B.S. '49) on April 6, 2018 George F. Kennedy (B.S. '49) on July 16, 2017 Jean M. Leblanc (B.S. '41) on April 22, 2018 J. Fred Lister (B.S. '49) on Sept. 24, 2017 Allen MacEachern (B.S. '48) on Jan. 11, 2018 Helen Magee (B.S. '49) on Aug. 5, 2017 Doris A. Nielsen (B.S. '47) on Nov. 26, 2017 Cecil C. Seigler (B.S. '49) on Aug. 31, 2017 Harry Wallace Taylor (B.S. '40) on Nov. 24, 2017

1950s R. Linwood Altman (B.S. '50) on May 25, 2018 Don W. Andrews (B.S. '58) on June 6, 2018 Lewis C. Ballington Sr. (B.S. '50, USC B.A. '86) on July 24, 2017 Weems Oliver Baskin III (B.S. '59) on Feb. 12, 2018 Odilo Blanco (B.S. '59) on March 19, 2018 Hughes Kenneth Boswell (B.S. '53) on July 6, 2017 Jimell Boyd (B.S. '59) on March 19, 2018 Edward J. Bunyan Sr. (B.S. '55) on Sept. 7, 2017 Elizabeth Hobbs Cole (B.S. '57) on Sept. 1, 2017 Robert V. Davis Jr. (B.S. '58, MBA '67) on Nov. 2, 2017

Lonnie A. Garvin Jr. (B.S. '58) on Nov. 1, 2017 Alex H. Gibert Jr. (B.S. '50) on Feb. 21, 2018 James Davis Green (B.S. '57) on July 15, 2017 T. Luther Gunter (B.S. '57) on May 3, 2018 Clem Patterson Ham (B.S. '58) on Dec. 16, 2017 Lamar G. Hammett (B.S. '59) on Jan. 8, 2018 Kenneth Samuel Holt (B.S. '57) on Jan. 14, 2018 Cromer C. Jumper (B.S. '57) on March 10, 2018 Furman B. Langley Jr. (B.S. '57) on Sept. 14, 2017 Donald R. Lemmons (B.S. '58) on Aug. 1, 2017 L. Durward Lewis Sr. (B.S. '51) on Nov. 29, 2017 Kenneth H. McClain (B.S. '54) on Oct. 28, 2017 Frank P. McGowan Jr. (B.S. '58, USC J.D. '61) on Nov. 11, 2017

Eleanor Sease Milling (B.S. '59, USC M.A.T. '72) on Jan. 16, 2018

Theodore D. Vinzani (B.S. '52) on Jan. 9, 2018

Sam Z. Moore (B.S. '54) on June 1, 2018

Marvin R. Watson (B.S. '56, USC J.D. '57) on Dec. 12, 2017

R. D. Newman (B.S. '59) on April 28, 2018 J. Carlisle Oxner Jr. (B.S. '58, USC J.D. '62) on April 15, 2018 Landis N. Perry (B.S. '56) on Aug. 26, 2017 Louise Poston Register (B.S. '56) on Sept. 3, 2017 James Lewis Rogers Jr. (B.S. '56) on Jan. 31, 2018 Peter E. Sercer Sr. (B.S. '58) on June 3, 2018 James Brooks Smith Jr. (B.S. '56) on Nov. 5, 2017 Charles W. Stephenson (B.S. '52) on Oct. 19, 2017 Zachary A. Taylor Jr. (B.S. '53) on Feb. 1, 2018 Thomas L. Thomason (B.S. '55) on Nov. 19, 2017

Billy Lynn Williams (B.S. '51) on Feb. 8, 2018 Monroe W. Yonce (B.S. '56) on July 24, 2017

1960s Woody C. Barfield Sr. (B.S. '64) on Nov. 28, 2017 E. Evan Bass (B.S. '69) on May 16, 2018 Clifton Davis Bodiford Sr. (B.S. '65) on April 28, 2018 Charles E. Boswell III (B.S. '66, MBA '68) on Sept. 12, 2017 George J. Burks Jr. (B.S. '65) on Oct. 1, 2017 James F. Carter Jr. (MBA '65) on May 11, 2018 David G. Coker (B.S. '61) on May 17, 2018

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Morgan B. Coker (MBA '67, Ph.D. '71) on July 6, 2017

Franklin E. Robson III (MBA '66, USC J.D. '66) on Dec. 14, 2017

George William Law (B.S. '70) on May 30, 2018

Edward Eugene Barry (MIB '87) on Jan. 11, 2018

Thelbert J. Collins (B.S. '65) on Jan. 5, 2018

Derward H. Sanford (B.S. '61) on April 26, 2018

William H. Lawson Jr. (B.S. '71) on July 2, 2017

Peter L. M. DiVenere (B.S. '67) on Oct. 14, 2017

Raymond L. Sessions (B.S. '69) on May 8, 2018

Wilson H. Lear III (B.S. '76) on Nov. 17, 2017

William P. Bennett Jr. (B.S. '85) on Oct. 4, 2017

Howard T. Edwards (B.S. '67) on March 6, 2018

Harry M. Snider Jr. (B.S. '65) on Feb.20, 2018

James Alvin Edwards II (B.S. '64) on July 24, 2017

William Reid Springs (B.S. '65) on Nov. 23, 2017

Gelene Duncan Ellsworth (B.S. '64) on Nov. 12, 2017

Eugene L. Stone (B.S. '61, USC J.D. '64) on Aug. 5, 2017

Joye D. Ferrill (B.S. '63) on April 24, 2018

Karen Gail Trotter (B.S. '64) on May 23, 2018

Marion P. Funderburk (B.S. '69) on April 25, 2018 Garey Gedrose (B.S. '66) on Dec. 31, 2017 Steve D. Grissom (B.S. '66) on Sept. 2, 2017 Charles E. Harmon (B.S. '61) on July 29, 2017 C. Alexander Hawkins (B.S. '64) on Sept. 12, 2017 William C. Huggins Jr. (B.S. '63) on March 10, 2018 David Allen Hurd (B.S. '68) on Feb. 16, 2018 Richard Wier Katzberg (MBA '69) on Sept. 2, 2017

1970s Gregg A. Belknap (MBA '76) on Nov. 5, 2017 Caroline G. Bookter (B.S. '72) on Oct. 21, 2017 C. Fair Brooks III (B.S. '71) on Jan. 21, 2018 Chris Brumfield (B.S. '72) on Feb. 5, 2018 Barry Taylor Burnette (B.S. '77) on Aug. 29, 2017 Jack Lynn Cain (MBA '77) on Jan. 26, 2018 Howard C. Carter Jr. (B.S. '79) on Jan. 2, 2018 Charles W. Clark (B.S. '72) on May 23, 2018

William J. Lawther III (B.S. '69) on Aug. 21, 2017

William Randall Dickerson (B.S. '75) on Feb. 2, 2018

Paul E. Lee Jr. (B.S. '68) on March 1, 2018

Michael Howard Elkins (B.S. '79) on Nov. 2, 2017

Clyde B. Livingston (B.S. '69) on July 17, 2017 Anne B. Macaluso (B.S. '67, USC B.A. '93) on Oct. 16, 2017 Gean W. Martin (B.S. '64) on March 18, 2018 Clayton B. Meeks (B.S. '67, M.S. '74) on July 7, 2017

William F. Nickles III (B.S. '64) on July 24, 2017 Richard D. Plyler (B.S. '66) on Oct. 27, 2017 Edith A. Purvis (B.S. '61, USC B.A. '79) on Jan. 10, 2018 Celestin Putz (B.S. '61) on Feb. 24, 2018 Ray Albert Ridgeway Jr. (B.S. '65) on July 23, 2017

Kenneth Gilbert Gentry (B.S. '72) on Aug. 30, 2017 Andrew B. Harper (B.S. '76) on Aug. 19, 2017 Allen D. Hawk Jr. (B.S. '74, B.S. '75) on Feb. 19, 2018 Edwin Roger Heaton (MBA '74) on Sept. 29, 2017 Calvin G. Hill (MBA '76) on March 21, 2018 David B. Howard Jr. (MBA '74) on July 24, 2017 William E. Kelbaugh (B.S. '73) on Feb. 18, 2018 R. Thomas Laing (B.S. '72) on April 22, 2018 John C. Laughon Jr. (B.S. '75) on Jan. 26, 2018

Henry M. Maine (MACC '73) on May 11, 2018 Howard Wren McMeekin (B.S. '73) on Sept. 22, 2017 Robert M. Mullis (B.S. '72) on Aug. 10, 2017 Dennis D. Nicholson III (MBA '70) on Oct. 1, 2017 Joel Lynn Patterson (B.S. '73) on May 18, 2018 Lee Bullard Caughman Piepenbring (B.S. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;79) on June 18, 2018

Karin Whaley Brown (MBA '81) on Dec. 30, 2017 Darrell R. Byrd (B.S. '80) on Dec. 23, 2017 Robert E. Calhoun Jr. (B.S. '86) on Jan. 8, 2018 Heyward A. Carr Jr. (B.S. '82, MBA '88) on March 12, 2018 Wayne Alan Dangle (B.S. '85) on July 7, 2017 Matthew B. Fry (B.S. '81) on Aug. 5, 2017

Sandra D. Poole (B.S. '79) on Aug. 20, 2017

William S. Hahn (MBA '80) on Feb. 5, 2018

William B. Rhoten Jr. (B.S. '73, MBA '81) on Feb 2, 2018

Annette House (MIBS '88) on July 21, 2017

Thomas Alpha Riggs (B.S. '72) on Aug. 23, 2017 Charles W. Robinson (B.S. '70) on May 2, 2018 Lewis E. Rourk (B.S. '75) on July 10, 2017

Cheryl L. Jones (B.S. '85) on March 21, 2018 Stephen Michael Kamoroff (B.S. '81, MBA '92) on March 31, 2018 Monte Darrel McGovern (B.S. '81) on Oct. 13, 2017

Heyward D. Rumph (B.S. '75) on Feb. 8, 2018

Russ H. Meekins (B.S. '81, B.S. '83) on Dec. 23, 2017

M. Ronald Sanders (USC B.A. '77, MBA '81) on Sept. 11, 2017

Melonie Bailey Nelson (B.S. '89) on Oct. 24, 2017

Gregory B. Scurlock (B.S. '71) on Nov. 4, 2017

Kathleen E. Peeples (B.S. '81) on Feb. 24, 2018

Ray Moody Seigler Jr. (B.S. '75) on Jan. 12, 2018

Sam Schneider (B.S. '80) on Oct. 21, 2017

Flint P. Smith II (B.S. '76) on Aug. 10, 2017 Jarrell Timothy Staples (B.S. '74) on March 8, 2018 Edwin Wiley Taylor III (B.S. '76) on Nov. 9, 2017 Philip W. Vincent (B.S. '71) on Sept. 23, 2017 Larry J. Yon (B.S. '72, M.S. '77) on Dec. 19, 2017 Ruth Cressman Zitnick (USC B.A. '70, MACC '75) on April 28, 2018

1980s Stephen F. Barden (B.S. '80) on Nov. 27, 2017

Linda Margaret Shockley (B.S. '80) on Jan. 2, 2018 William A. Travis III (B.S. '82) on Aug. 31, 2017 William R. Williamson (MBA '89) on Aug. 25, 2017 Carol M. Witt (B.S. '81) on Dec. 10, 2017 J. Thomas Yokum Jr. (Ph.D. '84) on May 11, 2018

1990s Elton B. Creech Jr. (MACC '90) on Jan. 31, 2018 Helen Hefner Madden (MIBS '92) on March 28, 2018

Donna Jean Ramsey (MIBS '91) on Oct. 18, 2017 James W. Worthy (B.S. '96) on May 20, 2018

2000s Blair Bailey Barrier (B.S. '06) on Dec. 20, 2017 Patrick Mark Smith Jr. (B.S. '07) on March 17, 2018 Todd Dawayne Smith (B.S. '09) on June 10, 2018

2010s Gregory A. Eaddy (MBA '10) on May 29, 2018 Jeffrey Douglas Sanders (B.S. '10) on Dec. 31, 2017 Carter Harris Willson Jr. (B.S. '11) on July 14, 2017

FACULTY AND STAFF

Ethel J. Burgess on July 24, 2016 Allen P. Corbett on May 28, 2017 Janice G. DeLozier on April 6, 2017 James B. Edwards on June 27, 2018 John S. Fryer on Oct. 9, 2016 John E. Logan on Sept. 29, 2016 Carol J. Lucas on Sept. 24, 2016 Melayne M. McInnes on April 20, 2017 Peter E. Sercer Sr. on June 3, 2018 Mr. John H. Stern on June 11, 2016 John E. Stinton on Dec. 22, 2017 Jesse E. Teel Jr. on Sept. 15, 2016

U N I VE RS I T Y O F SOU TH C AR O L I NA

F. Thurston Murray III (B.S. '67, USC M.Ed. '78) on Aug. 2, 2017

John W. Fields (B.S. '70, USC J.D. '73) on March 17, 2018

Ellen Morrow Lowry (B.S. '74) on Aug. 30, 2017

John Howard Betton (Ph.D. '86) on Oct. 22, 2017

Edwin R. McCann (MACC '95) on Oct. 11, 2017

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