University of Moore School of Business

RECRUITMENT AND SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PROMINENT ALUMNI/FACULTY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CURRICULUM AND RESEARCH

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

Instructional objectives of the course include:

• To improve understanding of how context and the global environment influence team structure and behavior • To learn to diagnose when teams are an appropriate tool for an organization, and for what levels and functions • To develop specific skills for implementing team structures in organizations - how do I design the appropriate team structure? - how do I motivate diverse team members? - how do I lead in a team environment? - how are human resource applications adapted for teams? • To understand interpersonal behavior in teams - how does a diverse group of individuals become a team? - how do diverse people influence team decisions? - how can I resolve conflict in diverse teams?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Professor Nancy R. Buchan’s key research interest is the building and maintenance of fairness, trust and cooperation in cross-cultural relationships. This interest has manifested itself in four key research streams, which draw theoretically and methodologically from a number of academic disciplines: psychology, economics, sociology and political science. Her publications include:

Croson, R.T.A. and Buchan, N.R. (1999). “Gender and Culture: International Experimental Evidence from Trust Games.” The American Economic Review, 89(2): 386 to 391.

Buchan, N.R., Croson, R.T.A. and Dawes, R.M. (2002). “Swift Neighbors and Persistent Strangers: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Trust and Reciprocity in Social Exchange.” American Journal of Sociology, 108(1): 168 to 206.

Buchan, N.R., Croson, R.T.A., and Johnson, E.J. (in press). “Let’s Get Personal: An International Examination of the Influence of Communication, Culture, and Social Distance on Other Regarding Preferences.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 60(3):373 to 398.

Professor B. F. Kiker’s academic fields of specialty are human capital and applied microeconomics. Listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World, Kiker is a university chair professor at the University of South Carolina. He served as director of the Center for Studies in Human Capital from 1972 through 1975 and chairman of the department of economics from 1973 through 1986. His publications include:

“Male-Female Wage Differentials in the United States.” Studies in Economic Analysis, 5 (Spring 1981), co-author. Available on microfilm from the National Center for Research in Vocational Education.

“Male-Female Wage Differentials.” Economic Letters, 1 (1978).

“Earnings, Employment, and Racial Discrimination: Additional Evidence.” American Economic Review, 64 (June 1974), co-author.

Please describe any symposiums or special lectures that focus on diversity and minority issues organized and/or sponsored by your school. One of our student organizations, the Global Business Council, promotes a deeper understanding of international business through guest speakers, workshops and international outreach projects. The Global Business Council is open to all business students. In 2006, the Global Business Council hosted Alexander Cummings from Coca-Cola Company—Group Africa. Cummings addressed the council on the nature of doing business in Africa and also discussed opportunities for overseas internships.

At the Moore School, we promote learning experiences across our curriculum that foster sensitivity and flexibility toward cultural differences. We encourage international internships for all undergraduate international business students. International internships are also required for all graduate international business students. We have established partnerships with more than 20 international learning institutions to offer 80 slots for our students to study abroad.

IMBA students that choose a foreign language track study their language in a country where the language is primary. During the last academic year, the IMBA program incorporated new regional business elective courses that give students an opportunity to study the culture and business environments of Africa, China, Japan, Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, India, Latin America and North America.

Annually, the Moore School hosts an executive lecture series sponsored by Wachovia Bank. Business executives from around the world are invited to speak to our students and faculty about various concerns prevalent to the business community. Last year we invited prominent minority business leaders Jorge Bermudez, CEO of Citibank Texas, and Earl Graves, founder of Black Enterprise magazine, to discuss minority business issues and concerns. The Moore School also hosted a reception for Graves that was open to minorities in the business community.

The Moore School hosts an annual Women in Business Forum. It is sponsored by Dean Hildy Teegen and the school’s Moore Association of Graduate Women organization. This year’s speaker was Dr. Teegen, who is the first woman to head the school.

ORGANIZATIONS AND STUDENT LIFE

Please provide information on your school diversity student and alumni organizations. Our commitment to diversity is best demonstrated in our actions that support diversity in the educational experience. We support the involvement of our faculty and staff in the university’s Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA). The BFSA offers a number of enriching educational and social activities. One of its programs is the Institute of African-American Mentoring (IAM). IAM was established to cultivate African-American students’ overall development, both personally and professionally. The mission of this program is to create lasting relationships between faculty, staff and students. Mentors serve as resources, assisting undergraduate students with academic and personal development, while offering support and motivation, cheering that student on toward the goal of graduation from the University of South Carolina. In keeping with the purpose of the BFSA, the mentoring program seeks to promote scholarship, enhance student growth and development through role modeling and cultural awareness, and stimulate a sense of social responsibility.

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Moore Association of Graduate Women The Moore School Association of Graduate Women is affiliated with the National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA). It promotes networking activities among graduate students through organizing internship panels, establishing an alumnae database and interacting with the local business community. In addition, the chapter is involved in local philanthropy.

USC’s chapter consists of active first- and second-year graduate students as well as alumnae worldwide. Membership in the club affords graduate women the opportunity to build relationships with other businesswomen who will become part of their professional network throughout their careers.

Global Business Council Promotes a deeper understanding of international business through guest speakers, workshops and international outreach projects. The global council is open to all business students.

Please also provide information on any programs, including on-campus and universitywide programs in which MBA students participate that focus on issues related to women or minorities. Carolina Service Council The Carolina Service Council organizes campuswide service and service-learning programs for the Carolina community via community service programs.

Circle K Circle K is a community service organization mainly focusing on helping children.

Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity enlists USC students in helping provide adequate housing to the working poor of Columbia and strengthen the relationship between USC and the Columbia community.

Please provide information on any institutes and/or related programs that focus on diversity. USC Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Centers for International Business and Education Research were created in 1988 to increase and promote the nation’s capacity for international understanding and economic enterprise. This is accomplished through faculty development in international business (FDIB) programs offered by each CIBER that provide participating faculty a unique study abroad opportunity, which will ultimately assist the United States in its international competitiveness via pedagogy, research and business outreach.

SC CIBER is partnered with South Carolina State University (SCSU), a historically Black university, to conduct one-on-one planning and consultation to affect the globalization process at SCSU, culminating ultimately in SCSU being awarded a U.S. Department of Education Business and International Education grant with an average funding amount of $120,000 to $160,000 over two years.

SC CIBER also coordinates the FDIB-Africa program to raise faculty awareness of the economic, political, business and cultural environments that exist in sub-Saharan Africa today. SC CIBER sponsored four Moore School faculty members to travel along with 20 faculty members from other CIBER institutions, including those from HBCUs, to Kenya and South Africa in May 2007. During the same time, two other Moore School faculty members were able to go to Eastern Europe to understand the nature of doing business in those countries because of CIBER funding. The Moore School participates in three other CIBER-funded international travel experiences in South America, India and China. Being designated as a CIBER affords the Moore School a unique opportunity to gain diverse viewpoints and experiences that help our faculty to leverage newfound, firsthand awareness into competence and expertise in the classroom.

Please describe any off-campus resources, activities, programs and/or organizations that may be of interest to minority or female students. Center for African-American History, Arts and Culture www.aikenculturalcenter.org/new Located in the Immanuel Institute Building in Aiken, South Carolina, the CAAHAC aims “to preserve and present the cultural legacy of the African- American diaspora and chronicle the many contributions of African-Americans to Aiken and neighboring regions.” According to its website, the Center “serves as a forum for celebrating the county’s diversity and sense of community, encouraging multiple generations to grow together in a shared past and united future.”

Chinese Culture Center www.chineseculturecenter.org According to its website, the Chinese Culture Center is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to “promote the understanding and friendship between American people and Chinese people by offering various cultural/educational classes and activities with schools and all other kinds of community organizations.” Classes include Chinese calligraphy, cooking, Tai Chi and martial arts.

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South Carolina Women’s Business Center www.scwbc.org According to its website, the South Carolina Women’s Business Center “focuses on helping women (and men) entrepreneurs in South Carolina with all aspects of their business, from start-up through business growth to the final sale or exit strategy. Services include strategic planning, marketing, productivity, operations, product development, website design and much more. We provide online as well as face-to-face training, testing and counseling.”

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Please describe any diversity recruiting events for employers recruiting minority and/or female students at or near your school. We support our minority graduate business students in their efforts to secure full-time positions by funding students’ visits to minority job fairs and conferences hosted by the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, the National Black MBA Association and the National Association of Women MBAs.

The office of career management at the Moore School of Business is particularly active with the National Society of Hispanic MBAs and the National Black MBA Association. In fall 2007, more than 75 percent of the IMBA class attended at least one of the conferences and the Moore School has been a sponsor at both events for the past five years.

In addition, there is an active National Association of Women MBA chapter in the school. The chapter adviser and officers have attended the national conference for the past three years.

STRATEGIC PLAN AND LEADERSHIP

Please provide your school’s diversity mission statement. The primary mission of the University of South Carolina, a multi-campus system serving the entire state of South Carolina, is the education of the state’s diverse citizens through its endeavors of teaching, research and service. In this regard, the University of South Carolina, the state’s flagship university, provides equal opportunity and affirmative action in education, employment and programs for all qualified persons and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status. The university will provide equal opportunity and affirmative action in employment, education and all programs offered throughout the University of South Carolina.

Statement from the president Taken from the Celebrating Diversity Resource Manual.

The word diversity, defined by Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, means being distinct in kind, having variety in form, the fact or quality of being different or diverse.

The University of South Carolina, as the state’s flagship university, has a unique and diverse history, and today, as we move this university forward, we can reflect on that history and look at the tremendous progress this university has made in promoting diversity by our actions and our deeds. This is in direct contrast to where we were historically when Blacks and women were prohibited by law from attending the university.

Today, we can say with pride that the University of South Carolina is a national leader in promoting diversity amongst our faculty, staff and student body. We proudly note that our mission is: the education of the state’s diverse citizens and students through teaching, research and service. We acknowledge that the strength of the University of South Carolina is the excellence and diversity of our faculty, staff and students. This diversity of the University of South Carolina today reflects the presence of different cultures, languages, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientation and religious groups. We value our differences, and we learn and grow by encouraging interaction in the greater university community. We are fully committed to creating an inclusive environment and institutional climate at the University of South Carolina where multicultural perspectives and relationships can develop and create learning opportunities as we strive to achieve our mission of teaching, research and service.

At the University of South Carolina, we have developed programs, policies and procedures that promote diversity and address nondiscrimination and equal opportunity in both the academic and nonacademic arenas. We know that by fully embracing diversity we will continue to attract world-class faculty, staff and students. This diversity resource manual details our current policies, procedures and ongoing programming that demonstrate our support and commitment to diversity.

I firmly believe that one must lead by example and I have made it known to the provost, assistant provosts, chancellors, deans and my senior management team that diversity will be an integral and key component of my vision to make the University of South Carolina into an even greater institution of higher learning. I urge all faculty, staff and students to join me and remember that despite our diverse backgrounds and cultures we are all necessary if we are to create a University of South Carolina of national and international stature.

—Andrew A. Sorensen President

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How does your school’s leadership communicate the importance of diversity to your student body, faculty and administration? The University of South Carolina Moore School of Business communicates the importance of diversity in a number of ways. Its commitment to recruiting diverse students lets the student body know the importance of diversity the minute they step on campus. The Moore School provides a short video, Student Diversity, on its website in which students talk about the diverse student body. In addition, the Moore School sponsors speakers and forums, including the Women MBA Forum, that focus on minority and women’s issues in the workplace. Finally, as an international program, multicultural issues are a core part of the IMBA curriculum.

At the University of South Carolina (USC), our office of equal opportunity programs employs affirmative action requirements in its recruitment process for faculty and staff positions. An equal employment opportunity byline is included with all advertised job postings. The office of equal opportunity programs also employs aggressive recruiting policies to attract female and minority applicants that include ad placement of available job opportunities in minority publications and letters written to special organizations of women in the appropriate field requesting that the position opening be circulated and publicized as widely as possible among its members.

Diversity is sought when Moore School of Business search committees are being formed. Additionally, in order to curtail adverse impact issues as they relate to the interview and selection process, written justification must be provided in cases where the highest ranked woman or minority are not invited for an interview.

Please provide any additional information regarding your school’s diversity initiatives that you wish to share. We support our minority graduate business students in their efforts to secure full-time positions by funding students’ visits to minority job fairs and conferences hosted by the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, the National Black MBA Association and the National Association of Women MBAs. The Moore School’s commitment to diversity is further enhanced by our actions to foster activity for underserved groups. Our director of business relations, Dr. Ellen Moore, serves as the faculty advisor for the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. This program helps undergraduates prepare for and pursue graduate degrees. The program seeks to expand educational opportunities for first-generation college students, disabled students and students from families with low-income.

Our most recent diversity initiative is our Wachovia Scholars program. The Wachovia Foundation has committed $1 million to the Moore School of Business to help fund the education of underrepresented students in South Carolina. The Wachovia Undergraduate Scholars Program gift, in the form of $200,000 annually for five years, is intended to recruit and retain underrepresented students, including African-American and other minority students. The Wachovia Foundation fund includes direct educational grants, as well as funds for work-study assistantships for Wachovia Scholars. In addition, the funds support numerous other initiatives to recruit and retain students including summer programs, workshops and mentoring programs. Wachovia Scholars also have the opportunity to meet and interact with Wachovia executives. The first group of 30 students to be considered for the Wachovia Scholars program attended a weeklong summer program in June 2007, with admission plans for the first class of Wachovia Scholars to enter in fall 2008. Ultimately, the gift supports the long-term goals of the University of South Carolina and the Moore School of Business to increase student diversity and to prepare tomorrow’s business leaders to work in a global economy.

DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Please describe the demographics of your most recent entering class. The faculty of the Moore School is quite diverse. In 2008 women made up 19 percent of our faculty and international faculty comprised 21 percent. Our commitment to diversity is best demonstrated in our actions, which support diversity in the educational experience.

International MBA class of 2008

Percentage of female students: 34 percent

Average age of students: 27

Please describe the geographic diversity of your most recent entering class. Percentage of international students: 16 percent

Countries represented:

Bulgaria China India Korea United States

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Please describe the selectivity of your school for the most recent application cycle. Number of matriculants: 88

Please describe the academic and employment backgrounds of your most recent entering class. Average years of pre-MBA work experience: 3.4

Percentage of students who studied different undergraduate disciplines:

Business: 33 percent Economics: 6.8 percent Engineering: 14.8 percent Humanities: 20.5 percent Science: 8 percent Social science: 10.2 percent Other major/field of study: 6.7 percent

Please provide student employment information for the most recent graduating class. Average starting salary: $79,376

Average starting salary for U.S. citizens/permanent residents: $76,264

Average starting salary for foreign nationals: $100,714

Average signing bonus: $11,819

Average signing bonus for U.S. citizens/permanent residents: $12,092

Average signing bonus for foreign nationals: $9,000

Major recruiting companies:

Alltel Bank of America Citigroup Duke Energy Eaton Corp ExxonMobil General Electric General Mills Hubbel Power Systems Johnson & Johnson L'Oreal Medtronics Resurgent Capital Services Royal Dutch Shell Walt Disney Co.

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