University of South Carolina Moore School of Business
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University of South Carolina Moore School of Business RECRUITMENT AND SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS What programs and initiatives has your school found successful in the recruitment of minority and/or female students? The Moore School of Business is committed to fostering diversity among its graduate (and undergraduate) student population. To that end, we make efforts to recruit minorities and female candidates. Specific to minority recruiting, we purchase lists of minority candidates from the Graduate Management Admissions Search Service throughout the calendar year. We send direct mail and email communications to these candidates to promote awareness about graduate business programs, events and application deadlines. The Moore School recruiting efforts almost always include visits to historically Black colleges/universities (HBSUs) to attend graduate school fairs. Recruiting women to the Moore School of Business has been less of a challenge owing to the fact that the school’s namesake is Ms. Darla Moore who donated more than $75 million to the school. Moore was the first woman to grace the cover of Fortune magazine and has served as a role model for women in business for more than two decades. However, we do have a specific recruiting brochure, Moore Women, that features many of our successful students, alumni and faculty. This brochure is sent to female inquiries and prospects throughout the calendar year. Additionally, we purchase GMASS lists that include women, and send direct mail and email about the Moore School graduate programs to these high-potential female candidates. Please describe any scholarship and/or fellowship opportunities for minority and/or female students attending your school. While no particular scholarship or fellowship is set aside for minority candidates, the Moore School is fortunate to have the ability to award financial awards (including fellowships) each year to the incoming international MBA class. These merit-based awards are available to all qualified candidates. Below is a list of a few of the fellowships available: The Darla Moore Fellowship Program, established in 2000, is awarded to incoming IMBA students. The students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.6 at the end of the first year to receive funds for the second year. About 35 students are awarded annually with Darla Moore Fellowships. The Hipp Fellowship, established in 2007, provides full-program fee subsidy for three South Carolina residents for the IMBA program. IMBA candidates who are ultimately selected for the Hipp Fellowship should convey long-term goals to include, but not limited to, being positive change agents for the state and committed to serving the South Carolina community at large. Strong candidates will be able to clearly illustrate leadership qualities and commitment to community initiatives. The BMW Manufacturing Corp. International Business Fellowships have been established to recognize outstanding IMBA candidates with either engineering or finance backgrounds. The selection process involves an on-site interview at the BMW campus near Greenville, S.C. Golden Key International Honour Society Member Fellowship provides a fellowship for an entering IMBA student who is a member in good standing with GKIHS. Cantey Memorial Fellowship is awarded every year to qualified South Carolina resident candidates. Wachovia Fund for Excellence Fellowship, established in 1967, is awarded to an outstanding academically qualified candidate enrolling in the IMBA or MHR programs. The fellowship is awarded to an incoming master’s program student who has demonstrated the potential for making a significant contribution in business leadership through previous academic and/or professional accomplishments. SCANA/Sonat Fellowship, established in 1988, is awarded to outstanding entering students in the MBA [IMBA] or MHR programs. PROMINENT ALUMNI/FACULTY Please provide information about prominent minority faculty members at your school. Thomas Lopez, special assistant to the dean for diversity initiatives and associate professor of accounting Dr. Lopez joined the South Carolina faculty in 2004. Prior to that, he was on the accounting faculties at Georgia State University and Texas A&M University. He teaches financial statement analysis primarily to undergraduate finance students. His research interests are in the areas of corporate restructuring, executive compensation and various aspects of analysts’ forecasts. Lopez has published his research in journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. Lopez is the current program coordinator for business at Moore and student organization advisor for the National Association of Black Accountants. 788 Vault/CGSM Guide to Business School Diversity, 2010 Edition University of South Carolina (Moore) In July 2008, he was named special assistant to the dean for diversity initiatives to assist in setting strategy, directing programs and managing issues related to student, faculty and staff diversity. He has a BS in business from Florida International University, an MS in tax from California State University, Hayward, and a PhD in accounting from Arizona State University. Sanjay L. Ahire, professor of management science Professor Ahire joined the Moore School of Business as a tenured professor in the management science department in fall 2006. He comes from the University of Dayton (Ohio) where he taught operations management. He holds a PhD in management science from the University of Alabama. He also holds a master’s degree in management studies and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Bombay (India). Ahire’s research interests include conceptual and empirical analysis for operations and business process improvement strategies, including lean, Six Sigma, business process reengineering and supply chain optimization. He has conducted descriptive and prescriptive research and has also undertaken research to identify linkages among various strategies and approaches to improving operations and processes. Finally, he has put his teaching and research into practice through numerous research projects. Ahire has published numerous articles in various journals, including Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Interfaces and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. His research has been well cited and used by researchers and practicing executives. His 1996 article in Decision Sciences has been recognized as the second most cited article in that journal in the last 35 years. Ahire is also an accomplished teacher and professional advisor of operations improvement strategies and techniques. He received the 2002 Wickham Skinner Award for Teaching Innovation Achievements from the Production and Operations Management Society, the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Dayton, and the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from the Southwestern Ohio Council on Higher Education. These awards have been based on his ability to link teaching and students in his operations management classes with real-world consulting projects in a wide range of manufacturing and service firms. For example, during his last appointment with the University of Dayton, he led the development of a state-of-the-art program in operations management and managed actual operations/business process improvement consulting student projects that identified potential savings in excess of $15 million in the client firms. Ahire has served on the editorial review boards of Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences and Quality Management Journal. He was also the track chair for the teaching innovations track for the national annual conferences of the Production and Operations Management Society (Chicago, April 2005) and Decision Sciences Institute (San Francisco, November 2005). David K. Crockett, associate professor in the marketing department David Crockett’s primary research interest is in sociological aspects of consumer behavior, particularly the consequences of social inequality. His research investigates the creation, manifestation and resolution of class, gender and racial inequality in the marketplace, and addresses consumer, managerial and public policy initiatives designed to alleviate inequality. Emerging areas of interest in his research include health-related policy and social enterprise. His research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Consumer Culture, American Marketing Science Review and Journal of Macromarketing. Crockett has received awards and fellowships for his research. These include the 2005 Journal of Consumer Research Robert Ferber Award (Honorable Mention), the 1998 American Marketing Association/Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellowship, the 1996 University of Houston Doctoral Symposium Fellowship and the 1996 National Black MBA Association Fellowship. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer of numerous journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing and Journal of Consumer Culture. Prior to joining the University of South Carolina, Crockett was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Business School and taught at Marquette University and the University of Arizona.