Your Philanthropy and Involvement Changes Lives YOUR IMPACT in 2017-2018
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Your philanthropy and involvement changes lives YOUR IMPACT IN 2017-2018 Faculty Support $584,789 Student Study Abroad Support $198,434 Scholarship and Fellowship Support $1,551,752 Scholarship Recipients 353 Fellowship Recipients 263 Total Moore School Endowment $154,203,558 Dear friends: The giving of your time, treasure and talent over the last year has meant the Darla Moore School of Business has enjoyed tremendous growth in academics and research in 2018. Through your generosity, Moore School faculty, staff and students have excelled and gained momentum in many ways: • The Undergraduate Excellence Initiative is in its third year, and students have shown that when they are asked to step up, they do and will meet those higher expectations. Further, the caliber of new freshmen continues to rise, as reflected in higher SAT scores among incoming freshmen (at an average of 1299 for fall 2018, up from 1218 in fall 2015). • In fall 2016, undergraduate students started taking four years of undergraduate business courses, including taking statistics in both their freshmen and sopho- more years. This year, all sophomores will take a more robust final core statistics course that includes programming in R, working with a virtual data lab to manage data in SQL and learning to present that data graphically in Power BI. • Alumni engagement has increased significantly, both in time and giving, reflected in more than 100 students being mentored by Moore School alumni over the last year and more than 2,300 gifts being given. Overall, more than 3,000 alumni responded to opportunities to engage. A greater alumni presence on Moore Connect has been pivotal to this increased engagement. If you are not on this platform, please join the more than 2,400 alumni, faculty and staff at mooreconnect.com. • Executive participation on one of our 10 center boards has grown to more than 150 industry executives. The insights shared by these thought leaders are not only actively strengthening Moore School academics, but they are also better positioning the school to anticipate future needs of both its students and the broader business community. To learn more about why others like you give and what outcomes can be seen from those gifts, please read on. Continue to stay connected over the next year to see more stories such as these unfold, and look also for more information on programming for the Moore School’s centennial, which will be celebrated over 2019 and into 2020. Whatever your level of involvement with our great business school is, please accept my sincerest thanks for your investment. Students and graduates of the Moore School appreciate the time you’ve dedicated, the money you’ve invested here, and the experience and knowledge you’ve shared with students. Best, Dean Peter Brews 3 A far-reaching Partnership “As Sonoco helps improve the business school, we benefit from students being better prepared to begin contributing immediately when hired. The Moore School is always top of mind when I need talent.” - Marcy Thompson Vice President of Marketing and Innovation, Sonoco Sonoco Products Company perspectives on Moore School ture of the supply chain pro- is a long-time partner and sup- curriculum and facilitate stu- gram, and Sonoco has been porter of the Moore School, dent-led projects that provide very instrumental in helping as evidenced by the nam- significant value to the com- us implement it,” said Sanjay ing of the Sonoco Pavilion, pany. Ahire, co-director of the OSC, the Sonoco Department of Moore School professor of “They’re one of my strongest International Business and the operations and supply chain, partners,” said Jeff Rehling, Sonoco Distinguished Visiting and ASQ-Certified Six Sigma director of the CMS and Moore Professorship in International Master Black Belt. “They have School professor of marketing. Business. been a tremendous partner “It’s been a very good partner- for us, and we have provided In addition, many Sonoco ship.” a substantial value to their executives are en- Sonoco was one of the CMS’s operations and supply chain gaged with other first corporate partners when processes. And it is unheard departments it began five years ago, and of for a company and an throughout the since then, graduate-level mar- academic program to jointly Moore School. keting students have worked certify almost 1,000 young Sonoco works on five marketing projects for college graduates as lean six with the Center the company. Marcy Thomp- sigma green belts.” for Marketing son, vice president of market- Solutions (CMS) From working with Moore ing and innovation for Sonoco, to provide School students firsthand in enjoys seeing the excitement industry these projects, Sonoco has of Moore School students as witnessed the outstanding they complete projects and re- work they do and hired many alize the impact of their work. students after graduation. “These projects require them “This relationship gives us to draw on learning beyond access to emerging talent,” just classroom experience,” said Jim Prescott, director she said. “This helps build of industrial supply chain students’ leadership skills for Sonoco. “I’m not a USC in collaboration, client/ graduate, but I’ve been very customer management, impressed with the top-notch presenting, selling ideas talent we’ve hired out of the and project management.” Moore School.” Sonoco also works with “As Sonoco helps improve the the Operations and Supply business school, we benefit Chain Center (OSC). Since from students being better the inception of the OCS prepared to begin contribut- in 2005, Moore School ing immediately when hired,” students have completed Thompson said. “The Moore more than 15 faculty-driv- School is always top of mind en projects across various when I need talent.” divisions of the company through the supply chain In addition to providing insight capstone course. The on the CMS and OSC boards, company also collab- Sonoco executives also serve orates with the center on the Riegel & Emory Hu- to provide an opportu- man Resources Center, Center nity for Moore School for Executive Succession supply chain students and Folks Center for Interna- to earn a Sonoco-USC tional Business boards. This Lean Six Sigma Green deep-rooted partnership pro- Belt certification. vides meaningful value to the students and Sonoco through “This initiative is the access to research and top most unique fea- talent. 5 The natural Thing to do Giving can take many forms, When Mooney arrived at the As an alumni scholar, he had but the motivation behind business school as part of the the opportunity to inter- giving is often the same: recently formed professional act with many USC alumni Carve a path for students to accounting program, he was throughout college, so being excel in school and in their one of the first USC engaged after graduating careers to follow. “seemed like a very natural thing to do.” Mooney served Vince Mooney (B.S. ’82, on the Board of Governors MACC ’83), managing “It was pretty for the USC Alumni Asso- director at Deloitte in ciation for more than 10 Charlotte, is one of the impressive to see all years. Moore School’s longest consecutive donors, these alumni staying “It was pretty im- participating in giving connected and giving pressive to see all in multiple these alumni staying capacities for the back to the university, connected and giving last 35 years. And back to the university, he has no plans of so I took that same path so I took that same stopping. He served when I came out path when I came on the Friends out of school,” he said. of Account- of school,” “When you get into ing board for that process early on, it several years - Vince Mooney becomes a habit.” and the Board of (B.S. ’82, MACC ’83) Advisors for the Business Partner- ship Foundation alumni scholars and part for more than 10 of the newly minted USC years, and he is Honors College. This put him thrilled to “carry on track to earn his bache- on that legacy” lor’s and his master’s degrees of giving that in five years. A couple of his predeces- accounting professors served sors estab- as mentors for him, and he lished and enjoyed the “comradery” “do the same between the faculty and stu- thing for the dents in the new program. students that come after “I felt like the university did me.” an excellent job of preparing me for the work I was going to do,” Mooney said. “I got to participate in several great initiatives going on at the university at that point, so I felt like it was important to support the university so other people can have those same benefits and experienc- es.” 7 From Left to Right: Susan DuBose, managing member, Angela Nelis, division manager of railroad, Sherita Evans, operations manager for railroad division, and Denise DuBose Minemier, managing member Being more than a Spectator Southern Commercial is a women in business. Their “We want women to have family-owned railroad and donation was instrumental in broader prospects,” she said. roadway construction com- launching the Moore School’s “It doesn’t matter where you pany that serves clients first Women in Leadership began in life.” throughout the Southeast. Summit in April. In the years to come, they Since its start in 2008, the hope that events such as the company has transformed summit will reach women of into a “one-stop shop” for all all interests and ages. things construction concern- “We want these ing railroad and roadway “I would love for high jobs. women to feel schoolers to attend an event like that and say, ‘I When you picture the empowered and know can do that,’” said Angela brains and the manpow- that there’s equal Nelis, division manager er behind this operation, of railroads and sister to what comes to mind? opportunity across Minemier.