Moore Magazine 2020

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DARLA MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS / UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA / FALL 2020

RISING TO THE TOP Operations and supply chain undergraduate program climbs to No. 5 in North America

by the pandemic. While all meetings were held online, our communities came together in unimaginable ways to support one another and provide encouragement during a sometimes seemingly dark time.

DEAN PETER BREWS long with the rest of the world, the Moore School has had an interesting time in 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented shutdowns across most industries, and political divisiveness and racial injustice becoming a national conversation. I wrote when the pandemic first began affecting our daily lives in March that it is vital to recognize that in times of danger and uncertainty, creative human energy and grace are essential.

Courses were abruptly moved online after spring break, and social distancing, quarantining and isolation became phrases we would hear thousands of times over the next few months. While it was a whirlwind for everyone, our faculty and staff moved mountains. I cannot say enough wonderful things about all that our faculty and staff were able to accomplish in the midst of an international health crisis to continue our students’ learning. As you’ll see on pages 18-19, the Moore School met the challenges of COVID-19 head on by creating their own innovations to the issues brought

I especially want to thank Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Economics Professor Jan Bass, Professional MBA Faculty Director and Accounting Professor Robert Lipe and Finance Associate Professor Eric Powers, who tirelessly worked to help all of our faculty transition to remote learning within a week when all classes went virtual in March. They continued to assist faculty to ensure the Moore School would be able to meet all of the technological challenges the fall 2020 semester could bring.

In the first month of the COVID-19 crisis, our Undergraduate Advising team recorded more than 17,000 emails, participated in 1,725 remote advisement sessions, held more than 30 Zoom team calls and offered two virtual Admitted Student Day presentations. Our Office of Career Management during that same month offered three virtual employer information sessions, promoted an online ACC/SEC career fair with 186 Moore School students taking part and hosted panels for students by faculty, employers and alumni.

The Moore School’s Executive Education department hosted with South Carolina Public Radio a series of radio interviews and Zoom meetings with Moore School faculty experts on topics like the economy, human resources, diversity and others as they pertained to the pandemic.

Our May 2020 graduates were unable to have a formal graduation ceremony, but we celebrated them in a whole new way

with a virtual ceremony and congratulatory parting gifts. These graduates’ grit and determination is shown in their perseverance to find jobs despite one of the worst unemployment rates our country has ever seen. Despite COVID-19, the Moore School’s reported 2020 undergraduate placement was 82 percent — only 2 percent less than our 2019 record.

Further, this class has the highest overall average salary at $58,647, with three of nine majors exceeding $60,000.

While we have been focused this year on the health and safety of our students, faculty, staff and community, the Moore School has continued to also focus on excellence in 2019-20. Beyond the pandemic, you will see in the pages of this magazine how our undergraduate supply chain program has moved into a No. 5 ranking; our Office of Career Management has made some strategic decisions with our Office of Alumni Engagement to create a national networking pipeline to hire students; and our faculty research is still being published in top-tier academic journals. All of this and more while battling an unprecedented pandemic.

I was humbled and amazed by the effort put forth by all to deal with COVID-19 — our best selves appeared everywhere!

I hope, despite the pandemic, that you and yours have had a safe, healthy and meaningful 2020.

Peter Brews Dean, Darla Moore School of Business peter.brews@moore.sc.edu | 803-777-3178

Network with Moore events are currently being hosted online through Zoom.

Visit sc.edu/moore/alumni for upcoming events and more information.

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CONTENTS 4 / Rising to the Top / Operations and supply chain undergraduate program climbs to No. 5 in Gartner ranking

FALL 2020 Peter Brews / Dean Mary Ruffin Childs / Senior Director of Alumni Engagement Leigh-Anne Lawrence / Director of Marketing and Communications Editors: Marjorie Riddle Duffie, Leigh-Anne Lawrence Contributing writers: Marjorie Riddle Duffie, Erin Mooney Photographers: Alex Cone, Jeff Blake, Ralph Mayer, Brian Sawin Designers: Gracie Newton, Helena Walters Office of Alumni Engagement Darla Moore School of Business University of South Carolina 1014 Greene Street Columbia, SC 29208 sc.edu/moore On the cover: Supply chain program climbs to No. 5 The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities on the basis of race, sex, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions. 19-11150 9/19

5 / Making a Difference / Operations and supply chain initiative aims to help nonprofits make even bigger impact

7 / Building a National Pipeline / Alumni connections strengthen professional networks and recruitment of recent graduates

10 / Save the Date: 36th Annual Leadership Awards 12 / The Value of Diversity and Inclusion / Ensuring underrepresented populations feel ‘respected, valued and visible’

13 / Diversity and Inclusion / Young alumni board mentoring Rising Scholars underrepresented students

14 / Soaring to New Heights / Moore School alumnus helps develop international HR program at Boeing

17 / Understanding Consumer Bias / Faculty research shows customers are biased when dealing with local shops versus larger chains

18 / Unleashing Creativity / Moore School faculty, staff and students find creative ways to stay connected, help others during pandemic

20 / Weathering the Storm / Multidisciplinary research finds natural disasters have a long-lasting impact on economy, financial well-being

23 / Investing in Data / Dedicated Data Lab enhances business analytics skills

24 / The Intersection of Health and Technology / Faculty explore whether increasing technology in hospitals decreases malpractice lawsuits

26 / Diving Deep / International course project teaches students how to add value to companies as consultants, industry experts

28 / Staying Connected / Retired Moore School professors continue 'fellowship and collegiality' with coffee group, check ins during pandemic

29 / Moore News 35 / Faculty, Staff and Student Achievements 38 / Alumni Events and News

OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN

RISING TO THE TOP

Operations and supply chain undergraduate program climbs to No. 5 in Gartner ranking The Moore School’s undergraduate operations and supply chain program is ranked No. 5 in North America, according to the Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain University Programs for 2020 released in June 2020. The Moore School’s graduate operations and supply chain program is ranked No. 22 in North America, according to Gartner.

“Our emphasis on building both broad perspectives on global supply chain and operations strategies using process perspective as well as deep analytical skills makes our students uniquely competent,” said Sanjay Ahire, co-director of the Moore School’s Operations and Supply Chain Center and professor of operations and supply chain management. “We owe this impressive progress to the vision and incessant efforts by our dedicated faculty to provide cutting-edge skills and competencies to the students as well as provide comprehensive career mentoring.”

For inclusion in the rankings, the North American universities eligible for the Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain University Programs must offer a four-year undergraduate supply chain degree and either an MBA with supply chain specialization or Master of Science in Supply Chain Management degree. The qualifying programs must offer degrees or specializations that include the words “supply chain”; provide an on-campus or hybrid model (not strictly online); have one completed year of data to share for each program; and complete a detailed report about the program.

“Providing a top-five supply chain program results from the shared vision of our world-class research and project-focused faculty, our industry-leading corporate partners and our very talented yet hardworking student body,” said Mark Ferguson, senior associate dean for academics and research, chair of the management science department and the Dewey H. Johnson Professor of management science.

The top 25 universities are ranked according to their program scope, including curriculum and global problem-solving; their industry value, including industry perspectives, internship participation, projects, years of experience, starting salaries and the diversity of their faculty and student body; and their

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program size, including part-time and full-time enrollment and the number of full-time professors.

The Moore School’s operations and supply chain program added three undergraduate courses since the last ranking in 2018, which along with other intentional efforts, contributed to their eight-spot jump in the rankings. The major has also seen an increase to more than 700 enrolled students in 20182019 compared to just 100 enrolled students a decade ago.

At the Moore School, the operations and supply chain major combines classroom and real-world, experiential learning to produce top-notch graduates. The Operations and Supply Chain Center facilitates students’ real-world experience with strategic partner organizations including several Fortune 500 companies.

Each semester, faculty-led senior student groups work on capstone consulting projects with partner organizations to optimize their supply chain networks, remove waste and procedural inefficiencies and implement new process strategies. The capstone consulting projects provide costsaving insights to guide decision-making and add value to organizations.

Moore School operations and supply chain students also compete to earn an industry-validated Sonoco-UofSC Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification which gives students advanced problem-solving skills and the statistical tools needed to effectively lead process improvement projects.

More than 1,000 undergraduate and more than 200 graduate students have earned this unique certification through the operations and supply chain program.

All of these strengths have enabled the program to place well-trained talent with several leading employers. Examples of those organizations include 3M, Accenture, Amazon, Bank of America, Boston Consulting Group, BMW, Coca-Cola, Collins Aerospace, Continental Tire, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Manhattan Associates, Mercedes-Benz, McKinsey & Company, Nephron, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Sonoco and Tesla.

OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Operations and supply chain initiative aims to help nonprofits make even bigger impact

The Moore School’s Operations and Supply Chain Center is creating a humanitarian initiative to improve operations, business processes and supply chains at nonprofit organizations – and ultimately – make their work more impactful. Students and faculty members will partner with for-profit companies, who will sponsor semester-long and year-long projects for the nonprofit organizations.

For spring 2021, BB&T, now TRUIST, is sponsoring a humanitarian initiative project for the United Way Association of South Carolina to enhance capabilities of their emergency referral services. Continental Tire is sponsoring a logistics improvement project for the Harvest Hope Food Banks in Greenville, South Carolina. The Medical University of South Carolina's South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute is sponsoring a project to streamline their cancer treatment clinical trials process.

Currently, for-profit companies work with the Operations and Supply Chain Center on semester-long senior capstone projects.

Some of the companies have completed as many as a dozen projects in the past decade. The center projects have made partner companies’ processes more efficient and helped them achieve more than $275 million in collective recurring cost savings.

During the same time span, a mid-level operations and supply chain course has already worked with nonprofits to help them achieve more efficiency and ultimately help more people in their work. The capstone projects are more hands on and detailed since the whole project focuses on operations and supply chain issues for that particular company over the course of the semester. The program prepares students for designing, implementing, managing

and improving operations, supply chain and business processes.

Housed in the management science department, the operations and supply chain program intends to contribute such improvements to socially focused nonprofits, which could directly benefit from their work in accomplishing their missions, said Sanjay Ahire, a Moore School operations and supply chain management science professor and codirector of the Operations and Supply Chain Center, which is founding the Operations and Supply Chain Humanitarian Initiative.

“The capstone course has completed more than 280 projects for for-profit companies; in the next five years, such an initiative will be even more impactful,” Ahire said. “For nonprofits, it won’t just be savings in dollars but savings in lives and dignity for vulnerable populations.”

Ahire and his colleagues have been pitching the idea to companies they’ve worked with on past projects. The initiative will be set up so that either the company can identify a nonprofit they want to sponsor, or the Moore School team can select the nonprofit. Ahire

has worked with Harvest Hope, SC Thrive, Edventure Children’s Museum and Sisters of Charity Foundation, among others, in his mid-level courses and would like these organizations and similar nonprofits to be able to participate in the semester-long capstone projects to make their charitable work more far-reaching.

“Nonprofits are faced with the dual pressures of providing humanitarian services, such as food, shelter, health care and counseling, to the most vulnerable segments of the population — and at the same time, are working with scarce funding resources from public and private sources,” Ahire said. “It is increasingly critical for them to develop the capabilities of using their financial, human, technical and material resources to manage their operations efficiently and effectively.

It is of paramount importance in today’s context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which will increase the demand for and pressures on socially missioned nonprofits in the coming months and years to serve large swaths of our citizens overcome with health and financial hardships.”

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OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN

“Nonprofits are faced with the dual pressures of providing humanitarian services, such as food, shelter, health care and counseling, to the most vulnerable segments of population — and at the same time, are working with scarce funding resources from public and private sources.”

- SANJAY AHIRE

SC Thrive, one of the organizations that works with Ahire’s mid-level course, has already had to adjust to the online-only environment the pandemic is requiring.

CEO Tricia Richardson said her organization is overcoming barriers as much as is possible considering they help low-income South Carolina residents apply for benefits like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid, long-term care, among others.

Many of SC Thrive’s clients do not have reliable internet access. This is just one operations and supply chain issue they are facing. In past projects, Richardson said Ahire’s students allowed her staff to create a more strategic, nonbiased decisionmaking process on which outreach efforts provided accessible resources to the many individuals that need them in South Carolina.

“The experience has been invaluable and allowed us to step back and look at our outreach efforts in a whole new light,” Richardson said. “It has enabled us to be more efficient in our methods and more strategic in how to capture our data and analysis for better outcomes.”

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Working with nonprofits also teaches students the value of their own operations and supply chain competencies to make a real contribution to the “life-saving” work nonprofits do in their communities. It expands their perspective to include social responsibility, Ahire said.

“Equally important as the capstone projects with nonprofits, I want to make sure students go out in the real world, become really successful executives and make money and give to these nonprofit organizations,” he said. “Working with nonprofits while in the program will

make them successful and socially responsible professionals.”

While they are still formalizing the humanitarian initiative, Ahire and his colleagues are considering adding Graduation with Leadership Distinction honors for students who work with nonprofits on their capstone projects. He also would like to see the possibilities for the humanitarian initiative to connect with organizations like the Bill Gates Foundation or the Carnegie Foundation to maximize its reach across and enhance the long-term capabilities of nonprofits.

Harvest Hope

OFFICE OF CAREER MANAGEMENT

BUILDING A NATIONAL PIPELINE

Alumni connections strengthen professional networks and recruitment of recent graduates The Moore School is working closely with alumni in key U.S. cities to more intentionally network and build relationships with the companies that hire UofSC students and recent graduates for internships and full-time positions.

Staff from the Moore School Office of Alumni Engagement met with alumni for networking events in 12 cities in 2019-20: Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Houston, Texas; New York City, New York; Greenville, South Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; Miami, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Florence, South Carolina.

Because of the COVID-19 travel restrictions beginning in March, several in-person events were postponed. The 2020-21 Network with Moore events were transitioned to Zoom and have been held virtually since August.

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OFFICE OF CAREER MANAGEMENT

At these events, the in-house alumni team is joined by the Moore School’s Office of Career Management, which works with these alumni and their companies to recruit and hire UofSC students and recent graduates. They create a pipeline for alumni to get involved; not only do alumni connect with others who may help them in their career, but they also serve as student mentors and often hire mentees to work at their companies after graduation.

Similar to Sahay’s experience, Lucy Burnette, a 2012 marketing and management and 2016 Master of Human Resources alumna, was eager to connect with Moore School alumni when she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, to work as the employee relations business partner for Collins Aerospace. New to the area with few personal or professional connections, Burnette said she used the commonality of being a Gamecock to network and make friends.

One such alumnus is Vivek Sahay, a 2016 International MBA graduate who currently works for Amazon in Seattle as a senior financial analyst. With his background in software engineering, Sahay said that he was surrounded mostly by engineers with linear mindsets before undertaking the International MBA program.

Being so close to UofSC, Collins Aerospace regularly hires Moore School students, who Burnette said share three main characteristics: professionalism, preparedness and enthusiasm.

“At the Moore School, I learned how a diverse mix of thinkers, innovative problem-solvers and egalitarian team players bring diverse perspectives to the table,” Sahay said. “This turned out to be a highly effective skill that I use at Amazon a lot.

My stakeholders and business partners come from different parts of the world; some have a background in supply chain, others in machine learning, yet others are designers and then there are research scientists. I would have never been able to interact and work with such a diverse group and yet bring value out of discussion if I had not learned about this at the Moore School. [The skills I learned] helped me grow from an analyst to a manager in such a short span.”

The Moore School network of alumni is invaluable, Sahay said.

“During my MBA days, I reached out to alumni who helped me in several ways. I found them supportive and am indebted for the insight that they provided, which later turned out to be very helpful as I was looking for opportunities in the corporate world. A good alumni relationship adds a lot of value, not only to the institution, but also to the students and the other alumni.”

“An example that comes to mind — I was at a Moore School Career EXPO recruiting for summer interns,” she said. “We had one young lady who came up and began sharing with me not only her interest in aerospace but why she was interested in Collins Aerospace specifically. I was very impressed not only by her preparedness and professionalism but also her enthusiasm.”

From his perspective, Sahay said he sees Moore School graduates as having perseverance and persistence.

“Amazon values the motto ‘Learn and Be Curious’ as one of our leadership principles, and Moore School students and graduates stand by those principles very well,” he said. “It makes it very easy for me to work with them and help them apply and succeed at Amazon.”

Sahay made a commitment after he graduated to help at least one student each year by mentoring and coaching them. He said he has kept his commitment by mentoring at least three students and guiding them toward the hiring process at Amazon.

“Time and opportunity both are precious,” said Sahay.

“Someone invested in me when I was at the Moore School. I naturally want others to reap the same rewards I did.”

“Someone invested in me when I was at the Moore School.

I naturally want others to reap the same rewards I did.”

-VIVEK SAHAY

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OFFICE OF CAREER MANAGEMENT

ALUMNI HUB CITIES

While Collins Aerospace, an international aerospace and defense company, mostly hires from the Moore School’s Master of Human Resources and operations and supply chain programs, Burnette sees this partnership continuing to expand. In the past several years, Collins Aerospace has employed at least three individuals from the MHR and OSC programs while also providing opportunities for students as interns and on sponsored projects like the twice annual operations and supply chain Industry Summit events, which provide an opportunity for employers and students to connect and share ideas across industries.

“For me personally, I am keen on helping Moore School students and recent graduates because the Moore School has given me the opportunities that have propelled me to where I am today professionally,” Burnette said. “If I am able to help another alum in progressing their career or beginning their career, it is my way of paying it forward.”

If you would like to get involved in one of the Alumni Hub Network events, please contact Bo Hart at 803-777-7045 or email bo.hart@moore.sc.edu.

Network cities are selected for their proximity to potential hiring companies; a higher volume of students’ hometowns where they may return after graduating; the number of alumni currently living there; and survey results that indicate where students aspire to live and work. If you would like to get involved with the Moore School’s hiring events or other opportunities to recruit students and recent graduates, please call 803-777-0149 or email recruit@moore.sc.edu.

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Save the Date 36th Annual

Leadership Awards SEPTEMBER 9, 2021 CHARLOTTE, N.C.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

36 ANNUAL TH

LEADERSHIP AWARDS

Join us on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, as we celebrate award winners, industry leaders and loyal supporters of the Moore School at the 36th Annual Leadership Awards in Charlotte, North Carolina.

FEATURING 2021 AWARD WINNERS: Distinguished Young Alumni Award Cheslie Kryst (’13 management and marketing)

Distinguished Alumni Award

Thomas D. Barnes (’90 economics and management science)

Distinguished Service Award J. Scott Blackmon Jr. (’73 management)

Distinguished Partnership Award Sonoco

Learn more at sc.edu/moore/alumni.

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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

THE VALUE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION Ensuring underrepresented populations feel ‘respected, valued and visible’ The Moore School is continuing to enhance its programming and support for diversity and inclusion initiatives.

With new leadership beginning in 2019, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Deborah Hazzard is believed to be the first African American academic professional in a leadership role in the Moore School’s 100-year history.

Hazzard, a management clinical assistant professor, sees the importance of her being the first African American administrator in the example it sets for underrepresented students. ”’You cannot be what you cannot see,’ is an adage that is near and dear to my heart because I firmly believe in the power of representation,” Hazzard said. “If we are to become more diverse and inclusive in our student population, we must also become more diverse and inclusive in our faculty, staff and leadership ranks.”

Hazzard’s main goal in this role is to increase representation of underrepresented populations while ensuring that everyone in the Moore School community feels respected, valued and visible. Some of the Moore School’s diversity initiatives like the

Learn more about the diversity and inclusion programming by visiting sc.edu/moore/diversity.

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Rising Scholars program and the African American Leadership Conference have already gained momentum.

Hazzard said she is proud of the diversity and inclusion work that has already been done in the Moore School, including the dean’s Student Council on Diversity and Inclusion and other efforts to provide programming for underrepresented populations and first-generation students.

Recent examples include inclusion and diversity training for faculty mentors and the opportunity for all student organization members to participate in the Inclusive Excellence training offered by the Moore School to deepen their understanding regarding the value of inclusion and diversity and to sit on the Student Council on Diversity and Inclusion. Another is the continued flourishing of the African American Leadership Conference; the second annual event in February included nearly 300 registrants from UofSC, four area Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other local schools.

In fall 2020, the Moore School piloted an intercultural development assessment training to a select group of students, which is intended to enhance knowledge of monocultural and multicultural mindsets and behaviors. The business school also began hosting “Courageous Conversations,” a series aimed at enhancing engagement, knowledge and understanding across dimensions of difference while leading to meaningful experiences with people from various identities.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Young Alumni Board mentoring Rising Scholars’ underrepresented students The Young Alumni Board is giving back to the Moore School by mentoring the Rising Scholars students for their annual service project. The partnership between alumni and the program’s underrepresented students allows students to see what some of the possibilities are for them after they graduate, said Danielle Gleaton (’06 international business and management science), immediate past chair of the Young Alumni Board.

As part of the Rising Scholars program, entering its third year in 2020-21, students attend a tailored session of the University 101 first-year experience course, network with successful alumni, are paired with faculty and peer mentors, benefit from personal finance education and may obtain BB&T emerging leadership certificates. The freshmen may live in Rising Scholars-specific residence hall floors in South Tower. All Rising Scholars have access to peer tutors and ad hoc academic resources, and students with financial need may receive a renewable scholarship each academic year.

The board members chose the Rising Scholars program as their annual signature project because they feel the program needs support from alumni, and it’s a way to give back to the Moore School and have the biggest impact, Gleaton said.

“Having the support of the greater Moore School community shows our Rising Scholars students how valued they truly are,” said Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Deborah Hazzard. “When our alumni want to give back to our students,

it shows that the Moore School family relationship and commitment extends beyond graduation. Moreover, it sets a precedence for our Rising Scholars to reach back and help after they graduate.”

The board members were paired with the Rising Scholars students in March just ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic, so the mentors are virtually engaging with their mentees and plan to continue mentoring students through the end of the 2020-21 academic year.

Rising junior Kiara Fleming, of Greer, South Carolina, plans to major in business management with a finance cognate and is part of the first class of Rising Scholars.

“I hope to gain more knowledge about different opportunities within the finance industry as well as a broader network by having a Young Alumni Board member as my mentor,” she said. “I hope this experience will give me more exposure into the business world as a whole.”

Mentoring is also important for the alumni, Gleaton said, because “mentoring is a twoway street; it allows mentors to have an avenue to continue to be engaged with the Moore School and stay plugged in where those given needs are and how best to advocate for those needs.”

In addition to their annual signature project, the Young Alumni Board members serve on the host committees for the Network with Moore events and for the annual Shuck & Shag alumni social event. They are also ambassadors for Give-4-Garnet, the university’s annual fundraising campaign.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS Moore School alumnus helps develop international HR program at Boeing Moore School alumnus Kelton Hall (’14 MHR) is a long way from his Clinton, South Carolina, home. Currently working in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for Boeing as an international human resources project manager, Hall went from being a Newberry College and Canadian professional football player to finishing his Master of Human Resources degree and advancing twice with Boeing — all in the span of a decade.

Hall, raised by a single father who didn’t finish middle school, attended Newberry College on a football scholarship. He majored in business administration and minored in accounting. While he was a junior, he worked for Komatsu Newberry Manufacturing Operation as a human resources intern.

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“I really didn’t know what HR was at the time,” he said. “To be honest, I kept at it because I happened to see my director’s salary and said, ‘OK, I could do this for a living.’”

Despite his newfound interest in human resources, Hall weighed his options as a senior — he could either play professional football in Canada, work for a reputable investment banking company where he had received a respectable offer or enroll in the UofSC Master of Human Resources program.

“I chose professional football, obviously,” Hall said. “That ended before it really even started with a knee injury.” After his brief stint in professional football, Hall then enrolled in the Moore School Master of Human Resources program.

“As I entered this program, I realized that I was in over my head and felt inadequate in comparison to some of my other peers,” he said. “I had a Southern drawl that I’d never learned to turn on and off, I was one of a few African American men in the program, and of those, I was the only ex-athlete that entered class with two arms full of tattoos. I got weird stares from others. That became my motivation to succeed and prove that I’m just as good, if not better.”

Hall said he won over his peers with his work ethic, especially during group assignments.

During his first semester in the MHR program, Hall said he watched his peers get internship offers from practically every company that came in to recruit. Because of his persona as a former athlete with a multitude of tattoos, Hall said he didn’t even get an opportunity to interview that first semester.

Instead of getting frustrated or angry, Hall said it inspired him.

“Once I eventually secured my internship with Boeing that following summer, I made it my goal to get a job offer and not have to repeat that interview process again,” Hall said.

As an intern, he said his manager gave him meaningful and impactful projects that contributed to his business acumen beyond human resources. Hall said his intern manager is still a supportive mentor. After his internship, Boeing offered him a job, and since then, Hall has held four different positions in three cities: Seattle, Bangalore, India, and now in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

“When I first landed in India, we had around 300 employees spread throughout the country,” he said. “When I left 18 months later, we had about 1,500 employees. On a daily basis with this growth and developing this program, it was baptism by fire. Gearing policies around what was done in the U.S., it gave me a lot of autonomy in implementing this HR program because it had never been done in India on this scale.”

Hall helped with the large-scale implementation of the Human Resources Talent Management Review system similar to Boeing’s standard system, but taking into account an extremely young workforce, Hall said he had to adjust the scale to rate the employees appropriately in terms of talent.

“I had a Southern drawl that I’d never learned to turn on and off, I was one of a few African American men in the program, and of those, I was the only ex-athlete that entered class with two arms full of tattoos. I got weird stares from others. That became my motivation to succeed and prove that I’m just as good, if not better.”

- KELTON HALL

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT “I met with several business stakeholders to understand what they wanted to see in a top performer going forward and included [in the measurement system] an element that would assess the potential of a new hire beyond information given from the interview or resume,” he said.

Hall participated in Boeing’s Human Resources Career Foundation Program, which is a three-year leadership rotation program that helps enrollees explore the various functions of HR within Boeing’s operations. In his current role, Hall is assisting in rolling out the international HR business model for all non-U.S. Boeing locations.

“I can truly say I am not sure I would be in this position if not for the Moore School and the Master of Human Resources program,” Hall said. “The return on investment for the MHR has paid tremendous dividends in the past five years. Boeing is a really hard company to get into, and being on the inside now, I see it even more. The Moore School opened that door for me.”

In addition to learning invaluable networking skills, which Hall said come in handy meeting new people sometimes daily with Boeing, he said the Moore School also taught him the value of using data to drive decisions.

“When something comes across my desk as an issue, before I take it to leadership or try to find a solution, I search for data to justify that this is a real issue,” Hall said.

He said the Moore School also taught him how to receive buyin from high-level company leaders, especially important as he encountered cultural barriers when he was trying to teach executives about the new Human Resources Talent Management Review system in India.

“Having the experiences from the Moore School being around high-level leaders, including most of our professors who were executives in companies, I had the experience of taking and presenting my work to that same high level of leadership,” he said. “I learned from that process that even though something may be company standard, the standard has to change pending your audience and cultural nuances.”

While Hall has enjoyed traveling the world working with Boeing the past couple of years, he said he intends to return to Washington where he spent his initial three years with Boeing and hopefully settle in Seattle in the near future.

“Seattle had that type of effect on me; the culture is very open and progressive, and everyone is willing to help you and give you pointers,” Hall said. “There’s a hipster vibe to the city and tons to do. Seattle has become a transplant city with hubs for companies like Microsoft, Amazon and too many startups to name! So, there are a lot of like-minded young professionals to network with and learn from.”

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FACULTY RESEARCH

UNDERSTANDING CONSUMER BIAS

Faculty research shows customers are biased when dealing with local shops versus larger chains Linyun Yang’s latest research was inspired by a rude encounter at a local coffee shop.

Yang, an assistant professor of marketing who came to the Moore School in early 2019, said she received impolite service from a local mom-and-pop coffee shop and vowed to go to a Starbucks for her next outing.

“Then it occurred to me that I might not be as annoyed if I had received the same rude service at Starbucks,” she said. “Ever the researcher, I wondered, ‘Why would that be?’ After discussing my experience with my co-author Pankaj [Aggarwal], we thought it might be related to the size of the company, mom and pop versus Starbucks.”

After this discussion and eventual extensive data collection and research, Yang and Aggarwal, a University of Toronto Scarborough marketing professor, authored “No Small Matter: How Company Size Affects Consumer Expectations and Evaluations,” which was published in the April 2019 edition of the Journal of Consumer Research.

They hypothesized that customers have higher expectations for smaller, local businesses compared to impersonal largescale chains.

“Intuitively, it seems like most consumers have strong expectations for warm and friendly customer service from small shops and companies,” Yang said.

Their research included analyzing three years of Yelp reviews for a coffee chain that was seen as a big corporation in one city and a smaller company in another city.

“When the coffee chain was perceived as a smaller player, it was really their warm qualities – sincerity, friendliness, warmth –

that drove overall Yelp ratings,” Yang said.

Yang discussed this research on a spring 2019 Wharton Business Radio "Marketing Matters" podcast, which is broadcast on SiriusXM Internet Radio.

The Business Radio network out of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School “features world-renowned and distinguished professors and alumni as regular weekly hosts, plus executives, entrepreneurs, innovators and other experts as special hosts and guests.” The "Marketing Matters" podcast focuses on analysis and research into advertising, marketing, customer behavior and new product launches, according to its website.

Beyond consumers’ expectations for small versus large companies, Yang and Aggarwal are also beginning research that examines how gender stereotypes are applied to brands when they are humanized such as brands like Mr. Clean and Mrs. Butterworth.

“We find that when consumers are asked to think of a brand as human, they tend to assume the brand is male, which is consistent with male being the default gender in the overall perceptions of humans,” she said.

Shifting focus to individual decisions instead of brand decisions, Yang is working on another project with Moore School Ph.D. student Ruoou Li that explores how consumers justify spending money on self-care activities like yoga classes, massages, facials and similar activities.

“We’re interested in understanding why consumers might

sometimes feel embarrassed by spending money on self-care activities and how they reconcile these feelings,” Yang said.

Yang’s zeal for consumer behavior research stems from her fascination with human behavior overall and understanding why they do the things they do.

“The consumption context is especially interesting because people spend so much time navigating through it, so the brands and products consumers choose to buy and display are closely integrated with their day-to-day lives,” she said.

COVID-19

UNLEASHING CREATIVITY Moore School faculty, staff and students find creative ways to stay connected, help others during pandemic

Mike Katergaris (‘95 finance, ‘97 MIBS), a UofSC Business Partnership Foundation Board of Advisor, was the speaker during the Master’s Hooding virtual event. Each of the May 2020 graduates received gifts that included a personal note from Dean Brews and a memento from the Moore School.

December 2020 graduates, whose ceremony will also be virtual, will receive a similar gift.

In March 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic that was sweeping the nation and the world, Dean Peter Brews wrote a message to the Moore School community encouraging everyone to “be our very best selves as we conquer this virus together” and to “unleash your creativity and show grace” during this challenging time.

The Moore School community answered Brews’ challenge in a myriad of ways: •

The Office of Alumni Engagement hosted a virtual happy hour with Brews for all alumni; 110 alumni attended across 16 states and four countries.

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While graduates were unable to celebrate in person because of the pandemic, the Moore School hosted a number of virtual graduation events and celebrations.

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Daniel Ostergaard, an international business clinical associate professor, encouraged students to have conversations and engage in networking opportunities through the Zoom online chat room platform. Ostergaard promoted his efforts through a private Facebook group for international business undergraduates, Master of International Business and Moore School foreign exchange students as well as international business alumni.

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Beginning after spring break in late March, members of the Facebook group began virtually meeting on Zoom for Tuesday company panels, Thursday language tables and Friday happy hours. With just over 1,200 members in the Facebook group, Ostergaard and group members engaged in conversations and created virtual social activities in addition to scheduled virtual events.

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and 96 companies attending for the September event and 595 students and 29 companies attending for the October EXPO. •

The Moore School’s Executive Education department partnered with South Carolina Public Radio to launch a weekly radio series, “Managerial Insights: Supporting Businesses During an Uncertain Time,” that provided advice for the business community about weathering the challenging business environment created by COVID-19. A variety of Moore School faculty were featured on the series discussing topics that included financial management, the role of virtual teamwork, current staffing, building more resilient supply chains, selling in a post-COVID world, among others.

The Moore School Office of Career Management launched a regular Speaker Series on Zoom featuring faculty and alumni. The series covered a range of topics, including how companies can respond to the many challenges presented by COVID-19. Their videos featured hiring and HR impacts on businesses during the pandemic as well as what students and alumni could do if they were in the job market.

The Office of Career Management encouraged students to participate in a large-scale virtual career fair featuring 28 SEC and ACC universities and close to 200 employers in April. Of the 513 UofSC students who attended, 186 represented the Moore School. OCM hosted two virtual Business EXPOs in fall 2020 with 1,036 students

Although they weren’t on the UofSC campus because of the pandemic, the Moore School student organizations continue to stay connected virtually. Many organizations, like Gamma Iota Sigma and Carolina Finance and Investment Association, hosted their organizations’ meetings via video conferencing platforms; they featured guest speakers on the conference calls so members could still expand their networks and hear from professionals.

Beta Alpha Psi substituted their canceled accounting faculty luncheon with a faculty appreciation video. They also offered virtual accounting tutoring for students during finals and transitioned the election of incoming leadership from a face-to-face process to entirely online.

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The Moore School Student Ambassadors assisted with the university’s virtual admitted student days from their remote locations. With pre-recorded videos and drop-in Zoom chats, the ambassadors made the virtual experience interactive and informative for prospective students making their final decisions.

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Hart Bridges, a sophomore in 2020-21 majoring in accounting, created a new company called Rosleck Safety out of Gaffney, South Carolina, in March to produce large quantities of premium safety masks. Bridges, who was home attending classes virtually, said he kept hearing news reports of medical mask shortages, so he took his savings and started Rosleck Safety, which sold customizable masks at affordable prices. Bridges sold more than 10,000 masks; he has also donated masks to medical facilities like Cherokee Medical Center.

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FACULTY RESEARCH

WEATHERING THE STORM Multidisciplinary research finds natural disasters have a long-lasting impact on economy, financial well-being Natural disasters are big business. Hurricanes, tornadoes and floods can wreak millions, if not billions, of dollars of damage in one fell swoop. Four Moore School faculty are focusing their research on the economic preparation for and aftermath of natural disasters.

One research topic is centered on the financial impact of natural disasters on bank borrowing capacity. While it seems anyone with good credit or existing capital can get a bank loan, banks have a certain limit they can loan out at any given time.

When a natural disaster like a hurricane happens in Florida, a Southeastern bank will be issuing loans to the affected area so impacted residents can rebuild. If that same bank has branches in states unaffected by the hurricane, companies in those unaffected areas could be negatively impacted.

If a company in Georgia that uses that same bank decides to expand but needs a loan, they could be temporarily denied if that bank has already reached their loaning capacity.

“This is the spillover effect of natural disasters from common banks,” said Ai He, a finance assistant professor in the Moore School since fall 2019. “The larger the bank, the more they are connected. It can have a negative impact on the company [looking to expand] because they can’t borrow what they want, and it takes time to find other banks” and go through the loan application process, especially for a business.

For her research, which is in the process of being published, He looked at more than 100 large U.S. banks and 28 natural disasters, including hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires, between 1990-2016 to see how borrowing was limited just

after the natural disaster occurred. Each of the natural disasters studied caused more than $1 billion in damages to the affected areas.

From those 100 large U.S. banks within that time span, more than 2,000 companies’ borrowing ability was negatively impacted by these natural disasters.

Another team of researchers, economics assistant professor Tamara Sheldon and co-author economics assistant professor Crystal Zhan, concentrate their research on the impact of natural disasters on home ownership. Sheldon has been part of the Moore School faculty since 2015, Zhan since 2013.

Sheldon and Zhan’s research was published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in November 2019. They determined individuals who migrate to areas that have experienced a natural disaster in the previous couple of years are less likely to purchase a house than rent.

“This effect is the largest for coastal disasters and becomes larger up to 12 percentage points with disaster severity,” Sheldon said. “Climate change is causing an increase in frequency and severity of natural disasters, as we have experienced in South Carolina in recent years. This will have major consequences for the economy as a whole as well as for households’ finances, health, housing/location decisions and more. We are interested in understanding these impacts, which can help inform future policymaking to prepare for and reduce impacts of future disasters.”

Sheldon and Zhan looked through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center’s storm events database for declared natural disasters over a 15-year span from 1996 to 2011 to inform their research.

“Specifically, we define a severe disaster as a disaster that caused three or more fatalities, as evidence suggests these disasters are more likely to receive national news coverage,” Sheldon said.

To ensure a larger-scale natural disaster doesn’t significantly change their results, they did what they call a “robustness check,” omitting Hurricane Katrina as an example. Their research indicates their results are not driven only by a catastrophic hurricane like Katrina — other disasters also influence homeownership rates.

Sheldon and Zhan also found, in another forthcoming paper on disasters and migration being published in a World Scientific Handbook, that large disasters result in immediate and lasting outmigration, when individuals move away from an impacted area.

“The economy will change with more natural disasters,” Sheldon said. “Natural disasters make people more likely to rent. They may want to move further away to higher elevation areas because it seems less risky.”

When it comes to the risks of natural disasters, clinical associate professor Robert Hartwig has studied the economic impacts of events like hurricanes, wildfires and tornadoes for decades.

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Prior to joining the Moore School in 2016, Hartwig was the president and an economist for the Insurance Information Institute in New York. Currently also the director of the Moore School’s Risk and Uncertainty Management Center, Hartwig has noted in numerous media articles that more individuals and businesses are being impacted by natural disasters — not because there are necessarily more disasters but because areas hit by hurricanes and wildfires are seeing sharp increases in their population.

“The obvious result: more claims when an inevitable wildfire rages,” he said.

Hartwig said that examples of this behavior can be seen across the United States. When Hurricane Andrew struck Miami in 1992, fewer than 14 million people lived in Florida. Yet, when Hurricane Dorian threatened in 2019, more than 21 million called Florida home.

Unsurprisingly, insurance premiums are also rising for property owners who live in areas impacted by natural disasters.

“Hurricane risk in Florida now consumes more of the global insurance industry’s capital than any other risk worldwide,” Hartwig said. “California wildfires provide another vivid example of people knowingly and willingly moving into harm’s way.”

In the past several years, record wildfire losses have occurred, in part because of California’s prolonged drought, but also because of large numbers of new, expensive homes built in areas prone to wildfires, Hartwig said.

Since more structures and people are in the way of these natural disasters, average annual insured losses are exponentially increasing. Hartwig said that average annual insured disaster losses between 1980 and 1989 totaled $5 billion. For each successive decade since the ‘80s, the average annual insured loss has increased $10 billion, so by 2010-2019, average annual insured disaster losses totaled $35 billion.

Hartwig said building officials should be learning lessons from the natural disasters and the increasing insured losses by building more substantive structures.

“Rebuilding in the same spot without making any improvements invites a disaster once again,” Hartwig said. “But if we rebuild smarter and stronger, that is a benefit.”

As noted in Moore School faculty research, natural disasters have numerous direct and indirect economic impacts, and with increasing populations in disaster zones as well as seemingly more powerful hurricanes, the financial toll these take will continue increasing.

HANDS-ON LEARNING

INVESTING IN DATA

Dedicated Data Lab enhances business analytics skills The Moore School’s Data Lab assists students in becoming proficient with business analytics, especially important as U.S. businesses face a major shortage of managers skilled in transforming largescale data into insights that can guide decision-making.

The Moore School is in the fourth year of an undergraduate curriculum overhaul that largely emphasizes data proficiency and analytical capability. Part of this curriculum shift is requiring undergraduate business students to take statistics and business courses beginning their first year instead of their third year. Changes in the curriculum for the MBA program to emphasize data proficiency and analytical capability began in 2013. Soon after, other graduate programs began making similar changes.

The Moore School added the Data Lab in 2019 to assist more inexperienced students with their statistics and basic business courses and provide a resource for upper level and graduate courses.

“Analytics at its heart is virtual, and students can come together anywhere to work on data located on servers in the cloud,” said Moore School Dean Peter Brews. “The establishment of the Data Lab is a physical statement that emphasizes data as an area of excellence for the Moore School. The lab is a centerpiece of the building, located on the second level next to the finance lab.”

“Moore School students undertake projects with data — data that is provided by collaborating community,

governmental and industry partners,” said Sung-Hee “Sunny” Park, clinical associate professor in management science and Data Lab director. “The projects teach students how to extract, clean, load, analyze and visualize large real-world data sets.”

Seven undergraduates and 10 MBA candidates who excel in data analytics staff the lab and mentor students.

“Data is increasingly being used to make more informed business decisions in all fields,” said Ruhi Pitre, a Data Lab assistant who graduated in May with an operations and supply chain, international business

and statistics triple major. “Equipping students with the tools to make sense of different data sets will make them better, more cross-functional business professionals in the future.”

With more than 1,500 visitors to the Data Lab in fall 2019 – the first full semester of its existence – the lab is already helping students understand how to work with complex data sets. According to a fall 2019 exit survey, nearly 95 percent of the 1,246 respondents said the Data Lab helped them resolve their problems and successfully complete the assignment.

Learn more at sc.edu/moore/datalab.

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THE INTERSECTION OF HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY

Faculty explore whether increasing technology in hospitals decreases malpractice lawsuits Three Moore School professors found that hospitals which implement new health information technology (HIT) systems see a decrease in medical malpractice suits — but only if their medical providers are effective communicators.

The team, comprised of Luv Sharma, management science assistant professor, Carrie Queenan, management science associate professor, and Orgul Ozturk, economics associate professor, wrote “The Impact of Information Technology and Communication on Medical Malpractice Lawsuits,” which was published in June 2019 in Production and Operations Management.

HIT encompasses everything from electronic medical records that manage patient data to insurance and billing processing.

For Sharma, Queenan and Ozturk’s research, they focused on health care provider-specific technologies like the electronic medical record, which providers use to record patient vitals, lab results, imaging and health history, among other things.

The researchers extracted and analyzed all medical malpractice lawsuits filed against hospitals in Florida with more than 25 beds – 168 hospitals total – between 2007– 2011. They chose Florida because the state provides more details about lawsuits in the public record, Sharma said.

They compared those lawsuits with the hospitals’ use of technology. They found when hospitals first implement new technology, they do see a reduction in malpractice suits.

However, the more technology they adopt, the smaller the reduction in lawsuits, Sharma said.

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“The positive of HIT is that it enables physicians to get data in real time from different sources,” he said. “When a patient is treated by multiple physicians in a traditional setting, the physician has to go to paper records. When they have [digital] access to the records, all of that patient’s information is available at the click of a button. It improves transparency and is a better overall integration of patient data.”

Additionally, patients receive results faster with digital records, Queenan added.

“As soon as a lab gets the results, the patients get their results,” she said.

While receiving results is much quicker, digital records have reduced the one-on-one time medical providers have with individual patients since they have to record more information in the electronic medical record.

With more technology, “eye contact is reduced, medical providers pay less attention to patients, and recent articles have documented an uptick in technology-related medical errors, which can actually increase malpractice lawsuits,” Sharma said.

These drawbacks to electronic records led the research team to examine the interaction between technology and communication.

They determined that hospitals who implement HIT with high communication quality are the ones with the least percentage of lawsuits.

“When HIT is coupled with good communication, good communication can be even better as there’s richer information in the HIT to relay to the patient.”

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When patients are released from the hospital, they are given a survey with questions about how well and how often their physician and nurse communicated with the patient, Queenan said.

They averaged these survey results for every hospital to measure their communication quality and cross referenced these with the percentage of lawsuits as well as the timeline for their HIT implementation.

“The results are a non-linear model,” Sharma said. “You see the differential impacts of communication and technology at different levels. You actually see a disproportionate higher reduction in early levels of HIT — the earliest HIT adoptions find the biggest decrease in lawsuits.”

When a hospital has high communication quality as they increase their technological infrastructure, there are fewer lawsuits. Adversely, when they have poor communication quality, there

tend to be more lawsuits as they begin relying more heavily on technology.

“The implication is that if you don’t have good communication quality, if your physicians and nurses are not trained properly in how to communicate with patients, the increase in technology can have a negative impact” on lawsuits, Sharma said. “If patients are aware of things being done, of operational transparency, their satisfaction is higher.”

These patients whose physicians properly explain why certain tests are being administered, provide results in a timely and clear manner and promptly report back to the patient any diagnosis they’ve ruled out or confirmed are more likely to rate their medical provider with a higher communication score and are less likely to file a lawsuit.

The professors chose to look at the impact of HIT on lawsuits and subsequently communication quality’s impact on lawsuits because many

hospitals – especially smaller ones – grapple with the costs associated with fully implementing HIT. Hospitals have to determine if the payoff to install expensive technology and train staff on new systems is worth the investment.

Queenan said numerous researchers have previously focused on the correlation between communication and lawsuits but have not examined the likelihood of lawsuits when introducing HIT. “When HIT is coupled with good communication, good communication can be even better as there’s richer information in the HIT to relay to the patient,” she said. “You can’t just invest in HIT, you have to invest in training staff to properly communicate along with it to” potentially reduce lawsuits.

Reducing lawsuits are paramount for hospital administrators, Sharma said.

“A lot of money is spent in settling malpractice lawsuits,” he said. “There is also a psychological impact on physicians with lawsuits. Increasing technology and process communication will have a significant impact on reducing lawsuits.”

Sharma, Queenan and Ozturk are all continuing to study health care operations and policy and how technology can enable more efficient and effective care.

Professors Orgul Ozturk, Carrie Queenan and Luv Sharma (left to right)

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HANDS-ON LEARNING

DIVING DEEP

International course project teaches students how to add value to companies as consultants, industry experts Eleven Moore School Master of International Business students got a firsthand look at how an organization considers the viability of expanding internationally while also trying to protect the environment.

By August 2020, Seabins were currently in operation in one marina in Hawaii as well as in nine other states and in five marinas in California but had not expanded to the rest of the United States.

As part of their advanced international strategy course, the students worked with Seabin, an Australian company that installs Seabins – trash receptacles in the ocean – to collect trash, oil and microplastics in marinas, ports, yacht clubs and other areas that are heavily affected by surface level debris.

“While their goal is to increase the number of Seabins around the world, their mission is to ultimately live in a world without Seabins,” said Anna Radulescu, who graduated with her MIB in May 2020. Radulescu is an MIB double-degree program student and will earn a second master’s degree, a Master of Management, from the ESCP Europe business school in spring 2021.

In their advanced international strategy course, the students not only learned about consulting methodologies, but they also got a deep dive into a particular industry, said Wolfgang Messner, a Moore School international business professor who teaches an undergraduate and graduate section of the course each year. The courses are offered in close collaboration with the South Carolina Small Business Development Centers and Thomson Reuters.

The main goal for the students is to identify and structure an internationalization initiative within growing organizations.

The graduate course is available for students in the Master of International Business program, which is an interdisciplinary program that helps students develop an understanding of the political, sociocultural and economic institutional settings worldwide.

Seabin was initially created through a crowdfunding effort in 2015. The Seabin product has only been available since 2018, so it is a growing company, said Mahi Paquette, Seabin’s chief operating officer.

For the Seabin project, students gained consulting skills while also learning about international environmental sustainability.

Seabin wants to further expand into North America, South America and Central America. As of late 2019, the company had 860 active Seabins in marinas in more than 50 countries, and they’ve captured 692,703 pounds – close to 350 tons – of trash, oil and microplastics.

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Seabin is looking to expand into the Western part of the world “because they don’t have much of a presence there yet,” Radulescu said. “Their main presence is in Europe and Australia with a few in Asia.”

While the students for each team completed detailed analyses of the various locations that are optimal for Seabins, they learned even more about the nature of consulting, Messner said.

“They learn everything from approaching the client, scoping the work, what the client needs to planning the project, executing it and putting together their final presentation,” he said.

A key aspect to consulting that Radulescu has learned is managing client expectations.

“With the client, they may want more than you might be able to give them,” she said. “It is important for us to understand that we’re working with idealists — they want the world to be a better place, and [with Seabin], they want to be in every country and in every marina. It’s up to us to look at the feasibility and determine the best approach.”

MIB alumna Sunnie Duong said that being clear about what the client wants from the consultant is especially important to establish in the beginning of a project.

“They learn everything from approaching the client, scoping the work, what the client needs to planning the project, executing it and putting together their final presentation.”

- WOLFGANG MESSNER “I’ve learned consulting is not only working for but also working with the client,” said Duong, who graduated with her MIB in May 2020 with an additional graduate certificate in business analytics. “You want to make sure that you deliver what they need and what they want at the same time, and sometimes they’re not the same.”

The students also learned about the major differences between creating a presentation for an academic course versus creating one as a consultant for a company, said Jake Wilson, who graduated with his MIB in May 2020. Wilson has been working for two years for Colite International, a renewable energies company in Columbia, South Carolina.

“You’re giving the client a long-term deliverable and essentially sharing the logic that led to a conclusion,” Wilson said. “That’s been an interesting aspect of the Seabin Project — the thoroughness required to complete the project.”

The list of countries, states and territories where they recommended Seabin consider expanding is based on many intricate factors, including whether a marina or area experiences high hurricane likelihood, below-freezing temperatures, frequent turbulent wave activity, among others. The groups also looked at which coastal areas had the highest levels of pollution and cross-referenced those with the eliminating factors.

In line with the optimal areas for Seabin installation, which costs $4,000 per device with most marinas installing between two to six devices depending on their size, Seabin also wants to educate the communities that use their product, Wilson said.

The marina owners or governmental entities have to service the Seabins, from gathering all of the trash and disposing of it properly to general maintenance, so customers have to buy in to ocean conservation and sustainability efforts, the students emphasized.

In addition to Duong, Radulescu and Wilson, the Seabin projects also included Master of International Business alumni Amy Cortes, William Fromm, Anna Garant, Laura Keilhofer, Kendall Krenek, Federico Michelcich, Anu Sindol and Yannick Thuering. They were part of the consulting course while enrolled in the MIB program.

Seabin CEO and co-founder Pete Ceglinski said the two groups’ reports on their findings were impressive.

“The thoroughness and detail that went into the presentations was next level, and my only feedback was not questions but compliments,” he said.

“These students have a very bright future ahead of them in their chosen paths coming up.”

ABOUT SEABIN One of the goals for the Seabin Project is to provide practical and tangible solutions to reduce the plastics in the oceans — one of the world’s greatest problems. Their journey started with a simple idea: If we can have rubbish bins on land, then why not have them in the ocean? Over time, the scope of the project evolved into a comprehensive research, technology and educational initiative with global interest and reach.

A nonprofit, the Seabin Foundation works with stakeholders interested in the Seabin devices to raise awareness about how to have cleaner oceans and protect the environment longterm in addition to cleaning up the oceans. They engage with schools and communities to educate individuals on the importance of ocean conservation and how everyone plays a role in finding solutions to the ocean plastics crisis.

FACULTY

STAYING CONNECTED Retired Moore School professors continue ‘fellowship and collegiality’ with coffee group, check ins during pandemic together nearly every year since 1962. Hilton, hired as an economics professor in 1960 and retired as associate dean for academic affairs in 1998, said at the beach trips’ peak, as many as 60 professors attended.

The professors spent their time telling stories and playing golf and poker.

Every Monday and Wednesday before the COVID-19 pandemic, as many as a dozen retired Moore School professors gathered in the Darla Moore School of Business. On a particular Wednesday in February, this group included Jim Hilton, Bob Markland, John Wilenborg, Jim Bradley, Bill Bearden and Ed Hickman. While the former faculty members had to stop meeting in person because of the pandemic, they continue to check in with one another by phone and hope to be able to visit in person again soon.

When together, they recall their days in the Close-Hipp Building – the home of the business school beginning in 1973 before the completion of the new building in 2014 – when they had coffee in the faculty lounge together every morning. They continue this tradition to retain their “fellowship and collegiality,” Wilenborg said.

Wilenborg, a marketing professor at the Moore School from 1969 to 2005, said it is very easy to lose track of what is going on in the school after retirement, so their coffee gatherings help him stay connected.

Although most of the attendees retired in the early 2000s, they remain involved in the Moore School by attending functions.

“I like to go to the Shuck & Shag alumni event and other Moore School events because of the possibility of running into a former student or two,” said Bearden, a marketing professor from 1978 to 2010 who received the Association for Consumer Research Fellows award in fall 2019.

Emphasizing the importance of maintaining their relationships, these retired professors have also vacationed at the beach

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Realizing that significant changes have occurred within the Moore School and UofSC since they taught, the retired professors are amazed at the Moore School’s growth and progress.

Hickman said the school is “just so much bigger.” He said there were only 35 Moore School faculty members when he began teaching in 1963 as an associate professor of business. Today, there are 176 full-time faculty as well as 63 part-time faculty.

There is also much more diversity among both the faculty and students now, Bearden added. The retired professors also see a difference in the weight on research.

“The research component is ever increasing,” said Markland, a management science professor, management science department chair and associate dean for administration between 1969 and 2008. “If you are going to be a professor here now, you should expect to work really hard and publish many research papers.”

The retired professors encouraged their successors to focus on fostering a collegial atmosphere within the Moore School.

“We used to have such a great environment for sharing,” Bradley said.

An economics professor from 1974 to 2007, Bradley remembers when department members were scattered all around the building, a dispersement that encouraged faculty to interact more. He said he hopes to see that fellowship return amongst faculty members despite them being separated into individual departments so that faculty fellowship can continue.

MOORE NEWS

MOORENEWS MOORE SCHOOL RETAINS BOTH NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RANKINGS In 2020, the Moore School received its 22nd consecutive top undergraduate international business program ranking from U.S. News & World Report. Ranked No. 1, the International MBA program has been ranked in the top three for 31 consecutive years and No. 1 for the past seven years.

“We are beyond thrilled to receive this recognition,” said Moore School Dean Peter Brews. “To be recognized as both the top-ranked undergraduate international business program and the No. 1 graduate international business program demonstrates the expertise of our faculty and the high caliber and academic rigor of our international business programs.”

AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE The Moore School Office of Diversity and Inclusion collaborated with the Black Business Student Association to host the second annual African American Leadership Conference in February. The conference aimed to empower aspiring African American young professionals and connect them to opportunities through interaction and engagement with global business and community partners.

Representing Aerospace conglomerate Boeing, Jen Mahone-Rightler presented the keynote. A manager of economic development and negotiated incentives, Mauricus “Moe” Brown (‘10 finance and marketing) also spoke at the AALC. This year’s conference featured executives from companies including Kohl’s, Equifax, Ernst & Young multinational professional services firm, SC Student Loan and Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP. Notable alumni panelists included: Angel Earle (’00 UofSC art history, ’15 MBA); Danielle Gleaton (’06 international business and management science); Joe Wright (’12 finance and marketing); Walter Davis (’93 business administration).

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MOORE NEWS

UofSC NAMED A 2019 TOP UNIVERSITY SALES PROGRAM The Sales Education Foundation named the University of South Carolina’s Moore School as a 2019 Top University Sales Program.

This is the first time the Moore School has earned this distinction and is largely a result of the Center for Sales Success, created two years ago to help students develop and differentiate their selling skills.

The Moore School’s marketing department has expanded and enhanced its sales program in recent years thanks to funding from forward-thinking alumni. Marketing students can now concentrate their study on sales strategy, allowing them to take courses like personal selling, sales strategy and automation, and customer relationship management.

MOORE SCHOOL PARTNERS WITH MIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOR OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSFER PATHWAY In partnership with Midlands Technical College, the Moore School is now offering a transfer pathway that facilitates the transfer of MTC students to the Moore School’s operations and supply chain program. Ranked No. 5 in North America, the Moore School’s undergraduate operations and supply chain program allows students to gain advanced professional skills, acquire salary-enhancing certificates and learn how to design, manage and improve operations and supply chains using a wide range of business analytics.

Students enrolled in the pathway will complete their first two years at MTC and earn an associate in arts degree with a concentration in business. These students will then transfer to the Moore School for another two years of specialized operations and supply chain coursework. The pathway was created because the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a faster than average job growth outlook in the operations and supply chain field, which globally employs individuals in diverse industries and businesses.

ROI RANKED NO. 6 AMONG 88 BUSINESS SCHOOLS The undergraduate program at the Darla Moore School of Business was ranked No. 6 among 88 business schools for fiveyear return on investment (ROI) by Poets & Quants’ annual ROI ranking in 2019. For the Moore School, the ROI was considered $216,038.

The ranking was determined by taking the average starting salary of the 2018 Moore School graduating class, multiplying

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it by five (for five years of work) and subtracting from that number the total estimated cost for attending the school for four years.

The Moore School’s ROI ranking “is a testimony to the great education we’re delivering and the great opportunities and employment outcomes we’re helping our students get,” said Jan Bass, associate dean for undergraduate programs.

MOORE NEWS

MOORE SCHOOL, BANK OF AMERICA HOST DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PANEL, HONOR SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS The Moore School partnered with Bank of America to host a panel on diversity and inclusion in November 2019. The event celebrated the scholarship Bank of America funded in honor of its long-time leader and Moore School alumnus W.W. “Hootie” Johnson (‘53 business administration).

Ten in-state undergraduate students from populations underrepresented in leadership roles within the financial services industry were awarded the Bank of America – W.W. Hootie Johnson Scholarship for fall 2019. The scholarship that memorializes Johnson is the largest one awarded by the Moore School.

SOUTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE OPENS In 2019, the Moore School opened its 12th research center: the South Carolina Center for Real Estate. The South Carolina Center for Real Estate’s goals are to enhance and support the Moore School’s real estate major and minor, facilitate interaction between the university and professionals in the real estate industry, provide the community with guidance and knowledge on topics related to the real estate field and provide support for research related to real estate.

The research center serves students, business owners and the community by providing knowledge, skills and educational opportunities related to real estate best practices and methods. The center’s research and data provide a framework to improve real estate-related decision-making; it also provides students with the opportunity to develop skills related to real estate through the use of real-world methods, practices and mentoring.

The recipients of the scholarship in fall 2019 and 2020 were Riley Branham, a December 2020 accounting with business analytics certificate graduate; Jason Brown, a December 2020 marketing graduate; Destiny Johnson, a junior management student; Alexandra Khoury, a senior finance and accounting student; Amy Linh, a junior finance and accounting student; Zacheus Magwood, a junior accounting student; Harsh Patel, a senior finance and operations and supply chain student; Vedanti Patel, a December 2020 accounting and finance graduate; and Alisha Shah, a senior international business and finance student.

ALUMNI STAFF UPDATE Corey Mikels (’18 business administration and marketing) has been named an assistant director for alumni engagement for the Moore School.

“The Moore School as well as the UofSC community had provided me with so much as a student,” Mikels said. “It seemed only logical to return to the place that I cherish so much to give back in any way that I can.”

Mikels, who also minored in public relations and advertising at UofSC, worked as an undergraduate with the My Carolina Alumni Association and as an intern at Balfour, the class ring company. She said she supported several initiatives related to her new Moore School role, including alumni relations, student engagement, membership and events, as a student. Mikels added she is excited to begin building relationships and partnerships with Moore School alumni.

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FOLKS CENTER WELCOMES NEW DIRECTOR Karen Brosius joined the Moore School’s Folks Center for International Business as its executive director in fall 2019. Brosius has more than 30 years of corporate management and nonprofit leadership experience, including positions as the president of Careers through Culinary Arts Program in New York City and executive director of the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina. She has also served as an active board member for a wide variety of national civic, cultural and human service organizations.

STUDENTS GAIN REAL-WORLD DATA EXPERIENCE IN HACKATHON Seventeen Moore School and College of Engineering and Computing students participated in the inaugural Analytics Hackathon in November 2019 to solve an operations and supply chain real-world issue for Schaeffler Group USA Inc. The student teams were tasked with analyzing real-world data provided by Schaeffler Americas and asked to identify improvements the company could make to lower inventory levels and improve service levels.

The winning team was comprised of Kirk Ryan Fiedler, chemical engineering student with a minor in data science; Matthew Owens, an international business and operations and supply chain student with a minor in Chinese; Skylar Ramsay, a marketing student with a concentration in business analytics; and Alexandra Sakellar, a finance student with a minor in applied computing.

MOORE SCHOOL HOSTS THIRD AND FOURTH ANNUAL CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER SUMMITS The Moore School partnered with Forbes to host the third annual Chief Marketing Officer Summit – Marketing in 3D: An Era of Data, Disruption and Digital – in fall 2019 with marketing professionals from Bitly, FedEx, Brown-Forman/Jack Daniels, Lionsgate, Nationwide and Samsung.

In October 2020, the fourth annual Chief Marketing Officer Summit was held online featuring more than 25 marketing professionals from some of the nation’s top brands. This year’s theme was Inspiring, Transforming and Thriving in a Digital and Diverse World, Personally and Professionally.

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OFFICE OF CAREER MANAGEMENT REAPING REWARDS WITH STRATEGIC PLAN The Moore School is experiencing huge payoffs after a strategic new direction for its Office of Career Management that was implemented in conjunction with a curriculum overhaul four years ago.

Despite COVID-19, the Moore School’s reported 2020 undergraduate job placement rate is 82 percent — only 2 percent less than the 2019 record. Further, this class has the highest overall average salary at $58,647, with three of nine majors exceeding $60,000. In 2014 before the new curriculum shift from two years to four years, reported undergraduate salaries 90 days after graduation were $47,920, and reported job placement was just 62 percent.

The employer relations team within the Office of Career Management has seen a strategic increase in the

companies that attend job fairs, like the Moore School’s Career EXPOs, and their recruitment of Moore School students; the students are interested in working for the companies in attendance and, likewise, the companies want to hire Moore School students. Additionally, the Moore School’s focus on producing data proficient, analytically capable graduates through a more demanding four-year curriculum has enhanced their career readiness.

“There is a symmetry between the increased academic rigor and the increased efforts of the Office of Career Management for career preparation,” said Georgia Doran, senior director of the Office of Career Management.

“Together they develop a graduate truly ready to engage with top-tier employers.”

LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM EMPOWERS WOMEN

The Moore School and the Graduate Women in Business student organization hosted the 2019 Leadership Symposium in November 2019 and featured Tribetan CEO Tiffany Norwood as the keynote speaker.

and encourage entrepreneurs and innovators to turn their goals into reality. Norwood also emphasizes the importance of finding one’s “tribe,” the people who will always believe in you.

Norwood established her career in her 20s as she led fundraising efforts to establish WorldSpace, one of the first satellite radio companies that worked with XM Satellite Radio. Having found reward in following through with her ideas, Norwood travels the globe as a motivational speaker to share her success story

Suzanne Ducker (’20 MBA), vice president of the Graduate Women in Business student organization for 2019-20, said that Norwood is a visionary and encouraged those in attendance to, “find our ‘tribe,’ share our dreams and keep going.”

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MARKETING SCHOLARS COMPLETE PROJECTS FOR LIONSGATE, SONOCO The Marketing Scholars program recognizes senior marketing majors with an opportunity to work on a semester-long ‘real world’ marketing project. One of two teams this spring semester worked on a digital marketing communications project for Lionsgate Entertainment; the other team developed a social media marketing strategy for Sonoco Packaging Company.

Marketing Scholar students need a high GPA and a quality internship to qualify. They are given the opportunity to apply marketing principles to a specific project in conjunction with the Moore School’s Center for Marketing Solutions, which coordinates the many student-driven projects completed each year.

Read about the 2020 Lionsgate project by visiting bit.ly/moorelionsgate.

BPF BOARD OF ADVISORS The University of South Carolina Business Partnership Foundation reinstituted their Board of Advisors in fall 2019 with 32 alumni and community business partners. Their mission is for advisors to be well-prepared advocates that share the Moore School and BPF stories across networks of alumni, professional and community connections, personal relationships, engaged volunteers and financial supporters, among others.

The four officers for the BPF’s Board of Advisors are:

SCOTT BLACKMON

Blackmon Farms, Columbia, South Carolina

BANKS HALLORAN

JP Morgan, Atlanta, Georgia

VINCE MOONEY

Deloitte, Charlotte, North Carolina

DREW STEVENS

Northwestern Mutual, Columbia, South Carolina

FINANCE SCHOLARS PROGRAM Through advanced and specialized coursework, data source instruction, live case studies with industry partners, career management training, internships and alumni networking, the Finance Scholars program prepares undergraduate participants for top finance careers.

The 20 Finance Scholar students who graduated in May 2020 will be working full-time jobs with employers that include Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barings, Boeing, Credit Suisse, Ducera, Fintech Partners, Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, Greystar, Jefferies, Textron and Wells Fargo. The fall 2019 class of Finance Scholars participated in a three-day boot camp covering Excel, Bloomberg and CapIQto; the new class also traveled to New York City where they visited eight different institutions in two days. Although many of the arrangements were altered due to the pandemic, most of the 31 current members interned in summer 2020 with firms like 7-Mile Advisors, Barings, Credit Suisse, Ernst & Young, General Motors, Lincoln International, Piper Sandler, Societe Generale, Textron and William Blair.

Beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year, the Finance Scholars will begin admitting sophomores into the program at the end of their fall semester.

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FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENT

ACHIEVEMENTS RETIRED PROFESSOR RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD Moore School Distinguished Professor Emeritus William Bearden received the Association for Consumer Research Fellows award in recognition of his leadership, scholarship and mentorship in 2019.

Originally a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army between 1968-1970 that included a tour in Vietnam, Bearden earned his marketing Ph.D. in 1975 in what was then the UofSC College of Business Administration, now the Moore School. He taught at the Moore School for 32 years before retiring. Ever the dedicated professor, he continued as an adjunct for another three years after he retired.

Bearden, a professor who was well-loved by his students, has had more than 25 research articles published in first-tier publications, and his work has been cited more than 6,800 times in the Web of Science search index. Additionally, Bearden chaired about 20 Ph.D. dissertations during his time at the Moore School.

A scholar of consumer behavior and market management, Bearden is considered an expert in pricing, scale development and social influence. Although retired, Bearden still keeps up with consumer behavior research so he can serve as an expert in legal testimony cases.

MANAGEMENT PROFESSOR AWARDED UofSC RESEARCH HONOR Moore School management and human resources professor Robert Ployhart is one of five UofSC faculty honored with the 2020 Breakthrough Leadership in Research Awards. This award celebrates senior UofSC faculty members who have made major research impacts throughout their careers.

Ployhart, the Bank of America Professor of Business Administration, is interested in researching recruiting, personnel selection, analytics, performance management and leadership development as related to human resources and management. Ployhart

teaches in the UofSC Honors College, Master of Human Resources program and the doctoral management program.

His most recent research, co-authored with professors from the University of Colorado Denver and Sungkyukwan University in Seoul, Korea, focuses on occupational differences and how certain personality types are drawn to distinctive occupations. The research looked at more than 178,000 individuals within 315 occupations to determine who is likely to be successful or stay in each occupation based on their similarities to the dominant personality

type in each occupation. Ployhart said this research is useful for both recruiters and job applicants as it is a different approach to human resources that focuses on matching the correct characteristics and personality types to a specific occupation.

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UofSC PROVOST GRANT TO FUND FURTHER RESEARCH FOR FINANCE FACULTY

MOORE SCHOOL FACULTY AMONG TOP 1 PERCENT OF WORLDWIDE RESEARCHERS Ployhart and international business professor Tatiana Kostova were named by the Web of Science Group among the top 1 percent of influential researchers in economics and business.

According to the recognition letter, this elite group of researchers was recognized for their exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers.

Kostova's published work has more than 19,600 Google Scholar citations; Ployhart's publications have more than 18,700 Google Scholar citations.

ACCOUNTING STUDENTS EARN CPA SCHOLARSHIPS The South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants awarded scholarships to 11 UofSC undergraduate accounting or Master of Accountancy students in 2019. The recipients, who plan to pursue careers in accounting upon graduation from the Moore School, included Madeline Robinson, Molly Niermann, Young Oh, Peyton Elmore, Sophia Gerstenberger, Steven Maler, Joseph Popolizio, Sarah “Bett” Reagin, Ryan Clark, Hannah Davidson and Lannett Washington.

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Finance associate professor Hugh Hoikwang Kim received a grant from the UofSC provost’s office to further test his research on investors’ inattention levels to mutual fund fees. Kim’s initial research shows that individuals investing in mutual funds are paying more fees than they realize because the industry is taking advantage of investors’ inattention. With the $19,500 grant from the UofSC provost, Kim, along with his co-researcher Wenhao Yang, will run experiments with a large representative sample of the U.S. population to verify their initial findings.

Ph.D. STUDENT EARNS PROMISING RESEARCHER AWARD Moore School Ph.D. student Gustavo Schneider was awarded the Moore School’s 2019 Promising Researcher award for making significant contributions and showing great promise as a researcher. Originally from Brazil, Schneider enjoys the emphasis the U.S. puts on research, as he has a passion for studying consumer behavior. Schneider has completed four of the five years of the business administration Ph.D. program with an emphasis in marketing.

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS ALUMNI MAGAZINE WINS CASE AWARD The Moore Magazine won a silver award in the CASE Awards’ magazine/tabloid improvement category. The CASE Awards recognize best practices in advancement and outstanding people who contribute to the growth and understanding of the advancement of the profession. This award reflects the strategic approach and redesign of the 2018 and 2019 editions of the Moore Magazine.

MANAGEMENT PROFESSOR AWARDED MULTIPLE ACCOLADES FOR RESEARCH MBA STUDENTS WIN SUPPLY CHAIN CASE COMPETITION A team of MBA students won fourth place in Texas Christian University’s Graduate Supply Chain Case Competition. The students, who have focused their MBA in operations and supply chain, were presented with a supply chain case from Chick-fil-A Inc., and given one day to address the challenges of supporting high supply chain growth in seven western U.S. states. The teams presented their ideas to a panel of 30 supply chain executives from major corporations and won $1,500 for their presentation.

TWO STAFF NAMED FINALISTS FOR OUTSTANDING UNIVERSITY 101 TEACHING AWARD Two Moore School staff were among eight finalists for the M. Stuart Hunter Award for Outstanding Teaching in University 101, the first-year experience course that prepares students for a successful college career.

Dave Foster from the Office of Career Management and Bo Hart (‘15 UofSC M.Ed.) from the Office of Alumni Engagement were nominated for the award. From 634 total student nominations, eight Instructors were selected as finalists out of the 192 total instructors nominated.

Moore School management professor Anthony Nyberg was recently awarded a Fulbright award to research through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods how organizations compete through human capital resources in Ireland. A Distinguished Moore Fellow in management, the academic director for the Master of Human Resources program, the Riegel & Emory Human Resources Research Center director and the interim director for the Center for Executive Succession, Nyberg plans to study how organizations compete through C-suite or chief officer succession and the strategic role of pay and performance management in attracting, retaining and motivating employees.

In addition to the work he will undertake with the Fulbright award, Nyberg was recently named a Senior Fellow in the Department of Human Resources at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands from 2020-2023. In this position, he will share his expertise with scholarly writing and will collaborate with assistant professors and Ph.D. students to help them publish in top-tier academic journals. Nyberg also received the UofSC Educational Foundation Research Award for Professional Schools.

UNDERGRAD TEAM WINS FIRST PLACE IN INTERNATIONAL CASE COMPETITION The Moore School’s undergraduate team won first place at the John Molson Undergraduate Case Competition in February 2020. The team, Moore School students Haley Dietsch, Ryan DeSane, Hope Manninen and Chad Wonder, completed three hour-long cases and a 24-hour case in Montreal, Canada. They also networked with students and professionals from around the world. The 24-hour case was sponsored by Walmart Canada, and the students were tasked with creating a strategy to optimize the in-store experience for customers while allowing the possibility for data collection. All four students have been invited to present their winning ideas to Walmart Canada’s executive team.

ECONOMICS Ph.D. STUDENT WINS MEMORIAL FACULTY AWARD Fourth year Ph.D. student Zehra Valencia won the Melayne Morgan McInnes Memorial Award for the paper written during her third year about same-sex marriage legalization and its effect on hate crimes. The award, established by the Moore School’s economics department after the death of economics faculty member Melayne McInnes, honors Valencia for the research she has done on the legal and social issues surrounding LGBT tolerance.

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Celebrating 100 Years of Business Education 2019 MOORE SCHOOL CENTENNIAL

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ALUMNIEVENTS GET INVOLVED: VOLUNTEER The Mentor Program connects alumni with students looking for advice on career planning, networking and transferring skills. To become a mentor, register on mooreconnect.com. For questions, contact Corey Mikels at corey.mikels@moore.sc.edu.

BADM 301: Business Careers in a Global Economy class includes a personal branding speaker series where alumni share professional advice. To volunteer, contact Amy Dawson at dawson@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 summit, contact Elliott Cooper at elliott.cooper@moore.sc.edu.

As a Research and Partnership Center board member, alumni help with everything from boosting students’ sales success to contributing insight on international business curriculum. To consider serving as a board member, contact: ■ ■ ■

Beverly Wright, Center for Applied Business Analytics, beverly.wright@moore.sc.edu Patrick Wright, Center for Executive Succession, patrick.wright@moore.sc.edu Mike Shealy, Center for International Business Education and Research, shealy@moore.sc.edu

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Jeff Rehling, Center for Marketing Solutions, jeffrey.rehling@moore.sc.edu Beth Renninger, Center for Sales Success, beth.renninger@moore.sc.edu Dean Kress, Faber Entrepreneurship Center, kressd@moore.sc.edu Karen Brosius, Folks Center for International Business, karen.brosius@moore.sc.edu Sanjay Ahire, Operations and Supply Chain Center, ahire@moore.sc.edu Pearse Gaffney, Operations and Supply Chain Center, pearse.gaffney@moore.sc.edu Audrey Korsgaard, Riegel & Emory Human Resources Center, korsgaard@moore.sc.edu Robert Hartwig, Risk and Uncertainty Management Center, robert.hartwig@moore.sc.edu Stephen Martin, South Carolina Center for Real Estate, stephen.martin@moore.sc.edu

The Young Alumni Board provides input on Moore School programs and initiatives. To join the board, contact Corey Mikels at corey.mikels@moore.sc.edu.

The Alumni Hub Network cities leverage the powerful Moore School alumni network to connect students with internships and full-time employment. For information, contact Bo Hart at bo.hart@moore.edu.

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ALUMNINEWS 1960

Anthony J. Chibbaro (‘64 marketing) published a new book, “The Dream Warrior: A Viet Nam War Veteran’s Memoir,” by iUniverse, Inc.

1970 Ken Allen ('75 marketing) has been elected 2020 Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of the Southern Economic Development Council (SEDC)’s board of directors and selected as the North Carolina state director to serve on the board. He also received the 2019 SEDC President's Award for outstanding committee leadership.

Maris DesChamps Cannon ('77 office administration) has been elected the national president of the Foundation for the National Association of Bench and Bar Spouses, Inc. The foundation is a nonprofit corporation organized exclusively for charitable, educational, civic and intercultural purposes to collect and distribute money to exempt organizations and to needy and worthy law students.

Richard Gehringer ('71 management) received his MBA from St. John’s University, New York. Gehringer has held CFO positions with Oxford University Press, New York and North Carolina, and is now the CFO with Columbia University Press, New York.

Frank Grimes ('76 management, '84 MBA) retired in January after working for Sealed Air Corporation for 42 years. Working in Duncan and Simpsonville, South Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, and in 22 countries around the world, he began in the laboratory and retired as an executive director of a global program.

Bill Killough ('79 MBA, UofSC J.D.) was named to the Charleston Best Lawyers list for his work in the areas of corporate law, litigation - intellectual property and patent law. Killough was also recognized for the sixth consecutive year as a South Carolina Super Lawyers top-rated intellectual property attorney in Charleston, South Carolina.

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1980

Cynthia “Cindy” Bolt-Lee (‘88 MACC), accounting professor at the Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business at The Citadel, received the 2019 School of Business Professor of the Year award for the day program (cadets and veteran students). She was recently selected as the incoming department head for accounting and finance.

Steve Doyle (‘84 MBA) was named the 2019 Diplomat of the Year at the 117th Columbia Chamber of Commerce Gala in October 2019. This award was given in recognition for his positive impact in the community and his work with the Diplomat program for the chamber.

Doyle and his wife, Pam, are the owners of two CPR Cell Phone Repair stores located in Lexington and downtown Columbia, South Carolina.

Gene Hallman (‘85 MBA) is the CEO of Bruno Event Team, an Alabama-based sports marketing and event management company.

Melvin T. Miller (‘88 management) earned a Ph.D. in applied management and decision sciences.

Reece O’Dell (‘87 economics, ‘91 MHR) has been named the sixth president in the 74-year history of Sloan, Montgomery, Gregory & Hall, Inc., a human resources consulting firm based in Columbia, South Carolina. Reece joined the firm in 1994 and has served as a shareholder since 2001.

Gary Patterson (‘86 UofSC advertising and public relations, ’88 MBA) has been named director of Strategy & Solutions for New York-based Frontera Consulting, a boutique consulting firm focused on enterprise software and management consulting. With Frontera since 2011, Patterson has previously worked with the Frontera partners and management team at PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, EMC and other firms over a 20+ year career.

Lois Pruitt (‘87 MIBS) was named chief compliance officer, export at Vitro Architectural Glass.

Bill Rebarick (‘89 management science) has been hired as vice president for supply chain management and production control at Austal USA. A $1.5 billion annual revenue company, Austal is one of five U.S. active shipyards building warships for the U.S. Navy.

A Ph.D. graduate from The University of Maryland, Rebarick has also become a lead instructor in the supply chain program at the University of South Alabama.

Philip Riddle (‘80 management) is the president and CEO of SeeDaten, which was the winner of the 2019 InnoVision Award for Technology Integration.

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1990

Bill Rider (‘81 MIBS) retired to Breckenridge, Colorado, where, after 30 years as a bond trader on Wall Street with stints in New York, London and Tokyo, he started a second career as a realtor with Keller Williams Real Estate.

Michael Rosa (’81 UofSC international studies, ’84 MIBS) was named senior vice president for wealth management at Merrill Lynch in Vienna, Virginia.

With Merrill Lynch in Northern Virginia since 1998, Rosa provides investment advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, corporations and nonprofits in the greater Washington, D.C.- metro area and throughout the U.S. Harry Thoman (‘81 MIBS) retired after a 39-year chemical industry sales and marketing career.

Lemuel Watson (‘85 management) is dean of the Indiana University School of Education.

A. Glenn Yesner (‘80 accounting) came out of temporary retirement to join Owen Steel Company in Columbia, South Carolina, as the chief financial officer and is relocating from metro-Atlanta.

Michael Zilligen (‘89 economics) joined medical device manufacturer NuMED as chief operations officer in January. Zilligen was most recently president of the market access practice at Ogilvy Health, where he was selected

by PharmaVoice as one of the top 100 life science industry professionals and honored by PM360 during the ELITE awards in the Strategist category.

Members of the MIBS 1984 class gathered for a reunion in October 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina.

Michael Baker (‘99 management) was promoted to president/ CEO at SAFE Federal Credit Union based in Sumter, South Carolina.

James Carey (‘90 finance) became the executive director in January 2020 of the New Jersey Lottery, which is one of the 10 largest lotteries in the U.S. with more than $3 billion in annual sales. An attorney working in private practice and as a prosecutor before joining the lottery, Carey resides in Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey, with his wife, Christina, and two children Max and Grace.

Pedro Marcial Cerrato (‘95 MIBS) has moved back to his home country, Honduras, where he has co-founded a nonprofit called CEMPRENDE, which means “Community of Entrepreneurs” Association. CEMPRENDE’s mission is to assist entrepreneurs and

innovators by supporting their operations and/or generating opportunities or synergies with other local and international players. Email Cerrato at director@cemprende.org if you are interested in collaborating or want to learn more.

Randall David Cook (‘96 MIBS) completed an artist residency at Furman University, thanks to the generosity of the Duke Endowment. The commissioned play, “Ding Dong Merrily On High,” premiered in November 2019 and was loosely based on one of Cook’s first jobs after MIBS when he worked as a personal assistant for Oscarwinning screenwriter James Goldman. Cook’s play, “Sharks and Other Lovers,” won the award for best play at the Centre Stage New Play Festival, also in November; the show has been postponed because of the pandemic so will likely premiere in 2021.

Sylvie Dessau (‘98 MBA) has been very active producing 500+ protective fabric masks as a volunteer with an organized group in Columbia, South Carolina.

Sidney J. Evering II (‘96 marketing, ’02 UofSC J.D.) has joined the board of directors for Serve & Connect, a nonprofit working to create positive change through police and community partnerships.

Roger Gossett (‘90 MIBS) was recently promoted to senior director for display and flexible technologies manufacturing logistics operations at Applied Materials Inc. based in Austin, Texas; Applied Materials is responsible for global transportation and warehouse operations for factories in Taiwan, Korea, Germany and the U.S.

Cedric F. Green (‘97 UofSC mechanical engineering, ‘02 MBA, ‘08 UofSC M.S. mechanical engineering, ‘15 UofSC Ph.D. mechanical engineering) was promoted to vice president of gas transmission and storage technical services for the Gas Infrastructure Group of Dominion Energy in October 2019.

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Shawn Kelley (‘90 MBA) is an executive creative director for HMH Agency, an advertising and branding firm that specializes in the transportation industry.

Kelley also recently completed a featurelength documentary film that follows eight survivors of a horrific battle during the Vietnam War; the veterans tell their story about how the battle affected them in 1966 and today. Currently accepted into eight film festivals and having won four best documentary and two audience choice awards, the film was most recently screened at the Beaufort International Film Festival.

John Ramsey (‘92 accounting) served 33+ years in the South Carolina National Guard as a communications officer and retired in August 2019. His last assignment was as the National Guard senior representative on the Army Futures Command Network Cross Functional Team on commercial and tactical communications modernization. Ramsey is currently working with Information Management Group as a project manager on the army’s enterprise information technology as a service initiative.

Bijoy K Sahoo (‘97 MBA, ‘95 Ph.D. finance) was appointed to serve as the interim executive vice chancellor at Southern University A & M College. Prior to this appointment, he served as senior associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.

Scott O Seydel Jr. (‘98 MIBS)’s The Seydel Companies received the Exporter of the Year award from the Georgia Department of Economic Development for 2019. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Seydel Companies began in April manufacturing FDAapproved hand sanitizer, pivoting from their traditional products that are mostly used in paper, packaging and textile production.

Steven Vaughn (‘93 MBA) won the 2018 Wells Fargo Pinnacle Award as a top performer in the commercial real estate bank.

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Michael L. Williamson (‘90 marketing) was recently featured in a prominent New Orleans business magazine highlighting the work Williamson, the president and CEO, is leading for United Way of Southeast Louisiana.

The MBA 1993 graduating class gathered for a 25-year reunion in Columbia, South Carolina.

Clint Bridges (‘07 MBA) has moved to IT Strategy as an IT manager with Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia.

Previously, Bridges spent eight years supporting faculty and staff’s daily technical operations. As an IT business owner, Bridges works with vice presidents and associate vice presidents on their technology strategy as it relates to the future plans of their divisions’ operations.

2000

Nick Annan (‘08 accounting, ‘15 MBA) and Katie Annan welcomed son, Noah Moore Annan, on Jan. 4, 2020.

Catherine Porth Cahill (‘09 management and marketing) married Dr. John Cahill in September 2019; started Catherine Porth Consulting to help small businesses and startups with growth strategy and insights; founded Our Table LLC with nine other Knoxville female leaders to seek opportunities in real estate investment and grow the number of female-owned commercial properties; and accepted a role at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center as their diversity coordinator to advance programming, funding and support for underrepresented groups.

John T. Drawdy (‘94 accounting, ‘03 MBA) owns Paragon Accounting & Tax Solutions, LLC, which won the 2020 Reader’s Choice Award for Around Acworth Magazine, Around Woodstock Magazine and The Townelaker.

Kristen Gill (‘03 MIBS) started her own business, Gill Land Company LLC, specializing in agricultural real estate in South Dakota and North Dakota.

Joy Gloster (‘08 economics, finance and insurance, ‘12 MBA) was promoted to data and training analyst at the Municipal Association of South Carolina.

Rachel Hunter (‘08 accounting, ‘09 MACC) and Ben Hunter welcomed their first child, Katherine Elizabeth Hunter, on May 2, 2020.

Ben Johnson (’02 finance and marketing, ’15 MBA) was selected among The State’s 20 under 40 for 2020.

Tony Keener (‘06 economics and finance) and Lacey McKinley Keener (‘07 finance) are proud to announce another Gamecock in the family with their third child, Nolan Edward, born in March.

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Sul Kim (‘08 accounting, ‘11 UofSC J.D.) joined, as a partner, Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas.

Meredith McNeice (‘05 management and marketing, ‘07 UofSC M.Ed.) was named the 2020 Ada B. Thomas Outstanding Advisor Award staff winner.

Cait (Poynor) Lamberton (‘06 MBA, ‘08 Ph.D. marketing) was recently appointed the Alberto I. Duran Distinguished Presidential Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She was also named a 2020 Penn Fellow, was a winner of the 2019 AMA/EBSCO Responsible Research in Marketing Award and was a co-author on a paper that received the Kinnear Award (Journal of Public Policy & Marketing) along with fellow Moore alumna, Kelly L. Haws (’07 Ph.D. marketing).

Gary T. Pope Jr. (‘09 IMBA, UofSC J.D.), an attorney concentrating in public finance and government law with Pope Flynn, LLC, a Columbia-based law firm, has been selected as a Rising Star in Government Law and is listed in the 2019 edition of South Carolina Super Lawyers®.

Alexis K. Lindsay (‘09 IMBA, UofSC J.D.) was hired as counsel at Pope Flynn, LLC, in August 2019.

Liz H. McCary (’07 management and marketing) was selected among The State’s 20 under 40 for 2020.

Dave Rogers (‘00 management and marketing) was recently hired by long-term client, Valley Chrome Plating, Inc., and promoted to director of sales and marketing. Rogers brings to this role more than 20 years’ experience in the automotive (General Motors) and heavy truck manufacturing space.

John E. Rosen (‘04 IMBA, UofSC J.D.) opened J. Rosen Law, LLC on March 2, 2020, focusing on business law, corporate law, commercial real estate and land use. Drawing on 15 years of experience, their goal is to provide high-level, responsive service with small firm attention and costs; they are a boutique business law firm, offering a range of services.

Emily Schultz (‘09 IMBA) was promoted to director of enterprise field marketing at Verizon.

Andy Shaffer (‘08 MBA) was promoted to director of stores for Barnes & Noble College in May 2020; he is now responsible for campus stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

He has served several campuses across the United States, including Michigan, Florida, North Carolina and most notably, at the University of South Carolina, where he earned his MBA and taught University 101 as an adjunct instructor.

functions within the Columbia, Florence and Myrtle Beach geographic market areas. Zimmer lives in Chapin, South Carolina, with his wife, Alley, and their two daughters Anna and Claire.

Sharika Richardson Shropshire (‘08 finance) was named by the Charlotte Business Journal as a 2020 finalist for its annual Corporate Counsel Awards for outstanding pro bono service.

The IMBA 2009 graduating class gathered in summer 2019 for a 10-year reunion in Charleston, South Carolina.

Jake Strang (‘09 management and marketing) was named in September 2019 assistant vice chancellor for alumni annual giving at the University of Pittsburgh.

2010

Chris Zimmer (‘06 finance and management) was promoted in February 2020 to the role of market president for Truist, the new financial services organization created with the completion of the BB&T and SunTrust banks merger that made Truist the sixth-largest commercial bank in the U.S. with total assets of $506 billion. In his new role, Zimmer is responsible for management and optimization of all commercial banking

Samantha August Allen (‘12 international business and management) married David Allen in November 2019.

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Tony Aluise (‘19 MBA) married Lydia Meadows on April 18, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they had to scrap their traditional church ceremony and reception at the Columbia Museum of Art. However, they had a small ceremony in the backyard of Meadows’ childhood home with only her family physically present; his family Zoomed in from Columbus, Ohio, and they livestreamed to the rest of the guest list through Facebook.

Sara Antognioni (‘16 management and marketing) met Kevin Antognioni (‘16 finance) during their Colonial Life internship the summer before their senior year at the Moore School. After graduating and moving to Charlotte, they married in November 2019. They added a Goldendoodle puppy to their family in March. They are so thankful UofSC brought them together - forever to thee!

Megan Bagwell (‘09 UofSC public relations, ’14 MBA) manages Michelin’s “Beyond the Driving Test” program, which focuses on educating new drivers about the importance of tire safety. The campaign was recognized at the national Public Relations Society of America 2020 annual conference with a Silver Anvil Award.

Stephanie Bedard (‘11 international business and management science) recently joined Milliken & Company in Spartanburg, South Carolina, as manager of corporate strategy.

Prior to joining Milliken, Stephanie worked for Sonoco Products Company as an internal financial planning & analysis consultant and energy procurement manager in Hartsville, South Carolina.

Karena M. Bell (‘17 MBA) was recently named to the Envision Lead Grow Board of Advisors serving the Charleston, South Carolina, branch. The Envision Lead Grow

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mission is to increase the rate of entrepreneurship and break the cycle of poverty for middle school girls in underserved communities throughout the United States by creating a community to support their success.

Sai Bikkani (‘18 operations and supply chain) is celebrating a promotion to senior consultant at Capgemini Invent. He works in the intelligent automation practice, providing clients with robotic process automation, chatbot and machine learning solutions.

Sam Bond (‘14 marketing) started working in November 2019 as the new marketing manager at the South Carolina Education Lottery.

Jordan Chan (‘18 management) started her own brand and website design company, J. Ashley Innovations, to help small businesses reach their dream clients.

She also married her high school sweetheart, Eric Chan (’18 UofSC integrated information technology); they’re now building their first house.

Adam Chardukian (‘10 finance and management science, ‘15 IMBA) was promoted to chief operating officer of Chicago-based e-discovery technology company George Jon, Inc. Robert DiBenedetto (‘19 IMBA) married Hannah Leigh Smith in June 2020. They dated during their respective graduate programs, visiting each other in Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina. They frequently spent time studying with each other in the Moore School. They modified the wedding due to COVID-19 but look forward to celebrating with family, friends and his IMBA cohort in the near future.

Nick Durr (‘18 management science) moved to Nashville and started his career at Philips Healthcare as an order management specialist.

He was promoted to fulfillment team lead in September 2019 and then again to revenue strategy supply chain manager in March 2020.

Veronica M. Parellada Eller (‘19 MIB) launched two startups: one as an international business consultant and one as an online gourmet food shop that sells imported gourmet food from Spain.

She is thankful for the knowledge acquired at the Moore School and extends special thanks to Hildy Teegen and the UPS Global Scholars Program fellowship that helped Eller improve her skills and analytical abilities.

Jared Evans (’12 UofSC sport and entertainment management, ’17 MBA) was selected among The State’s 20 under 40 for 2020.

Allison Foy (‘14 MBA) was promoted to executive director of alumni and parent engagement at Furman University in May 2019.

Macie Taylor Giordano (‘17 management) married Matthew Ryan Humphries March 28, 2020.

ALUMNI NEWS Morgan Greeson (‘11 management and marketing) moved from Seattle, Washington, to Charleston, South Carolina, and became the HR manager for Comcast NBCUniversal. She just recently bought her first home on Johns Island.

Stefano Montali (‘16 international business and marketing) started a new job as a digital project manager at San Francisco digital design agency Toaster, working with YouTube and Google as core clients.

Gary Hilton (‘14 MBA) is a new Boeing vertical integration IT technical leader in the United Kingdom.

Nicholas Kapp (‘19 management and marketing) was promoted in February 2020 to district sales leader from sales associate with FritoLay. He now manages a team of 10 full-time employees. He received this full-time position after completing an internship with Frito-Lay that he got after going to the Moore School’s fall Business EXPO. Steven Lastauskas (‘10 finance and management) accepted a position at First Citizens as a vice president, financial sales manager in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, after 10 years at South State Bank.

Brianne Lucot (‘17 management science) recently transitioned from working as a special education teacher through Teach for America back to the corporate world as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Khasia Moore (‘19 marketing) was recently accepted to the Master’s of Advanced Study in European and Chinese Business Management program at The University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, for the 2020-21 school year.

Michael Parks (‘17 finance) was elected student body president of the UofSC Law School for academic year 2020-21.

Casey Pash (‘15 MBA) was named the president and chief executive officer of the recently combined organizations: Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina and Junior Achievement of Upstate South Carolina.

Kate Randall (‘19 management) received a job offer through the Moore School’s spring 2019 Business EXPO from Techtronic Industries, Nashville territory, and was then promoted after one year to territory manager of Tennessee and Kentucky.

Delaney Morgan (‘17 marketing) started property management company CB Rentals, LLC in 2019.

Petra S. Robinson (‘18 management) was promoted in January 2020 to senior financial risk analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Robert Park (‘18 MBA) started his own company Prime Logistics, Inc., which is an Amazon delivery service partner.

In less than one year, he has grown his company to 70 from 10 employees and 20 Amazon-branded delivery vans plus 10 more rental vans generating over $3 million in yearly revenue.

Noman Shaheer (‘19 Ph.D. international business) won the Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award during the Academy of International Business Conference 2020. The award recognizes superior doctoral dissertations in the field of international business.

Will Sturtevant (‘17 MBA) and his wife welcomed their son, Wesley Powell Sturtevant, on Oct. 19, 2019.

Charles H. Thomas III, CFP® (‘15 MBA) launched Intrepid Eagle Finance, a new virtual financial services firm that provides comprehensive financial advice to Christian families.

Johannes Zeisel (‘19 MIB) finished the MIB program in 2019 and is currently pursuing an internship program with Continental in the intelligent transportation systems department in Munich, Germany. In fall 2020, he will continue studying at ESCP Europe in Paris for his second year of the double-degree program.

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India Wells (‘12 international business and management science) graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management with an MBA in May 2020.

Riley Gambrell (‘20 management) got married May 8, 2020 to Daniel Gambrell (’19 operations and supply chain). Their wedding was much smaller than originally planned because of COVID-19; they moved their big celebration to later in the year.

J. Ben Jackson III (’20 MBA) was selected among The State’s 20 under 40 for 2020.

Allison E. Malone (‘20 marketing) recently accepted a job as an account executive at New Day USA in Fulton, Maryland.

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2020–21 YOUNG ALUMNI BOARD MEMBERS Nick Annan ('08 accounting, '14 MBA) Elliott Davis Lexington, South Carolina

Marin Duby ('10 economics and marketing) The Boston Consulting Group Plano, Texas

Sarah Hazelton ('13 accounting, '14 MACC) Wells Fargo Securities Charlotte, North Carolina

Paige Bachety ('12 accounting and economics) Bloomberg LP New York City, New York

Ryan Everett ('05 finance and real estate) Modern Woodmen of America Columbia, South Carolina

Yogini Intwala ('12 management and marketing) Equus Workforce Solutions Columbia, South Carolina

Adrianne Beasley ('05 finance) SC Council on Competitiveness Columbia, South Carolina

Anthony Fontana ('17 management science) Vantage Point Acquisitions Atlanta, Georgia

Justin Jensen ('13 finance and international business) Oliver Wyman New York City, NY

Jason Blanco ('16 management science) Tableau Software Washington, District of Columbia Benjamin Bowles ('15 IMBA) Prysmain Group Columbia, South Carolina Dillon Chewning ('15 accounting and finance) Northwestern Mutual Columbia, South Carolina Nicholas Cottrill ('17 finance, '19 MBA) PricewaterhouseCoopers Charlotte, North Carolina Rhett Craig ('09 UofSC mathematics, '15 MBA) Avison Young Greenville, South Carolina

Danielle Gleaton ('06 international business and management) Equifax Atlanta, Georgia

Brendan Nagle ('15 finance) Wells Fargo Securities Charlotte, North Carolina Amber Neville ('08 finance and real estate) Deloitte Consulting Washington, District of Columbia Kyle Ritter ('13 finance and management) Colonial Life Columbia, South Carolina Jessica Sharp ('11 marketing) Sharp Brain Consulting Greenville, South Carolina

Devon McGee ('10 economics and finance) Kennedy & Company Charleston, South Carolina

Jamesha Gore-Coggin (‘13 finance and marketing) State Farm Myrtle Beach, South Carolina John Gregory ('09 UofSC engineering, '17 MBA) NAI Columbia Columbia, South Carolina Ali Groves ('16 finance) Cintas Columbia, South Carolina

Daniel Spieler ('16 accounting and management science) Merck New York City, New York

Catherine Mubarak ('08 accounting and management, '13 UofSC J.D.) Richland County Public Defender Office Columbia, South Carolina

Shelton Wilkerson ('14 management) Fortive Seattle, Washington

Kevin Murphy ('10 management and real estate) Northwood Ravin Charlotte, North Carolina

Joe Wright ('12 finance and marketing) Ernst & Young Charlotte, North Carolina

Laura Musselman ('11 international business and marketing) K&L Gates Charleston, South Carolina

Clay Hammond ('12 management science) Printpack Columbia, South Carolina

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Lauren Truslow has had a knack for business development since she and her husband, Neal, created a business and business plan for an entrepreneurship class years before they were married while students at the Moore School. Almost a decade later, Truslow used those skills when she became a barre3 franchisee in Columbia, South Carolina. After successfully opening two barre3 studios, Truslow began her own franchise, a nail salon called The Nail barre Columbia. Truslow joined the Moore School’s Business Partnership Foundation Board of Advisors in 2020 to share her tips for success with future entrepreneurs and Moore School students. Read more about Lauren at https://bit.ly/truslow_moore.

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