Hosted by Kasie Whitener, Moore School clinical assistant professor of management, this podcast covers a range of topics on business, education and community engagement involving faculty, students and alumni of the Moore School.
In this semester's entrepreneurship consulting class, Dr. Geoffrey Graybeal is helping students and an alumni founder work out the details of Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) deals for athletes.
What are the symptoms of a corrupt government? Are we seeing them in our own U.S. government? Dr. Chris Yenkey shares his research on the topic.
Let’s talk about college tuition. How it’s gone up, how students and their parents pay for it, and what state legislatures are doing to try to reign it in. Dr. Lois Miller is an assistant professor in the Economics Department in the Darla Moore School of Business who researches topics in higher education, with a focus on how access to, and resources within, postsecondary education can affect inequality and social mobility.
Caroline Crowder is a two-time alum of the Moore School and now an instructor in the Management Department teaching entrepreneurship. Her journey is one of discovery far and wide and recognition of unique opportunities to learn, grow, and teach. In this episode she shares her story and the mission and vision of the Boyd Innovation Center Powered by GrowCo.
On Thursday, February 6, 2025, the Moore School hosted Business of the Game at Williams Brice Stadium in part to introduce a number of Moore School student athletes to potential employers. The event was previewed in this episode of Moore Impact when panelists Lisa Burgess and Briana Reckling talked about the skills they learned in competition that have helped them in their business careers.
The Moore School’s Office of Career Management focuses on the critical metric of job placement and assists our constituents in several critical ways. In this episode, Jamie Peebles, Employer Relations Manager, talks about the way OCM identifies right-fit companies to partner with and encourages those firms to participate in a variety of activities.
Episode 1 featured Dr. Orgul Ozturk of the Economics Department and the S.C. Economic Policy Center. She co-authored a paper demonstrating the long-term positive outcomes for students in the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP). Introduced in South Carolina in 2007, TAP is a national model of teacher performance pay, which embeds incentives for teacher performance alongside professional development, the potential for career advancement, observations of teacher performance, and test-score based accountability.
The Office of Alumni Engagement launched the Moore School Mentor Network in 2020 and this past semester paired 171 students with alumni for mentoring. In this episode, Corey Mikels talks about how the program works, the advantages it offers our students, and the rewarding experience for alumni who engage,
Kacie Ingram is a USC alumna and Senior Career Coach at the Moore School's Office of Career Management (OCM). Dedicated services to get students ready for their professional journey, there's no "need" the OCM can't fulfill.
In this episode, Caroline Crowder takes us through her journey from double Moore School alumna to non-profit Executive Director. She's building the Columbia, S.C. entrepreneurial ecosystem one program, one founder, one day at a time.
Dr. Orgul Ozturk is the chair of the Economics Department and this fall launched the newest center on campus, SC Economic Policy and Innovation Center (SC EPIC). She talks in this episode about translating research into usable policy analysis and recommendations.
Dr. Sanjay Ahire talks about the Operations and Supply Chain Management major's surge in popularity, racking up successes and gaining recognition.
USC Alumni Aaron and Candice Hark visited the Faber Entrepreneurship Center in the fall semester of 2022 as part of the Faber Speaker Series. Together, they gave the Maxient story.
Dr. Audrey Korsgaard has been at the Moore School since 1991 and shares in this episode her priorities now that she's Senior Associate Dean for Research and Academics, and Professor of Management.
Dr. Deb Hazzard introduces us to the work of the Office of Access, Opportunity, and Community Engagement including the Rising Scholars program, Business Success Academy, and Power Forward. They're the busiest summer office at the Moore School.
After one year at the helm, Dean Rohit Verma talks about building on the Moore School's strengths and pursuing continued excellence in classrooms, research, and community.
Dr. Joel Wooten teaches in management science, a major usually thought of as the data-side of operations, but Joel's passion is innovation. In this episode, he talks about getting to the heart of the question before ideating answers, student projects, job prospects for management science majors, and a really cool new class that will follow a rock band for a full semester.
The Master of Human Resources program is a 16-month program that includes early onboarding and a cohort structure that fully engages students to ensure success. Dr. Maz Aziz has been Managing Director of the MHR program at the Moore School for three years and sees more growth, innovation, and engaged community partners on the horizon.
Dr. Jason DeBacker teaches macroeconomics, a required class for undergraduates in economics, and this year will teach a political economy undergraduate course. Dr. DeBacker’s classroom is focused on connecting the news students read each day with the mathematical practices that influence political initiatives.
The finance major is the most popular degree program at the Moore School, making up one-third of the 1500 students in any given cohort. In this episode, Dr. Eric Powers talks about the wide range of opportunity in undergraduate studies including the Finance Scholars program, what’s exciting about studying finance, and what’s on the horizon for the 2024-25 school year.
In this episode, we discuss how the Moore School influenced entrepreneur Elena Arecco Bridgmon’s career, how it set her up for success, why she decided to strike out on her own, and what she hopes to do through LUMO.
In this episode, Mara Zepeda and Kasie Whitener talk about the recently concluded first-ever domestic onsite Maymester through the Honors College, a class dedicated to examining the economic model in place in Lake City, South Carolina, under the stewardship of philanthropist and business school namesake, Darla Moore.
Artfields is the 10-day annual event that transforms Lake City, South Carolina into an art town. In visiting Artfields, our Moore School faculty and staff hoped to get a glimpse into the event’s breadth and depth.
The Moore School’s entrepreneurship program took center stage on April 19, 2024 in the second half of the Moore School 50th Anniversary of International Business event. The stage was Proving Ground, a pitch competition for student entrepreneurs. One of the organizers and hosts was the Outreach Director for the Faber Entrepreneurship Center, Dr. Geoffrey Graybeal. In this episode the topics are bringing more applicable learning experiences around entrepreneurship into the classroom and helping students envision changing the world through business.
This episode defines sustainability beyond its buzzword status and talks about the efforts the Moore School is making to ensure students are aware of the required skills, metrics, and vocabulary around sustainability initiatives. The Moore School’s lead on sustainability is Dr. Kealy Carter, Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing.
The Moore School celebrated 50 years of international business this year and one of the professors in that department is Dr. Dirk Brown whose special interest is international entrepreneurship. In this interview, we focus on Dr. Brown’s work with the McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise and its ability to bridge siloed schools and departments with a common interest in entrepreneurship.
The Moore School’s Faber Center for Entrepreneurship presents its annual pitch competition, Proving Ground, in conjunction with the April 19, 2024 celebration of 50 years of international business at the Moore School. In studio with Dr. Whitener on April 9, 2024 were two semifinalists for Proving Ground, seniors in the business school who represented their teams in the interview.