# Events

Data: 11-01-2025 21:43:41

## Lista de Vídeos

1. [Dean’s Reception: USC Marshall School of Business & USC Leventhal School of Accounting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbf5g3la44)
2. [USC Marshall School of Business 2023 Commencement Ceremony (Graduate)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW_rkYOISPI)
3. [[Private video]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAYmf94M99U)
4. [[Private video]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QDeQAClQtM)
5. [[Private video]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmeU_wN2AXQ)
6. [Installation Ceremony for Dean Ellis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQZwtMxG0c)
7. [USC Marshall 2024 Commencement Sizzle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BtSCbhoGHs)

## Transcrições

### Dean’s Reception: USC Marshall School of Business & USC Leventhal School of Accounting
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbf5g3la44

Idioma: en

all right welcome everyone
my name is xi jin king and welcome to
today's dean's reception
hosted by usc marshall school of
business and leventhal school of
accounting
today we have jeff garrett the dean of
marshall school of business
we also have dean william holder who is
the dean of the
um love and law school of accounting and
we also have ramandeep randawa
the vice dean of undergraduate programs
at any point during this webinar you may
submit your questions using the q a
feature down below
and with that said i will go ahead and
pass this to deangear
thanks eugene and welcome everybody
uh welcome to this very unusual
weekend for those of you who are not in
los
angeles i can tell you that it's a it's
a lovely full
weekend a little cooler and cooler than
it's been we're out of the heat wave
although i think the heat's coming back
next
week so everything about um
this semester obviously is unique and
unprecedented and certainly this event
is but
i'm i'm really pleased uh to be here i'm
pleased to welcome you all
even virtually to the school and i'm
really pleased to be
sharing this zoom stage with bill holder
and
ramen so we're going to divide our
remarks
into three parts and try to get them all
done
by about the bottom of the hour so that
we can hear from all of you
and i think everyone now is experienced
enough in zoom to know that you can use
the
the q a function if you want to ask us
any questions so
so without further ado let me start and
i'm going to try to do
uh mostly big big picture stuff so that
bill and ramen can dive in a little bit
more deeply but
let me start with my own personal
transition i was just told by sujeen
that in fact it is my
100th day as dean of the school
under normal circumstances i would have
joked that
first hundred days is much less
meaningful in a university environment
than it is in the real world of business
because university time moves more
slowly
i can tell you that in the pandemic
that's not the case and university time
is at least
as fast as real time and so
i in a session i was in earlier today
somebody misspoke and said it was my
first hundred years as dean of the
school i can tell you on some occasions
it feels like that
um if i think about the my transition
from a personal standpoint
i've said in in several contexts that i
think
my transition has been sped up by the
pandemic
in one important respect i think i
understand the job
the business side of my job as dean
better than i would have
under other circumstances only because i
just had to be involved
in so many important decisions um
that that feel like they're taking place
on on a daily
basis i mean one example of that is that
the
the deans at usc meet with the provost i
think it's either typically
uh once a month or at maximum once every
two weeks
right now we're meeting three times a
week and that's been the case for the
last six months so
so i think i understand the job uh
more than i would have under other
circumstances but but that's come at the
expense of something that's at least as
important which is the people
you know universities are people-centric
organizations
and even if you understand the structure
of
of an industry if you don't know the
people in a specific organization
you're not position to to do your job as
effectively as possible so
i'm really feeling that disconnect
between um
my understanding of the job and my
understanding of the people i'm doing
all i can
to reduce that asymmetry by meeting
um with among other groups lots and lots
of students
as frequently as i can in a zoom context
um and by meeting with people
uh stakeholders of the school including
all of you as parents and
i just encourage anyone who wants to
have a conversation with me on any topic
please just send me email
i'll respond and we'll set something up
um
the questions no doubt that are on your
mind uh how's the fall been going what
does the spring look like and what about
the world post pandemic
so let me address each of those very
briefly
the first first thing to say about the
fall is that we just did
a survey of all of our students
undergraduate and graduate
and let me summarize what you found i i
think
i think their findings were to be
expected
but they're important first is that we
asked our students
how their zoom classes were going and we
also asked them
how their zoom non-classes were going
that is their interactions
with professors their building of
community with other students the
networking that business
students do and the the students told us
that
in class on zoom classes
are going better than on zoom outside
the classroom
and i think um i think we would have
anticipated that
the second thing that's evident in our
student survey
is that our undergraduates are feeling
more challenged by this environment than
our graduate students and i think that's
understandable
uh just in terms of experience
our graduate students have more
experience they're more self-reliant
they're more able to be self-motivating
that maybe their personal circumstances
are different from our undergraduates
so graduate students have been doing
better on average than undergraduates
and i think although we didn't break it
out this way i suspect
the challenges have been greatest for
our first year students they just have
the hardest transition
so we've got to be really mindful of
that and when i think about being
mindful of the challenges facing our
students
i i'm i'm really thinking about mental
health and wellness and
and usc like all the leading
universities in the us has put an
enormous amount of attention
on mental health and wellness recently
but
i think we need to work backwards from
mental health
which is really the
symptom to the causes and and the causes
are the stresses that our students are
under and i think those stresses
which are about competitiveness um
social media pressures all the stuff
that you know about as parents
have just been exacerbated in this
pandemic environment and our remote
semester so
how should we respond to that um i think
from
the administration side certainly i
preach that i preach two words
flexibility and compassion
everything that's going on is
unprecedented we can't anticipate all of
it
so we've obviously got to be flexible in
everything we do but equally we've got
to be compassionate because we we've
just got to understand that the the
the circumstance we we can't anticipate
the circumstances that everyone's
confronting
but they're all real and we've just got
to we've just got to figure out a way to
respond as compassionately
as we can and the other thing that i
tell our students
because it's so important for me too is
that
we've just got to be monitoring how
we're all doing as individuals and
understand that we've got to be able to
switch off and recover
i i remember a conversation i had with a
leading executive six or seven years ago
when uh this person asked me how i was
thinking about
my deanship this was at wharton at the
time and i said to him
uh it's a marathon not a sprint and he
immediately corrected me
and and said no in the modern world
every day's a sprint
every week's a sprint life is a series
of sprints
and the only way that you can continue
to sprint successfully
is if you recover now i think we all
recover in different ways but it's just
so
important that we do that beginning with
sleep and and certainly i'm sure
you all say that to your children and we
say it to them all the time
so that's the fall in class has been
doing better than
out of the class and we have to be
really concerned about the wellness of
our students
that's the fall what might the spring
look like well the first thing to say is
like all of you like all of our students
we want to be back on campus
but being realistic about the spring i i
think it's likely to be
a hybrid semester where the university
wants to be really agile
to create more meaningful online
experiences for students who can't be on
campus
and then to scale up on campus
activities if and as the public health
conditions
allow and and speaking of that um
you know obviously the university has
the
the health and safety health safety and
well-being of everyone our faculty and
staff as well as our students as its
highest priority and and the university
will make prudent
decisions based on that but but the
pandemic's also been
a real lesson for me certainly in
american federalism you know we have the
federal government we have
the governor in california we have the
city of
la but but the most important authority
for the university right now is the
county of los angeles
and the county of los angeles uh
currently says or
said for the whole semester that a usc
can't be on campus except for essential
workers
so our ability to to execute a hybrid
spring ultimately will
be be dependent on the decision of the
los angeles county
uh where the county health department is
thinking is monitoring obviously very
closely what's happening
on the ground with the virus so
summary for the spring we all want to be
back on campus
it'll likely be a hybrid environment and
one in which we want to be able to pivot
as quickly as we can to dial up in
person
as it's allowed and to accommodate uh
people who
need to be online as best as we can um
let me now go to the future the
post-pandemic future
of business education you know my
overall view on the crisis
is that it's accelerating trends that
were already there
um and i think that's i think that's
true generally for the crisis but i
think it's true
for higher education as well
and obviously you know the the big theme
in higher education has been some
combination of affordability and access
where both of those things have been
challenged and
i think usc has done a really great job
on both sides on the access side for
example of the fact that
usc has many more for first-generation
college students than its peer
institutions
um the fact that we admit so many
transfer students from community
colleges
uh is is really uh something to be proud
of
uh with respect to access with respect
to affordability
um usc has has a really aggressive
financial aid policy that
president carol fold extended in the
fall
to all families with family incomes
under 80 000
i commend her for that if i think about
where marshall is placed you know i
think the future of business
education is really good and one of the
reasons for that
is that our value proposition to you and
to our students
is good business schools more than the
rest of the university have
always been concerned about career
pathways for our students
and the career outcomes for martial
students are
really really good and that positions
its well as well for the future
but i think we can't ever rest on our
laurels where the value of our education
is concerned we just need continually to
do better
and if i think about the opportunities
to do better going forward let me just
mention
three things that again i think uh
trends that were already there but are
being accelerated
and emphasized by the pandemic the first
one
is tech-enabled education or as one of
my dean colleagues is calling it now
digitally infused education in the past
decade
usc has become a real leader in online
degree programs and certainly marshall
has been in the vanguard there too
but there was this kind of bifurcation
we thought there was something called on
campus and then something
that we something new that we called
online now and into the future i think
there's going to be much more of a
continuum there
that is the technology will be uh it
will be infused into
everything that we do um and that it
will it'll
allow us if we do uh online and digital
things well
it'll allow us to double down on what's
invaluable about an on-campus experience
so
so i don't see an either or where online
and on campus is concerned i see a both
end
and if you think about the value of on
campus
i think a lot of that is going to be
about or an increasing proportion of it
is going to be about experiential
learning learning by studying is really
really important degrees are
foundational the skills you learn our
students learn in the classroom
are absolutely essential but i know that
our students
really get excited and by the way so too
will their future employers
if our students get the opportunity to
learn by
doing as well as learn by studying and
when i think about learn
learning by doing it's really about
integrating and applying
in and working in teams integrating what
you learn in the classroom
applying what you learn in the classroom
and then working in teams
on real problems in the real world in
real time
and marshall has been really good at
that on many dimensions
i think entrepreneurship is an obvious
example but i think we can
extend it into the future for example
you know one of the things that the
world of big data
provides us as an opportunity is that
companies can
can say to our students here's a big
data set we've got a business problem
have at it and come up with a solution
for us
you wouldn't normally think about data
analysis as being experiential but i
think it
it already is and it can increasingly be
in the future so
my second trend for business education
is it's going to be more experiential
um the last thing that i that i want to
say as a as an ongoing trend and
accelerating trend is lifelong learning
degrees are foundational they're going
to continue to be that way but
our students are going to have long
careers and the and the jobs they
perform and the skills they need are
just going to change dramatically
it's a cliche but it's true most of the
jobs that our current students
will have in the future haven't even
haven't even been invented yet
which means it's really hard for us to
uh
give them the the specific skills
they'll need for jobs of the future
so i think this provides a wonderful
opportunity for us
and it's the lifelong learning value
proposition to all our current students
come to the school today to get a
foundation that's going to start you
onto a great career but keep coming back
to the school
to refresh your skills to develop new
skills in a world of lifelong learning
and that of course will allow us to
increase our engagement
with our students as they become alumni
um the the trojan family is a reality i
think the
the bonds among the alumni base at usc
and between our alums and the university
are just stronger than
any other university i've ever been
associated with
but we can strengthen those bonds even
further
by continuing to add value throughout
our current students lives and
throughout their careers through
lifelong learning so
i think i'm going to stop there um i've
said something about the fall something
about the street
spring and something about the
post-pandemic world i know bill
and raman want to uh dive in a little
more deeply on
some specific topics so i think i'm
going to pass the baton to
my friend and colleague bill holder the
dean of the 11th old school bill
jeff thank you and let me add my welcome
to the parents and families that you
earlier expressed
we recognize the great trust and
commitment you've made
in usc by choosing to send your sons and
daughters here
and we aspire to provide our students
your sons and daughters
with an educational experience that is
second to none
that goal has never been more important
and central to our mission
now than during this pandemic
we have assembled a faculty that boasts
world-class scholars
and because accounting is an applied
discipline
many individuals with a solid command of
the practice of accountancy
and we believe that combination of the
academic and professional practitioners
in our educational experience provides a
rich enduring
education for our students
we too as jeff indicated
are most anxious to return to
a return to normal our beautiful campus
filled with students and all the
vibrancy and life that
implies but until we can
however our faculty staff and
administration
have worked diligently to maintain the
exceptional quality of education that is
expected
at usc we're using technology in
increasingly creative and enriching
fashion
to infuse our classes with educational
experiences
that were either infeasible or
impracticable in
years past just
a couple of examples of those and and
some of these are designed to try to
maintain
the personal relationships that were
possible and naturally happen
in an on-campus environment so examples
of what we do now are using
virtual small group rooms during our
class periods
so that students can interact with each
other in small groups to solve problems
to communicate with each other
to develop an understanding with the of
each other
and develop some of the appreciation for
other cultures and other backgrounds
that uh i believe to be essential
in in preparing for the world that they
will the world of work
which they will they will encounter
we've also learned
that we can have many executives in the
classroom at far
lower cost to the executives with equal
benefit to our students
in a much more efficient fashion so even
if someone was located locally in los
angeles to come down and address a class
uh was probably a half a day undertaking
which would include
lunch with the professors and all of
that now
we can have those executives visit our
classroom for 20 25 minutes give a very
pointed and direct presentation about
some content specific issue
that's being considered uh a good
example
uh this last spring one of our or some
this last fall pardon me in summer
um one of our 11th hole alums
who was the cfo of ford motor company
came and talked a bit about having to
change on
on a dime from making automobiles to
making ventilators when the
pandemic began its run but that
individual even though
may live thousands of miles from los
angeles can join our classes for the
same 20 or 25 minutes
that someone locally can do as well we
plan to take advantage of technology in
that way
to broaden deepen and make more common
the
the experience of meeting our alums our
the the execs and professional leaders
uh that they can begin a relationship
with in that fashion
time precludes me from going on with
additional uh
examples of the things we're doing but
one last thought on that point
and this is based on many conversations
i've had
with business and professional leaders
and according to them it's becoming
clear
that commerce will probably not return
to pr to pre pandemic normal
and uh the the the evolution
that jeff alluded to that we're uh
undergoing is going to affect business
and commerce worldwide
and if that's true the changes i've just
described that we're doing here at usc
i think will also help provide an
excellent preparation
for our students for the world of work
which they are likely to encounter
uh changing the subject for just a
moment i'm so proud i can't
take these opportunities without talking
a bit about our faculty and the quality
of our programs
and i'll take just a moment to do that
in terms of rankings with our peer
institutions within the last year
um the uh tfe times formerly the
financial engineer
listed our accounting program as number
one in the nation
the accounting path uh citing linkedin
indicates that we're the best school for
big four professional service firm
recruiting in the united states
and other widely cited polls including
the accounting path as well as u.s news
a moral report
lists us easily in the top 10
for both undergraduate and graduate
programs respectively
recruiter demand for our students is
another indicator of excellence i
believe
and i think it's fair to say that demand
for our students
is deep and broad the last year for
which we have data our
undergraduate placement rates
approximated 90 percent
recognized and those of the students
seeking jobs
probably another 10 of our students
decided to pursue
graduate education our domestic graduate
students our master of accounting and
master of business tax student
placement metrics for the last year gra
ending in june of 2020 was approximately
97
and i think those kinds of programs
represent
excellent options for students uh
as there are possibilities for
progressive degrees
we've instituted a master of accounting
with data and analytics and just this
year
a master of business tax with data and
analytics so i think we're working hard
to keep our curriculum state of the art
and thereby attractive to uh to those
that employ our students
and finally just a word about our trojan
family and loyal alumni
um we have probably four or five boards
of advisors for various purposes
uh in the leventhal school and to see
the dedication of our alums that give
back freely of their time
their talent their their their knowledge
is uh is extraordinary indeed
we recently started a recent alumni
board of advisors
students our former students who
graduated within the last
10 years and and we find that the advice
they provide us on what we're doing in
our curriculum how well it fits with
their initial job
uh requirements as well as how it
prepares them for their
moderation and practice uh is just
excellent guidance for us so this
lifelong relationship to which jeff
alluded earlier
i think has many facets and and
we're so blessed to have our alum
supporters and stakeholders
continuing to make that investment in
the quality of our program
so to the parents uh we appreciate the
trust that you've placed in us
as educators and administrators and that
we know that we
please know that we value this and that
we'll care for your children
our doors are always open to meet with
any student on any topic at any time
and in this particularly stressful time
i hope that resonates and you encourage
your children
to to seek our advice and counsel those
of our advisors those of
our wellness people anytime they're
feeling some
degree of stress or that their
their educational experience is not what
they would
what they would prefer it to be with
that i'll thank you and
pass the baton to rahman
thanks bill welcome to
all the parents um i i'm glad i have the
opportunity to talk to you but
i really wish we could do this in person
so i could get to meet you and speak to
you it's so great to have your
kids here learning at usc
and i have met with
a couple of hundreds of them already
since i took on this job a few months
ago
and they are working very hard it's very
clear to me that
they're working really hard they're
exceptional kids one of the reason i
took on this role
is we just have amazing students our
undergraduate student
body is second to none they're amazing
students and
and you i can tell when i talk to them
now even in this environment they are
working really hard
they are learning a lot as well i have
to add that just
sort of they are talking about i was on
a webinar with
uh we brought several of our kids
together and
i believe kids learn a lot from their
peers so we had a group of kids
and we had a discussion around how to
succeed in this environment
and they talked about how recorded
lectures the fact that they can
listen to people like faculty even after
class that flexibility
is just they really appreciate that the
fact that they can speed up some people
speak a little slowly so the fact that
they can speed up the faculty and get to
exactly the point where they want to
hear it again that is invaluable
now this struck me the next part just
really struck me they
they all mentioned every that officers
with faculty
are something everyone should try and i
i've been teaching
uh for like 15 plus years now and i was
shocked that students would not
you know that that's news to student but
this is advice that has to be given
and like students are really coming in
and so officers is really one-on-one
time and this is what bill was talking
about
faculty right now are in this
environment and
it's really easy to just click on a
faculty zoom room and go there and talk
to the faculty
now why would you want to talk to
faculty we have some of the most
amazing faculty in our school
just before i took this job i was the
department chair of data sciences and
operations department
and a lot of that job involved
recruiting faculty
i assure you we have faculty who could
be faculty anywhere
in the world wherever they chose to be
but they
chose to come to marshall to usc because
we have
such a fantastic environment our
students
are amazing one of our faculty my
colleague professor kimon drakopolis he
was working with the greek government
the prime minister's task force in
protecting greece from
their borders from kovid he was there
the whole summer and fall
he came back two weeks ago to teach his
class he wanted to be here he wanted
he's teaching undergrads he's teaching
some of your kids right now he's
teaching the core operations class and i
believe jeff is going to
do a webinar with him sometime in
next month so you can actually listen to
him and how they
protected the country from coving now
faculty bill talked about working hard
and students are working hard faculty
are working really hard
at making learning interesting so
one of our professor emily nix she built
a light board to lit
like not literally but figuratively
bring her economics equations to life to
get the student interest
going we have some amazing classes brand
new classes that faculty are building
for spring so we have classes on
business of digital hollywood we have a
class cutting edge class on business
analytics we have a class on happiness
and well-being in the marketplace
all these classes just now on last
friday we i was part of the curriculum
committee we approved those classes
they're going to be there for spring
those of you who who whose kids just
started these
these classes will still exist as they
go through in the next couple of years
and take them
but please encourage your kids to take
them if they're already
upper divisional we have in
the spirit of new classes we marshall
has always marched in 11th hall have
always been known for being
global so we've been leaders on that
front even in this environment we have
yesterday there was a webinar on how
we've rethought redesigned our
global experience our
link and tie classes for spring so
they're completely redesigned
and just in many ways they are
in many aspects they're better than what
they were before earlier these
travel classes were a curriculum you're
teaching people and then
students are taken for a one week trip
because that's how it works but now that
global
aspect is integrated into the entire
course over the semester
and one of the cool thing is these are
like it costs us to
put together this class but it's free
for the students it's we wanted to make
it available
for everybody so the first year students
this is in spring
i i would request you to let your kids
know that these classes are great
classes they should take them
so you're going to hear a few more of
these like
i need your help so one of the things
we're doing so much here that sometimes
we worry that
your kids are not getting that message
from us there's overload of information
so
anything here that suits like please
tell your kids that these things exist
so that they can actually do them
careers i want to just quickly careers
are so important to us
and for the students just being in a
business school right this is what it's
about we
want that outcome and our career team is
actually the best equipped and
in march like they were among the first
to completely switch virtual because all
companies are recruiting
uh virtually networking is happening
virtually so
that's perhaps the most robust setup we
have
and i'm in constant touch with my peers
across the country all top schools
and i keep an eye on how they are doing
things and
we are right there we are
we have just this summer we started with
a new platform which is the leading
platform for jobs
handshake so make sure your kid has
access to handshake if not let us know
they should already have received
multiple emails
we have this amazing series which again
i'm going to
request you to tell your kids about it's
called pizza and professions
and so usually you need pizza to bring
you know kids in
and actually i have pizza with evening
in the
family today as well so pizza works but
the idea here is to bring students in
and showcase a certain profession so
last week we had
uh or actually this week earlier this
week we had the cfo of starbucks
come in and talk about what does it mean
to be a cfo what is that career path
in a couple of weeks we have the chief
data scientist of yelp coming in
we also have next week i believe the
chief operating officer of proterra who
was also the vp at tesla
so we have a lot of events
going and we actually raffle out a pizza
or an amazon gift card so we
didn't let go of that pizza in this
environment um
we have we had yesterday wednesday a
diversity and veteran focused networking
event where we had 40 plus employers
including amazon boeing big4 so
really on the career side we had 70
events already and this is week 8.
so we're really geared up there
a few things i i would say is um
um just something that doesn't get
enough
attention is we have a lot of peer
tutors so we have a lot of resources i
you heard the president talk about it uh
jeff talked about it bill talked about
it
so we actually have something very cool
which not anyone
not everybody knows about which are peer
tutors we call them so these are
students who've gone through some of our
more challenging core classes and they
offer tutoring for free for your
students and
so basically come learn from a peer who
succeeded who scored an a
at this class so we have that i i would
um
we have a lot of um virtual activities
where
it's really a lot of fun and engaging
content we have like group fitness
exercises
going on book club it's not just all fun
there's also like southby art institute
in london they had a talk they have a
talk uh next week on art markets
there's just a lot going on and i want
to come back to
mental health for a second i mean bill
and jeff both said this your child are
our responsibility if you're concerned
about your kid
let us know so we have a lot of
resources but a lot of
sort of we need to make sure they get uh
directed towards those in need
so we have this let's talk initiative
which is just a 30 minute individual
conversation that a student can have
with a counselor you can go online
and just connect and the student can set
that up
immediately so i mean mental health is
something we've been looking at for a
long time that this is something
important especially with covet now
uh it really um it's important for us to
keep an eye and we are doing our best
and we could really use your uh support
and your collaboration your partnership
on that dimension
i'll just close the last thing i'll say
is i have a nine-year-old
you can see her painting in the back
there so you know being a parent is
difficult so it's uh but i do when i
look at all your names on the side i
don't see your pictures but i i really
look up to you in a way i wish 10 years
from now i
am a parent and i'm in one of these
sessions with the dean and my kid is in
college
so congratulations to you for doing such
a successful job
in raising your kid and i'll stop there
and pass it back to
jeff or sujin whoever thanks
thanks ramon uh and what a wonderful
place to end yes thank you and
congratulations to all the parents
uh i'm sure you're all so proud of your
student children and and you should be
so proud of them
um i can see that we've had some
questions coming in and i i think we
might have had
uh got an inkling of some things some
parents were concerned about
uh or wanted to ask us about in advance
so
soojin i'll throw it back to you um what
what questions
have been coming in what should we talk
about and maybe i can traffic cop them
uh
i'll try to answer the easy ones and and
send the harder ones to bill and roman
sure absolutely and again as you
mentioned jeff
we are still receiving questions so you
may submit them using the q
a feature at the bottom of your zoom
window so our first question here is
um are there is there any discussions or
considerations
for a pass or no pass option for this
semester or for next semester
yeah so i can i i can take that one
because it's been a conversation
among the deans and with the provost in
the past couple of weeks and
i can tell you my position uh
which i think you know i wasn't
obviously i was not
at marshall when decisions were made
about how to deal with grading in the
spring
semester but um i i have thought about
this issue in the past and i was at
another university where we were dealing
with this in the spring my my feeling is
that
we should for golfers out there this is
a world where there should be mulligans
and not one mulligan but lots of
mulligans for our students that is that
you know many of our students will want
to get grades for classes
uh to improve their gpas to position
them for careers to position them for
graduate school all of that stuff and we
shouldn't get in the way of that
but for students who want to take a a
class
pass no credit we should give them them
that opportunity too
and and we should extend the opportunity
i think throughout the semester all the
way
to when they receive grades that's not
that's not official
university policy yet but but i think
that was the
i made that case in a dean's meeting
recently that bill participated in
and i think bill that was the that was
the consensus position it's not
formal university policy yet but it's
certainly we
back to my compassion word i think this
incredibly we need to exercise
compassion and this is one way to do it
am i overstating the case bill from our
dean's meeting with the provost
i don't think you are at all that was
certainly the conclusion that i came to
following the meeting the consensus as
you described it
pardon me our next question here is is
there any plan for usc to lobby local
government to
allow a hybrid option as soon as
possible
uh that's that's also been a
conversation among the deans and with
the provost recently
um i you know that just to state
maybe a fact that not everyone knows i
am my understanding is that
usc is the largest private sector
employer in los
angeles and you'd think that would give
you some political clout
um i also think we we need to remember
that
the there are a lot of public
universities but very few private
universities in california
um and and i'm sure as some of the
parents already know
the california state system has already
decided to be fully remote for the whole
academic year that is for the spring
semester as well
you know as as i stated as i think we
all agree every everyone wants to be
on back on campus as soon as
is practical and that means as soon as
the public health conditions will allow
and that means as soon as the county of
los angeles will allow us to do it
so so i think the university
does need to and will likely exercise
its political heft but of course the
the overall point that the university
wants to make is that
we are in a position safely
and with all health considerations taken
into account
to execute a lot of our educational
mission um
and you know that that that's the case
that we'll make it is obviously
uh ultimately dependent both on on the
the course of the virus in southern
california and the decisions that the
public health authorities make but
but i do think we have a you know we
have usc has the capacity
to implement a really safe hybrid
semester
and i'm sure that capacity will be well
well represented in the in the corridors
of political power
thank you can you talk about some of the
diversity equity and inclusion efforts
relating to students that are happening
at the moment
um i could but but i'd love to get raman
and bill back into the conversation bill
you're unmuted would you like to go
first i know
i know uh diversity equity inclusion has
been a big passion of viewers at leaven
though
yes it is it's something that's become
quite central over the last few years
and it remains of crucial importance to
us
um i i think the the programs were
devoted to diversity equity and
inclusion have a lot of facets
they range from recruiting faculty
to recruiting students to treating
students well when they're on campus
and making sure they're they feel
included and part of the mainstream
that's even harder now to try and
accomplish
we run a program called the leventhal
leadership program
it's easy for us to do because they
teach
beginning accounting in the community
colleges and so we have a relationship
with several community colleges and
their professors in accounting
that when they identify those professors
there are identify student doing well in
accounting
they explore with them they like the
interest that the student might have in
a career in accounting
and assuming that the student has the
interest
uh they provide us with names contact
information
and we recruit probably we probably our
program
has maybe 45 50 of those students that
come to campus for a series of saturdays
to learn about
accounting education the accounting
profession career opportunities
the the the nuts and bolts i guess
of being an accounting major and and
then
exploiting that throughout your career
we recruit to usc marshall and leventhal
usually eight or nine of those students
each year and when you think about the
size of our undergraduate program that
moves the needle a little bit
but one of the things we really learned
is once those young people come to
campus
we need to have all kinds of programs of
support and engagement
so that they feel included that they're
not just tacked on and
you know their sink or swim kind of mode
when they arrive here and our faculty
has been very generous of their time
our students have been very generous of
their time
and and energy to work to extend
uh involvement to uh and opportunities
for involvement to those folks
we obviously have student organizations
alpha as for is the uh
latino professionals in finance and
accounting
we have a student group of naba the
national association
of black accountants and so there are
ample opportunities
for them to get involved and we try to
encourage them to do so
but again that that's a challenge in a
uh
in this pandemic social isolation
that we now exist we have a number of
other programs and
and we're committed to those and we've
got a long way to go
uh but but that's essentially uh you
know
my take on i guess jeff and the
reasonable confines of time
yeah so um maybe that one out a little
bit rahman you
pointed out to me and i i saw the
statistical readout
that we have now one in five of our
undergraduates
is the first is a first gen student the
first in their family to go to college
um that's a remarkably high percentage
uh for an elite private university i
think so
but bill made the point that we not only
want to recruit
uh diverse students the most most
talented the highest potential students
but we want to ensure that they all
thrive when they're on campus do you
want to speak a little bit
either about first generation broader
support programs
absolutely so uh the way i think of it
there are three
uh sort of phases for our students the
first is just when they
enter right so i think that transition
from high school
to an elite private university like ours
is
difficult and challenging and again
parents i think
for if your kid is a first year student
you'll be seeing that because it's just
this is a it's a difficult environment
we are
a top university the curriculum is super
rigorous
so that first entry point we want to
make sure that students succeed there
the second is just the journey from
well i guess it's easier to understand
the second with the last right so the
last is the career we want them to get
jobs
so you have the jobs you have the entry
point and then you have the journey
within so that's how i think of it these
three phases
and we do have we do mindfully
intentionally
look at each of those components and do
our best and keep working at ensuring
success so on the entry point
we have a first year experience which is
a whole program designed it's a six week
program where
uh advisors they craft out programming
for especially for for these students so
it's geared for both but especially we
look at first gen and
underrepresented students as part of
this we also have a transfer success
program which is geared to our transfer
students where
these percentages the first gen
population is even higher
so so we do that at the entry point and
this is also where
the career staff career support also
they
that's part of the programming we want
to make sure these students are aware of
the importance of career and all the
steps they can do
like all the services that are there for
them so i think part of the challenge
for us
is some students are a lot more aware
of the resources and others are not
and i think first gen students and also
underrepresented minority students they
do not many of them
are not just as aware many other
students are also not aware so this is
like a general
uh thing of just making awareness so we
try to get them at the beginning
with that awareness and then throughout
the
lifetime of the student till they are at
that internship career point
that's where a lot of the interaction
they they are
surrounded by peers the student orgs
bill mentioned some of our really good
student orgs we also have the
bbsa we have usc chapters for ascend
there's a lot of other student orgs that
students can be part of
usc the whole university even beyond
marshall is also a great source of
resources with regards to student orgs
we have a lot of our students
participate
in student arts at university university
has a first-gen plus
there's an initiative there's an lgbt
resource center
there's just a lot of resources out
there to help students navigate that
in medium that interim and then on the
end like with career
we have a lot of focused programming for
students from all so helping with
mentors we have a career advantage
program where
students three or four students are tied
to an individual professional
mentor we also have peer career advisors
these are again students who are
advising their fellow students these are
students who already have jobs they're
advising them
the clubs are another source of we have
very professional clubs which are
targeted at uh jobs um
i'm just sort of since i'm talking of
jobs i see some questions on jobs i
would just say
like there are some clearly we're in an
environment where
um with coved a lot of sort of
uncertainty in the marketplace there
were some offers that were pulled there
were some
companies that did not choose to recruit
but i'm already we are hearing that
those companies they were on a back
burner they are coming back and we're
actually expecting
a robust program like recruiting in
spring spring is usually i was just
on the phone with our director for
career services an hour ago
and she told me usually spring is very
light because recruiting happens in fall
but we are expecting and we are
clamping down for a very very busy
uh spring semester for recruiting
and that's good because that's mean that
means we will be out there getting those
internships and jobs
uh i highly encourage if you if your kid
wants to just
reach out to the career services if they
feel if they're waiting if they maybe
they missed an email or something or
otherwise as well there are individual
advising sessions that our career
advisors are doing so again there's a
lot of uh obviously we cannot guarantee
a job to everybody but we we have to but
we we will definitely
make sure your kid has the best
opportunity to get that job
that we can guarantee
thank you so much um one question we
have here is
when the university talks about hybrid
can you clarify what that means exactly
and would some students be online and
others on campus
or would there be some kind of rotation
yeah let me um let me try to address
that sir gene it's a very good question
i mean i
i think the questioner is right that the
whole point of hybrid
is that there's a lot of very
variability and flexibility and what
that might actually mean
um i can tell you in the in the marshall
context
we've been thinking about
classes where us
students would only be in the classroom
up a portion of the total class sessions
and the others they would zoom into
and you know in a in the in the i think
in our ideal world
that would be 50 of the time that is
every other class session
you'd be in person um
and and and the alternate one you would
zoom now
there'll be a lot of students uh who
might be unwilling to be in class for
public health reasons or unable to be
in class maybe because they're
international students and of course
we'd have to
we we're committed to providing the best
remote
education for them that we possibly can
if if somebody's wondering why would we
only get to about 50 percent
um it's because of the six feet social
distancing
constraint if you think about it that's
a six foot radius and so
what we're going to have to do is put
to get a a rough order of magnitude
let's say our average class size is
50 students and you need to put 25 and
you want to put 25 students in a room
you probably need
a teaching room that has a normal
capacity of over 100 students
to execute that 25 person so so that's
what we're shooting for
um there will be other versions of
hybrid
so one may well be that students
could be in on-campus housing but take a
lot of their classes
remotely the university of michigan is
doing that at the moment
something that parts of usc are thinking
about um
it's also possible in some of the some
of the smaller schools at usc or
or schools that typically have small
classes and i'm thinking of the
performing arts here
that they may just choose to have some
of their classes fully
on campus and other of their classes
fully remote
so yes hybrid there's a big tent under
hybrid but
but those are at least three of the kind
of dimensions
and the one that the one that we're
focused on
is called in the jargon high flex that
is that
students take a portion of
a course in person and apportion online
thank you very much um one asks
uh one mentions that students and
families have been especially
disconnected from the trojan family
and are there any special plans to bring
this trojan family together in a
meaningful way during this time
um i think bill and ramon should speak
to this as well but let me just say
at the highest level um
again i i now see having come into usc
that the trojan family is indeed special
and probably unique
personally i've been struck by how
robust
that family has been in a pandemic
environment
but i know it's not the same right it's
not the same as being able to gather for
this weekend it's not the same as being
able to tailgate for a football game
all of that those things are just not
the same
but but my my reaction is that
it's just a mark of the strength of the
trojan family how well
the community has has hung together
in a in the pandemic environment but i'd
be interested in bill and raman's
reaction to this question
who's going to unmute first yeah the um
the thing that struck me about this is
once the opportunity to interact
socially and in person goes away
you begin to realize how frequently and
pervasive
the social interaction was prior to that
moment
and how natural it seemed and at some
level unremarkable
and we recognize that not just for our
students
but for our our supporters our alums the
people that serve on our advisory boards
and so on
there's that same possibility of
estrangement
and becoming remote and becoming
uninformed
about what's going on on campus and and
vice versa what's going on in the firm
so we have uh in in this last uh
fault had several conversations are all
zoomed
but with firms and the students that
have either served residents these
internships with them
during the summer or maybe are accepting
jobs or interviewing with them now
and firm personnel and there's really
a number of discussions i i really do
want to call them discussions and not
presentations
at which we convey what's going on on
campus the firms in turn what's going on
in within their companies and
how the pandemic is affecting them
we also uh you know from the social
events we don't have football games
anymore
although they may start i suppose but
what we try to do
is uh make things virtual that
heretofore
were in person we have an honors uh
dinner that we used to have now it's an
honors event but
in the conduct of that event we will
have our scholarship award winners
uh attend we'll have the donors attend
and then we'll put them in small groups
so that the donors have an opportunity
to still get to know
the beneficiaries the recipients of
those scholarships
and vice versa um and is it is it
perfect is it as good as it was before
probably not but we continue i think to
refine
and hone and we're certainly open to
learning best practices
and adopting things others have uh have
developed but i think that
communication broadly among all of our
stakeholders
and b and allowing our students to get
to know
our alums our members of our boards uh
practitioners we have our student groups
that are still meeting although the
meetings are now virtual
but in which practitioners attend and
new students join those
uh that out of interest the
that they may have in the subject matter
uh those are the things that occur to me
that i think are responsive to the
question yeah and bill um let me just
uh commend you and leventhal
for the incredible relationships that
you have
organic relationships deep relationships
that you have with the big four
accounting firms
and of course the reason you have them
is because of the trojan family when i'm
on those calls with you
the senior executives in all of the
firms bleed trojan blood
and that really uh it really makes uh
it it makes recruiting uh easier it
makes these relationships stronger i
know you've done really well
philanthropically
from the firms and and that's all
because of the trojan families so i
i find that remarkable and i hope that i
hope the rest of
uh marshall can emulate the incredible
leveraging of the trojan family you've
done
with the with the big accounting firms
that's very kind we can take instruction
and
and how to make things better here in a
tremendously changed environment but
thank you
i i'll just add to um
so the trojan family is indeed very
important to all of us
and getting together is something like
you know
it's i think um there are so many
other factors like nature at play that
there is you know that
that ties our hands but bringing
everyone together
that just feels like you know something
we have to keep thinking about and just
to so
my parents are in india and uh so i
cannot
go meet them right so so as like i
i don't see like my closest friends here
like i have people i consider
mentors like that's my family as well so
being able to get together with family
is just really important and
you know all of you are part of that
family so
that's something we would love to do
as soon as the environment allows us to
thank you everyone um that is our time
in terms of our q a and i'd like to pass
the mic back to
dean garrett do you have any closing
words for us before we end our meeting
or end our webinar today well i i think
um in general uh
i like to use three words in
environments like this so the first one
is welcome
so i'm welcoming you to this
remote trojan family weekend that
welcome
the second word is congratulations
congratulations to you as parents
for all the support and opportunities
you've provided your children getting
getting to usc is not easy
and i know all of your students even if
they can't say it to you on a daily
basis i know they all appreciate
all the support that you've provided in
making this possible for them so
congratulations to them but
congratulations to you and then the last
word the
the most important word always is thank
you uh thank you for
all you do for your children thanks for
the support you provide
us thank you for entrusting your
children to us at this
incredibly important time in their lives
and such a
difficult time in everyone's lives so
the last word should always be
thank you

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### USC Marshall School of Business 2023 Commencement Ceremony (Graduate)
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW_rkYOISPI

Idioma: en

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Welcome to The Graduate commencement
ceremony for the Marshall School of
Business at the University of Southern
California
please welcome to the arena Dean Jeffrey
Garrett and our distinguished platform
party
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faculty and staff
family and friends
parents and partners and above all the
class of 2023 welcome to your graduation
evening
I don't think I have to tell you but it
does bear repeating what you've done is
awesome and inspiring and we all
congratulate you for that
but I think everyone on the floor knows
that today is also a day to say thank
you to say thank you to all those people
who've helped our graduates Reach This
Summit so I want to thank the Marshall
faculty and staff many of my colleagues
on the stage you've provided our
graduates an extraordinary education
with your unstinting commitment
incredible skill and unwavering
compassion and thank you to the families
and the friends of our graduates your
love and support is literally the
Bedrock on which everything else is
built
now graduations are certainly
celebrations but they're also
transitions they're times to think about
what lies ahead and how you will leave
your mark That's why we celebrate them
as commencement
so to our graduates let me say three
things briefly but in a heartfelt way
thing one the world needs you and the
world needs you more than ever
we all know the challenges are all
around us but so too our opportunities
and people with the talent and the
passion to make a difference can do
simply incredible things point two
I know that's who you all are
your mission-driven
purpose-oriented and impact obsessed you
are ready for all the challenges and all
the opportunities in front of you
point three finally you are all leaders
you have great technical skills no doubt
you have developed great human skills
and let me tell you the world has never
needed your leadership more
so on this auspicious occasion I want to
say to you that I can't wait to see what
you will do next
but it cannot be said enough my most
sincere congratulations to all of you
now it's my great honor and privilege to
introduce our graduation speaker Kevin
plank I think many of you know and
you'll be able to tell from his Footwear
that Kevin is the founder executive
chair and brand chief of Under Armor and
overseas a global company of more than
17 000 employees with total revenues
over five billion dollars in addition to
those really impressive numbers Kevin
leads a company with a well-defined
purpose
we Empower those who strive for more
that could be the Marshall tagline Kevin
by the way I don't know whether you've
copyrighted it so could you would
everyone in the audience please help me
in welcoming a fellow Sports lover and
the current USC parent Kevin plank to
the podium Kevin go Warriors
Dean Garrett yes thank you
I'm going to start with fight on USC
what what a great privilege to be here
with you to be your commencement speaker
Excellence is what you
will receive a degree walk away with
this evening to anyone who's introduced
to you for the rest of time
what makes this such an incredible honor
for me
you know I learned everything that I
ever needed to know about USC a few
years ago when I was doing college
visits with our 16 year old daughter
Catherine my wife DJ
and who just completed their USC
freshman year our son James
it was actually after the official
campus tour grabbing a sandwich at the
Village from Dolce after a really long
day
and I randomly asked a young woman
sitting at the table next to us excuse
me but would you mind telling us what is
the very best part of USC
and yes of course the academic standard
and quality of Education were all Givens
and was not though the brochure answer I
was looking for
and her answer though couldn't have been
more articulate or poetic
she simply said here at USC we just have
the best school spirit
well I can feel that spirit and that
line of energy in here this evening and
I am thrilled to be here with you so
thank you
thank you
thank you Dean Garrett
thank you president fult the entire USC
Administration and broader USC Community
this University is without question of
family
and I want to especially thank you the
Marshall School business class of 2023
MBA candidates for giving me the
audience to well tell you a story
reducing this story into what can
hopefully be a lifetime of lessons for
you to utilize like a tool kit for your
own careers and livelihoods it's a high
bar to achieve in a brief speech but I'm
an entrepreneur and in that Spirit I'm
going to go for it
that word entrepreneur its literal
definition is a bearer of risk
so let's be honest
who's got more risk than you
you've invested a queen's Ransom
intuition for a degree that's as much
about the network you now have as the
financial model you're capable of
building on Excel
smarts you've got them in droves or you
would not have been selected from the
incredible admissions Department to be a
part of this Trojan family
so don't squander it
it means something and it's your
obligation to maximize everything that
you can from it
so let's help Define what that success
looks like from the lens of a fellow
risk Bearer
but there's no risk worth bearing unless
you can find the passion for why it
matters to you my fellow entrepreneurs
I'd like to cover three topics with you
today passion resilience and betting on
yourself
probably the most important thing that I
can give you today is to reinforce how
important passion is
the experience I've been fortunate
enough to enjoy as an entrepreneur who
is lucky enough to find a career or
better said lifelong Pursuit that
matched my passion
and I can convince you to trust the
authenticity in my words today leaving
these halls with that USC degree you'll
settle for not a fraction less than your
career embodying the main thing passion
that courses inside of you
so let me give you a bit of my story
as an entrepreneur
I had a number of different businesses
growing up and I started young shoveling
snow mowing lawns selling bracelets and
t-shirts in the parking lots at concerts
like the Grateful Dead
then to college where I was told I could
not have a job because I was a student
athlete life before nil
but they didn't say anything about
starting a business which is where
Cupid's Valentine was born a 25
Valentine's Day rose delivery service
while an undergrad football walk-on
student at the University of Maryland
where I banked sixteen thousand dollars
from that business that ultimately
became the Original Seed money for my
real main thing which was the founding
of Under Armor
and believe me it wasn't obvious I
manifested my passion into making UA my
main thing
life before UA was a short sleeve cotton
t-shirt in the summer and a long sleeve
version in the winter
no one ever viewed apparel as equipment
we changed that with one t-shirt that I
used my network the network of former
teammates that I'd known from High
School prep school and finally my
College Maryland
I built this thing and sent each one of
them three shirts
do me a favor please try it and if you
like it give one to each guy in the
locker next to you and if they like it
don't call me for more tell your
equipment manager and have him call me
and pay for them
nearly 60 friends or friends of friends
that I'd met along the way over my 15
years of playing competitive football
these were now in the NFL but the
average career in the NFL is less than
three years
so I had Act Fast and the idea for this
t-shirt was what I had to access them I
had the idea of how to access my friends
and use my network before I had the idea
for the T-shirt I guess I want to give
you that first and foremost and with
that UA began to grow
five years to our first five million
dollars the second five years
for five to just under 300 million
dollars a year we went public in 2005
the next five years from 300 million
acrossing a billion the next five years
from a billion to Crossing 5 billion
but that was my network just like those
to the left and the right of you now see
that team that you have I hope you've
recognized this and plan to maximize it
the section mate who drove you crazy all
those years always snacking on nuts
almost like a squirrel during class all
the time
may very well be the the next Fortune
100 CEO who a decade down the road can
help you with your own startup or
opening a door to close a sale
they'll be there for you and you must be
there for them
UA existed not because of the product I
did I'd had but because of the network
that I built and to be clear UA was not
obvious so don't ask yourself are you
late to the party
you do have time you have more than you
think but probably not as much as you'd
like
so don't hold yourself to some timeline
you're going to have to spend your days
somewhere doing something so you might
as well pour everything you have into it
and make it awesome make it your passion
UA was built to change the way athletes
dressed whose sole mission on planet
Earth was to make you better
and today under armor stands with 17 000
teammates globally on this Mission as we
say at UA we are just though getting
started
passion is one
number two is about resilience
and I've got a feeling that this one
might get you to the edges of your seat
no one wakes up one day and decides to
suck
it's usually a bunch of really small
decisions over a really long period of
time that tactically were the right
thing at that time
but have all of a sudden left you
wondering how the heck you've gotten to
this place that you're not so thrilled
about
so all right get ready for the barrage
of cliches and I'm about to throw at you
don't be afraid to reset because that
will happen in time
take the day to step back from the trees
to see the forest
to recognize it's time to clean the
garage and keep only the pieces that we
love the most
I have everything that we have and that
I love and nothing that I don't
and parting from those aspects of
ourselves or our experience where it's
time to let go
the Journey of a Thousand Miles starts
with just the first small step and
finally the only way to eat the elephant
is one bite at a time daunting yes
doable absolutely you just have to start
finally bet on yourself
again I was never the biggest fastest
strongest on the football field but I
believed in myself same with Under Armor
we had no business going toe-to-toe with
the Giants in our industry but you
couldn't tell us that because we believe
that we belong we made a bet on
ourselves and I have these white boards
in my office and over the years they
filled up with sayings that we used to
define our culture
and from time to time to inspire our
team
they say things like over promise and
deliver
dictate the tempo walk with a purpose
trust is built in drops and lost in
buckets
and in the middle in big red bold
letters it always says the same things
the Whiteboard whatever else it says any
place else
and it says
don't forget to sell shirts and shoes
this is our main thing and I encourage
you
to figure out what your main thing
should say in red letters in the middle
of your whiteboards
our Under Armor roster is full of
athletes that bet on themselves athletes
that believe they could do anything they
wanted despite what others said it's
very much the Under Armor spirit
Stephen Curry for instance insert clever
line about Warriors versus Lakers
tonight uh
oh I'm I'm all blue and yellow
but I'm all Warriors and especially
Stefan
well he wasn't even recruited by his
dad's I'm a modern Virginia Tech and is
now a two-time MVP four-time World Champ
and the all-time leader in NBA history
for three-pointers made
Justin Jefferson another offensive
player of the year in the NFL
wasn't even a two-star athlete coming
out of high school Kelsey Plum relegated
to the bench for fourth year in the WNBA
only to go on to win the sixth Player of
the Year award earning back-to-back
starting spots and is now a champion
All-Star for the Las Vegas Aces
all of these athletes are shining
examples of my message to you here today
they have great passion for what they do
and how they do it they are resilient
beyond measure as each has faced their
own adversity and time and again yes
they all bet on themselves
class of 2023 I wish you nothing but the
best as you leave this great Institution
for all that awaits you in this world
remember that Southern Cal is where the
journey began and you'll have
friendships and relationships and a
network that started here that will last
with you your entire lifetime
cherish those cultivate them and set out
on this next Journey with the passion
resilience and belief in yourself that
you'll need
those three things will move mountains
and make you and all of us better in the
long run
that is a tennis minute version of my
story and I hope that you have as much
fun and growth as I've been lucky enough
to have and yes we are just getting
started and yes please protect this
house and yes
go Stefan go Warriors thank you
president Dean Garrett entire Marshall
School of Business Administration for
inviting us here today A little
controversial thank you all
so I think I have to go back with a
little go Lakers tonight I don't know
whether that's
about the more exciting stuff let me
tell you is happening on the floor of
the Galen Center
so I'd like to end to introduce I'd like
to introduce our student speaker for
tonight Carolina Del canto
[Applause]
Carolina is a graduate of our social
entrepreneurship program and also has 10
years of experience in social impact and
fashion fashion merchandising her
passions lie at the intersection of
sustainability and consumer markets and
how we can utilize the cross between the
two to catapult socioeconomic and
environmental change please join me in
welcoming Carolina to the podium
[Applause]
it is such an honor to be here this
evening
15 years ago I started my undergraduate
studies as a pre-med major
up to that point in my life I knew I
wanted to change the world for the
better
I grew up a first generation Venezuelan
Cuban and lived in different countries
throughout my childhood
this Multicultural upbringing exposed me
to the inequalities that exist within
the world
and I wanted to alleviate the pain and
suffering that inflicts so many
however
as I began my studies my mother was
diagnosed with stage four brain cancer
in a matter of weeks I went from being a
college student embarking on a new
chapter in my life to a grieving
daughter
as I withdrew by my mother's side to be
with her during her last and final days
that period of time will forever shape
the course of my lifetime
not only because of how difficult it was
but because it was then and there that I
began to learn how resilient the human
Spirit can be
this key theme of resilience followed me
into my twenties as I moved to a
post-conflict Zone in Northern Uganda
it was in Uganda that I healed my broken
heart as I got to lean against the
shoulders of women courageous enough to
return to their families after being
child soldiers
others who had escaped abusive
relationships and those who were HIV
positive and still chose to bask in the
beauty of life
I came back from Uganda forever changed
because how can you not come back from
that and begin to recognize that the
beauty of life is finding the tenacity
to carry on within the broken fragments
this experience is actually what led me
to Marshall as I became enthralled by
this idea of business for good
around this time the Business Roundtable
released their statement on a purpose of
a corporation and declared that
companies should not serve not only
their shareholders but also deliver to
deliver value to their stakeholders
not surprisingly Marshall was one of the
only Business Schools in the nation to
offer a specialized Masters focus on
this very idea of social
entrepreneurship
after attending an information session I
knew I had to be a part of this program
and I have to say that the past two
years have been nothing short of
extraordinary
in closing I will leave you with this
story
my mother's favorite movie was life is
beautiful
if you've ever watched it you understand
the irony of the title as the movie
tells the story of a father and son and
their experience while being in a
concentration camp during World War II
the true significance of the title of
this movie never fully hit me until a
few years ago
and I now watch the movie tears rolling
down my face as I think of a lesson my
mother was teaching me every time we
watched it together
and so on this special day I challenge
all of us as we embark on a new chapter
in our lives new careers new
relationships new adventures
there will certainly be challenges
and while nothing will ever seem to
equip us for those moments we cannot
forget that life is certainly beautiful
thank you so much and congratulations to
all of the graduates we did it
[Applause]
good evening everyone I am
Vice team for graduate programs
thank you Carolina
I agree
life is beautiful and I too remain very
hopeful about our future
congratulations class of 2023 job well
done
and now I would like to invite our staff
to take positions and prepare for our
graduates to approach the stage
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
graduates
graduates please follow staff directions
as your code to arise and approach the
stage one row at a time
upon leaving the stage please return to
your seats for the remainder of the
ceremony
graduates at this time please stand and
remain in place
graduates please all stand and remain in
place
[Applause]
Dean Garrett it is my honor to present
to you the class of 2023
thanks so much souping and while while
the students are getting into place I
think it's a wonderful time for us to
acknowledge several groups of graduating
students so please join me in
recognizing our exceptional graduates
so first our beta Gamma Sigma members
Albert T Quan University and community
service award winner
and now something that probably touches
more of you our students who juggle
parenting along with student life
who had to do the work-life balance
thing always difficult in the middle of
a pandemic
to our students who worked full time
while pursuing a graduate degree in our
part-time programs
and what about our student leaders who
worked tirelessly and creatively to
establish an in-person on-campus Student
Life once again when you never thought
that would be a challenge
so
to those students and to everybody else
again our congratulations and Now's the
Time let's do it
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hey way to go everybody congratulations
to our graduates you're now officially
USC martial alumni don't be strangers
stay involved stay in touch join the
Alumni Association come back often and
remain involved in all of our programs I
have one last request of our graduates
which is please remain seated while we
exit the stage then it'll be time for
your parties to really kick in the high
gear last but not least fight on
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### Installation Ceremony for Dean Ellis
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQZwtMxG0c

Idioma: en

ladies and Gentlemen please welcome the
Academic Deans of the University led by
acting Provost and vice president
Elizabeth
Garrett Dean Howard Gilman of the USC
College of letters Arts and
Sciences Dean Elizabeth Daly of the
school of cinematic
Arts Dean Ernest Wilson III of the
anenberg school for
communication Dean Karen Sims Gallagher
of the Rosier School of
Education Dean Gerald DAV
of the Davis School of gerentology
Dean Randall batty of the lenthal school
of
accounting Dean Robert cetta of the
Thorton School of
Music Dean Jack Knot of the school of
policy Planning and
Development Dean meline PUO of the
school of theater Dean Katherine
quinland of the University
library and Dean James Ellis of the
Marshall School of Business accompanied
by the president of the University of
Southern California Steven
[Music]
sample
ladies and gentlemen president Steven
[Music]
sample good
evening welcome thank you for coming
this is a very exciting day for the USC
Marshall School of Business and indeed
for the entire University today we
formerly welcome the new Dean of the
Marshall School Professor Jim
Ellis some of our trustees are here with
us on this special occasion and I should
like to introduce them I would ask that
they and their spouse stand and remain
standing and then we'll recognize them
as a group George Boone and his wife
Mary Lou Gail Ben Susan and his wife
Jane Alex Capello and his wife Linda Mal
Curry and his wife Barbara Michelle D
angman and her husband Roger Jane
Hoffman papovich and her husband Chris
laa Reid and her husband Chuck and David
tappa ladies and gentlemen the poor
I should also like to recognize two of
our senior officers who are here I would
ask that they stand and we'll recognize
the two of them at once Mr Todd dicki
senior vice president for administration
and general councel and Miss Carol ma
Shamir associate senior vice president
managing general counsel and Secretary
of the UN University the senior
officer and now I want to introduce some
very very special members of the Trojan
family and I would ask that they rise
and stand and keep standing until all
have been recognized first Jim's wife Dr
Gail Ellis Jim's and Gail's son Rob
Ellis is currently a junior at the USC
Marshall School of
Business their son Brian Sullivan
received his MBA from the Marshall
School their daughter Jessica Sullivan
is a graduate of the USC School of
theater their daughter Tiffany Sullivan
received a master's degree from the USC
School of Social Work their daughter
Carrie Walker is here with her
son-in-law Scott Walker who I
mean take it take
it uh their daughter Carrie Walker is
here with son-in-law scottw Walker who
also received his MBA from the Marshall
School Jim's mother is here Carol Ellis
his mother-in-law Mary Galvin his
father-in-law Bal Galvin who is the
former chairman and CEO of Motorola now
how's that for a Trojan
family I think uh I think Jim and Gail
are competing for the USC tuition paying
parent
award I also want to thank all of you
for coming today particularly The
Faculty your hard work has made the
Marshall school one of the nation's
leading schools of business and your
contributions continue to enhance the
reputation of the entire University when
Jim was named Dean of the Marshall
school there was a lot of Celebration
throughout the university the senior
officers were delighted people in the
provos office were excited Jim's
colleagues were enthusiastic but there
was one group that was a little
disappointed and which group was that
Jim's students he's such a great teacher
that they didn't want him spending less
time in the classroom while fooling
around with this decanal business
most of you are aware of Jim's talents
as a teacher he was awarded USC's
teaching has no boundaries award and our
Golden Apple award his skill in the
classroom has made him one of Marshall's
most beloved professors you may know
that USC has some teacher evaluations
that are available online I'd like to
share a couple of Jim's evaluations with
you one former student wrote Jim Ellison
is just incredible he's inspiring
motivating and an allaround cool person
to know another student said I took his
class in the morning now get this the
kid said I had to wake up at 7
o' and driving LA traffic for two hours
I did it just because I knew I would be
in his class I didn't know such great
professors still
existed Jim inspires not only his
students but also his colleagues he's
supportive encouraging and endlessly
optimistic he never says that something
can't be done he truly believes that
anything is possible most important he
cares he cares deeply about his students
and his colleagues in the Marshall
school and he cares for the entire
University of Southern California and
that's exactly the type of person we
need leading the Marshall school for
nearly 90 years this school has played a
key role in the success of this
University Marshall was the first
accredited business school in Southern
California this school created the
nation's first program in
entrepreneurial studies Marshall was the
first business school to require
international travel and study as part
of every MBA students's program and this
school embodies the entrepreneurial
spirit that indeed defines this
University I'm extremely proud of the
Marshall school's past and I'm very
enthusiastic about its future as USC
expands its presence around the world
Marshall will play an even greater role
in USC's success each day Marshall's
faculty stud students and alumni are
helping to shape business and industry
in this country while proving that
business can build Bridges across
cultures from Southern California to
Shanghai I truly believe that this is a
pivotal moment in the distinguished
history of the Marshall school and I
have every confidence that Jim Ellis is
the right man in the right place at the
right time he has the experience he has
the vision and best of all he has the
strong support of Marshall's faculty
students and alum
Jim accepted this deanship not only
because of his passion for the Marshall
school but also because of the quality
of the people who work and study at that
school he knows that Marshall has a
world-class faculty he knows that
students are entrepreneurial and engaged
and he knows that he has inherited one
of USC's most active and involved alumni
associations with your support Dean
Ellis will help lead this school to new
and Greater Heights making Marshall one
of the most elite business schools in
the nation ladies and Gentlemen please
join me in welcoming the new leader of
the USC Marshall School of Business and
the holder of the Robert R Doon Dean
chair and business administration
Professor Jim
[Applause]
Ellis
[Applause]
Dean Ellis before you
speak in recognition of this memorable
occasion I should like to present you
with this miniature chair representing
the Robert R Doxon Dean share in
Business Administration which you now
occupy see if I can take the cloth off
without screwing it
up there it
is and it's a very very important symbol
of the positions plural the endowed
chair and the uh the deanship that you
now hold so Jim I'm pleased to present
this chair to you we're not allowed to
take it off the table at least that's
what I was
told and now without any further Ado
ladies and gentlemen Dean Jim
[Applause]
Ellis thank you president sample I
um was
reflecting driving into work this
morning why you guys would come
here now some of you guys think you can
get better seats at the
Coliseum I can't do that some of you
guys think I can change your grade from
40 years
ago I can't do that
either some of you guys think I get your
son or daughter in I can't do that
either some of you guys came just
because you don't believe
this
I understand that
one I didn't ask the students to come
because we would have run out of food so
um they're not here for that reason but
you know this is this is an event that's
really not about a person and it's not
even about an office but it's really
about the aspirations of higher
education and what we try and do here
and how we remember that it draws us to
this really extraordinary Place
extraordinary place and just remember
remember that word to challenge
ourselves to build a future that both
honors and transcends the
past so it's not about a person it's
truly about the school I thank the
trustees for being here I really
appreciate you all being here as as Dr
sample calls them these are our bosses
so we sort of have to be nice to them um
senior administrators Todd Carroll thank
you to my colleagues from schools
throughout the university Deans you guys
it's thank you for the support
um they're the ones that give me the
best support they tell me my shirt
looked okay well other guys said
didn't to my colleagues from the
Marshall School of Business thank you
all I really really appreciate it and I
appreciate the fact that uh you've been
so
supportive to two of our former Deans
who are here one of whom Dr Bob daxon
would you please stand
Bob
thank
you I really appreciate you being here
Randy Westerfield was here Randy are you
here I think he ducked out get it and
finally you really can't take on this
great a responsibility without the
support of your family in particularly
the support of your spouse uh my
family's been hugely supportive my wife
when I was asked to take this job she
said well I hope you said yes she's
having more fun than I
am and to Gail and all of you guys thank
you I love you guys I really appreciate
you guys all being here thank
you um the day that uh I was asked to do
this I called my youngest son Rob into
the office because he was in school here
and I said Rob a couple things may
change
tomorrow because I'm going to be the
named the dean of the business school
and he goes dad that's
ridiculous which if you know 18-year-old
kids I mean it's
cool I said you okay with this you going
to be all right with this he said dad I
was a student of Marshall long before
you were a
Dean sort of puts it in perspective you
know uh thank you to president sample
thanks are particularly du for the last
16 years this is a worldclass
institution finest research institution
around and one of the the finest in the
world and it really is because of what
Steve sample has done for us and I know
that we all appreciate it I'd love to
give him a hand would you guys mind
doing
[Applause]
that we have extraordinary Scholars and
we have extraordinary students and by
all metrics this school has improved in
every way GPA SATs
endowment all of that Community out
Outreach think about this school as a
community outreach school it's really
amazing what the school does and and
that's just because what president
sample has done to set a vision for all
of us the Marshall school has benefited
hugely from this rise in prominence we
now can attract the top students in my
freshman class that I teach in the fall
I have 103 students in the class the
average SAT of that class is
1520 and that's just one kid getting a
1520 some of you guys
look at the pal next to you and add your
two SATs together and
just at least some of my buddies
um and the interesting part about those
103 when we went around the room on the
first day of class and I asked them to
tell their fellow students one thing
that was memorable about them three of
them had turned down Harvard to come to
USC think about that that's pretty cool
we're a destination for companies that
hire our students that didn't come five
or 10 15 years before or for those that
will partner up with our
researchers we are able to invest in the
school we're able to invest in programs
the building of papait Hall the
renovation of Hoffman thank you Chris
and
Jane faculty support and training the
undergraduate program where we've been
able to send them overseas as freshmen
two years ago we sent 65 freshmen to
Shanghai at Spring break last year we
sent 87 freshman to Shanghai in Spring
Break and this year we hope to send 350
with the goal being every freshman at
Marshall goes overseas their spring
break we've looked to revise the
curriculum so that we could give them
more of a liberal arts opportunity and
to live more with the breadth with depth
as we talk about the entire University
and to give them an opportunity to be
Renaissance Scholars which truly is the
Pinnacle of success for any student at
USC in the next years Marshall will
become the relevant Global business
school of the 21st century that's what
we're going to do uh we have a great
start because we have a wonderfully
diverse Global faculty we have a
wonderfully diverse Global student body
we have a vast network of alums all over
the Pacific Rim in particular and we're
training leaders who will make a
difference in the world can ask the
president of batswana who met with seven
of our mbas when they went to batswana
to help him with an initiative that he
has in that country and he was so
excited that these seven students had
come down there and spent their time and
are coming up with a business plan for
them it's really exciting USC has done
its part to get us here now it's our job
as Marshall to take it to the next level
there's a few things we have to do uh we
first of all have to make sure that we
understand the impact of globalization
on every aspect of the business World
globalization is permeating our world we
need to understand it and we need to to
pass that thought process to our
students so they will be totally
prepared when it's their turn to take
over we have to vigorously pursue the
achievement and the advancement of
intellectual Capital through our centers
of excellence and through our research
which is going to make us a better
school we need to Foster in our students
a mindset of Entrepreneurship and
Innovation we live in an interesting
place uh last weekend we were in Omaha
Nebraska Omaha Nebraska has five
companies in the Fortune 100 Southern
California from Bakersfield to the
Border has
three this is an entrepreneurial
environment that we live in we have to
have our students prepared for that and
so they need to understand Innovation
and flexibility and creativity because
they're growing up in an entrepreneurial
world and we continually have to examine
the role and the relevance of business
in society and our students are taking
has to task on that every single day
they want to get involved they want to
help they want to give back so we have
to identify what are the key building
blocks how do we make
ourselves a top Global school first of
all we say yes our job at Marshall is to
say yes we start at yes if we get to
know it's because we worked our way to
know but we say yes we want to be a can
do environment we want to create an
environment that attracts and stimulates
the absolute finest scholars in and
faculty Talent we want to create an
environment that attracts the finest and
diverse most diverse young minds and we
need to create and acquire the right
facilities that we need to do that and
to do all of that we need help from
everybody we need help from USC's
wonderful leadership team we need help
from all my partners the other Deans who
are going to help us do it
interdisciplinarily we need a strong
Alumni network because you guys can help
us get these students placed to get them
launched we need our dedicated faculty
and staff who love coming to work here
and we want to make sure they love
coming to work here for a long time and
we want our students and their parents
who are here for four years but walk out
of here with an extremely loyal and
wonderful memory of this place it's all
about the whole Trojan family we can't
do it without the Trojan family this is
a team game takes a whole team to make
this the best business school we can so
we can build something extraordinary
here at Marshall and despite all the
transitions that we've had over the
recent years we still have a strong
Baseline we've got a place from which to
grow and we're going to grow and we're
ready to go I thank you all for being
here I really do appreciate you guys
coming this is uh this is terrific it's
a privilege and it's an honor to be
allowed to be involved in making this
truly a global relevant business school
for the 21st century thank
you
[Applause]
okay one more
thing thank you
Jim ladies and gentlemen thank you for
coming we have plenty of food and drink
please enjoy
[Applause]
yourselves

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### USC Marshall 2024 Commencement Sizzle
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BtSCbhoGHs

Idioma: en

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