Moore School of Business - Moore School welcomes new faculty

Fourteen new and talented faculty members have accepted positions at the Moore School for the coming academic year.

Wendy J. Bailey, assistant professor of accounting, holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, an MBA from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She recently served as assistant professor of accounting at the University of California at Riverside, where she received Faculty of the Year and Best Teaching Award recognitions. She also received a Best Dissertation Award from the American Accounting Association and a Distinguished Teaching by a Doctoral Student Award from the Katz Graduate School. Her teaching interests are financial accounting and managerial accounting.

Mark Cecchini, also an assistant professor of accounting, holds a Ph.D. in decision and information sciences from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. He graduated with honors from the MBA program of the Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, and earned his BS in accounting and finance from Florida State University in Tallahassee. He is a CPA, and held various accounting positions including Senior Financial Analyst/Program Manager with youknowbest.com (now channelintelligence.com) prior to his doctoral work.

Glenda F. Coleman, lecturer of management, holds an MBA in finance and management from Columbia University in New York and a JD from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (She served as a visiting professor at Moore in 2004-2005.) She holds a BA in political science from the University of South Carolina. Coleman previously served as a visiting professor at the School of Business, Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina, where she also served as Interim Chairman of the former Business Department and Internship Program Director. She held a variety of positions in business in New York City including attorney at Sacks Montgomery, investment banker with Lehman Brothers, new media manager at ASCAP Strategy & New Media, and venture consultant with Viant before beginning her academic career. Her academic interests include corporate strategy, developmental entrepreneurship, structuring new venture organizations, corporate governance, and growing small businesses for women and minorities.

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, assistant professor of international business, holds a Ph.D. in management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in business economics from the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. He holds a BBA in economics and business administration from the School of Economics and Management Sciences at the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, and studied for one year at the Kingston University Business School, Kingston upon Thames, UK. He was a 2000 recipient of the Free Press Outstanding Dissertation Award and a 1998 winner of the Robert J. Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, both from the Academy of Management.

David S. Chappell, lecturer of finance, taught previously at Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado; Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; Ohio University, Athens, Ohio; University of Colorado at Boulder; and Summer Sessions in London and Moscow through Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in strategic management with a minor in research methods from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and an MBA and bachelor’s degree, both from Miami University. His dissertation was one of six finalists for the 1995 BPS Free Press Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management. He is co-author, with John Schermerhorn, Jr., of the book, Introducing Management! His teaching interests include strategic management, entrepreneurship, general management, and international business.

Mariah G. Lynch, lecturer of accounting, holds a master of accountancy degree from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and is a CPA. She holds an MBA and bachelor’s degree in business administration, both from UNC-Wilmington. She previously served as a lecturer in business law and managerial accounting at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina, and as a lecturer in accounting, management, and marketing at UNC-Wilmington. She also previously worked for Barker Jones and Company, CPA, as a staff accountant.

Nora M. Martin, lecturer of marketing, holds a DBA (doctor of business administration) in marketing from Nova Southeastern in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She also holds an MBA from Webster University, Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, and a BS in marketing and management from Park College, Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota. She was previously assistant professor of marketing at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and served as an area manager for the USC Small Business Development Center. She also was a marketing manager for Pioneer Machinery, Inc., and served as a guidance and control specialist for the United States Air Force. Last year, Martin served as an adjunct professor at the Moore School and earned a Mortar Board Teaching Award.

Chun-Hui Miao, assistant professor of economics, holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and an MA in psychology and economics from Northwestern University. He also holds an MS in physics from Peking University and a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. He was a recipient of a Graduate School Fellowship and Summer Research Fellowship at Princeton and served as a research assistant. At Northwestern, he earned a University Fellowship and served as a teaching assistant. His teaching and research interests include industrial organization, behavioral economics, and corporate finance.

Thomas P. Moliterno, assistant professor of management, earned his Ph.D. in management from the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine. He also holds an MBA (with High Honors) from Boston University, an MA from the University of Kentucky, and a bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary. His research interests include firm-level resource allocation decisions, social networks and industry structure, venture capital and entrepreneurial organizations, CEO social capital, and demography. Previously he was a senior development officer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He also was director of U.S. Field Operations for the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, and sales and marketing manager for Natural Habitat Adventures in Boulder, Colorado.

Terence J. Pitre, assistant professor of accounting, received his Ph.D. in accounting from Michigan State University. His MBA in finance and accounting is from Tulane University, while his BS in finance is from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Pitre, who served in both the United States Navy and the Navy Reserve, has research interests in behavioral financial accounting and the judgment and decision-making of investors. His teaching interests are financial accounting and managerial accounting. At Michigan State, he won the Excellence in Teaching Citation in 2003. Previously, he was a visiting professor of managerial accounting at the Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan University. Before entering academia, Pitre was a cost accountant for International Paper Corporation, an associate fixed-asset analyst for Brown and Williamson Tobacco, and coordinator of accounting and internal control for Kimberly Clark Corporation.

Andrew Spicer, assistant professor of international business, is an expert on Russia and Eastern Europe. He comes to USC from the University of California, Riverside, where he was an assistant professor. Spicer earned his Ph.D. in management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Soviet and East European Studies at Yale. His teaching specialties are business policy and strategy and international strategy and management. Spicer was director of the University of California Education Abroad Program in Russia from 1999-2002, and taught a course called “Russian Politics and Economy in Transition.” He is a reviewer for numerous professional journals, and serves on the editorial board of California Management Review.

C. Annique Un, assistant professor, in the Sonoco International Business Department, holds a Ph.D. in management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and received the 2002 INFORMS Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for her doctoral research. She also holds an MBA in finance, a BBA in finance, and a BA in Japanese Studies, all from the University of Notre Dame. Un previously served on the faculty at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management where she taught Ph.D.-level and MBA-level courses on international competitive strategy, strategic management of multinational firms, and knowledge management. She serves on the editorial board of Organization Studies. Prior to earning her Ph.D., she worked for Ford Motor Company in the United States and Kowa Pharmaceutical Corporation in Japan.

Courtney R. Worsham, lecturer in marketing, expects to receive her doctorate in higher education administration from the University of South Carolina-Columbia, in December 2006. She earned an MBA from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and a BA from the University of Virginia. She served as Coordinator for Marketing and Family/Graduate Housing at the University of South Carolina from October 2001 until this fall. Earlier, she was director of marketing for women’s sports and an academic advisor at USC. Before that, Worsham was an assistant vice president and business development officer for NationsBank, public relations manager at Palmetto Dunes Resort on Hilton Head, communications manager for the Hilton Head Island Chamber of Commerce, staff assistant in the U.S. Senate, and a coordinator for the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington, D.C.

Shu Yan Shu Yan, visiting professor of finance, comes to the Moore School from the University of Arizona, where he was an assistant professor of finance.Yan earned his Ph.D. in finance from the Anderson School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles. He also earned a doctorate (in mathematics) from the University of California at San Diego, and a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. His research interests include asset pricing, risk management, derivatives, and international finance. Yan’s teaching interests are risk management and derivatives, and international finance.

New Faculty 2005-2006