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- Academy of Finance
- Students who participate in this national program take special business courses and receive an enriched curriculum in their home high school, an internship with a major company, and a two-unit college level course at USC (BUAD 100X).
Ages Served: 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Robert H. Trezevant, 213-740-5013
Email: trezeva@marshall.usc.edu
- Center for Economic Development
- The CED assists local economic development organizations in expanding and enhancing their functional capacity through collaboratives tapping USC's faculty, staff and students. The CED works in collaboration with the Community Development Design Forum. Services include: predevelopment studies, feasibility and market analysis, economic development, urban design, community outreach and organization, community resource mapping, community assistance panels, and project management and review.
Contact: Leonard Mitchell, 213-740-1487
Email: mitchell@usc.edu
- Community Development and Design Forum
- The forum, a professional outreach arm of the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development, was established in 1995 to provide technical assistance to communities and to conduct applied research throughout the Southern California region. The forum works in collaboration with the USC Center for Economic Development to support initiatives adopted by local communities seeking to improve and develop their economies, physical environments and overall quality of life. CDDF services include planning and design, project development, feasibility studies, community resource mapping, community organization, and computer-aided graphics and communications projects.
Contact: Deepak Bahl, 213-740-9491
Email: bahl@usc.edu
- Family Business Program
- This program brings owners and managers of family-owned companies together to address common issues and successfully work through transitions, develop strategic vision, and enact strategic plans for the business and for the family.
Contact: Sheryl R. Schreiber, 213-740-8990
Email: uscfbp@marshall.usc.edu
- Figueroa Corridor Partnership
- The Figueroa Corridor Partnership -- a property-based business improvement district -- is responsible for the daily management and promotion of the Figueroa/Flower/Vermont Corridor, linking downtown Los Angeles to Exposition Park. It is committed to its development as a safe, clean, economically vibrant and aesthetically pleasing environment in which to conduct business, continue an education, visit a museum, attend a sporting event, worship or reside.
Contact: Steve Gibson, 213-746-9577
Email: info@figueroacorridor.org
- JA for a Day
- Twice per year, more than 100 students from the USC Marshall School of Business MBA.PM program (MBA for Professionals and Managers) teach basic business curriculum to elementary school children as part of its Junior Achievement "JA for a Day" event. MBA students take the day off from their jobs to teach in classrooms of first-graders through fifth-graders to encourage children to gain interest in business careers.The Junior Achievement organization has inspired many children to pursue their dreams and the USC Marshall School of Business is proud to be a partner in this effort.||
Ages Served: Less than 5 yrs. old; 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Jeanette Christensen, 213-740-0629
Email: jchristensen@marshall.usc.edu
- Local Vendor Program
- Firms participating in the LVP are given an opportunity to bid on USC projects open to competitive bidding. In addition, participating businesses are listed in the USC Small Business Directory, a publication used by more than 900 senior USC business officers, staff and faculty members, and 200 off-campus organizations. The directory is also available in a searchable format on the USC Small Business Development Office Web site.
Contact: Jim Browder, 213-821-1783
- Los Angeles Metro Minority Business Development Center
- The mission of the Los Angeles Metro Minority Business Development Center is to increase participation of ethnically owned businesses in the free enterprise system by providing consulting services, access to capital, access to market opportunities and advanced business training.
Contact: Ramesh N. Swamy, 213-368-1450
Email: info@lambdc.org
- National Center for Eco-Industrial Development
- The mission of the National Center for Eco-Industrial Development is to facilitate job creation and sustainable industrial expansion in distressed communities around the nation by applying principles of industrial ecology, establishing eco-industrial parks, and expanding use of environmentally benign manufacturing processes and techniques.
Contact: Leonard Mitchell, 213-740-1487
Email: mitchell@usc.edu
- Small Business Development Office
- Services and programs include company registration with USC; referrals to buyers and/or end users; workshops on "Doing Business With USC," annual departmental recognition reception acknowledging excellence in utilizing diverse suppliers; small business networking event; small business trade fair held every year; participation in outreach activities, including vendor/trade fairs organized by various organizations; contract compliance for USC federal contracts; liaison between USC and vendors; and publication of vendor directory.
Contact: Rhonda Thornton, 213-821-1783
Email: rhondat@usc.edu
- Talking Together: Engagements for Creative Dialogue
- Talking Together is a program that enables the USC Emeriti Faculty to interact in a more direct and focused way with business and professional communities. Emeriti Faculty engage with the business community in high level, creative and thought-provoking exchanges to promote effective interaction with internal and external clients, partners and the community. Each program is customized by the business or professional sponsor to determine topic, speaker(s), audience, moderator(s), venue, agenda and schedule. The program can offer an expert on an issue of interest to clients or prospective clients, or can provide speakers on subjects of interest to the broader business community or the general public.
Ages Served: 55 to 64 yrs.; 65+ yrs.
Contact: William Faith, 213-740-8841
Email: jtrimble@usc.edu
- USC Ross Minority Program in Real Estate
- Conducted at USC, the program is offered in two formats: The Summer Program, traditionally held during the last two weeks of June, is a two-week, in-residence program. The eight-day Winter Program, offered over a six-week period, is a non-residence program that meets at a series of Thursday through Saturday sessions and is specifically designed to accommodate the needs of students with more demanding schedules. Students develop technical expertise, gain an understanding of the development process; and learn to leverage resources, build a network and work in teams.||Course topics include the basics of real estate finance, financial analysis, investment modeling, market analysis, real estate law, architecture, valuation methods and project feasibility. The program also features coursework related to urban renewal issues, such as affordable housing, gap financing, project financing and loan underwriting. The highlight of the program is a group-oriented feasibility study that challenges the students to apply and integrate the covered coursework into a challenging "real-world" project.|
Contact: Jennifer Thomas, 213-740-5000
Email: jathomas@usc.edu
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