About the Moore School of Business

Since 1919, innovation has been the key to the success of the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. The school has a history of keeping pace with the ever-changing global market through a blend of academic preparation and real-world experience. By emphasizing internships, consulting projects, study abroad programs, entrepreneurial opportunities, and ethics, the school has earned international recognition.

In March, 1998, the Moore School became the nation's first major university to name its business school for a woman, honoring University of South Carolina alumna and business executive Darla Moore. Ms. Moore's combined gifts of $70 million make the Moore School the beneficiary of the largest private donations ever to a U.S. business school.

The Moore School of Business is a comprehensive business school with more than 3,600 students in its undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs. Its 36,000 living alumni are the successful products of seven undergraduate majors, six master's degree programs, and two Ph.D. programs. The popular Executive Education program, housed in the 8th floor Daniel-Mickel Center last year provided approximately 90 programs for more than 2,500 executives and government leaders.

More than 160 faculty are involved in teaching, research, and service to the community. The Moore School of Business undergraduate program incorporates foundation coursework in arts and sciences with a strong business core and offers nine majors. Special program features include a required minor outside of the business school, research apprenticeships, honors business classes, overseas and domestic service learning projects, virtual investing opportunities, case competitions, student incubator participation, an emerging leaders program, and career development seminars.

Moore-Bldg_03 The nine-story business school houses 25-plus classrooms, a 400-seat auditorium, several research centers, a networked computer facility, two interactive television classrooms, and the Elliott White Springs Business Library. Moore is also home to the state headquarters for the Small Business Development Center, the Center for Manufacturing and Technology, ECI – Find New Markets (formerly the S.C. Export Consortium), and the S.C. Council on Economic Education. Moore School houses the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), one of only 31 such programs in the nation. Administered through the U.S. Department of Education, "the CIBER program enables universities to marshal their internationally oriented educational, research, and outreach resources in a manner that directly serves to strengthen the international competitiveness of this country."

Both the Moore School of Business and the School of Accounting are accredited by AACSB International - The Association for Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business - the recognized international accrediting association for business schools.

Moore School of Business has achieved international recognition through innovative program development and quality research done by its excellent faculty and talented staff and students. A few recent achievements are listed below.

Recent Moore School Rankings

Ranked #1 or #2 in the nation for international business for 19 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report's annual survey of "America's Best Graduate Schools," and the #1 public University in this specialty. Since 1974, the school has offered an International MBA program with emphasis on language and cultural studies, combined with overseas internships. Moore has updated its program to include a Global Track, with a focus on political and economic factors affecting the investment climate of various regions throughout the world, with the same significant internship as the Language Track.
U.S. News & World Report 's August 2008 survey of "2009 America's Best Colleges" ranked Moore School of Business #1 in its undergraduate international business specialty for the 12th year, #10 in the insurance specialty and 43rd among the nation's top business schools.
The Financial Times of London ranked Moore School's MBA-level programs 55th among the world's top 100 in its special edition, January 28, 2008. The school ranked #1 for "International Business Experience" and #1 among public schools for the category "10 Best in International Business."
The Wall Street Journal ranked the school 49th of 51 national schools in a "Regional Ranking" and 9th worldwide for the excellence of our international business program, September 27, 2007.
BusinessWeek October 2006 ranked Moore School 3rd among schools for "Fastest Return" on an MBA student's educational investment .
The Economist Intelligence Unit included our MBA #67 among its top 100 worldwide in October 2007.

About Darla Moore

Darla Moore, Vice President of Rainwater, Inc., is founder and chair of the Palmetto Institute, a nonprofit think tank aimed at bolstering per capita income in South Carolina. She serves on the boards of the University of South Carolina and New York University Medical School and Hospital. The University of South Carolina's business school is named in her honor and she is the first woman profiled on the cover of Fortune magazine and named to the "List of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business". She has served on numerous corporate boards, including Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She currently serves on the board of The South Financial Group, MPS Group and the National Advisory Board of JP Morgan and was formerly a managing director of the predecessor Chemical Bank. She received the "Business Person of the Year Award" from the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and has been inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, Moore holds an M.B.A. from George Washington University.

Accomplishments

In September 2007, the Moore School appointed a new dean, Dr. Hildy Teegen, and began a new era in the school’s distinguished history. Dean Teegen’s strategic planning initiative in fall 2007 led to the selection of Sustainable Enterprise and Development as a new strategic theme for the Moore School of Business, building on the school’s established success in the area of international business. The Moore School’s new strategic direction spans various disciplines and will address important business, social, and political challenges facing business and society. These challenges address fundamental questions regarding the economics of scarce resources, sustainable business practices for both developing and established countries, as well as the roles of public and private actors in the global marketplace. The Moore School’s new strategic initiatives will build on its many successes, including these:

The Moore School of Business has inaugurated the Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula. The Page Prize will have two purposes: to encourage efforts to expose business students to state-of-the-art environmental sustainability knowledge and to demonstrate the Moore School's commitment to promoting sustainability in business education.
The Moore School of Business’ Center for Global Supply Chain and Process Management now has seven corporate members: Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company, Johnson & Johnson, Mead Westvaco, Palmetto Health Richland, Pfizer, Sonoco, and Westinghouse-Toshiba. Moore School professors and students work as consultants to Center members, helping the companies improve their top and bottom line performance through better deployment of their existing resources.
Dr. M. Audrey Korsgaard, professor of management and organizational behavior, has received a $190,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support an important new study, titled Collaborative Research: Communication, Trust and Leadership in Virtual Organizations and Teams.
Dr. Manoj K. Malhotra, Jeff B. Bates Professor and Chair of the Department of Management Science at the Moore School of Business, has been named a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute in recognition of his “outstanding contributions in the field of Decision Sciences.” He is one of only 104 Fellows named since the Institute’s founding in 1968.
Undergraduate case teams excelled in 2008, advancing to five out of six finals at international competitions around the world under the leadership of Patrick J. DeMouy, lecturer in the Management Department. No other school advanced to more than three finals. The accomplishments are even more remarkable given that this is only the second year the Moore School has fielded undergraduate case teams.
Seven Moore School IMBA students have teamed with four graduate students from chemistry and chemical engineering for a project sponsored with a three-year $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Dr. William Sandberg, associate professor of management, is coordinating the project with two faculty members from the University’s Chemistry Department.
Shaun Abraham and Anand Deekaram, both 2008 IMBA graduates, were winners in the Engineering category in the 2008 New Ideas contest sponsored by New Carolina: South Carolina’s Council on Competitiveness. The two created a robotic arm mount for flat screen televisions that can automatically adjust the position of the television using any universal remote control, which has practical uses in hospitals and nursing homes. The two also presented their business idea at the New Venture Championship at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship.

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