About University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Executive Education

With a long history of developing leadership programs for the healthcare industry, the AOA is honored to partner with the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, Executive Education (USC MSBEE) to launch the APEX Leadership Program. USC is consistently ranked as one of the best business schools in the United States and is recognized for its intellectually rigorous, engaging, and cutting-edge curriculum.

Arvind Bhambri, DBA

Arvind Bhambri, DBA
Faculty Director for Executive Education, Associate Professor of Management and Organization

Arvind Bhambri, DBA specializes in strategic change, competitive strategy, global business development, and leadership. He has twice received the Golden Apple Award for MBA instruction.

In a 2008 special report on executive MBA programs by the Wall Street Journal, Professor Bhambri was profiled as one of the 14 best EMBA professors worldwide. In 2009, he received the Evan C. Thompson Award for Learning and Teaching Innovation. Professor Bhambri has served on the faculty of the Getty Museum Leadership Institute, Bocconi University, University of Hawaii’s Advanced Management Program, and the Owner Managed Business Institute in Boston.

Geoffrey Joyce, PhD

Geoffrey Joyce, PhD
Director, Health Policy, USC Schaeffer Center
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics, USC School of Pharmacy
Associate Professor, USC School of Pharmacy

Geoffrey Joyce, PhD is the author of over 90 peer-reviewed articles, reports and book chapters, and his research has been published in leading medical, economic, health policy and statistics journals. Dr. Joyce’s research focuses on the costs of medical care and the role of insurance. He published a series of studies in JAMA examining the impact of alternative pharmacy benefit designs on prescription drug utilization and spending.

Other studies by Dr. Joyce have examined the lifetime costs of chronic disease, smoking cessation, the cost-effectiveness of highly active antiretroviral therapy or HIV-infected patients, and differences in medical care utilization and costs under alternative financing arrangements and treatment settings. He recently received an CMS Innovation grant that integrates clinical pharmacy into primary care. His current research is examining the impacts of Medicare Part D, prior authorization policies, and pricing in health care markets.

Dr. Joyce’s work has been featured in several major print, television and radio news media outlets.

David Logan, PhD

David Logan, PhD
Lecturer, Management, and Organization

David Logan, PhD is a Senior Lecturer at USC Marshall  School of Business, and  New York Times bestselling author. He is co-founder and president of CultureSync, a management consulting firm focused on the intersection of strategy and culture.

CultureSync has consulted dozens of Fortune 500 companies, major nonprofits, and governments around the world. He has been on the USC faculty since 1996 and has a PhD in Organizational Communication from the Annenberg School at USC.

Dr. Logan authored or co-authored six books, including the bestseller Tribal Leadership and The Three Laws of Performance.

Kyle Mayer, PhD, MS

Kyle Mayer, PhD, MS
Professor of Management and Organization

Kyle Mayer, PhD, MS studies how firms govern relationships with other firms, with particular attention to the contract and its role in establishing a framework for the relationship. His research has been published in Organizational Science, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, and Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. He served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal.

He received a Golden Apple Award in 2003, Marshall’s Educator of the Year Award in 2006, and a Mellon Mentoring Award from USC in 2006.

Gita Govahi, PhD

Gita Govahi, PhD
Assistant Dean of Instruction & Research
Director of Experiential Learning Center at the USC Marshall School of Business

During Dr. Govahi’s tenure, she has worked on major Marshall Initiatives and inaugurated a number of training programs for the School’s Graduate, Undergraduate and Executive Education Programs.

As the Director of the Experiential Learning Center, she leads a core group of professional trainers who design and conduct experiential exercises for the Marshall School’s constituencies. Gita also oversees the Marshall Libraries and has directed the Marshall School’s Instructional Services Center for a number of years. In this capacity, she facilitated implementation of the state-of-the-art technologies in the Business School classrooms to support the pedagogical needs of the faculty in their teaching— as well as fostering greater student involvement in the learning process.

Dr. Govahi has special interest in cross-cultural training, and has worked as a consultant in this area. Over the past 20 years, Gita has published papers and articles on the topics of Experiential Learning, Virtual Teams, and various experiential activities that are still in use at the ELC.

Dr. Govahi received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business and her Master of Science degree in Applied Behavioral Science also from USC. Dr. Govahi received her PhD in Information Science from Claremont Graduate University in 2011. Her current area of interest is Group Creativity and Virtual Teams.