As a child, I was taught to take risks and color outside the lines. Later, I discovered a love of organizations, particularly visionary companies, and what makes them successful. Creativity, innovation and bringing products to market are not linear processes. It’s messy, complex, exhilarating, frustrating—and it can be done successfully when everything falls into place.
Laura B. Cardinal, Ph.D., SmartState® Endowed Chair + Director, Center for Innovation + Commercialization
Our Focus Is Providing South Carolina with a Strategic Innovation Toolkit So Growing and Established Organizations Flourish.
These are the organizations and people that inspire and motivate us.
We are the strategists, the innovators, the doers who make things happen.
Charged with Momentum: MGMT 775 Cohort Energizes Battery Innovation at USC
Like mini-energy vaults, batteries “bring good things to life” and hold the power to light up our world, run our appliances and gadgets, and make our lives better. The high… (continued)
An Amalgam of Diverse Flavors
MGMT 776 Unites Eclectic Minds for Strategic Innovation Just when Laura B. Cardinal thought she had experienced the full spectrum of student adventures in her MGMT 776 Strategic Innovation Planning… (continued)
Super Commuter Students Find Value in Face-to-Face Learning through the Strategic Innovation Certificate at USC’s Darla Moore School of Business
Though one might not find fairy godmothers waving their magic wand while singing, “bibbity bobbity boo,” there is a magic of education that can only be found within the walls… (continued)