Since its founding in 1979, the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO), at USC's Marshall School of Business, has been at the forefront of research on a broad range of organizational effectiveness issues. CEO's mission is to bring together researchers and executives to jointly research critical organizational issues that involve the design and management of complex organizations. Its leading-edge research in the areas of organizational effectiveness and design has earned it an international reputation for research that influences management practice and makes important contributions to academic research and theory.

CEO works with companies to research and develop new knowledge on organizational effectiveness issues such as:

• organizational development
• organization design
• organizational learning
• organizational change
• leadership development
• corporate governance
• strategic human capital management
• reward systems
• performance management
• employee involvement
• team designs and virtual work
• knowledge management