Miriam Burgos specializes in multi-cultural marketing and sales management. Prior to joining USC, Professor Burgos worked in the consumer packaged goods industry with Procter & Gamble and Colgate Palmolive, where she developed expertise in how a multi-national corporation successfully takes a product to market in a global economy -- from initial concept, to branding, and ultimately to consumers' homes and workplaces. She was a project manager in Procter & Gamble's multicultural business development organization, and also has experience in marketing strategy, cause-marketing, and small-business marketing plan development.