Departmental News

May 10, 2013

Knowing how to use a Bloomberg Terminal to access all kinds of real-time financial, economic, and business news information is something that can set a student apart. Why? More than 350,000 finance professionals use Bloomberg Terminals every day to access news, analytics, charts, liquidity ...Click here for more

Apr 22, 2013

Utah State University recently awarded the Economics and Finance Department at the Huntsman School of Business with the 2013 Department Teaching Excellence Award. This award is the highest honor given to academic departments, and recognizes department cultures that meaningfully value learning ...Click here for more

Mar 15, 2013

Randy T. Simmons, professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at the Huntsman School, and Ryan M. Yonk, professor in the Department of Political Science at Southern Utah University, published a blog post in the National Journal's Energy Experts blog in January.

Feb 15, 2013

An assistant professor from Australian National University, Cagri Kumru, visited the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business for two weeks in January to collaborate on research about aging populations. USU’s Economics and Finance Department has established expertise in economic issues related to ...Click here for more
U.S. News and World Report recently published an opinion article authored by two Huntsman professors on the drawbacks of soda-related “sin taxes.” The article was co-authored by Huntsman professors William F. Shughart II and Michael D. Thomas, along with Adam J. Hoffer of the University of ...Click here for more
Whitney Dastrup imagined she would get a nice corporate job when she graduated. She now travels back and forth between San Francisco and India managing a small nonprofit organization that provides education to poor children. Scot Marsden, who majored in finance and economics, did not envision ...Click here for more

Jan 9, 2013

Five. That’s how many internships Huntsman student Steve Gould has completed in the last two and a half years--in Houston, Spokane, St. George, and Cache Valley. He has interned in an oil pipeline company's investor relations department, in redesigning a tire factory's website, with the CFO of an ...Click here for more

Nov 15, 2012

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business is one of just 20 schools in the United States to be recognized by the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute for the work it is doing to prepare students to obtain the Chartered Financial Analyst© designation, which has become the most respected and ...Click here for more

Sep 24, 2012

The research interests of Dr. Diana Thomas stretch across the globe. A German native, she has published papers on the regulation of late medieval German beer markets, on informal property rights institutions among taxi cab drivers in Trujillo, Peru, and even on the Aggie Blue Bikes program at ...Click here for more
Dr. Ben Blau, a professor of finance, has a unique philosophy when it comes to teaching, a philosophy that he explains to his students before every difficult assignment or impossible midterm exam. He believes that professors who make students think that they are thinking are loved, while ...Click here for more