Departmental News

Mar 14, 2013

When Cathy Hartman and Edwin Stafford submitted a story in summer of 2012 called, “Making Green More Macho,” they had no idea it would end up being translated into French. The story that was published in the cross-disciplinary, sustainability journal Solutions, has been picked up by the Veblen ...Click here for more

Feb 15, 2013

Many people dream of launching their own business. Getting a new venture off the ground, however, is not easy. This year’s Entrepreneur Leadership Series, hosted by the Center For Entrepreneurial Excellence, is designed to help. Each lecture this year focuses on different aspects of building a ...Click here for more
t would be easy to imagine the path to vocational success for Ryan Taylor as being clear and unobstructed. After all, his father owns multiple, successful Chevrolet dealerships. But Ryan doesn’t see it that way. He said his father’s success has come because of years of hard work, and “never ...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

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business has teamed up with a Dallas-based company, Academic Partnerships, to make graduate online human resources courses available to more people, especially those living in rural areas. The Master of Science in Human Resources (MSHR) program was launched online ...Click here for more
For five years USU students have been teaming up with a Peruvian agricultural company to help entrepreneurs launch new ventures. The firm's successful work is not going unnoticed; in fact, the company has just received national recognition for the good it has accomplished. The company, DanPer, ...Click here for more

Dec 13, 2012

It was my boss who got me thinking about taking a leap of faith and starting my own business. It proved to be a leap I survived even though I had a faulty parachute. I had worked for a local pet supply company, ACME Pets, for six years when it was taken over by a large national company, GC Pet ...Click here for more
Professor Ronda Callister had to compete to become one of just eight presenters at the first ever TEDxUSU event, held in November. She used her requisite “18 minutes of innovative ideas” to describe the powerful, world-changing effects that would likely ensue from enabling women to become full ...Click here for more
It’s not every day in the business world that men and women are encouraged to sport beards. It happened on Friday, Nov. 30, however, when students participated in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business’s first-ever Marketing Case Competition, for a client whose specialty just happens to be ...Click here for more

Nov 15, 2012

The Merrill-Cazier library has recognized Dr. Glenn McEvoy for his contributions to the library with the Library Faculty Award, a recognition earned by only one faculty member each year. Dr. McEvoy, a management professor, said he was surprised at the award but felt honored to receive ...Click here for more