Entrepreneurial Spirit News

The Women’s Stock Pitch & Leadership Summit at William & Mary, launched in 2016, aims to motivate women to pursue finance careers and compete at the highest level using classroom-learned skills.

Building on their entrepreneurial spirit, several students created new businesses through the support of the Huntsman School Entrepreneurship Center.

Recently, Tessa White discovered a bucket list she wrote nearly 15 years ago. For many, a bucket list is the placeholder for dreams - the things we'll get around to doing someday.

The origin story of Bison Paddles is hazy — even to the company’s founders Collin Peterson ‘21 and Daniel Warren.

Oscar Marquina’s BS ‘05, MBA ‘10 successful business career pays dividends beyond just financial gain. His family immigrated to New Jersey from Venezuela when Marquina was 14 years old, and relatives living in Utah put the Beehive State on his radar when...

Being shot in the back during a robbery at his chocolate factory was the lowest point in Alfredo Solar’s career, but not because of the wound. He was lucky; the bullet passed all the way through him without damaging any vital organs. But the months Solar ...

Congratulations to Steve Palmer, the 2022 Professional Achievement Award Recipient in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. Palmer is the CEO and founder of Thrive Life, a food freeze-drying company he started with fellow Aggie Jason Budge, a friend fro...

It all started with a desire to open a cookie shop that sold the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Five years and 343 Crumbl stores later, Sawyer Hemsley '18 and Co-Founder Jason McGowan are living their mission to bring people together "over the best box of...

Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business will host an Intermountain Growth Summit for owners of small and medium-sized businesses Friday, Oct. 1. The summit will connect entrepreneurs, business owners, and community leaders with brillian...

“Dave Patel is the Associate Dean for Student and External Affairs at the Huntsman School of Business, and a remarkable leader. We are celebrating his 10th year at the Huntsman School. Having gotten to know him, I often wanted to have him share his story ...

A medical device firm started by a team of five interdisciplinary students from Utah State University, the University of Utah, and the University of Wyoming won the $25,000 grand prize at Utah’s statewide medical device competition. The firm, Optima Recov...

October 28, 2019 – The SEED (Small Enterprise Education and Development) program at Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business was recognized as one of the top entrepreneurship education programs in the world by the Global Consortium of En...

In the summer of 2018, a small group of Utah State University students prepared for a very special graduation ceremony. Only they were thousands of miles away from home. There were no caps and gowns. And they weren’t the ones graduating.

Out of 53 universities, the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship awarded first place to Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business for Excellence in Co-Curricular Innovation for its Small Enterprise Education a...

Dennis & Lynn Sessions, MBA ’71 & Elementary Education ’69, spent their careers as entrepreneurs. Dennis began in Teton Valley, ID, where he owned a Best Western motel and later an ACE hardware store. He and Lynn started both businesses from the ground up...

The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) awarded first place to Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business for Excellence in Co-Curricular Innovation for its SEED (Small Enterprise Education and Develo...