Huntsman Alumni News

Ritsuo Shingo was instrumental in the creation and success of the Shingo Institute, a program in the Huntsman School of Business

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.

Dr, Young-Chul Hong celebrates 50th anniversary of his USU MBA. Young Chul Hong arrived in Logan from Korea for his MBA not knowing anyone in town.

A new building on the Logan campus of Utah State University will honor prominent business leaders and philanthropists Kem and Carolyn Gardner. The building, to be named the Kem and Carolyn Gardner Learning and Leadership Building, will house much of the e...

The Huntsman School cares deeply about the connections students make with faculty. Those relationships often last a lifetime. Here are a few alumni sharing meaningful moments of their professors.

The decision to enroll in college in her 40s wasn’t easy for Star Stevens. But as a single mother, she knew she needed to do something following her divorce to elevate her salary enough to provide for her three children.

We received several new gifts of more than $1 million each this year. These gifts will support our new experiential learning building, scholarships for students and support faculty members in finance and accounting. We are deeply honored and humbled to re...

Giving back, Liz Allred and JP Spicer-Escalante Global Scholarship Ernst & Young Scholarship Endowment, Inspired and humbled by the generosity of Jon M. Huntsman, Sr., former Huntsman Scholar Jordan Knecht, BA ’10, has wanted to give back since he was a

In last year’s magazine, we unveiled our $50 million experiential learning campaign, an effort to expand experiential opportunities to all of our students. Our experience shows us that learning by doing has an outsized impact on student outcomes. Our goal...

Charles Koch Foundation (CKF) Executive Director Ryan Stowers recently received the Distinguished Executive Alumnus Award from Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.

The Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation announced today a gift of $2.5 million to support a new building that will be home to experiential learning programming at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

Dr. Charles Calomiris, the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School, will present the George S. Eccles Distinguished Lecture at Utah State University on March 14, 2022. The lecture will be at 10:30 AM in the Eccles Con...

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...

Huntsman School National Advisory Board member Tessa White had been a human resources executive for over 20 years, and, as she puts it, “couldn’t begin to count the number of re-organizations, layoffs, hires, or lawsuits I’d overseen. I had always worked ...

Scholarship stats and faculty honors. The Basudeb and Renuka Biswas Scholarship, established as a tribute to Economics Professor Basudeb Biswas and his wife Renuka, will support

Dr. W. Cris Lewis was born in Chicago on Nov. 5, 1940. He graduated in Economics and Statistics in 1962 from Brigham Young University, received an MBA from Northwestern University in 1964, a PhD in Economics and Statistics from Iowa State University in 19...

David Jenkins believes in people, and this is the secret to his success. “The most gratifying thing I’ve been a part of in business is providing opportunities for people to unlock their potential to do things they didn’t think they could do. To do great t...

Every week, alumni and friends visit the Huntsman School to connect directly with students about careers and life. Here are some of their words of wisdom.

We received three new gifts, each more than $1 million, this year. Additionally, a significant donation increased another scholarship endowment to over $1 million. These gifts will support scholarships for students and support faculty members in accountin...

Congratulations to Michelle Smith, 2021 Professional Achievement Award Recipient in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. Ms. Smith currently serves as Senior Vice President, Integration and Operations, for the Larry H. Miller Management Company (MMC). ...

“A boss is a boss, it is ever so clear. But a boss and a friend, is ever so dear,” writes Hal Edison, the 101-year old Huntsman School of Business alum who recently made a generous donation in memory of his employer and friend, Earl Stone.

When Kurt Larsen was eight years old, he asked for a new bicycle and got this life lesson instead: If you really want something, you’re going to have to work for it. In other words, he could have his sister’s old bike or buy his own. His father was an acc...

“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 ...

Every week, alumni and friends visit the Huntsman School to connect directly with students about careers and life. Here are some of their words of wisdom.

Douglas D. Anderson, dean of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, announced a gift of over $1 million from the estate of former faculty member Jay Price. The school will establish the Dr. Jay H. Price, Jr./Arthur Andersen Endow...

It is with utmost pleasure and delight that I share with you the news that we have attracted two outstanding individuals to serve as the Inaugural Stephen R. Covey Endowed Professors of Leadership at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business: Lord Michael Ha...

However, there was a time—not all that long ago—when those wonderfully comfortable bed sheets were housed in a small warehouse space on the west side of Logan. And luxurious it was not.

Wayne Niederhauser, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from the Huntsman School, was recognized with the Professional Achievement Award for a lifetime of public service to the State of Utah.

A life of meaningful service was on his mind when 14-year old Steven Snow walked out of an attorney’s office, relieved of the crushing burden of financial liability.

Isela Phelps went from speaking one word of English when she arrived in the US to earning two degrees from the Huntsman School. Here’s her incredible journey, in her own words.

Dr. Larzette Hale served as the head of the School of Accountancy at USU for more than 13 years. Former Deloitte CEO Jim Quigley, one of the hundreds of students Dr. Hale influenced in her long career at USU, noted that it was in her accounting class that...

As a young child growing up in Ethiopia I saw poor people with hardly anything. My heart would sink because I knew there was nothing I could do as a young boy to help them. Seeing such things made me want to help people in need. When I came to Utah State ...

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...

Steve Hurd ’12 received the UACPA Rising Star award at the UACPA’s Annual Inauguration & Awards Banquet. This award is presented to individuals who exemplify excellence and dedication to the UACPA and the CPA profession. Steve joins fellow Aggies Jill Aok...

The Huntsman School of Business, in partnership with OC Tanner and several USU alumnae, recently announced the creation of the Aimee Leaming Wilson Be Kind Scholarship in memory of a dear friend, sorority sister, and colleague to many True Blue Aggies. Du...

In March of this year, I had the opportunity to travel to San Francisco with a group of students from the Huntsman School of Business to visit some very successful real estate firms in the Bay Area. We visited firms with extensive experience in property m...

10 years ago, the view outside of Douglas D. Anderson’s muted wood-paneled ground-floor office was anything but memorable, especially compared to the bright space he now occupies overlooking snow-capped Cache Valley.

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Andy Thunell’s eyes gleamed with passion as he recounted his recent visit back to Guatemala. During that visit, Thunell was approached by a mother and her 3-year-old daughter, who had just finished her very first weave. The little girl proudly held up

On November 30, 2017, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the naming of the USU College of Business as the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. Paul Huntsman, publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune, and son of Jon and Karen Huntsman, spoke to students, facul...