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Each year, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business recognizes top-performing students, staff, and faculty for their academic and professional accomplishments. For the 2024-2025 academic year, we would like to acknowledge and commend the following individua...

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business proudly announces that Dr. Frank Caliendo, Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Economics & Finance, has been appointed as the inaugural Harold Dance Endowed Professor.

Learn how Former Huntsman Business School student Hannah Engberson Dares Mighty Things using her Finance degree in her job at Evercore Investment Bank

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.

Each year, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business recognizes top-performing students, staff, and faculty for their academic and professional accomplishments. For the 2023-2024 academic year, we would like to acknowledge and commend the following individua...

When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, some said it was the beginning of a long-predicted takeover of the human world by Artificial Intelligence. Similar concerns were expressed when the internet...

Douglas D. Anderson, Dean of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, announced that five faculty members would be recognized for their outstanding teaching, research, and service through named professorships. “An endowed professorship is viewed in the uni...

Each year, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business recognizes top-performing students, staff, and faculty for their academic and professional accomplishments. For the 2022-2023 academic year, we would like to acknowledge and commend the following individua...

We are pleased to announce that the Huntsman School of Business and School of Accountancy’s business and accounting degree programs have successfully completed the continuous improvement review process, and have received the news of their extension of acc...

Todd Griffith believes that his primary goal as an educator is to mentor and develop students by providing them with a challenging and exciting learning environment. Regardless of the teaching content, he likes to emphasize the applied nature of the topic...

Each year, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business recognizes top-performing students, staff, and faculty for their academic and professional accomplishments. For the 2021-2022 academic year, we would like to acknowledge and commend the following individua...

Students from Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business took home first and second place titles in this year’s Utah Venture Capital Case Competition.

James “Jim” Minkler ’82, ’83, accomplished a great deal in his short lifetime – not just academically and professionally, but as a person whose kindness and optimism made a positive difference for so many.

Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business today announced that Huntsman School alumni Blake Kirby and Stephen Swensen will donate $1 million to the business school.

A team comprised of Sierra Benson, Zach Dickson, Isaac Dixon, Michael Henderson, Matisse Jensen, and Caleb Smith, took first place in the Enactus US National Sustainability Development Goals Pitch Competition. The team presented a project pitch on the UN’...

Huntsman Student awards for the year of 2021. 2021 Student Awards, Geraldine Robins Award, students awards

Huntsman finance students Jack Baldwin, Spencer Powell, Ryan Voges, and Jared Warnock, won the CFA Institute Challenge for the State of Utah, the fourth year in a row that a team from the Huntsman School has taken State, and then advanced to the sub-regio...

Faculty honors for Huntsman School of Business faculty members for the year 2021.

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...

For the first time, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business students were invited to participate in the William & Mary Women’s Stock Pitch and Leadership Summit. The team competed against 17 top schools from the United States and Canada.

Dr. Katarzyna Bilicka, an assistant professor of economics at Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, has been appointed a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business wishes to recognize those individuals within our college who recently received promotions. These individuals are: Dr. James Feigenbaum, Associate Professor in the Economics & Finance Department, was promoted to Full ...

Three Huntsman students and a Huntsman club were recognized at the 63rd Annual Robins Awards Ceremony at Utah State University. The Robins Awards are the most coveted of all Utah State honors. They reward students and faculty for hard work and dedication ...

Ryan Voges knows a thing or two about hard work. He spent four years in active-duty military, serving in the U.S. Air Force, then dual-majored in finance and economics at Utah State University, and is now pursuing his Master of Science in Financial Econom...

Even with all the resources available today, many Americans still manage their money poorly. Huntsman School of Business Professor Todd Griffith shares his expertise with WalletHub on the Topic of Money Management.

Student teams from The Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University competed in the 2021 CFA Institute Research Challenge and placed 1st and 2nd, making this the 4th year in a row a USU team has won the state-level competition and advanced to the ...

Utah State University’s Master of Science in Financial Economics (MSFE) and Master of Science in Economics (MSE) have been ranked as one of the 2021 Best Master of Financial Economics Programs (9th place) and Best of Master’s Economics Programs (54th pla...

The ranking comes from Best Value Schools who wrote about Utah State University, “Utah State University may be thousands of miles away from the first two schools on our list, but it is also an affordable public university. USU offers both a B.S. and a B.A...

Our students have accomplished many things along their Huntsman Journey. Student Accomplishments and Highlights October 26, 2020

Our Huntsman faculty and staff deserve recognition for their hard work, impressive accomplishments, and incredible attitudes. Recognize their awards and pay respects to dear friends.

Great leaders strive to live the kind of life that Ralph Waldo Emerson described, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

Saying goodbye is never easy. As we say goodbye to some of the faculty members, we analyze the positive impact they have made during their time at USU.

Daily life around the world has been deeply impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, from how we communicate, work, spend, and engage with healthcare, to our consumption of food, education, and the availability of goods and services. In a look at The Big Pictur...

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...

The greatest teachers live forever in the hearts and minds of the students whose lives they touch. With a unique capacity for understanding the way the world works and for communicating that to others, they cultivate passion, curiosity, and a pursuit of e...

Our Huntsman faculty and staff deserve recognition for their hard work, impressive accomplishments, and incredible attitudes. Recognize their awards and pay respects to dear friends.

Research published and presented by Huntsman School Faculty including Merideth Thompson, Katarzyna Bilicka, Bret Crane, Chris Hartwell, and Gary Thurgood.

From Woman of the Year to Undergraduate Research awards, our students have accomplished many things along their Huntsman Journey.

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 ...

Utah State University celebrated its 132nd Commencement of May 2-3, 2019. The Huntsman School graduated 1,189 students, including Ivan Cheah, our Scholar of the Year, who came to USU from Malaysia, to those who grew up just a few blocks from campus.

Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business announced the establishment of the Huntsman Fund for Faculty Excellence. The $15 million fund will create a permanent endowment for named professorships.

Economics major and Undergraduate Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity, Rebekah Yeagley, recently attended the 2019 conference for the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the ...

On March 26, 2019, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University welcomed noted economist and scholar, Dr. John B. Taylor, to speak at the George S. Eccles Memorial Lecture in Economics.

For the second straight year, a trio of students from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University won the state-level competition for the CFA Institute Research Challenge in Salt Lake City.