Huntsman School News

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...

The 2024 AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference at Utah State University. The event showcased the talents in the fields of enterprise, data, technology, and security.

The Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University showcased its competitive prowess at the prestigious national DECA competition held in Austin, Texas.

Huntsman Students won First and Second Place prizes in the 2023 Domo for Higher Education Student Case Competition. The competition provided a unique opportunity for teams to demonstrate their proficiency in leveraging Domo's solutions to address real-wor...

The purpose of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business is to be an engine of growth for our community, the state, the nation, and the world, and to be a career accelerator for our students.

A hallmark of the Huntsman School is the opportunity for undergraduate students to work closely with faculty and researchers to conduct relevant and impactful research. In the past year, scores of students worked with our faculty to research, write, and p...

Through classes, programs, workshops, and international trips, the Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center provided almost 3,000 development opportunities for students over the past academic year.

Reagan Siggard, an instructor in the Data Analytics & Information Systems Department, was recognized as the 2022-2023 Huntsman School of Business Teacher of the Year.

Professor Lianne Wappett epitomizes the definition of a mentor. Whether scholarships, internships, or relationships, she has always made time in her schedule for visits, both personal and professional. Because of Professor Wapptt's direct influence, I hav...

Policy models should be open and transparent. This is the mantra of the new Open Policy Group at the Center for Growth and Opportunity (CGO), an academic and public policy research center housed in the Huntsman School of Business.

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

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.

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.

Three of the most powerful learning experiences I had as an undergraduate took place outside the classroom. The first was as a freshman at Stanford before I transferred to Utah State University. I was a “walk-on” to the Stanford baseball team until the co...

At USU Huntsman, we believe the world needs more Aggies, and take pride in developing the next generation of leaders, builders of nations, organizations, communities, and families. We want each student at the Huntsman School to feel welcome and wanted.

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

Our $60 million “learning by doing” campaign, an effort to expand experiential opportunities to all of our students, continues afoot. Our experience shows us that learning by doing has an outsized impact on student outcomes.

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...

Andy Brim, Pedram Jahangiry, and Sharad Jones from the Huntsman School of Business Data Analytics and Information Systems department joined a discussion about Artifical Intelligence in the Salt Lake Tribune. Click here to read more

We are pleased to announce that Utah State University now offers a virtual Master of Accounting degree. Students throughout the state of Utah, the country, and even the world can now join a live classroom in Logan, Utah from any remote location

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...

The DECA club at the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University competed at the national DECA competition in Orlando. 11 of the 14 competitors were named finalists in their respective categories and qualified for the final round of competition. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Children that have a natural interest in playing with Rubik’s cubes are more likely to enjoy learning about, and studying, math when compared to children who do not like playing with Rubik’s cubes.

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.

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.

Enthusiasm exudes from Olivia Archibald. In fact, it’s rather contagious. Besides being a Huntsman Scholar, Olivia fully engaged in the USU community by contributing to extracurricular activities. Luckily, that included the Women in Business Association (...

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 ...

On Friday, October 21, Douglas R. Conant will receive the 2022 Stephen R. Covey Principle-Centered Leadership Award, presented by the Covey Leadership Center at the Huntsman School of Business. Mr. Conant embodies a life of purpose, passion and principles...

An amusing vignette from Carmella Johns-Andruk’s early childhood reveals some clues that help explain her professional success. Carmella’s four older brothers whispered excitedly as they invented an elaborate prank to tease and also scare her, if possible...

If you ask Chalon Keller why she walks fast, she’ll tell you: I don’t have time not to. What she really means is: I’m on a mission. The youngest of five children, Chalon grew up in a small town in southern Idaho. She worked hard on the family farm from an...

For Ryan Stowers, learning and freedom are one and the same. Whether he’s describing his childhood in rural Cache Valley, his two years in Hungary after the Iron Curtain collapsed, his time as a student at USU, or his career in philanthropy, it all comes...

Ken Snyder lost his daughter, Katie Snyder Evans, to a drunk driving accident in October 2017. She was driving home from UCLA Medical Center after caring for her 8-week-old preemie twins when a drunk driver crossed the median and crashed into her head-on...

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

Born in a refugee camp in Thailand, Lay Lian Doh immigrated to the United States at six years old with her family. They came alone; their relatives had been scattered from Australia to Norway. Unable to speak English, and with no family or friends to assi...

Sharad Jones was in first grade and barely able to read when he stumbled across a book on the life cycle of stars in the school library. Poring over the pages, he learned that over a period of about 4 billion years, the sun would eventually expand to a r...

Sarah Wilcox graduated in May 2022 from Utah State University in Management Information Systems. She began her studies more than ten years ago at Snow College, pausing her education to marry and have four children. Always hungry for knowledge, but with

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...

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...

A core philosophy of the Huntsman School is to bring together people of exceptional talent, from all around the world. People with incredible skill in their chosen field as well as a deep hunger for contribution. 

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...

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...

A highlight of students who won awards at the state level, qualifying them for nationals.

Six students from the Huntsman School of Business participated in the National DECA Competition, held in Baltimore Maryland, and one student won first place in the Fashion Marketing and Management event.

Utah State University has named Kandice Jeppsen as the director of Statewide Student Success & Strategic Initiatives. In this role, Jeppsen will oversee a variety of student success efforts for Statewide Campuses in coordination with the Utah State Univer...

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...

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.

LOGAN, Utah — Utah State University has named Vanessa Liesik as director of Statewide and USU Online Recruitment. As part of the recruitment leadership team, Liesik will work closely with associate vice presidents, the director of students, the USU Online...

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...

Two years later, ripple effects from the pandemic continue to plague businesses. While shortages have shifted to building supplies and computer chips, for weeks last fall container ships were stalled at sea, laden with goods but nowhere to unload them. Th...

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.

A Utah State University (USU) employee who was instrumental in the passage of a new federal law that will dramatically improve the safety of all new vehicles will receive an award for his work from the Center for Auto Safety (CAS).

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 Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center will present to former CEO of Chairwomen of the Board of PepsiCo Indra Nooyi its Principle-Centered Leadership Award on Friday, October 29.

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.

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...

Facts and statistics for the Huntsman School of Business in the year 2021-2022

Marketing major Gabby Marz believes that every new student that embarks on their academic path at Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business should visit the word mural on the north side of the ground floor of Huntsman Hall and read the Th...

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). ...

Humans are at their best when they are deeply connected to other people, live with purpose and authenticity, and work to fulfill their unique potential. Together, these concepts encompass the philosophical ideal of human flourishing, and form the foundati...

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...

It may have looked different from other years’ celebrations, what with limited guests, social distancing all around, and masks required, but we held the annual rite of passage for graduates, with the traditional processional through campus and the awardin...

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’...

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...

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

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.

The Intermountain Growth Summit, hosted by the Huntsman School entrepreneurship center, is the premiere forum for small and medium-sized enterprises—the often overlooked 99.9% of all businesses in the Intermountain West. The summit connects entrepreneurs,...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

As we begin to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, how will our world be different? In a look at The Big Picture, faculty from the Huntsman School provide their thoughts on leadership, learning and teaching, finance, and energy.

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

Professor Teppo Felin has been named the inaugural Douglas D. Anderson Endowed Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Utah State University. The Anderson chair is one of five endowed professorships established in 2019 by the Jon M. Huntsman Foundat...

The world thrilled last February when the Mars rover, Perseverance, began its descent at more than 12,000 miles per hour, toward the surface of the red planet. It would have just seven minutes to slow down enough for a gentle touchdown. A series of maneuv...

In February of 2016, I landed in Fielding, UT. Why Utah? Because, like so many immigrants, it was the only place in the US where I had some family.

The Covey Leadership Center hosted the first virtual International Executive Challenge (IEC), on March 19, 2021, bringing together student teams from six countries. As a virtual leadership case competition, the IEC gave students from around the world the ...

When Marketing Professor Sterling Bone came to the Huntsman School, he brought with him a vision for a professional sales program and a host of contacts. Our students have benefitted from both, evidenced by a growing pipeline of talent to General Mills.

The Huntsman School’s Beta Alpha Psi student chapter won first place in the 2021 Rocky Mountain Region “Best Practices - Invest in Yourself” competition. A total of 14 schools participated in the competition.

The First Annual Huntsman Student Research Symposium, sponsored by the Huntsman PhD Preparation Association was held virtually November 19, 2020, with nine student teams presenting and three teams winning cash prizes.

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.

In 2009, the Utah Commissioner of Higher Education asked Susan Madsen if she could help him understand why Utah women were dropping out of college in droves.

Leslie Martinez is the son of immigrants and the first in his family to earn a college degree. He recently returned to school to earn his MBA from Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. Why now?

The Utah Senate confirmed Governor Spencer J. Cox’s appointment of Tanner Marcum and Valirie Serawop today as student representatives on the Utah Board of Higher Education.

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).

Marin Christensen and Angie Kleven have accepted leadership roles with the Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) to strengthen the impact of Utah girls and women by producing relevant research and resources for working women, and by organizing events tha...

The Huntsman School provides students with the opportunity to get involved with one or more of the 20 Student Clubs here on the Logan Campus. This will help students to build their network, prepare for their careers, and build connections with recruiters....

I chose the Huntsman School because of its trajectory. Dean Anderson’s focus on excellence has attracted faculty and students who are motivated to Dare Mighty Things, and I love the opportunity to be involved in helping accomplish the school’s mission.

Hadjer Abir Bensaha is a spirited young woman who loves life and has ambitious goals in mind. In 2016, she came from Algeria to pursue her life in the US. She is majoring in International Business and Marketing. Her minors are in Leadership & Management, ...

We are excited to announce the launch of a new Data Analytics Information Systems (DAIS) Department in the Huntsman School. Formerly known as Management & Information Systems, the DAIS department is focused on preparing students for analytics-oriented car...

Utah State University students competed against universities throughout the state of Utah at the annual State Leadership Conference for the Collegiate Business Club, PBL (Phi Beta Lambda) and walked away with eight total awards.

A Utah State University undergraduate team took 2nd place in the 2021 Utah HR Council Case Competition. Utah State hosted the virtual competition and a total of 14 teams competed.

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 ...

Utah State University’s Delta Omega chapter of Beta Alpha Psi won first place in the 2021 Rocky Mountain Region “Best Practices - Invest in Yourself” competition. In this year’s competition, teams recorded and submitted their presentations electronically ...

The Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University hosted the first virtual International Executive Challenge (IEC), on March 19, 2021, bringing together student teams from six countries.

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...

The Huntsman Marketing Association held its Spring Marketing Case Competition on Thursday, March 25 at Huntsman Hall. The competition was sponsored by ICON Health & Fitness and focused on creating social media marketing campaigns forNordicTrack treadmil

For 24 years, Ami Anderson’s professional headquarters was her Jordan School District elementary school classroom where she taught third grade and later, fourth along Utah’s Wasatch Front. Then came the coronavirus pandemic and last spring’s shuttering of...

Who walks around with quarters in their pockets anymore? In the world of online banking, pretty much no one, least of all college students. But for a menstruating individual caught in public without supplies, you'd better hope you have quarters.

Put on through the Covey Leadership Center in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, the World's Principled Leaders Series is hosted by the inaugural Stephen R. Covey Endowed Professors of Leadership, Lord Dr. Michael Hastings and Boyd Craig. The speaker...

Each year, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business recognizes top-performing students, staff, and faculty for their academic and professional accomplishments. For the 2020-2021 academic year, we would like to acknowledge and commend the following individua...

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 ...

The Utah State MBA program had the privilege of hosting Whitney Johnson as a guest speaker on February 10. Current MBA student, Brigham Doxey, worked with Whitney before starting his journey in the MBA program.

The Association for Information Systems (AIS) student chapter in the Huntsman School of Business has been internationally recognized for excellence for the third year in a row. The chapter was awarded “Distinguished Chapter” for the 2019-2020 year. This f...

Ten students from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University competed virtually in the Utah State DECA competition and 7 of the 10 competing students placed and qualified for the national competition which will be held virtually in Ap...

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 last year has seen unprecedented disruptions to the workplace and the nature of work. In an online panel on January 29,  industry leaders discussed how their organizations navigated the turbulence, how they continue to foster supportive work environme...

When uncertainty reigns and an economy shrinks, management is often driven to engage in downsizing. Typically governed by conventional management thinking, most such efforts produce predictable outcomes: People are removed, money is saved and signals of r...

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business is proud to announce that Professor Teppo Felin will become the first Douglas D. Anderson chaired professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Utah State University on July 1, 2021. The Anderson chair is one of five...

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...

Utah State University student Adam McClanahan has been named a Region VI Student Leader for the 2020-21 NIRSA Leaders in Collegiate Recreation Member Network. NIRSA’s Student Leadership Team is a group of dedicated student members committed to collaborati...

A panel of experts discussed how COVID-19 is impacting access to some of the world’s favorite products and impacting the development of a vaccine. Panel members included: Allison Corry, Assistant Vice President of Sourcing, Intermountain Healthcare Supply...

The First Annual Huntsman Student Research Symposium, sponsored by The Huntsman PhD Preparation Association was held virtually November 19, 2020 with nine student teams presenting and three teams winning cash prizes.

Susan Madsen is the Founder and Director, Utah Women & Leadership Project and Inaugural Karen Haight Huntsman Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Huntsman School of Business. She is also the Founding Director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project, whi...

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...

“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.

In the back of her mind, Utah epidemiologist Lindsay Meyers, director of medical data systems at Salt Lake City-based BioFire Diagnostics, LLC, was keenly aware of the threat of a novel respiratory virus popping up among the usual suspects of cold and flu...

Through three different programs, supported by funds from the US Government and by private donors, Huntsman students and faculty have jumped in to help members of the community adversely impacted by Covid-19.

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...

I will always be grateful for my Huntsman experience. I was intimidated by the thought of going back to school after being a stay-at-home mom for ten years. After my husband’s death, I knew I had to earn a degree to begin a career to provide for my childr...

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.”

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.

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

“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.

Lianne Wappett, a lecturer in the Department of Data Analytics & Information Systems, was recognized as the 2019-2020 Huntsman School of Business Teacher of the Year.

The motto, “E pluribus Unum,” a Latin phrase meaning “out of many, one”—was approved for inclusion on the Great Seal of the United States by Act of Congress in 1782. I thought of this when I read Associate Dean Dave Patel’s comments in this issue of Hunts...

For the seventh year in a row, the USU School of Accountancy has ranked among the top programs in the nation for the CPA Exam pass rate for first-time candidates in large programs. Utah State University ranked 38 out of 247 institutions with programs that...

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...

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...

SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management) awarded a 2019-2020 Superior Merit Award designation to the Utah State University SHRM student chapter for providing superior growth and development opportunities to its student members

Organizations increasingly thrive when both men and women hold leadership roles and work together. Gender inclusivity in leadership benefits not only Utah’s businesses, but also its government organizations, such as state legislatures, city councils, and ...

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business wishes to recognize those individuals within our college who recently received promotions. These individuals are: Sterling Bone, Marketing and Strategy, Promoted to Full Professor; Kelly Fadel, Data Analytics and Inf...

A nonprofit sent Black and white “mystery shoppers” to branches of 17 banks, where they asked for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. White customers got better treatment.

Intrepid students who had been planning and preparing the culminating event of their school year refused to let the COVID-19 outbreak cancel their plans. Instead the Covey Leadership Fellows, business-minded Utah State University students from multiple di...

ON MARCH 23, the state of Louisiana issued a stay-at-home order for residents. That was the same day that Louisiana Tech University’s College of Business in Ruston was to conduct its peer review team visit with AACSB International to maintain its accredit...

When business leaders decide they know everything, they stop learning and their effectiveness immediately decreases…Leaders who are open to coaching typically want to learn more about themselves.

The Utah State University MBA Program and KSL Podcasts are excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series, “The Management Minute Home Team.”  Hosted by Professor Scott Hammond, the podcasts are a part of the “Management Minute” series on KSL, a l...

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...

This summer, the Utah State University Online Master of Business Administration program will celebrate the graduation of its first graduating cohort.

The tragic death of George Floyd in Minneapolis was extremely disturbing to watch. The national protests and unrest that have followed prompt me today to publicly reaffirm Utah State University’s and my own personal commitment to inclusion and respect in ...

Listen to the 1A Podcast with host Celeste Headlee and guest speaker Sean Covey as they discuss Sean adding his insights to his father's book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People." Sean agreed to contribute to the 30th-anniversary edition of the book unde...

The stock market has plunged and 36 million Americans have filed for unemployment. In this episode of Instead, USU Huntsman School of Business researcher Dr. Chad Albrecht helps us connect the dots between the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Depression. W...

USU’s Delta Omega chapter of Beta Alpha Psi dominated the Rocky Mountain Region “Best Practices” competition. Our chapter was the only school to compete in all three categories:  Engagement, Innovation, and Impact.

Aggies represented the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at USU well as they competed in the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) State Leadership Conference, bringing home 11 first place, six second place, one third place, and one fourth place awards. Students were aw...

It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Dr. Susan Madsen as a tenured, full professor in the Marketing and Strategy department of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, and as the inaugural Karen Haight Huntsman Endowed Professor of ...

The Huntsman School of Business’ ProSales team competed alongside 39 top universities at the University of Toledo Invitational Sales Competition (UTISC) and USU freshman, Andrew Marino, took home the 1st place prize in the Freshman/Sophomore Division. Fel...

Utah State University’s Association for Information Systems (AIS) student chapter in the MIS Department, led by their Executive Board: Benton Smith, Taylor Petersen, Megan Fogarty, and Henry Blackburn, was recognized for the second year in a row as the St...

Seven Utah State University students returned from the State DECA Competition at Southern Utah University with first place titles in at least one of their competitions. Four students took second place and one student took third place. The competition incl...

Students from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University are celebrating their third consecutive win at the state-level competition of the CFA Institute Research Challenge in Salt Lake City.

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.

Tara Williams, ’11 received the UACPA award for Women to Watch: Emerging Leader at the UACPA’s Annual Inauguration & Awards Banquet this fall. This award is presented to a woman professional who has made significant contributions to the profession and he...

Utah State University (USU) took home several prizes at the 2019 Utah DECA Fall Leadership Conference (FLC) in November. Michaela Leishman took first place and Drew Schafeitel and Kayden McCallum won second place in the team case study competition. This c...

Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) is an international accounting honors society with 300 chapters around the globe. Over 300,000 members have been initiated since BAP was founded in 1919. The Delta Omega Chapter at Utah State University (USU) now has the nation's long...

For the sixth year in a row, the School of Accountancy has ranked among the top programs in the nation for the CPA Exam pass rate for first-time candidates in large programs (more than 60 candidates). USU ranked 28 out of 249 institutions, with 74.1 perce...

A Utah State University study found that minorities were treated differently when pursuing loans for their businesses.

Utah State University research showing that minority and women applicants seeking small business loans receive poorer treatment and more scrutiny from bank lending officers was presented at a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) symposium on Nov. 6...

Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business now offers a one-year online master’s in business administration (MBA). A year ago, the Huntsman school started offering a two-year online MBA, and saw great success with the added flexibility of ...

A CEO’s personality traits can impact a company’s stock price, according to groundbreaking new research by Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business that was recently featured in Harvard Business Review.

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...

Human Resources is listed as one of the top 5 highest paying college majors. The median starting salary for Huntsman School Master of HR graduates is $82K; nearly 100% full time placement; 80% land full time positions in Fortune 500 firms.

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...

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.

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.

Dr. Sepideh Raei, Assistant Professor of Economics and Dr Pedram Jahangiry, Visiting Professor in economics both find fulfillment in guiding students towards success. Investing time and effort into students is a worth-while.

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.

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.

Lord Dr. Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE was presented with the inaugural Stephen R. Covey Principle-Centered Leader Award on September 19, 2019, in Huntsman Hall. Lord Hastings is a member of the House of Lords in the British Parliament and recently ...

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...

What are the odds of achieving two significant life goals, plus a third honor you were never expecting, in the span of just a few months? Just ask Dr. Chris Corcoran, a USU- and Harvard-trained statistician, who is having an incredible, if mathematically ...

Visitors from across the globe join the Huntsman Community every Friday for conversations about life, learning from failure, sharing in success, and finding happiness.

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

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.

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 ...

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

The School of Accountancy is happy to report that we are ranked in the “Top 50” graduate and undergraduate programs in The Public Accounting Report 2019 Annual Rankings. For programs with 16 or fewer faculty members, the undergraduate program is ranked #5...

Visiting Assistant Professor, Dr. Kathryn Brightbill, graduated with her PhD in accounting from the University of Iowa and bachelor’s in accounting from Pennsylvania State University. Her dissertation explores the conditions under which analyst teams issu...

New research from Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business indicates 66% of employees experience some form of ostracism at work, which can create a significant negative impact on both the employee and the employee’s family.

If you’re a profitable business that has built up sales to $1 million, $5 million or even $10 million a year, getting a loan to expand your business should be a cinch. Right? Not for African-American- or Hispanic-owned businesses, which for a variety of

Writing the perfect resume is a daunting task, and it is important to do everything you can to make yourself stick out (in a good way). Recruiters pore over volumes of resumes and may spend mere seconds looking at each one. As someone who has reviewed hun...

Tell me if this sounds familiar – a close co-worker sends out an email to your whole company notifying them of a new policy change, and you take that as an opportunity to reply back and tell the co-worker about the great time you had at the Justin Bieber ...

Logan, UT, June 14, 2019 — The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has awarded a 2018-2019 Superior Merit designation to the Utah State University SHRM student chapter for providing superior growth and development opportunities to its student cha...

Jessica Peters and Sam Adams both received $2,500 IMA scholarships for the 2019-20 academic year. Jessica recently served as the newsletter specialist for our IMA student chapter and Sam served as a vice president this past year and will serve as the pres...

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.

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.

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 ...

A group of ten students recently represented the Huntsman School of Business at a national DECA competition in Orlando, Florida. All of the students qualified for the national competition by placing in the top six at the state competition held in February...

“Dragon’s Breath” and “Nitro Pop” may sound like uncommon dessert names, but then again, using liquid nitrogen to make a treat isn’t very common either. “We wanted to have something where it is a good treat but it would be fun for anyone to get,” said Ma...

When a person walks out of the grocery store holding an eco-friendly canvas bag instead of a plastic bag, what gender do you think they are? Most likely, your unconscious bias answers that they are female. This is the type of answer Dr. Aaron Brough of Ut...

It's called the "glass cliff." It's the phenomenon of women in leadership roles — CEOs or political figures — who are far more likely to ascend to leadership roles during a crisis, when the risk of failure is highest.

Sales: It is at the very heart of business. Accounting, financing, operations and human resource departments have very little to do that creates any value for the firm, “until a sale is made.” If you can’t close, you can’t compete, they say. Sure, most pe...

Utah State University (USU) had a successful showing at the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) State Leadership Conference in March. Four out of the five USU teams won first place in their respective events, and all five teams will compete at the national competition ...

Utah State University (USU) had an outstanding showing at the state collegiate DECA competition in February. All twelve USU students who competed were finalists for their events and thus qualified for the national competition in Orlando, Florida, in April...

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.

“Buy-in” is a term we often hear in our society. We can “buy-in” to a franchise, “buy-in” to an idea, “buy-in” to a new way of thinking or way of life, or “buy-in” to a potential solution. In a business setting, it can mean a lot of things, but let’s focu...

School of Accountancy alum, Heather Allen, ’04 was recognized in the February 2019 edition of Utah Business Magazine as a “40 Under 40” honoree. Heather was recently promoted to tax partner at Tanner LLC, and is one of the few female partners in public ac...

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...

Since 2015, two professors from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Extension Sustainability at Utah State University (USU) – Edwin Stafford and Roslynn Brain McCann – have held a poster-design competition for high school students obtaining their d...

The USU student chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), an international professional association for individuals and organizations that research, teach, practice, and study information systems, was awarded AIS Student Chapter of the Yea...

Do managers behave territorially toward their employees? Despite accumulating evidence demonstrating the prevalence of territoriality over nonagentic organizational resources, key questions remain regarding the extent to which psychological ownership and ...

This study introduces the concept of pre-quitting behaviors (PQBs), which employees in the process of leaving an organization may unknowingly “leak” and others can observe and use to identify those at risk of turnover.

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...

January rings in a new year and brings with it new dreams, new aspirations, new energy and, yes, new year’s resolutions. Well, it’s now February, and for many of us our new 2019 goals are a distant memory.

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 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...

Alison Cook, a professor of management at Utah State University is co-author of a study that looked closely at every female CEO ever appointed to a Fortune 500 company through to 2014: 52. What Cook and her research partner, sociologist Christy Glass, fo...

“We intend that the principles Dr. Covey has articulated will have a lasting impact on our students, our faculty, and our staff as the new Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center becomes a reality.” Today these prophetic words spoken by Huntsman School Dean Do...

Four Huntsman students were among those named in the coveted 2020 Robins Awards. Students and faculty are awarded for their hard work and dedication to their individual goals and the goals of USU.