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  2015-16 Year-at-a-Glance

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  The 2015-2016 Huntsman Scholar Presidency did an amazing job leading our Scholars this past year. (Left to right) Bo Johnson – Co President, Heather Bair – VP, and Preston Naegle – Co President

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  2016 Distinguished Executive Alumnus

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  The idea for HealthEquity, one of the nation’s largest health savings custodians, was germinated in a class at USU during Steve Neeleman’s sophomore year. “I took this class, medical sociology, taught by Reed Geertsen, and it really opened my eyes to the cost of healthcare and our system of health insurance,” recounted Neeleman. After graduating from Utah State, where he also played football, he went on to the University of Utah Medical School. After juggling two careers, as a surgeon and running HealthEquity for more than a decade, Steve gave up practicing surgery about 18 months ago to focus his time and energy to building HealthEquity.

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  3 Hired by Goldman Sachs

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Congratulations to three Huntsman students who recently received full-time offers as financial analysts in the highly sought after Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. The Huntsman School of Business placed three students in the Investment Banking Division in the GS Salt Lake City office. The only other school that placed more than one student with GS-SLC was Denver University, with the placement of two students.

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  3 Ways to Attract Success after Graduation

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Gail Miller, owner of the Larry H. Miller Group, gave the following commencement address on May 7, 2016. It has been condensed and edited for length.

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  Accounting Grad Scores Prestigious Internship

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Recent MAcc (Master of Accounting) graduate Dillon Jones will spend the next year in Norwalk, CT, at a prestigious internship for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The Postgraduate Technical Assistant Program is “a one-year term, during which the individual becomes highly involved with the accounting standards-setting process and comes to have an in-depth understanding of the roles played by preparers, auditors, and users of financial information.” Jones is among only seven interns who were selected and is only the second Huntsman student to receive this internship.

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  Accounting Student Interns at PCAOB

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Samuel Lindquist, a junior in accounting and club hockey player recently began an internship with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in Washington D.C. He is one of three interns selected from the around the world in the Office of Research and Analysis at the PCAOB. Interns are selected based on a competitive process that includes several interviews. This department supports the PCAOB Inspections and Enforcement Departments in their goal to oversee audits of public companies, protect the interest of investors and further the public interest of informative, accurate and independent audit reports.

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  Aggie Alumnus Joins Huntsman Development Team

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  The Huntsman School has welcomed Aggie alumnus Sam Brand as a development officer.

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  Aggie Headed to Madrid

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  At the Huntsman School of Business, we challenge our students, past and present, to Dare Mighty Things. One Utah State alumnus has truly taken this to heart during his professional career. Derek White graduated from Utah State University in 1996, and for the past 20 years, his career has been a showcase for entrepreneurial spirit, with stops at the Wharton School, JP Morgan, Barclays Bank in London, where he was the Chief Design and Digital Officer, and beginning March, 2016, with BBVA, the largest financial institution in Spain and Mexico.

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  AIS Places at National Competition

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Four members from the Association for Information Systems (AIS) student chapter recently competed against 16 collegiate teams during the AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference and Competition in Bloomington, Indiana. Allan Follett, Dallin Lewis, Abhishek Shukla, and Caleb Wilkinson began preparing for the competition last fall. The team had to review preparatory material, attend a four-hour training session on the night before the conference, and then participate in the nine-hour competition itself. The actual competition consisted of eight, one-hour sessions, interspersed with short breaks.

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  Be the Difference.

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  At the Huntsman School, we believe in rewarding students who work hard to live up to our school motto to “Dare Mighty Things”, but we can’t do that without your support. Our goal to reach $2.5 million per year in Direct Student Support by 2020 is ambitious, but critical in our pursuit to provide every deserving student with the support they need to take advantage of all the opportunities the Huntsman School has to offer. Your gift, whatever the amount, can make all the difference in the life of a hard-working student.

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  Bringing Global Vision to Accounting

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  “If you look at the strategic pillars of the Huntsman School, global vision is a standard. We really have to understand what is happening outside of Cache Valley, Utah, and the United States,” noted Dr. Chris Skousen, associate department head of the Accounting Program. This year Dr. Skousen of was elected President of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA).

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  Building Huntsman

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  The opening of Huntsman Hall is a significant step in our journey to build a top-tier business education program. The past ten years have witnessed the naming of the College of Business, the creation of 13 curricular and extracurricular programs, the opening of two centers of excellence, rising enrollments in both quality and quantity, recruiting of world-class faculty, and engagement by increasing numbers of corporate partners seeking our best and brightest students.

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  Crossing the Desert for Cancer

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Jon M. Huntsman School of Business alumnus Kaden Comadena (BA ’10) has taken the challenge to ‘dare mighty things’ seriously. The International Business graduate recently completed the Marathon des Sables. A six day, 159-mile race across the Sahara Desert that is commonly known as the “toughest footrace on earth”. Comadena not only completed a major physical feat but found a way to give back. As he ran across the desert, Comadena raised money for cancer research for the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

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  Dare Mighty Things Jon M. Huntsman Hall Becomes a Reality

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  On March 16, 2016, we opened the doors of the Jon M. Huntsman Hall on the campus of Utah State University. Utah Governor Gary Herbert, members of the Huntsman family, dignitaries from the business and government communities, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends joined Utah State University President Stan Albrecht and Huntsman School Dean Douglas Anderson in a dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony. “This day is a significant step in our journey to create a world-class business education program,” stated Dean Anderson. “There is not a better building on any campus in the country. Our students will absolutely love studying here.”

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  Dean's Message

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  This year, July 1 was a personal milestone: It marked my tenth year as dean of the Huntsman School. It has been a singular honor to serve in this role, and to see the progress our School has made, with the help of so many of you. In those ten years, we have been transformed, with a new name, new faculty, new facilities, and higher expectations for ourselves and our students. We became the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business on December 3, 2007. We hope to live up to the very best that name stands for: integrity, entrepreneurship, service over self, global sophistication.

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  Developing Careers at the Huntsman School

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Occasionally just the right mix of place, time, and events combine to create incredible synergy. That synergy is evolving as the FJ Management Center for Student Success becomes home to a new Career Development office in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. At Utah State career services have traditionally been provided to all students through a centralized function. This new setup, modeled on top business schools across the country, places career development for Huntsman students within the college itself.

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  Entrepreneurs Choose Persistence Over Adventure

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  When considering potential new opportunities, entrepreneurs typically contemplate the possible financial and non-financial benefits that may be generated and the probability of successfully starting the business. Unsurprisingly, if the new opportunity is perceived to be able to generate a lot of benefits, the entrepreneur will be more likely to pursue the opportunity. Similarly, the higher the perceived probability of success, the greater the motivation to start the business. Entrepreneurship research has shown that these two factors also have a multiplicative effect on motivation in that the attractiveness of the opportunity increases even more dramatically when both value and probability are high.

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  Experienced Finance Professional Joins Huntsman School

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Rick Hornsby, one of the newest faculty members in the Huntsman School, is a Cache Valley native who graduated from Logan High School. After receiving two degrees from the Huntsman School, he set out for a career that would take him from one side of the country to the other. So when an opportunity arose to return to his hometown and teach graduate level courses in the Economics and Finance Department, he jumped at the opportunity.

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  Faculty Research Wins Award at Qualtrics Insight Summit

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  In February, leading business professionals and academics from around the world gathered at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City for the 2016 Qualtrics Insight Summit. Prominent on the program was the “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” game show, hosted by Stephen Dubner, the author of Freakonomics.

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  Fighting Fire with Innovation

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  This summer MIS Associate Professor Jeff Johnson was granted a patent for his unique form of information security, one that has the potential to revolutionize online security. Patent #9391962, “Multi-node Encryption”, is an idea that could potentially upset the entire internet industry.

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  Focused Fridays sharpen. explore. aspire.

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  A new initiative at the Huntsman School, Focused Fridays provides programming to build skill sets and explore opportunities for life after school. After considerable conversations between students, faculty, and USU administration, the Huntsman School altered class schedules to a M-W and T-H schedule, with Fridays devoted to extracurricular programming to better prepare students to enter the workforce.

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  Harry S. Truman Scholarship Awarded to Huntsman Student

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Don't let her small frame fool you. Madelyn Fife is a powerhouse full of drive and intelligence. In April, Madelyn Fife received some incredible news from USU President Stan Albrecht. Under the ploy that she needed to sign a travel form in the President's office, Madelyn was informed that she was awarded the Truman Scholarship and would become one of 54 students in the nation to become a Truman Scholar.

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  How Global Experiences Enrich Learning

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Foreign travel is an opportunity that can greatly enrich a student’s education and the Global Learning Experiences program at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business does just that. Aligning with the school’s pillar of global vision, the program provides rich, in-country experiences while providing a business focused curriculum. The structure helps students develop a global mindset which “is imperative for students who will enter a highly globalized marketplace upon graduation.” The program contains a broad portfolio of options for both undergraduate and graduate programs with experiences in London, Paris, South America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.

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  How I'm Building Huntsman

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  I grew up in Cache Valley, went to Sky View High School before enrolling at Utah State, married a girl from Logan, and two of our daughters are currently at USU, so I bleed Aggie Blue. My time at USU was everything that I could have wished for, from the academic opportunities to the amazing student life on campus.

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  How I’m Building Huntsman

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  From snowy walks up Old Main Hill, to thundering basketball games in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, to late night study sessions in the library, I loved my time at Utah State University and the opportunities it offered me. Attending USU opened my eyes to different perspectives, places, and things — I made friends from small western towns and big international cities. I studied abroad in France and interned on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. These opportunities, which shaped me as a person and helped me find my way down a rewarding career path, were made possible by the vision and generosity of others.