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  100 Cities 100 Entrepreneurs

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  The Silicon Valley approach for building companies has become the main strategy taught at many business schools around the country. It goes like this: You create a prototype you can quickly test, preferably in the tech industry. You find a group of users and gain proof of concept. You raise capital and scale the business as rapidly as possible. You plan an exit strategy that may include going public or selling to an industry buyer. You shoot for a 10X return to investors. You make a lot of money.

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  100 Small Towns 100 Entreprenuers

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  In the June 2014 Huntsman Post we mentioned that the Director of our Clark Center for Entrepreneurship, Dr. Mike Glauser, was beginning his cross-country bike trip to interview 100 entrepreneurs in 100 small towns across America.

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  Accounting RCDE Faculty Receives Grant

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Rhett Hunt, an accounting faculty member at the Regional Campus in Vernal receives a grant for student internships. The purpose of the grant is to help strengthen relationships between local accounting firms and USU, improve employment opportunities for USU-RCDE accounting graduates, and increase the visibility of students who are ready to begin working full time in accounting. Congratulations Rhett!

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  Accounting Student Receives Accolades for Inspiration

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Each year, Beta Alpha Psi, the international honors organization for accounting, and the American Institute of CPA’s jointly sponsor the medal of inspiration, which is awarded to the one student whose life story is most likely to encourage others to reach within themselves and find “greatness.” This year they have chosen to honor Huntsman student A. Lucien Butler. The award was presented at the Beta Alpha Psi annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, and includes a $5,000 cash scholarship.

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  A Focus on Student Success

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Over the past five years, students in the Huntsman School have won numerous university awards, including USU Man of the Year (three years in a row), Woman of the Year and University Citizenship Award (each twice), Scholar of the Year, and the Bill E. Robins Memorial Award. The USU student body president has come from the Huntsman School three of the past five years. Our students have also received national accolades, including the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award to three students over the past two years for top scores on the CPA Exam, and two groups of students have won first place in national MIS competitions.

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  A Focus on Student Sucess

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Over the past five years, students in the Huntsman School have won numerous university awards, including USU Man of the Year (three years in a row), Woman of the Year and University Citizenship Award (each twice), Scholar of the Year, and the Bill E. Robins Memorial Award. The USU student body president has come from the Huntsman School three of the past five years. Our students have also received national accolades, including the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award to three students over the past two years for top scores on the CPA Exam, and two groups of students have won first place in national MIS competitions.

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  Alumni and Students Launch Campaign

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Huntsman alumni Craig Morris and Nate Bradshaw knew that Snap would be a success at first glance. The Snap product was originally invented by Eric Child, whose recent invention Fiber fix was featured on ABC’s Shark Tank, but who did not have the time capacity to fully promote the product. With Child’s permission to promote the product, Morris and Bradshaw teamed up with students Spencer Bailey and Kathryn Young, and launched the following Indiegogo campaign.

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  Another Elijah Watt Sells Winner

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  We are pleased to announce that another recent graduate from Utah State's School of Accountancy has received the Elijah Watt Sells Award. We congratulate Tyson Irwin on this prestigious accomplishment. Tyson was among the 94,000+candidates who sat for the Uniform CPA Exam in 2013, and only 55 received this award.

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  Broadening Her Horizons

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  With the support of the Huntsman Scholars Program and the USU Honors Program, Allison Fife, ’15, Economics andHistory, recently attended the Insight Dubai conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Throughout the conference, she attended lectures and discussions focused on subjects ranging from governance and culture in the UAE to Sharia law to being a leader as a twenty-first century woman.

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  Business, Conscience, Service

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Businessman and philanthropist Bob Gay visited the Huntsman School on November 13, and delivered an incredible talk about business, conscience, and service. Although Mr. Gay didn’t care for business growing up, his father, a very successful businessman, convinced him to enroll in Harvard Business School’s PhD program in economics. From there his career moved from McKinsey and Company, to Bain Capital, where he was managing director for 16 years, and then co-founder and CEO of Huntsman Gay Global Capital.

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  Business Week Students Serve

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Every year for Business Week, the Huntsman School Business Council, a group of student leaders representing all business students, puts together a service project to benefit the community. This year, they elected to serve the Huntsman Cancer Institute. In collaboration with representatives of HCI, they decided to undertake three projects: create fleece blankets, decorate composition books into journals, and write letters of encouragement.

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  Deeper Into China

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  The Huntsman School of Business and the Northwest University for Nationalities (NWUN), based in Lanzhou, China, announced an academic partnership to offer an undergraduate degree in International Economics. This is the fourth such partnership for the Huntsman School, which now counts over 900 students in China enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program in International Economics.

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  Dr. Larry Walther Receives the Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Merit Award

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Dr. Larry Walther, head of the School of Accountancy, has been selected as the 2013 recipient of Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Merit Award by The Federation of Schools of Accountancy (FSA). This award annually honors an outstanding contribution by a faculty member in a post-baccalaureate professional program of an FSA member school. The award ceremony will take place February 9 in San Antonio, Texas. Past recipients read like a “who’s who” of the very finest accounting faculty and thought leaders in the country.

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  Dr. Vern Buehler Remembered

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Dr. Vern Buehler, a heralded professor, philanthropist, and US Army veteran, passed away on July 25, 2014.

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  GoPro Marketing Competition

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  I had no idea what to expect from my first marketing competition. I signed up anyway, thinking that this could lead to anew line on my resume, or maybe the opportunity to rub shoulders with other professionals in the marketing field. While both those things did happen, I can honestly say I am a better marketer because this is experience, and that alone is worth it.

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  Huntsman School Opens New FJ Management Center for Student Success

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Today, Crystal and Chuck Maggelet of FJ Management, with Dean Anderson and President Albrecht, held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new FJ Management Center for Student Success at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.

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  MAcc Student Receives AICPA Medal of Inspiration

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  We recently received notification that our own Lucien Butler has been selected as this year’s National Medal of Inspiration Award winner. This award is co-sponsored by the Beta Alpha Psi organization and the AICPA with a $5,000 cash award funded by the AICPA with only one annual recipient. For those of you less acquainted with Lucien, here is why he was selected.

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  Master Class - Negotiation is the Key to Success

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Dr. Merideth Thompson, assistant professor of management, encourages her students to rock the boat. Her Negotiations class, MGT 4600, isn’t the type of class where students sit in rows and raise their hands. It’s a class where words are used as tools and nonverbal communication is king.

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  MHR Students Give Back and Get to Work

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Last week 26 Huntsman School of Business Master of Human Resources students put away their text books and cellphones, gave back to the Utah community and learned what it takes to run an organization from the ground up by bottling, labeling, weighing and stacking more than 36,000 cans of beef chunks for the holiday season.

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  Minority Entrepreneurs Face Added Challenges

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Minority Entrepreneurs Face Added Challenges Sterling Bone, an assistant professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, recently completed research that shows entrepreneurs who are minorities face more obstacles to success than their Caucasian counterparts.

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  MIS Class Presents to Zions Bank

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Dr. Nicole Forsgren’s Business Analytics class (MIS 3860) faced not only their peers and professor for their latest class presentations, but also members from the Zions Bank analytics team.

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  My Huntsman Experience: Scott Laneri

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Much like Jon M. Huntsman, the Huntsman School of Business itself is a giver. The term “giver” comes from Adam Grant’s book Give and Take, where he writes that there are three types of people in the world: takers, matchers, and givers. Takers are those who are always trying to get as much as possible from others. Matchers are those who, if they did you a favor, would expect one back (and vice versa). And then there are the givers — those who go out of their way to support and help you, with no strings attached.

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  Non-Resident Tuition Waiver for Excellence

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  The Non-Resident Tuition Waiver for Excellence is a one-year waiver of the non-resident portion of graduate tuition. It is available for all new students applying to USU’s School of Graduate Studies—regardless of program or degree—whose GPA and national competitive exam scores (GRE, GMAT LSAT, Miller, etc.) are above the average of the same admission scores for all current students in the college.

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  Professor Elected to National HR Committee

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Huntsman School associate professor Tim Gardner was recently elected to the Academy of Management Human Resource Division Executive Committee, a group that provides a disciplinary headquarters for members with specific scholarly interests around the field of human resources.

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  Professor Frank Shuman Receives National IMA Award

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Professor Frank Shuman has been selected to receive the Ursel K. Albers IMA Campus Advocate of the Year Award, a national award given to an outstanding IMA faculty advisor. Frank was selected for this award because of his significant contributions to IMA student members and IMA overall. The USU chapter of IMA has received many prestigious awards during the 18 years Frank has been the faculty advisor. He will be recognized at the IMA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis in June. Congratulations Frank!