Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

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  Rising to the Top

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  The Huntsman School of Business is on the path to becoming a top tier business school, as indicated by the most recent Public Accounting Report Annual Rankings.

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  School of Accountancy Ranked Nationally Again

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  The School of Accountancy in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business has once again been ranked as one of the best accounting programs in the nation.

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  The Huntsman School Welcomes Two Outstanding New Faculty

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  The location and lifestyle of pastoral Cache Valley were instantly appealing to Dr. Briggs Depew, who grew up in the small farming community of Raymond, in southern Alberta, Canada. However, it was the administrationʼs overall vision for the Huntsman School of Business and his colleaguesʼ personal excellence and genuine interest in helping students excel that made him eager to join the Economics and Finance Department at the Huntsman School.

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  Thought Leader Visiting Huntsman

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  Dr. Lloyd Baird is Professor of Management at Boston University and most recently served as Chair of the Organizational Behavior Department. He was Executive Director of the Leadership Institute for numerous years and currently serves on the steering committee of the Executive Development Roundtable and Research Director of the Human Resources Policy Institute, both consortiums of leading corporations devoted to improving leadership capability in their organizations. He also served as Faculty Director of the Questrom School of Business PhD programs. Currently he is completing work on two grants “Redesigning the Undergraduate Learning Experience” and the “Digital Learning Initiatives”.

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  Top Finish in National Real Estate Investing Competition

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  A team of Huntsman School students placed third in a national real estate competition, ahead of Harvard, BYU, Wisconsin Madison, Pepperdine and others in the 2016 Real Confidence University Challenge. The annual competition, comprised of 32 universities and colleges with over 190 students, gives hands-on learning experience in public and private commercial real estate investing. The performance of each sectorʼs weighted investment selection was calculated with its respective benchmark return data provided by NAREIT, NCREIF, Markit and Giliberto-Levy Commercial Mortgage Performance Index. Each university team is allocated $1 billion in theoretical capital among a variety of commercial real estate investment opportunities found within the public and private equity and the public and private debt sectors.

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  USU Accounting Alum Wins International Internal Audit Research Award

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  USU Accounting alum, Lancelot Giles ʼ09, recently received the Esther R. Sawyer Research award at The Institute of Internal Auditorsʼ 75th annual conference in New York. The Sawyer Award is an annual worldwide competition open to undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in internal auditing at an Internal Auditing Education Partnership university. He received the award for his submission, “Achieving and Maintaining Professional Competency as an Internal Auditor in a High-Change Environment.”

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  USU Announces $50 Million Gift

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  LOGAN, UTAH, May 6, 2017 -- Utah State University announced today a major expansion of its highly selective Huntsman Scholar Program and the launch of the Center for Growth and Opportunity thanks to a joint $50 million gift to the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business from the Huntsman Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.

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  2015-16 Year-at-a-Glance

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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

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  Aggie Headed to Madrid

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  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

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  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.

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  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

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  “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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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.