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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!

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  Professor Frank Shuman Recognized in IMA Magazine

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  The student chapter at Utah State University is one of IMA’s ongoing success stories. For 18 consecutive years, the chapter has achieved the Gold Level Award of Excellence. For five of those years, including 2013, it’s been named an Outstanding Student Chapter, which is granted to only a few schools each year. That’s quite a track record – and although he’s too modest to admit it, a large portion of the credit goes to Frank Shuman, CMA, pictured here, who’s been the chapter’s faculty advisor (now an IMA Campus Advocate) since that long, successful run began.

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  Research Finds Correlation between Political Connections, Federal Reserve Loans

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Banks that have better political connections and invest money in lobbying are more likely to get emergency loans from the Federal Reserve System, according to research done by a Huntsman professor.

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  Service to Campus and Country

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  Timothy McFall is a Staff Sergeant in the Utah Army National Guard and has been an active member for over 12 years.He has served two overseas combat tours, once to Iraq in 2004 as an artillery forward observer, where he was awarded a Purple Heart, and once to Afghanistan in 2010 as a medical platoon sergeant, responsible for the daily medical operations of a base near the border with Pakistan. Between deployments, Tim taught leadership skills and small unit tactics at the 640th Regimental Training Institute in Riverton, Utah.

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  SOA Welcomes New Faculty, Dr. Tim Seidel

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  The School of Accountancy welcomes Dr. Tim Seidel as the newest member of the faculty.

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  Something in the Water??

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  There is a huge shortage of Ph.D.s in accounting. According to studies by the American Accounting Association the average accounting professor is now unbelievably 60 years old. Very few people are electing to pursue the rigorous and lengthy trail toward that degree, and we don’t have a Vietnam-type war that young people are trying to defer joining (perhaps a bit of hint about the 60-year olds).

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  Student's Business Gaining Momentum

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  During Josh Light's first year at USU, he participated in a competition for extra credit.

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  Young Alumnus Succeeding at Facebook

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  After graduation in 2007, Mike Bailey, Economics (BA) and Math (BS), received a scholarship to Stanford’s PhD program.Nearing graduation from Stanford, Bailey began work at Yahoo! Research. He and his team studied the effectiveness of online targeted advertising and published one of the first papers on the topic. That paper is now one of the most cited research articles in the field of online advertising.

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  Experiencing Business in a Whole New World

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Trevor Andersen

  My Go Global experience was something I'll never forget, and quite honestly, it has been all I could talk about coming back to school. To visit top-tier businesses in other countries, visit a country’s most sacred ruin, and finish it all up with a mini internship as a micro-finance consultant, was one of the best experiences of my life. There really is no other program that can give a cultural exposure, open up your eyes to global business, and help you see what value you can add to this world than the Go Global Program.

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  Judging a Part by the Size of its Whole: The Category Size Bias in Probability Judgments

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Aaron R. Brough, and Mathew S. Isaac

  Consumers might be said to have a prediction addiction—they speculate about sports, politics, weather, stocks, sweepstakes, health, and relationships, to name just a few areas. What’s more, predictions often guide their decisions.For example, they may decide to carry an umbrella after considering the chance of rain, to invest after forecasting the stock market’s performance, or to marry after predicting the likelihood of marital bliss. With all this practice, one might expect consumers to be good at judging probability. However, their predictions are often wrong.

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  In Jill Abramson's Firing, Was the 'Glass Cliff' to Blame?

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Alison Cook, and Christy Glass

  Our research on CEOs in the Fortune 500 finds that women leaders face two significant challenges: the “glass cliff” and the “savior effect”. First, we find that women are more likely than men to be appointed CEO to struggling firms or firms in crisis. This phenomenon is termed the “glass cliff” because it suggests that when women are appointed to top positions these positions are often precarious or risky. Second, we find that when firms struggle under the leadership of women CEOs, these leaders are likely to be replaced by men. We term this phenomenon the “savior effect” because when organizations struggle under the leadership of women, decision makers often revert to more traditional leaders who are perceived to be capable of “saving” the organization. Our research finds strong and significant evidence for both the glass cliff and the savior effect for women leaders. Overall, women leaders face greater challenges and are given fewer opportunities to demonstrate their capabilities than their male counterparts.

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  Teacher Recognized for 19-Year Winning Streak with Student Club

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Steve Eaton

  Frank Shuman has been on a roll. In fact, he has been part of a winning streak as as old as some of his students.

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  Resiliency for Entrepreneurs and Careerists

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Scott Hammond

  Resilience is a choice. Almost every case we studied of people who survived being lost in the wilderness said they “decided" to survive. Even an eight-year-old boy lost overnight at 11,000 feet said, “I knew I wanted to live.”

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  1,101 Graduates

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Klydi Heywood

  The Huntsman School of Business graduated 1,101 students with 676 at the undergraduate commencement ceremony in Logan on May 5, and 284 earning graduate degrees. The Huntsman Program in China graduated 141 of the undergraduate students.

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  Faculty Entrepreneurial Spirit

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Klydi Heywood

  Entrepreneurial spirit is often exemplified through students and alumni, but Huntsman faculty are not to be overlooked. Recently two Huntsman distance education professors saw a problem to be solved that had the potential to impact not only their students’ lives, but also the communities around them.

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  Huntsman Alumnus Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Klydi Heywood

  Chris Martin, BA in Economics and Finance, ’11, MS in Economics, '13, was recently awarded the 2014 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship. This year there were more than 14,000 applications submitted and only 2,000 were offered the fellowship. Martin will benefit from a three-year annual stipend of $32,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees, opportunities for international research and professional development, and the freedom to conduct his own research at any accredited U.S. institution of graduate education. Martin is currently in the PhD program at the University of Washington.

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  Huntsman Students Collect Entrepreneurship Prizes

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Klydi Heywood

  The final stage in the Utah Entrepreneur Series, the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, is one of the largest business plan competitions in the nation. This April five out of nine challenge prizes were awarded to two Huntsman students’ businesses.

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  Opportunity Scholarship: Ashley Huntington

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Ashley Huntington

  In Spring of 2014 I took the opportunity to go on a Go Global trip with the Huntsman School of Business to London. In preparation, I applied and received an Opportunity Scholarship from the Huntsman School. This financial aid made a great difference in my ability to afford the Go Global trip. My scholarship covered half of my program's expenses and gave me the financial security to fully enjoy my global experience without the overwhelming stress of making ends meet. This experience was one that changed my life and opened my eyes to the possibilities of global business.

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  Go Global: Asia 2014

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Sarah Keating

  Participating in the Go Global: Asia 2014 trip was one of the smartest decisions I have made during my collegiate career.Originally I wanted to go to Asia to learn more about big economic powers like China and South Korea, as well as developing economic nations like Vietnam. However, once I left Asia I had not only learned international economics but I also had experienced Asian culture and learned so much about myself as a student and as a person. This international experience helped me improve as a businesswoman, as a traveler and as a productive citizen as a whole.

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  Framing Sustainability for the Free, Frugal, and Fit & Fabulous

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Alexi Lamm, and Edwin R. Stafford

  Days prior to the February, 2011 Utah State University student referendum, the ‘green police’ were out in force issuing ‘citations’ to students who drove to school or placed recyclable items in the trash. The ‘citations’ were actually political leaflets from representatives of the USU College Republicans dressed in satirical law enforcement garb, protesting the“Blue Goes Green” ballot measure that would impose a 25 cent-per-credit-hour fee (averaging about $3 per student per semester) to fund a proposed Student Sustainability Office and administer a grant program for student initiatives to conserve resources on campus. Although placed on the ballot by a student grassroots movement, the USU College Republicans viewed the fee as a “socialistic” tax. “It’s taking my ability to choose away,” Mikey Rodgerson, the group’s president, told the campus newspaper. “We live in a bad economy ... and the school has the audacity to propose an AstroTurf fee.”

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  Go Global: London

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Joshua Shelhamer

  Almost everyone does something fun and exciting during spring break. I also wanted to do something fun, adventurous, and worthwhile. And while a cruise or week on a beach sounded enticing, I chose to travel to London, England, with my friends from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.

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  To Own Your Education is to Dare Mighty Things

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Alex Tirado

  The Huntsman School of Business challenges its students to “dare mighty things.” I find that challenge intoxicating and invigorating.

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  37th Annual Accounting Conference

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  During October, The School of Accounting hosted the 37th Annual Accounting Conference. Attendance was a record level, largely attributable to the outstanding group of distinguished presenters.

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  Alum Lars Peter Hansen Named 2013 Nobel Economics Laureate

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Utah State University alum Lars Peter Hansen is one of three Americans named as a recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics.

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  Article Published by Huntsman Professors is Widely Circulated, Translated Into French

  USU Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  hen Cathy Hartman and Edwin Stafford submitted a story in summer of 2012 called, “Making Green More Macho,” they had no idea it would end up being translated into French.