Departmental News

May 15, 2013

A team made up of three students and a graduate from the Huntsman School of Business took first place in a competition sponsored by Backcountry.com recently that pitted them against industry professionals in a 24-hour contest that drove programmers to work through the night.
Two teams from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business recently placed first and second in an information systems competition in Bentonville, Ark., that pitted 82 teams from top universities around the world against each other, testing their IT skills and their ability to find innovative solutions.

Mar 15, 2013

Two teams of Huntsman students have made it to the finals of a systems information contest that drew 82 teams from some of the best universities in the world. The Utah State University students will be going to Bentonville, Ark., to participate in the 2013 Walmart IT Summit and AIS Student ...Click here for more

Feb 15, 2013

Huntsman Professor John Johnson can now start a sentence by saying, “When I taught at Wharton… .” That’s because he was invited to speak to students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania twice within the last six months.

Nov 15, 2012

After traveling by bus for three months to 48 states logging 18,000 miles, contacting more than 3,000 politicians, participating in a drag race with a pig bus and a “slow walk” with a presidential candidate, the leaders of PoliticIt decided to take a break this week. While many of us felt ...Click here for more

Jun 19, 2012

When it comes to social media—Facebook, Twitter, YouTube—the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business has vaulted into the ranks of the top 30 AACSB accredited business schools in the United States, thanks to the efforts of one graduate student. In April 2012, the Huntsman School ranked 8th in Twitter ...Click here for more

Apr 12, 2012

A new student club at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business has been recognized by a global organization as its Best New Student Chapter in 2011. In the fall of 2010, students at Utah State University founded a student chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), a global ...Click here for more

Mar 6, 2012

A good example of cutting-edge analytics at the Huntsman School comes from the MIS department, where students Sterling Morris and Josh Light worked together with a team to create the entrepreneurial prizewinning Politicit.com website mentioned on page 7 in this magazine; it tracks keywords about ...Click here for more

Feb 21, 2012

The world of presidential politics can be very unpredictable, with hourly changes dropping or boosting a candidate’s fortunes. And yet a handful of students and alumni from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business have come up with something they believe will make the short-term future a little ...Click here for more

Feb 8, 2012

In November 2011, students at the Huntsman School noticed that the political discussion surrounding the presidential race was evolving from previous elections, as politics shifted from exclusively mainstream media to include blogs, Facebook, and Twitter. But traditional political polling does not ...Click here for more