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GOING GLOBAL
Lately, though, it’s become increasingly difficult to ignore the
inner workings as well. Not only has the high-rise turned out
some of the world’s most powerful captains of industry, it’s home
to the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, one of the West’s
most dynamic new institutions.
Not that the school itself is new. In fact, it’s the oldest university
business school west of the Mississippi, dating back to 1889.
But in 2007, when philanthropist Jon Huntsman announced a
donation of more than $25 million specifically for the College
of Business, it was born again. Since then, the college has
incorporated new technology, brought in even more outstanding
professors, and developed student opportunities like the
Huntsman Scholar Program. (continued ...)
It’s always been hard to ignore the outside of the Eccles Business Building at Utah State University, the tallest building in Cache Valley.
“Our focus centers on developing ethical leaders, inspiring the entrepreneurial spirit within each of our students and helping them gain a global vision of what they can accomplish. We also want to be sure our students develop mastery in critical thinking skills, so we’ve added a fourth focus we call analytical rigor.“
— Douglas D. Anderson, Dean and Professor, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business
ALUMNI IN BUSINESS (LEADERSHIP)
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Charlie Denson ’78: President of Nike Brand
You might wonder how one rises from assistant
manager of a local shoe store to become co-
president of its entire $19 billion corporation.
Charlie Denson of
Nike answers that
one quickly: leave
the country.
Soon after grad-
uation from Utah
State, Denson found
work in Portland at
the first retail store
of a young company
called Nike. But the
real turning point in his career didn’t come until
20 years later, when partly out of “curiosity,”
he took a position in Amsterdam as GM of the
company’s European operations.
Upon entering his new conference room for
the first time, Denson was floored. “There were
about 40 people speaking about 25 languages,”
he remembers. As a member of the majority in
America, he had never felt uncomfortable in his
work, he says, but in the Netherlands, he was at
a “significant disadvantage.” Denson’s European
assignment taught him sensitivity to other
cultures and philosophies, which he maintains
as paramount to his further success. “I learned
there’s more than one way to skin the proverbial
cat,” he says. “My way wasn’t always the
right way.”
– James Quigley ‘74: CEO, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (Deloitte), one of the “Big
Four”international auditors/accounting firms
– Jason Lindsey ‘95: President/COO, Co-Founder of Overstock.com
– Scott Watterson ‘79 CEO, and Gary Stevenson ‘79 COO: Founders of ICON
Health and Fitness, world’s largest marketer and manufacturer of fitness
products
– James Sanford ‘75: Chair, Los Angeles Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco; former VP of Treasury, Northrop Grumman
– Lars Peter Hansen ‘74: Economist, University of Chicago; developer of the
GMM (Generalized Method of Moments) technique; Frisch Medal; 2006 Erwin
Plein Nemmers Prize; 2008 CME Group-MSRI Prize
– Ajit Nair ‘96: Founder, CEO of ProV International; finalist for Best Executive in
North America, 2007 International Business Awards
AND NOW
– Morgan Cox ’09: Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission,
Washington, DC; admitted to Stanford University MBA Program
USU BUSINESS LEADER LEGACY:
... continuedThe program is an intensive global education curriculum that
fuses business, politics, and economics. And travel. Each year, the
Huntsman Scholars spend at least three weeks abroad in Europe,
Asia, or South America, gaining first-hand experience in modern
borderless commerce. Recently, business students toured the main
headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, spent time with
high-ranking Swiss executives, and developed a micro-loan program
to encourage small business ventures in Peru.
As decreed by Huntsman himself, the purpose of all that goes on at
the college is to build tomorrow’s corporate leaders, and to impress
upon them the global vision, ethical leadership, entrepreneurial spirit,
and analytical rigor necessary not only to succeed, but to make a
difference. Of course, USU students have accentuated those areas for
decades, which is precisely why they are where they are today.
Jeff Carr, September ‘09
“The international
travel programs in the
School of Business
allow students to
experience first-hand
what students at other
universities merely
read about.”
— Erik Kaltschmidt ‘09
Rosalie Gricius ‘09 traveled to Egypt in 2008 to help USAID accountants standardize their accounting practices.
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