Summer 2016 Stories
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MBA Grad and Business Partners to Open Hard Cider Production Plant and Tasting Room in Missoula
Three Missoula entrepreneurs have unveiled plans to transform a blighted former industrial site on the banks of the Clark Fork River into Missoula’s first hard cider production facility, demonstration orchard and tasting room. Business partners Michael Billingsley, Jon Clarenbach (MBA '13) and...
PCAOB Awards Scholarship to UM Accounting Grad and Incoming Masters of Accountancy Student Lindsey Trent
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced the recipients of $10,000 merit scholarships that are intended to encourage students to pursue careers in audit. UM accounting graduate, former Beta Alpha Psi officer and incoming Masters of Accountancy student Lindsey Trent is among this...
Recent MIS Graduates Jumpstart Careers with Valuable Internship Experience
Thinking ahead to a career after college, Trevor Johnson chose MIS as his major because he was sure that it was a course of study that would lead to opportunities.
Johnson began as a Study Jam tutor helping fellow MIS students. Soon he also found work as a data analyst in ATG Managed...
UMEM Course Partners With Montana-Alberton American Legion Baseball
This summer offers two firsts for University of Montana Entertainment Management (UMEM): BMGT 401 Event Management will be online and it will be partnering with the Montana/Alberton American Legion Baseball Tournament.
Director of UMEM Dr. Mike Morelli welcomes 35 students, 17 of whom are MBA...
SoBA Career Development Receives Grant from Enterprise Holdings Foundation
SoBA Career Development recently received a grant from Enterprise Holdings Foundation to help support the activities related to the program. This fully donor-funded program was created in 2005 to help students develop a career focus while in college.
Returning employers now call the program one...
20 Under 40: Mario Schulzke Doesn't Need Things to Be Perfect as He Pushes for Quick Wins
At 16 years old, Mario Schulzke left Germany and landed on a ranch in the Bitterroot.
In short order, he fell in love with Big Sky Country.
He enrolled at the University of Montana, graduated, went to work, burnt out, and quit a job.
Then, on a six-month, 48-state road trip with three other "lost...
UMEM Forms Artist & Repertoire Team to Uncover Local Talent
University of Montana Entertainment Management (UMEM) will incorporate artist development into its BMGT 402 Principles of Entertainment Management class this autumn semester.
In anticipation of an exciting and fast-paced semester, UMEM formed an Artist & Repertoire (A&R) team composed of UMEM...
SoBA Student Success Center Director Attends Marine Corps Workshop
Two representatives from UM spent last week at the Marine Corps Recruiting Command Educators’ and Key Leaders’ Workshop in Quantico, Virginia. Kathleen Tarkalson, Director of SoBA’s Gianchetta Student Success Center, attended along with Janay Whisman, Recruiting Coordinator in UM Career...
Suzanne Tilleman Wins Best Paper Award at International Conference
Associate Professor of Management Suzanne Tillmean and her coauthors won the Best Paper Award at the Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN) Research Conference in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2016. The paper was “Geography, personal values, and hybrid companies: The...
20 Under 40: Luke Langbehn is Dedicated to Community, Mentoring Young Professionals
Luke Langbehn hands out Thanksgiving turkeys for the Missoula Food Bank, and he's killed rattlesnakes that pose a risk to his team in Cascade County.
Langbehn, 33, is a project manager for McKinstry, and he's worked at the engineering firm since 2007. The University of Montana School of Business...
Klaus Uhlenbruck Returns from Lecturing in Top Programs in Europe
Professor of Management Klaus Uhlenbruck spent the first weeks of summer in Europe, where he worked with doctoral students on their research and helped their scholarly publication efforts. At EBS University, a UM partner school, he participated in the proposal defense of a doctoral candidate,...
The Rebirth of Libby
Four SoBA faculty members—Bambi Douma, Joan Giese, Justin Angle, and John Chandler—accepted the proposal from Lincoln County to facilitate the project of rebranding Libby through SoBA’s Small Business Institute. Lincoln County also hired Missoula marketing agency PartnersCreative to provide the...
20 Under 40: Nicole Hagerman Miller Helps Fortune 500 Companies Find Inspiration in Nature
At Biomimicry 3.8 in Missoula, Nicole Hagerman Miller (Marketing '96) leads a team of professionals who work with Fortune 500 clients like Johnson & Johnson and General Mills to spur innovation inspired by nature.
“We provide biological intelligence to help companies design new products and...
The Cutting Edge
UM partners with growing high-tech sector to create high-paying jobs, keep talented graduates right here in Montana.
20 Under 40: Jennifer Whipple Grew Up in Family’s Collections Business
Born in Potomac, Jennifer Whipple said where she really grew up was in and around her family’s Missoula business Collection Bureau Services, which her grandfather Gilbert Koch started 40 years ago.
Whipple, now vice president, co-owns the company with her father Jeff Koch. She said they work...
SoBA students asked for it, and we are under construction!
The Larry and Dee Dee Gianchetta Student Success Center is slated to open prior to autumn semester in the business school. The Center incorporates all SoBA student services into one area: Career Development, Student Advising, Internships, Scholarships and Graduate Programs. Based on input from...
An End and a Beginning
As business school Dean Gianchetta retires, our next leader will assume UM’s first endowed dean’s chair.
Four SoBA Alumni Make the 2016 Top 20 Under 40
Meet western Montana's top young business professionals who excel in entrepreneurship, leadership, creative vision, innovation and dedication to community.
SoBA Alumni Open Two Missoula Businesses
Two new businesses in Missoula will be offering sensory deprivation float tank therapy this summer, a service that is gaining in popularity across the country. Customers lay down in high-tech isolation tanks where they float on heated salt water in complete darkness and silence, which simulates...
Casey McNellis Receives Award for Latest Research Paper
Assistant Professor of Accounting Casey McNellis is the recipient of the Outstanding Author Contribution in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.
McNellis’s paper, entitled “Re-Conceptualizing Instruction on the Statement of Cash Flows: The Impact of Different Teaching...
KPMG Portland Top Employer of Interns and Graduates
Twenty-one SoBA students are working at internships with KPMG this summer, nine of whom at KPMG’s Portland, Oregon, office location.
Enjoying the central, downtown locale of the office, the nine Portland interns were placed in one of KPMG’s three service divisions. Madison Gaylord, Ryan Hover...
Town-and-Gown Relationships Benefit Missoula Businesses
I recently had the privilege of serving on the search committee for the new dean of the University of Montana School of Business Administration. While I have long admired the superior talent of the faculty and staff at UM, this experience strengthened my resolve.
Across disciplines and...
SoBA Recognizes Excellence
The 69th Annual Donor Recognition and Scholarship Awards Banquet was held Friday, May 6, 2016, in the UC Ballroom. During the event, students received 144 scholarships, totaling $360,000.
The evening also included recognition of Outstanding Alumni. Three former SoBA students were honored for...
SoBA Basketball Players Shine on the Court and in the Classroom
Coach Travis DeCuire (Marketing ’94) demands the best from his players—on and off the court. Their 21-12 record last season attests to the time and hard work these athletes devote to the game. Equally impressive is the academic commitment these students make. SoBA has nine business majors who...
