Spring 2017 Stories
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Finding a Passion for Marketing
With graduation in full view for many students here at UM’s School of Business and throughout the university, we wanted to feature another inspiring student success story.
In this one, Marketing senior and soon-to-be-graduate, Aerionna Hardesty gives us a glimpse into her time here at UM and the...
MBA Student Recognized for Humanitarian Efforts
With commencement and end of term just around the corner, it is the perfect time to honor the tremendous efforts of our students through various awards and scholarships. One of these awards is the Marion McGill Smith School of Business Administration Humanitarian Award which goes to an...
MBA Student Studies Abroad in Romania
For the last three months, Ryan Weightman, an MBA student in UM’s School of Business, has been immersed in Eastern European culture as an exchange student at Lucian Blaga University in Romania.
After graduating from UM with a marketing degree in 2004 and then venturing outside the state to live...
High School Open House
On Thursday, May 4 from 5:30 - 7:00pm the School of Business, with the generous support of First Security Bank, will host an open house for area high school students. This event will provde students the opportunity to learn more about what the business school has to offer. Faculty and current...
Business Advisory Council Ted Style Talks
“Failure?” was the topic of the first Ted-style talks to students, alumni and advisory boards.
The Business Advisory Council members who were scheduled to rotate off of the Council were challenged by Dean Shook to talk about the topic of “Failure?” in five-minute Ted-style talks. “Too often...
MSBA Students in Las Vegas
Four of the 13 students in the inaugural cohort of the School of Business's Master's of Science in Business Analytics attended the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference April 2-4 in Las Vegas. Raelin Jacqueth, David Brewer, Brandon Staggs, and Dustin Monroe developed a strategy to showcase...
Montana Students, Entrepreneurs Excel at 2017 John Ruffatto Startup Challenge
Last Thursday, the top sixteen submissions for the 28th Annual John Ruffatto Business Startup Challenge convened on the University of Montana campus to present their winning business ideas. From classic culinary inspirations to the latest technological applications, this year’s competition was...
Business Students at NCSC
This past weekend, Marketing senior Aerionna Hardesty and MBA student Tatum Hoehn, the first and second place winners of last fall’s Northwestern Mutual Sales Competition, had the opportunity to attend and compete in the National Collegiate Sales Competition (NCSC) at Kennesaw State University...
Gilkey Lecture to Feature Tres Lund
Tres Lund's talk entitled “Growing & Developing a Multigenerational Family Business” explores the success of the Lunds & Byerlys grocery chain and building a family business with a focus on community.
Russell T. Lund, III (Tres) serves as the Chairman, President and CEO of Lund Food Holdings,...
John Ruffatto Business Startup Challenge
Montana has no shortage of aspiring entrepreneurs - including students. The annual John Ruffatto Business Startup Challenge (JRBSC) hosted by University of Montana’s School of Business Administration (SoBA) and the Blackstone LaunchPad at University of Montana (BLP-UM) received 29 applications...
School of Business Awards 2017 Outstanding Alumni
The UM School of Business honored two alumni for outstanding career achievement on March 31st during the spring Business Advisory Council Meeting. This year’s honorees were Craig K. Anderson, ’76, Outstanding Alumnus, and Stefanie Strack, ’04, Outstanding Alumna.
Stefanie Strack, '04 2017...
Student Success Story: Taylor McDermott, MIS '17
The UM School of Business has many student success stories; in fact, 82% of the university’s business students are employed or attending graduate school within 3 months of graduation. In addition to the dedication and high caliber of the School of Business faculty and staff, much of this...
Entrepreneurs Share Advice with Students
Last Friday's Career Development workshop was well-attended by students. The big draw - four local entrepreneurs sharing their insights, trials and successes about starting their own businesses. Kyle Pucko, co-founder of Geofli; Amy McQuilkin, founder of Betty’s Divine; Todd Frank, owner of the...
Master of Business Analytics Information Session
The field of data analytics is revolutionizing business, health care, forestry and conservation, and government. Data analytics combines math and statistics with computer programming to bring a new lens to problem solving. In the business arena, data analytics, referred to as business...
FAST Enterprises Finds Valuable Recruits at UM's School of Business
Every spring for many years now, the UM School of Business’ events schedule is packed with employer visits, networking events and career opportunity nights. A large part of the impressive turn-out by local, national and even global firms is due to the consistent efforts of the school’s career...
Student Volunteers Offer Missoula Community Free Tax Assistance
Every Saturday from January 28 through March 18, 2017 SoBA business students with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA) will donate their time in order to help hundreds of people in the Missoula community to file their taxes. The program offers free tax help to individuals or...
IBM Innovation Expert Speaks to SoBA Students
Students in Clay Looney’s BMIS 478 class were wowed by Nick Donofrio, 44-year veteran of IBM last Thursday morning. Mr. Donofrio was at UM as part of the Mansfield Center’s Third Asia-Montana Energy Summit.
Mr. Donofrio’s inspiring presentation focused primarily on how companies innovate—how...
Entertainment Management Students Attend Vegas Music Summit
Vegas Music Summit was the destination for four UM students who are part of a newly formed student-run record label, Switchback Records, and inspired to explore and discover where they might fit into the music industry. Rodel Delfin, a mentor and facilitator of the label, just so happens to host...
ATG Partners with the School of Business to Teach Salesforce Class
Advanced Technology Group has teamed up with the University of Montana to teach a class that allows students to take classroom learning and apply it to real-world business projects and gain firsthand experience in the information technology systems industry. ATG has been teaching in Professor...
Business Students Make Fall 2016 Dean's List
The UM Registrar's office recently published its Fall 2016 Dean's List. A grand total of 245 students from the School of Business were included in this prestigious list of undergraduates maintaining a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Of the 245, 45 were also named to the President's List,...
Justin Angle to receive 2017 John Ruffatto Memorial Award
Dean Chris Shook and the John Ruffatto Memorial Award Committee are pleased to announce this year’s recipient, Justin Angle, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the School of Business.
The John Ruffatto Memorial Award was established to encourage and reward UM faculty who impart practical,...
Dr. Michael Braun Spends Two Weeks Teaching in Milan, Italy
Last fall, Dr. Michael Braun, Professor of Management and Poe Family Faculty Fellow in UM's School of Business, was invited to teach entrepreneurship at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) in Milan, the largest private university in Europe.
Invited...
MIS Faculty Attend International IS Conference
Jason Triche and David Firth attended the 37th annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Dublin, Ireland in December. ICIS is the global gathering for MIS scholars. Firth organized, and Triche sat on, a panel titled "How to be successful as a new faculty member.” They had...
Students Study Sustainable Business in New Zealand and Australia
Sixteen students from UM explored the wonderful landscape of New Zealand and Australia while studying sustainable business over winter session. The trip started in Queenstown, the “adventure capital of the world”, looking at sustainable tourism. Students hiked the Routeburn track, saw the...
Dr. Kent Swift Appointed to Global Sustainability Standards Board
Dr. Kent Swift, Professor of Accounting and Paul and Betty Haack Distinguished Faculty Fellow of UM’s School of Business, has been invited to serve as a member of the prestigious Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB).
Formed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an organization...
Business major and freshman outfielder on the Griz softball team, Anne Petrino, makes the grade in the classroom with a perfect 4.0 GPA for fall semester. read more...
Missoula-Based Mutual Fund Earns Top National Honors
Russ Piazza, '77 Finance, and the Tarkio Fund investment team at Front Street Capital Managment recently named "Category King" by The Wall Street Journal. Read more......
Dean's Winter Newsletter
Welcome to the first edition of the School of Business newsletter!
As the Sprunk and Burnham Endowed Dean for the UM School of Business, I am honored to present this new format of communication with you in place of the traditional Dean’s Report. Designed to give you a more effective and...
