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Going First, In Their Own Words

Someone goes first in every family.

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Front of the House: Hospitality Empowered

Eventually, everyone has to relax – and when we do, someone else's work makes that possible.

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Assets to the State

This opening line is normally where we’d include a hook to reel our readers in. But you don’t need us to tell you how important money is.

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In Remembrance: Jim Denton

Dr. James William Denton, retired professor and longtime Chambers College supporter, passed away on May 14, 2024.

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Brad Price: Bringing the Tech Workforce to West Virginia

Less than 100 years ago, a successful business could get by with only pencils, paper and the occasional calculator. Now, you can’t order a pack of staples without the help of millions of microprocessors located around the world.

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Superior Cyber

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Unchained

These days, a lab filled with computers may not amount to much in the grand scheme of discovery and real-world application.

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Chambers College Alumni, Donors Accelerate WVU’s Access Mission Through Career Support

Why do we give?

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Alumni Spotlight

In the Driver's Seat

Motivation can come from anywhere – from a person, a word of advice, a dream. Sometimes you find it, and sometimes it finds you. It's like the engine in a car: without motivation, the wheels don’t move.

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Cover Story

“Let your journey inspire others”: Honoring Albert Lewis

Homecoming is about revisiting the places, the people and the memories that shaped and inspired us.

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Student Spotlight

Gold and Blue Make Jade

It’s not often that you see a student email with a signature like Jade Porter’s:

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Alumni Spotlight

Finding a Home in Hospitality

Carrie Digman has a lot on her plate.  

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In Memoriam

In Remembrance: Adolph "Ade" Neidermeyer

The Mountaineer family lost one of its own on May 18, 2023, when Dr. Adolph “Ade” Neidermeyer passed. 

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Cover Story

Centered on Success: The Becker AeSC gives students their wings

New to West Virginia University as a freshman from Cincinnati, Ohio, Bella Randle anticipated one class not fitting too nicely into the equation.

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Alumni Spotlight

Motivating Mountaineers: Q&A with Morris Morrison

As a prolific public speaker, writer and entertainer, Morris Morrison has come a long way from New York City, where he was adopted and raised before being orphaned again and winding up in Fairmont, West Virginia.

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Alumni Spotlight

All Roots Lead to Morgantown

In West Virginia, roots to one’s family tree run deep.

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At the Center of It All

In very different ways, four separate centers at the Chambers College keep their vision trained on the future and their priorities laser-focused on career success.

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She/Her/Hers

In May 2022, the female students majoring in Management Information Systems at the Chambers College achieved something exceptional: every single one of them got a job by graduation day. 

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Alumni Spotlight

Providing a Fresh Outlook on Life

The Appalachian Region boasts natural, year-round beauty, hardworking individuals and unique cuisine.

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Cover Story

The Future of Business is Here

The cycle of life – and rejuvenation and renewal - is not limited to living beings.

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Word to the Wise

Home for the Holidays... and Every Day Thereafter!

An employee’s office space is often a treasured space. Shelves full of literature and research, diplomas and University paraphernalia decorating the wall, and family photos and personalized items from loved ones scattered across the desk. It’s home away from home. No matter how big the room or what color the wall, it’s a comfortable place for no one other than the individual.

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From the Hall

Not Your Average Business School

We are not like other business schools. And we don’t want to be.

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Driven by Data, Hungry to Help

Have you ever walked into a local business and thought, “Gee, this place sure could use a data scientist?” 

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Faculty Focus

The Scoop on Annie Cui

No matter how you slice it, Pizza Hut puts global marketing into perspective.

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Faculty Focus

Bringing a Peace of England to Morgantown

If you live, work or attend college in Morgantown, West Virginia, you immediately think of the Mountaineers when you hear someone mention “football.”

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Faculty Focus

The Economy of Healthy

Nobody gets through childhood without a few scraped knees and sprained ankles. But could all those injuries determine how much you earn as an adult?

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Call on a Business Student When You Need a Hand

A mentor can be many things: an adviser, a supporter, an educator, a cheerleader, a helping hand, a shoulder to lean on, and a friend. 

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DataRobot gets gritty in West Virginia

Dan Wright has always been a risk taker—"calculated risks,” as he specified.

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From the Hall

Steering the Ship to Shore and Beyond

When I came to study for my doctorate at West Virginia University in the mid-2000s as a tall, lanky dark-haired kid with a knack for Pearl Jam (which persists), I never imagined I’d be here more than 15 years later – as the leader of the very college where I earned my stripes. 

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Alumni Spotlight

How Sweet it is... to be a WVU Business Alumna

It is 2015 and a young woman sits in her high school classroom in Willoughby, Ohio, thinking about her college plans. Friends to her left talk about Case Western Reserve University, while friends to her right chat about the University of Cincinnati. It’s almost Halloween and she reaches in her pocket for a mini–Almond Joy candy bar. She eats it and thinks, “maybe biomedical engineering and a career in prosthetics” would do. With scholarship aid, she soon discovered that her college career would take her over the mountain to West Virginia University. 

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More Than Bricks and Mortar

Real-World Learning to Become the New Norm for Business Education at Reynolds Hall

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Cover Story

Tomorrow is what you dream about

The namesakes for Reynolds Hall are driven to push West Virginia and its flagship university over the cusp of transformation.

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Word to the Wise

What do you Bring to the Table?

Much like our business students, our faculty and staff have overcome many challenges during the last two years. 

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Faculty Focus

Leading with Empathy

A nation is engulfed in a mental health crisis yet few people are talking about it in the workplace; a pattern that one Chambers College professor is hoping to change.

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Student Spotlight

Going the Distance

Olufunmilayo “Fumi” Odeniyi thought she was leaving Lagos, Nigeria and heading to the western part of Virginia for college. However, where she landed instead was Almost Heaven.

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Alumni Spotlight

Numbers + People = Success

Growing up in Charleston, West Virginia, Rob Painter (B.S. Finance, '93) flipped through the local paper to check the stock prices. 

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Faculty Focus

Wisdom from the Trenches

Ann Marie Hibbert, associate professor and finance Ph.D. program coordinator, looks at the world of finance through a different lens — one tinted by psychology as much as math. 

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Faculty Focus

The Finance Fast Track with Naomi Boyd

The Chambers College Finance department is on the fast track to the future. Fred T. Tattersall Chair and Center for Financial Literacy and Education Executive Director Naomi Boyd explains five ways her team is moving mountains to propel WVU students and West Virginia Forward.

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Alumni Spotlight

A Businesswoman with a Briefcase and a Bed Sheet

Sierra Wallizer, a 2011 marketing alumna, has you covered with her new product: Kite Linens, bed sheets that never get untucked.

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Running with Reyes: Imagineering Through Uncertainty

Milan Puskar Dean Javier Reyes knows we can learn a thing or two in a post-pandemic world from Disney and the Imagineers.

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Alumni Spotlight

The Plan is a Moving Target

This recent business graduate aimed high for a job in the field of his first love. Will Anti earned the designation of youngest rifle coach in NCAA history.

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Building Beyond Update

Topping off the Future

Construction of Reynolds Hall chugged along despite the pandemic as the final beam was placed atop the structure in September.

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Mr. Smith Goes Home

We captured a day with Intuit executive Brad Smith, who roamed campus in early March. The visit made a lasting impression – so much that he and his wife gave WVU $25M.

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Iconic: The Entrepreneurial Engine of the Chambers Ecosystem

Carnes doesn’t shy away from revealing his propensity for “nerdy engineering stuff” – 3D printers, drones, coding and the like. Gillis, meanwhile, views himself as the pitchman, or salesman, of the tag team.

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Cover Story

Coming Back from COVID

When the pandemic hit and left frontline workers and small business owners scrambling for resources, our faculty, staff and students answered the call.

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Student Spotlight

Pursuing Every Passion

After settling into ‘Almost Heaven’ from Pakistan, sophomore double major Pareera Uqaily traded in her rowing uniform for a closet full of power suits.

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Faculty & Staff Picks

Gardening, Grilling and Quilting...Oh My!

Here’s how some of your favorite faces around the Chambers College picked up new hobbies and passions this past year.

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Faculty Focus

Managing the Storm

Management expert Olga Bruyaka dishes the details on how businesses big and small can manage the storm of the 2020 pandemic.

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Word to the Wise

Stand Out to Employers in Four Easy Steps

Each year, our Center for Career Development (CCD) guides students to find career support and opportunities that best fit their interests and skills.

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In Memoriam

In Remembrance: Tim Pearson

The Chambers College honors a former chair and professor of accounting who passed away over the summer.

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Word to the Wise

Destroy Student Loans with Naomi Boyd

STUDENT LOAN DEBT: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND

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Student Snapshot

Maddie Harvey

Dual Degree Program: Pharm.D. and Online MBA Senior

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STUDENTS ABROAD

Global Classroom

Hear from a couple of our students who are taking their education across the world

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FACULTY RESEARCH

For Free or Not for Free

Does it pay to offer a free app? That’s the question Stephen He, assistant professor of marketing, is exploring in “Speaking for Free: Word of Mouth in Free- and Paid- Products Settings,” recently published in the Journal of Marketing Research.

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FEATURE

A New Story of Economic Hope: Vantage Ventures

ON OCT. 4, 2019, A NEW ENERGY SOURCE LAUNCHED IN WEST VIRGINIA. It isn’t the kind of energy source that fires up your furnace or keeps the lights on.

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FEATURE

Reinvention Revolution

John Chambers has a plan to transform WVU and the state of West Virginia: Disrupt, or be disrupted.

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The Investigator

Richard Riley

After 15 years spearheading the Chambers College’s forensic and fraud examination program and working on high-profile cases involving everything from terrorism financing to Enron, Richard Riley knows a thing or two about what it takes to be a financial sleuth.

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Red, White and Gold and Blue

The Cybersecurity Sergeant

A native of Erie, Pa., Paul Coffy is now proud to call himself a Mountaineer.

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Dean Message

Running With Reyes: A New Hope

Dean Reyes explains why his ally is the Force and how it might guide the future of the College.

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Mountaineers of Silicon Valley

Our alumni leave impressions across the globe, including the tech capital of the world

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Red, White and Gold and Blue

Anything but Camouflaged

Khadidja Diouf is a daughter, sister, friend, daycare teacher, volunteer, student, mentor, tutor and a specialist in the West Virginia National Guard.

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FEATURE

Building Beyond

The year is 1929 and the West Virginia University Downtown area of campus is filled with students, professors and community members watching as they unveil the Field House – the new, on-campus sporting venue.

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All Women, All Business

Prior to 2019, West Virginia University was the only Big 12 school without a student organization dedicated to women in business. That fall semester, Deanna Crumm – now a marketing and organizational leadership senior – and other young women in the Chambers College began the University’s first Women in Business student organization to foster a supportive community of women and equip them with the knowledge, skills and network to succeed and follow their passions. 

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A Divine Business Plan

Religiosity can help turn believers into entrepreneurs, according to Nancy McIntyre, associate professor of management at the Chambers College. A study by McIntrye found that when religiosity is more than attending a place of worship — “when it’s a commitment to religious principles and activities” — it strengthens the desire to create a business with a conscience. 

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Brick Immortal

Reynolds Hall may be the future of business, but the Entrepreneurship Club saw opportunity even before construction began. The new building stands on what was once the site of Stansbury Hall, which served as WVU’s beloved Field House, as well as home to a variety of academic departments. 

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