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The college honored its outstanding faculty, staff, and graduate students during an annual awards event at WSU Pullman.

Deborah Compeau has been named interim dean and will serve a two‑year term, effective July 1, while a national search is conducted.

Faculty will use the awards to address equity gaps in student performance and experiential learning to help meet employment criteria.

We’ve all heard the age-old saying “the customer is always right.” However, in recent years, an emerging field of research has delved into the rise of customer incivility and misbehavior, commonly referred to as the “dark side of customer behavior.”

Business software solutions and mobile app technology for social good were collective themes presented at the 20th annual Business Plan Competition on Thursday, April 27.

CEO Magazine ranked online MBA and executive MBA programs from WSU’s Carson College of Business as No. 27 and No. 26, moving up in rankings from No. 34 and No. 55 the previous year.

Pullman Marriott Hotels is funding prizes for the three best products created from hotel linen waste by WSU students.

New WSU research shows that the main driver of doubt among voters about the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election was the consumption of fake news, which was primarily gleaned off Facebook.

The program is designed for health care executives to sharpen their leadership skills and business competencies and for rising health care professionals to advance their careers.

This year’s big challenges for regional business are combating inflation, supply chain issues, and labor shortages, according to 2023 Business in the Northwest report released by WSU’s Carson College of Business.

Carson College of Business Associate Professor Dipra Jha was recently recognized with the Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award from the Western Federation Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education.

Melissa Hellmann, an investigative journalist for the Center for Public Integrity, will discuss, “The Cost of Disparity: How State Tax Policies Fuel the Racial Wealth Gap.”

The WSU-led research leverages past customer transactions to provide brick-and-mortar stores with a degree of the personalized shopping experience online retailers such as Netflix and Amazon use.

This year’s big challenges for regional business are combatting inflation, supply chain issues, and labor shortages, according to the 2023 Business in the Northwest report from WSU’s Carson College of Business.

Many of the WSU studies that grabbed headlines last year had to do with human health, topped by the discovery of a potentially dangerous virus in Russian bats, a relative of the one that causes COVID‑19.

Five Washington State University online programs ranked among the best in the nation for 2023 by U.S. News & World Report.

As millions of Americans continue to work remotely, a new WSU-led study provides employers with key insights to keep their valuable information safe.

Hospitality business management students captured the grand prize for the third time in five years at the Intercollegiate Wine Business Invitational.

A WSU study showed that two types of quinoa — bred specifically to grow in Washington state — worked well as a high‑fiber, high‑protein additive flour for commercial cookies.

A cross-campus collaboration between Voiland College engineering students and the Carson College senior living management program is tackling engineering problems seen in senior living communities.

Poets & Quants ranked online MBA and executive MBA programs from WSU as No. 19 in its 2023 rankings of The Best Online MBA Programs, moving up from No. 25 in 2022.

Amrita Lahiri, assistant professor of entrepreneurship in the Carson College of Business, was recently named corecipient of the 2022 Helena Yli-Renko Research Impact Award from the Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

The program enables students to attend classes concurrently at WSU Everett and EvCC, seamlessly transfer credits, combine credits for financial aid, and use facilities and services at both institutions.

Even people who tend to think conventionally, such as accountants or insurance adjusters, can be creative if they can look at emotional situations in a different light, a recent study suggests.

Pacific Northwest shoppers aim to be more fiscally conservative with their spending this holiday season, according to a new report from the WSU Carson College of Business.

As an integral part of Washington’s research-oriented, land-grant institution, the Carson College of Business creates value for business and academic communities by hosting the annual Power Breakfast, Business Technology Symposium, and Walton Lecture events, along with industry speakers throughout the year. In 2022, a mix of globally competitive business leaders and entrepreneurs shared their professional insights through Carson College panels and lectures.

Dogan Gursoy, Kris Kowdley, Dan “Annie” Du, Yuehe Lin, and Nathan McDowell are on this year’s list recognizing researchers whose publications rank among the top 1% most cited in the world.

A WSU-led study indicated that sleep quality impacted women’s mood and changed how they felt about advancing in their careers.

Ekaterina Pomazunova, a recent WSU/César Ritz Colleges Switzerland graduate, began learning the art of hospitality as a young child. She’s part of a large family, and her parents commonly held feasts on holidays and special events at their home in Saratov, a provincial city in the southeast European part of Russia.

Though nearly 15 years have passed since Terry Umbreit (’84), professor emeritus of hospitality, retired from a distinguished academic career at WSU, the excellence of his work is still being recognized.