The Leavey School of Business celebrated the close of the 2025–26 academic year with faculty and staff honors, including nine professors earning the school's top distinction and the debut of a new award program recognizing outstanding staff contributions.

The inaugural Bay Area Sports Business Awards span five categories — from community action and ethical leadership to innovation and trailblazing business thinking — with each award tied to a charitable donation or scholarship. Recipients will be celebrated at a gala this November.

The business management major felt embraced and cared for as a transfer student. He wants to pay that forward.

There’s a contrarian management philosophy that Jim Hughes will share with anyone who asks. Tracing the arc of his career from a part-time job at a Computerland store in Silicon Valley to the executive ranks of Cisco to founding his own data analytics company, the evidence is hard to argue with.