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 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.

Mike Viskovich came to Santa Clara expecting a career in finance. His path from Leavey graduate to life sciences executive winds through unexpected roles and difficult transitions.