MATR Welcomes the Support of the University of Montana College of Business

The College of Business at the University of Montana is a special place focused on making students feel engaged, supported and connected. Students receive access to opportunities that enhance their educational experience, such as experiential learning opportunities, study abroad programs and sought-after internships. The UM difference means the faculty and staff in the College of Business will help students get the tools, skills, industry connections and mentoring they need to leverage all those opportunities to meet their personal and professional goals.

Keeping the human in the Artificial Intelligence loop at The University of Montana College of Business

If you are a business leader, an alumnus, or a community member, I invite you to help us keep the human in the loop. Connect with students. Offer internships and job-shadowing opportunities. Serve as a mentor. Share your career story, including the lessons learned. Human connections shape confidence and long-term success in ways no algorithm can replicate.

How to learn practical entrepreneurship in school. 

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University of Montana College of Business

• MATR Welcomes the Support of the University of Montana College of Business
  The College of Business at the University of Montana is a special place focused on making students feel engaged, supported and connected. Students receive access to opportunities that enhance their educational experience, such as experiential learning opportunities, study abroad programs and sought-after internships. The UM difference means the faculty and staff in the College of Business will help students get the tools, skills, industry connections and mentoring they need to leverage all those opportunities to meet their personal and professional goals.
• Keeping the human in the Artificial Intelligence loop at The University of Montana College of Business
  If you are a business leader, an alumnus, or a community member, I invite you to help us keep the human in the loop. Connect with students. Offer internships and job-shadowing opportunities. Serve as a mentor. Share your career story, including the lessons learned. Human connections shape confidence and long-term success in ways no algorithm can replicate.

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• How to make a late-stage career pivot

  Here is a selection of articles on how to figure out if  a career pivot is right for you,  what to keep in mind as you go through the process, and how to  create a backup plan.

• Nomad GCS Announces Merger With Kratos

  Montana-Based Manufacturer Continues Operations Without Interruption, Expands Long-Term Capability and Stability

• Why Does Child Care Seem Less Affordable Than Ever?

  It has always been expensive, but recently prices have risen faster than inflation.

Missoula, Montana Chamber of Commerce

• Montana Knife Co.: Grand opening set for huge new $19M manufacturing shop near Missoula

  With roughly 105 employees in a brand-new, $19 million manufacturing facility near Missoula up and running, Montana Knife Company president and founder Josh Smith has made good on his promise to do his part to revive the American manufacturing industry.

City of Bozeman Economic Development

• Virginia City, Montana residents concerned about future of historic town

  The MHC states that due to embezzlement from their former director, Elijah Allen, they have been forced to, in many cases, charge lessees 15% of gross revenues, a move decried as outrageous and untenable by some businesses and residents.

Flathead Valley Community College Montana

• The New Front Lines How AI, Cyber Risk, and Information Warfare Are Reshaping Leadership, Business and Community – 3/12 – Kalispell –

  Join us for a timely conversation about how changes in AI, cybersecurity, and the information environment are affecting everyday leadership, business and community life. This fireside chat will translate big national security issues into practical insight for local leaders, founders and engaged citizens who want to better understand the forces shaping the world around them.

Great Falls Montana Development Alliance

• GFDA Top Ten for 3-8-26

  Team Great Falls did an amazing job sharing who we are and why we choose to be here with an aerospace engineering company who is looking at our community for their next home. We couldn’t be prouder to be in Great Falls Montana! Thank you all!

• Montana Business

• New Amazon delivery station in Kalispell brings faster shipping and new jobs

  “This allows us to get to some of those customers out in the outlying areas within the state that we have historically not been able to serve in a good time,” said Tareq Wafaie, Amazon economic policy specialist.

• What It’s Like To Get Killed By A Shark On A Montana Movie Set

  Cowboy State Daily’s Anna Jackson joined the cast of “Sharktana,” a shark horror-comedy filmed in snowy Montana, and landed a role as a shark victim. “My request to be killed by a shark had been noted. I was officially on the kill list,” she writes.

• California investigating dealerships involved in more than 2,500 sales to customers claiming they’re Montana drivers by setting up an LLC..

  The tax loophole takes advantage of states like Montana that don’t have statewide sales tax. Visitors from other states purchase and register a car there to save money, sometimes by setting up a limited liability company. Montana is the most popular state for car owners to take advantage of the loophole. In 2023, Big Sky Country had 879,000 licensed drivers but more than 2.3 million registered vehicles. Bloomberg found that Montana has more than double the national average vehicle-to-driver ratio.

• 1864 Capital and Shadow Ridge Analytics – Tailored support, Value creation, and Strategic guidance essential for scaling innovation from prototype to impact.

  We facilitate capital alignment on behalf of our portfolio companies and investors who are working to restore the domestic industrial base in the United States. Our mission is to connect, capital, companies, and communities to produce the technology our nation needs — when it needs it, while ensuring our nation, our companies, and our investors win in the process.

Visit Montana

• Why winter in Yellowstone beats the summer crowds

  Fewer visitors, steaming geysers and rare wildlife make Yellowstone National Park a hidden gem in winter.

YOUR MONTANA CAREER

• The Hidden Advantage of Being Over 50 in the Age of AI

  As AI becomes more accessible, experience—not technical skill—becomes the differentiator.

• 16 phrases to never use in a job interview—and what to say instead

  Great IT candidates don’t rush to fix. They ask to understand first. Because your insights only matter if people listen—and people only listen when they feel heard.

Montana Energy and Transportation

• The First Advanced Nuclear Reactor in U.S. History Just Got Approved—and Bill Gates Is Behind It

  The Microsoft co-founder is betting next-generation nuclear reactors can power the AI boom while cutting carbon emissions.

• The Hidden Danger of the Northern Lights Is Another Carrington Event Coming?

  At a rocket test range in Alaska, scientists are firing rockets into the northern lights. They want to better understand the aurora because they are the visible fingerprint of a powerful and dangerous force that can disrupt GPS, satellites, and power grids.

• Who’s going to have the first Aptera in your town?

  ….a car that can run on sunlight.

• BYD Shows Insane Charging from 9% – 97% in 10 Minutes and at temperatures as cold as -22 degrees in 12 minutes with New Blade Battery

  The nail in the coffin of internal combustion engines?

• Idaho National Laboratory – NRIC Launch Pad to take national nuclear power innovation to next level

  The Launch Pad initiative builds on the success of Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program, creating a strong innovative ecosystem to speed up advanced nuclear technology deployment using flexible technical and regulatory frameworks on federal and nonfederal lands.

Montana’s 21st Century Education Initiative – “You Should Care…”

• How to learn practical entrepreneurship in school. This is a must for every college

  It’s “cookie season” again, and it had me thinking about one of my favorite failure challenges ever… the time my entrepreneurship students tried (and failed) to outsell a couple of Girl Scouts. Awkward!

2025 Montana Legislature and Politics

• US Postal Service expects to run out of cash in a year without help from Congress, postmaster says

  The U.S. Postal Service will run out of cash within a year unless Congress lifts a decades-old cap and allows the agency to borrow more money, the new postmaster general warned in an interview.

VR/AR, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Artificial Intelligence, The Internet of Things and Montana

• China could see widespread use of brain-computer tech in 3-5 years, expert says

  Beijing elevated BCIs to a core future strategic industry in its new five-year plan released this week, placing it alongside sectors such as quantum, embodied AI, 6G and nuclear fusion.

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