Carson College Directory

Larry W. (Chip) Hunter, a scholar of management, is the dean of Washington State University’s Carson College of Business. From 2012-2015 Hunter served the University of Wisconsin-Madison as senior associate dean and Pyle-Bascom Professor of Leadership. For two of those three years, he also led the school’s nationally ranked full-time MBA program. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin in 2002, he spent eight years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, winning teaching awards in both appointments. In recognition of his research and leadership, he was recently elected vice-president / president-elect of the Industry Studies Association. He earned his doctoral degree in industrial relations and human resource management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a master’s degree from Oxford University in the United Kingdom and earned his bachelor’s degree at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Hunter was raised in the Palouse, graduating from high school in nearby Moscow, Idaho.