Faculty Research

Why and How Your Job Should Help You Become the Best Version of Yourself

Research by a BYU Marriott professor indicates that increases in tuition may be linked to the amount of money students are allowed to borrow.

New research from BYU Marriott professors takes a close look at what imposter syndrome is — and how to conquer it.

Two BYU Marriott professors are lighting the way to a more accurate system of reading the stars of business.

Couples that play together stay together

Once the lifeblood of campfires and living rooms, stories are redefining global communication, according to recent Marriott School research.

Marriott School research shows camp jobs teach essential workforce skills

The prototype wasn’t pretty. Wrapped in tinfoil and dotted with hand-drawn circles, the cardboard cylinder could have easily passed for an elementary school project, but the student entrepreneurs didn’t mind.

Why  Strong Families  Make Strong Economies

New research shows pinching pennies can actually cost you more

Peter Madsen takes the admonition to turn lemons into lemonade quite seriously.  In grad school Madsen, now a Marriott School organizational leadership and strategy professor, became fascinated with how organizations learn from catastrophes. “Most of my research focuses on how they deal with and try to prevent rare, bad events,” says Madsen, who earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. “Whether mistakes happen internally or externally, companies can glean information that allows them to reduce their chances of being involved in accidents.”

Some babies are born with the double helixes that turn into blue eyes and heads of light, curly hair. Most people think that innovators are born with special genes, like those that determine physical features, that enable them to be innovators an endowment you either have or you don’t.

How the French Put U.S. Adoption of International Accounting Standards on the Rocks. 

When I arrived at BYU eight years ago, I was in my new office, organizing books and filing papers, when I received a telephone call informing me that there had been a glitch in payroll processing, and I would not be receiving a paycheck during the first two months of my employment. I said, “Thank you,” hung up the phone, and started thinking about how to break this news to my wife, Jan. 

How Exchange Rates Affect Business and You