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Shaping Our Future

By Emily Edmonds
October 05, 2026 08:30 PM
As BYU’s sesquicentennial wraps, the focus now shifts to what’s in store for BYU Marriott.
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The Measure of a Leader

October 05, 2026 08:15 PM
Two convocation speakers share stories of when ambition and faith met real-world challenges.
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Celebrating Our Present

By Emily Edmonds
May 27, 2026 04:30 PM
From mentoring entrepreneurs to serving communities and advancing research, BYU Marriott led the way in celebrating BYU’s 150th anniversary with 16 impactful Beacons of Light projects. Discover how these initiatives turned a milestone into meaningful action.
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Frozen Assets: Creamery Flavors That Alumni Still Crave

By Emily Edmonds
May 27, 2026 04:00 PM
We asked, and you were more than willing to answer. When it comes to BYU Creamery ice cream, alumni can’t praise—or eat—enough. Here are the sweet results of a Marriott Alumni Magazine survey ranking the Creamery’s most craveable flavors.
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Illuminating Excellence

By Jennifer Mathis
February 20, 2026 10:50 AM
Light flows freely at BYU Marriott: Students seek it. Professors cultivate it. Alumni share it.
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Honoring Our Past

By Emily Edmonds
February 18, 2026 03:54 PM
BYU Marriott joins the university’s sesquicentennial celebration by recognizing the people, programs, and projects that have helped shape the business school into what it is today.
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On Being Teachable

February 17, 2026 09:44 AM
Kate L. Kirkham, professor of organizational behavior, delivered a BYU devotional that wove teaching and learning into a timeless message. Being teachable, she explained, means opening ourselves daily to God’s love.
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Celebrating 150 Years of BYU

By Emily Edmonds
October 20, 2025 02:15 PM
Brigham Young University will never get old—especially when Young is part of its name. But in 2025 the university hits a particularly venerable milestone: its sesquicentennial.
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Partner with the Lord in Your Career

October 20, 2025 01:19 PM
Lee Bird's 2025 convocation speech illustrates that career building and kingdom building are not mutually exclusive. In fact, when brought together, they can create a powerful combination.
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Accounting For Change

October 17, 2025 03:36 PM
How do you prepare students for changes in the industry that haven’t even happened yet?” That is the question that the BYU Marriott’s School of Accountancy’s leadership, Board of Advisors, and faculty continue to grapple with as they prepare their students to enter a rapidly evolving profession.
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Launching UNIV 101

By Emily Edmonds
June 05, 2025 07:40 AM
How BYU Marriott Faculty—and Pre-Business Students—Are Embracing the University’s Newest Venture
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Transformative Travel

By Shannon Keeley
June 05, 2025 07:36 AM
Students Unpack the Memories That Shaped Them
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“Let Us Run with Patience the Race That Is Set Before Us”

June 05, 2025 07:32 AM
As a business ethics professor... one of my core goals is to help my students prepare to thrive by increasing their ability to make gospel- and principle-based decisions about work and life.
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Winning Strategies

By Sara Smith Atwood
April 25, 2025 12:44 PM
Just as BYU sports teams compete in the Big 12 Conference, BYU MBA students face off in the Big 12 MBA Case Competition—an event that brings together business students from across the conference.
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Ingredients of Happiness

February 27, 2025 10:15 AM
When I tell people that I teach happiness, they think I’m lying... but the neuroscience, social psychology, behavioral economics, and strategies that make up the science of happiness can elevate people who, in turn, can lift others.
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