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Summer 2012 Winter 2007
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.”
Class begins with everyone looking intently at the same spreadsheet on their laptops. Today’s task: learning how to calculate financial ratios like debt-to-equity, asset turnover, and net profit margin—with the click of a button.
Growing up in Central Florida, Erik Jacobsen pretty much knew he wanted to be a cowboy by the time he was twelve or thirteen years old.
There are ninety-five beautiful and bright days this year to revel in the pleasures of summer.
How the Marriott School Is Helping Students Land Jobs and Internships
With a smartphone, you’ve got the whole world in your pocket. And with more than half a million apps in the iTunes store and more than 300,000 available for Android phones, wading through the options can be daunting.
During the Clinton administration, Stephen R. Covey heard several family members criticizing the president’s policies.
Adrenaline pumping, Brandon Barnes, an accounting student from San Antonio, jumped into action as the race car squealed to a stop. As classmates worked to quickly remove a tire, he stood ready with the replacement.
Last year, Kim Clark, then dean of Harvard Business School, talked about how he learned to ride the high country with his father when he was a boy in Southern Utah. He emphasized how being on the tops of the mountains allowed a person to see the broad vistas of life.
THIS IS THE FIRST OF A THREE-PART SERIES FOCUSING ON ECONOMIC SELF-RELIANCE. THE NEXT ARTICLE, IN THE SUMMER 2007 ISSUE, WILL HIGHLIGHT MICROFRANCHISING.
How the Marriott School Gives Future Professors a Head Start
Born in Salt Lake City, young Kay Whitmore spent his teenage years working away from home—at a fish cannery in Alaska, a dude ranch in Arizona, and a slaughterhouse in Utah. Little did those close to him know he would rise to lead Kodak, one of the world’s largest multinational corporations.
If you ask Jesse Crisler what he remembers most from a recent morning news program, you may be surprised. It wasn’t the celebrity guests, popular host, or sports beat. What stands out in his mind is a question the host asked his guest. It went something like this: “In lieu of this situation, what would be your take on the issue?”
When Tyler Craig, a Wichita, Kansas, native, began the Marriott School application process, he hadn’t heard much about the school itself, but he’d heard plenty about its accounting program—and he was nervous.