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Summer 2009 Summer 2010
Avid readers are always looking for their next tome. But even if you don’t consider yourself a bibliophile, here’s your chance to find a great read and get lost in its pages. Some of our Marriott School faculty, staff, and students share their favorite books. No more excuses. . . it’s time to read.
If you are like most people, getting up and out the door on time can be nothing short of a miracle.
Give Gary Williams ten minutes to explain Cougar Capital and you’ll be sold. Give him an hour and you’ll not only want to invest but you’ll wonder why more universities aren’t doing the same thing with their business programs. And if you give him two years as an MBA student at the Marriott School you’ll develop such a diverse portfolio of knowledge and skills in venture capital and private equity you might just make a career of it.
The word stress was coined only eighty years ago, yet it is a feeling most people experience every day.
It’s 9:58 p.m. in a small, dark theater. The audience members, an eclectic mix of fashionistas and film fanatics, sit whispering, their faces washed in the green glow of the theater’s exit signs.
Bruce Hymas and his teammates had sixteen connectors, fifty-four sticks, and three minutes. The task: build a tower that holds up a golf ball—and make the tower taller than everyone else’s.
While watching televised highlights from the Olympic Games in Vancouver, I heard a memorable line from an insurance firm’s commercial: “Will this be known as the great recession or the recession that made us great?” This is good marketing copy and also a profound question. We are, indeed, looking out on a wintry economic landscape, and we are deeply concerned about our students and many others who are struggling to make headway with employment.
A human resources consultant describes the situation as “the worst.”
While others are making their morning commute down i-15 catching up on news or traffic, Ray Nelson is strolling down University Avenue brainstorming innovative ways students can learn.
I recently watched a report on CNN that said more than 40 percent of American households have credit card debt of $5,000 to $20,000, and more than 3 percent of U.S. households carry credit card debt of more than $40,000.
When Traci Stathis' client mentioned he was soon going on a two-week vacation to Florida, she supposed he wouldn't be available to review drafts or give feedback on their brochure.
Most people who work for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) leave with the same going-away gift: a frame containing all the covers of the standards they helped publish while there.