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Alumni Experiences

Wooing Graduates and Impressing Employers

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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.

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My Journey from Kanosh to New York City

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When my wife, Bonnie, and I graduated from Utah State University, our commencement speaker was Gerald Ford, then vice president of the United States and the proud father of a member of our graduating class. He commented, “It was Horace Greeley who said, ‘Go west, young man,’ but it was Brigham Young who knew where to stop.”

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Ground Broken for Tanner Addition

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Elder J. Willard Marriott Jr., president and chair of Marriott International, and Richard E. Marriott, chair of Host Hotels and Resorts, joined other church leaders, campus officials, faculty, and members of the National Advisory Council 25 April 2007 to break ground for a significant addition to the N. Eldon Tanner Building.

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The Making of George Romney

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Looking Back–A Century Since His Birth

Faculty Research

How to Spot a Ponzi

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Avoiding Illegal and Unethical Transactions

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Wounding the Giants

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Strategies to Succeed Against the Big Guys

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Single Mothers & Self-Reliance

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THIS IS THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF A THREE-PART SERIES FOCUSING ON ECONOMIC SELF-RELIANCE.

Student Experiences

The World Is Our Campus

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Visiting with top executives, touring bustling factories, and meeting with micro-credit applicants is not an everyday occurrence for Marriott School undergraduate students—unless you happen to be on a business study abroad.

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Restoring Trust: The New Imperative for Leaders

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Leadership has always been about honesty and integrity. No one follows a leader they can’t trust. Trust comes from being open, honest, straightforward, and treating people with dignity and respect. At no time has the organizational leader been more subjected to feelings of distrust than today.

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Novel Travel

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For some people, a vacation is an escape from everything.

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Destination Unknown

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a new vacation concept caters to the wealthiest travelers, but are destination clubs economically sound?

Student Experiences

Alumni Provide Resumé Training

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In sports, there’s no better way to learn proper technique than from an accomplished athlete. Likewise, there’s no better way to train for resumé writing and job interviewing than with those who do the hiring.

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Ride the High Country

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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.

Faculty Research

Microenterprise Education

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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.