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The return on wellness programs is worth the investment, but organizations still have a hard time getting people fully engaged. New BYU Marriott research digs into which incentives are tied to the best wellness outcomes.
The blow-by-blow on how to promote peace in the workplace and negotiate through conflict.
Between scrolling through social media and searching on the web, we are bombarded with video ads every day.
Of the approximately one thousand cars, trucks, and SUVs on display at last year’s Los Angeles Auto Show, not one car featured the distinctive blue and silver logo of the Swedish automaker Volvo. Instead, visitors to the Volvo booth found a curiously empty stage, a banner that read, “Don’t buy our cars,” and a warm invitation to explore the company’s new subscription service, Care by Volvo.
In the next few months, workplaces across the country will celebrate some of the best-known holidays in North America, including Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Walking timidly into the Tanner Building for her first class of her freshman year, Melissa Trautman didn’t know what to expect from the class or from her future BYU experience. She hoped the course title, Creating a Good Life, would come to literal fruition, but she had no idea the significant impact the class would have on her life.
BYU is a special place. I go to a lot of universities, and there is nowhere else like this. I grew up here on this campus. My father was part of the BYU Marriott faculty for thirty years. There isn’t one part of the Tanner Building that doesn’t have a Smith mark on it somewhere.
Michelle Rhodes had been a widow for about eighteen months when she joined a Facebook group for Latter-day Saint widows and widowers that several people had suggested she join.
When we think about principles of leadership, some things work quite consistently across many organizations with widely different objectives, cultures, communities, and people. These principles work because they’re fundamental and simple—therefore you may have a tendency to dismiss them.
More than eight hundred people crowd BYU’s Joseph Smith Auditorium on a spring afternoon—some anxious, others curious. With the mix of chatter and upbeat music filling the room, a pep rally may seem imminent, but this gathering is a bit more cerebral in nature.
For centuries China has fascinated Westerners, exerting its influence in culture, government, philosophy, and religion across the globe. Although many Americans associate the country with egg rolls and sweet-and-sour chicken, China is shaking off stereotypes and embracing new ideas to increase its worldwide economic strength.
This is the fourth of a five-part personal financial planning series sponsored by the Peery Institute of Financial Services. The final installment, on savings and retirement, will appear in the Winter 2006 issue.
Talk to any cheese importer, student studying abroad, or retired couple finally realizing their dream to see the Sistine Chapel, and you're bound to hear that leaving the United States hurts, especially in the pocketbook.
No one in Beatrice Cortes’ family has ever completed graduate school. So when the California native and Mexican descendent graduates from the Marriott School next year with her MBA, she will be making history. But passing that milestone was only a dream until she received an Extended Reach scholarship. “The scholarship got me into grad school sooner than I could have done on my own,” she says. “I am fortunate to have it and am very appreciative.”