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“I’m contributing to decisions that are worth millions of dollars, and I’m still in school,” says Jonathan Dickson, a senior strategy student in the BYU Marriott School of Business who completed a consulting internship over the summer with Bain & Company. Dickson, like many other students in his program, is studying strategy to prepare for a career in consulting.

Whether they are stepping into their first research assistant (RA) role or building on past research experiences, students in the Marriott Research Fellows (MRF) program gain new skills and build stronger faculty connections as they begin work as RAs.

Thinking critically about his own faith, his family, and his work helps Cameron Bale feel greater appreciation and fulfillment. As an assistant professor of marketing, Bale hopes to help students go beyond what they see on the page and think critically to find deeper solutions to problems, both in their assignments and their lives.

Human resource management senior Anna Parry has a bit of an unconventional hobby: coding spreadsheets. After learning how to code Excel in class at the BYU Marriott School of Business, Parry used her skills to serve others in her mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in her goal to earn The Congressional Award Gold Medal.

For Nicole Donahoo, the path to becoming an assistant professor began with a breakup—an ordeal that spurred Donahoo to turn to the Lord for guidance. Since then, she's learned that following the promptings of the Lord brings her joy, even when God's plans are different from what she had in mind.

Through serving on the Global Supply Chain Association at the BYU Marriott School of Business, senior Tyler Anderson connects with students going through the same uncertainty he experienced in his freshman and sophomore years. “I came into things unsure. I knew I wanted to do business, but I didn’t know where I wanted to land,” the Richmond, Virginia, native says.

From performing arts to chemistry to business to family, Mandy Crane, an alumna of the BYU Marriott School of Business, has forged a variety of paths. “In some ways,” she says, “when you follow a path that no one else is following, you’re creating a better experience for yourself and for your family.”

Leaders at the Ballard Center for Social Impact at the BYU Marriott School of Business know that fighting hunger requires more than compassion—it requires coordination. That’s why connecting with the people making a difference has been at the heart of the center’s hunger initiative, an ongoing series of events designed to spark dialogue and drive collective impact.

This year, a group of BYU Marriott School of Business students went on a two-day NetTrek to Dallas, where they met industry professionals and built connections—both with companies and their peers. While NetTreks are not uncommon, this trip was significant because of the variety of majors involved: students came together from marketing, global supply chain management, and information systems for a joint experience.

Assistant teaching professor Laura Cutler stared at her email in confusion. “Is this spam?” she wondered. But the email from the Association of Information Systems informing Cutler that she won the 2025 Faculty Advisor of the Year Award wasn’t a scam. Unlike Cutler, information systems students from the BYU Marriott School of Business find it easy to believe that she earned the recognition.

When Tyler Shumway was a student at Brigham Young University, he admired the casual confidence of his economics professor Richard Butler, who would walk up and down the department hallway in his socks, deep in thought. But the lack of shoes wasn’t the only aspect about his former professor that intrigued Shumway—Butler contributed to more than 200 research papers in his career, and Shumway decided that a career of continual learning would be a career of continual rewards.

During the fall 2024 semester, BYU Marriott School of Business students Ellie and Trevor Lowry rode the bus home from class every weekday—not from the Tanner Building, but from Pforzheim University in Germany.

Almost every part of a fan’s experience at a professional sports event—from the time they enter the parking lot until long after they’ve returned home—is designed to optimize their emotional connection to the sport. As part of a team that specializes in sports sponsorships at Keurig Dr Pepper, experience design and management alum McKade Peterson carefully considers the factors that maximize sports fans’ experiences around the globe.

When Sarah-Jane Tate started the accounting junior core, she had no idea she'd have to navigate a concussion, a new job, and a broken engagement to make it through the school year.

“Every professor thinks that the class they teach is the most important class students take—but I’m the only one that’s right,” jests Associate Professor David Hart, who teaches ethics to students in the BYU Marriott School of Business. Jokes aside, Hart hopes his students come to see that the key to making ethical decisions starts with intentions.

When Rebekah Koster took her first finance midterm in the MBA program, she felt like she had no idea what she was doing. The test scared her, so she decided to switch her track—not away from finance, but to it. “Part of who I am is choosing and going after really hard things,” says Koster, a second-year MBA student from Mesa, Arizona. “I love doing things that stretch me.”

The Brigham Young University Air Force and Army ROTC programs celebrated the history and service of the ROTC programs with a tribute event featuring keynote speaker Ken Alford, a retired US army colonel and BYU church history and doctrine professor. To a crowd of military cadets, leaders, and veterans, Alford and other speakers shared how the light of Christ impacts military service—both in the past and present.

Four professors from the BYU Marriott School of Business received awards at BYU’s 2025 University Conference. John Bingham, Michael Drake, Melissa Larson, and David Wood received awards in recognition of their contributions to BYU.

From the time that Matthias Dunn was a high school senior to the day he returned from his church mission to Córdoba, Argentina, and Lansing, Michigan, his plan was simple: play football at Brigham Young University. But that plan was put on pause when Dunn was cut from the team in March 2022—and he says it’s the best thing that could have happened to him.

Google Search processes 16 billion searches per day—and Joshua Lyman’s job is to ensure that no harmful or misleading ads slip through to search results pages. But before landing his role as a software engineer for Google, Lyman developed a skillset in the information systems program at the BYU Marriott School of Business that has since propelled him through diverse career opportunities.