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Where will your BYU Marriott degree take you? Read about the careers our alumni are in and the interesting things they are doing.
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Alumni Spotlight

In Good Company

February 01, 2012
Alison Davis-Blake isn’t one for convention. Her quiet demeanor, questioning mind, and drive to excel have always set her apart. 
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Alumni Spotlight

Grad Sustains Hospital in Missouri Tornado Aftermath

October 01, 2011
With an accomplished career in the health care industry, Gary Pulsipher found himself where no one wants to be: in the middle of a natural disaster.
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Alumni Spotlight

New Language, New Job—No Problem

October 01, 2011
Kristen Hill knows that an opportunity missed may never return, so she takes them when she can. This year she had the chance to change not only her job but also her residency as she took a position in Paris as a senior financial analyst for Disneyland Paris corporate business planning group.
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Alumni Spotlight

Luxury Sweet

October 01, 2011
Sumptuous. Decadent. Delightful.  Few words could more adequately describe a box of Lula’s Chocolates. Neatly perched inside each mahogany-colored package await aromatic round crèmes, salted caramels, square truffles, and nuts cloaked with melt-in-your-mouth cocoa. 
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Alumni Spotlight

Tech Love

June 02, 2011
Laura Pearson steps to the line and bounces the fuzzy, yellow ball in a simple cadence. A few seconds later, her team is ahead 15–love. This Marriott School grad may be queen of the court, but she also doubles as a financial analyst at Google.
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Alumni Spotlight

From Down Under, But Moving Up

June 02, 2011
As a foreign exchange student thousands of miles from home, Thomas Hung didn’t realize living in Utah would put his future career in finance on the fast track.
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Alumni Spotlight

A Lot at Steak

June 02, 2011
The idea had always glowed—however faintly—in the back of Steve Oldham’s mind. He jokes about it now, saying that just like every other missionary who returns from Brazil, he came home with dreams of starting his own Brazilian steakhouse.
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Alumni Experiences

Former BYU Students Featured on Cover of Inc. Magazine

May 20, 2011
Inc. featured three former BYU students and their composting company, EcoScraps, for social entrepreneurship innovation.
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Alumni Spotlight

Jeff Sermon: Reaching New Heights

May 17, 2011
According to education reformer Horace Mann, "human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated"
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School News

Marriott School Wins Awards for Communications Excellence

March 21, 2011
Good communicators are supposed to work behind the scenes, but sometimes they can't help getting pulled on stage.
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Alumni Spotlight

BYU Grad Named Dean of Michigan’s Ross School of Business

February 24, 2011
Marriott School alumna Alison Davis-Blake will become the first female dean in the top-10 business school's storied history.
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Alumni Spotlight

A Global Force For Good

February 11, 2011
Above or below the equator, in the boardroom or in remote fields of Africa, Jennifer Birtcher influences change.
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Alumni Spotlight

The Power to See

February 01, 2011
Mike Bond specializes in seeing eye to eye with people. Although his original plan in college was to become an optometrist, his focus shifted to business, and he hasn’t looked back.
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Alumni Spotlight

A Grad with Global Know-How

February 01, 2011
The old adage “He that travels far knows much” is an apt description for one Marriott School grad. Jeff Strong earned his undergraduate degree in business from the Marriott School in 1988 and hasn’t stopped learning or traveling since.
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School News

Marriott School Honored Alum, Whistle Float Highlight Homecoming Festivities

October 12, 2010
Last week BYU was busy hosting Homecoming activities, and the Marriott School was no exception.
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Alumni Spotlight

Great Expectations

October 01, 2010
Born on a pair of Levi’s in a small trailer and circumcised by a doctor whose surname was Butcher, Daniel Burleigh’s entrance into the world seems like the beginning of a modern-day Charles Dickens tale. 
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Alumni Spotlight

To Infinity and Beyond

October 01, 2010
While many business leaders strive to expand their organization’s reach globally, one Marriott School grad oversees projects that have a more vertical approach—out of this atmosphere, actually.
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Alumni Spotlight

Three Decades of Crossing the Pacific

October 01, 2010
According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, employees stay at their jobs for an average of 4.1 years. Like most people, Dennis Malloy never expected to stay at his first auditing firm for more than a few years, let alone thirty, but he found his niche at KPMG and never left.
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