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Features articles from recent BYU Marriott annual reports
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Student Experiences

Stewarding Success

By Bremen Leak
February 09, 2025
How BYU Marriott is making sustainable more attainable.
10 Min Read
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Student Experiences

Transforming Cambodia, One Business at a Time

By Emily Edmonds
February 09, 2025
In the heart of Cambodia, a transformative project is empowering business owners through financial literacy, growth mindset, and gender-equality training.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Dutch Strong

By Emily Edmonds
February 09, 2025
Steve Dutcher knows it sounds strange, but his five-month fight against cancer remains one of the best experiences of his life.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Experiences

Buying In: Alumni Thriving Through Acquisition

By Shannon Keeley
February 09, 2025
Richie Connolly got his first taste of entrepreneurship early in life with a homegrown lawn care business. Now he's closed a deal to buy Utah College of Dental Hygiene.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Learning Beyond the Ledger

By Emily Edmonds
February 09, 2025
Rachel Jepson, a partner at a CPA firm, continues to seek out educational opportunities. She says, “You always need to be learning to keep up in the accounting profession."
2 Min Read
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Employee Spotlight

Ordinary Moments, Extraordinary Impact

By Sarah Griffin Anderson
February 09, 2025
Now a professor of experience design and management (ExDM), Patti Freeman draws on her vast research to teach about the power of well-crafted experiences.
2 Min Read
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Employee Spotlight

More Than a Class

By Emily Edmonds
February 09, 2025
Preparing students for the business world is at the heart of what Jeff Jenkins does in his Information Systems classes.
2 Min Read
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Center News

A+ Placement

By Shannon Keeley
March 22, 2024
BYU Marriott’s Stellar placement rate is the payoff for the dedicated efforts of everyone involved in BYU Marriott’s Business Career Center.
8 Min Read
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Center News

Business Class to Europe

By Shannon Keeley
March 22, 2024
The 60 students who enroll in BYU Marriott’s Business Fundamentals in Europe study abroad don’t just get a taste of life in Paris, Rome, and London. Instead, they get to feast on these destinations as they spend three weeks in each city touring companies, visiting cultural sites, and completing required courses for all BYU Marriott majors and several minors.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

The Beauty of Community amid Tragedy

By Emily Edmonds
March 22, 2024
Two months after Katie Cherrington moved to Maui, the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century struck her family’s neighborhood. In the aftermath of Lahaina’s tragedy, Cherrington has observed a community banding together and has seen principles in action that are taught at BYU Marriott.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Changed for the Better

By Emily Edmonds
March 22, 2024
After being surprised by a question in class that told him he might be in the wrong place, Norm Smallwood traded law school for the MOB program which ended up creating the perfect path for him.
2 Min Read
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Employee Spotlight

A Society of Decent Human Beings

By Emily Edmonds
March 22, 2024
When Aliah Hall was hired as BYU Marriott’s wellness and prevention specialist in 2022, she created a space where students could put down their worries. “This is a place where you don’t have to perform,” Hall says of her office.
2 Min Read
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Employee Spotlight

Balancing Business and Belief

By Shannon Keeley
March 22, 2024
Jeff Thompson splits his time between teaching in the MPA program and directing BYU’s new Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership, where he helps others discover how Christ-centered leadership can steer decisions and stabilize organizations.
2 Min Read
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Faculty Research

Hopping Aboard with AI

August 04, 2023
Management professor Peter Madsen has always loved learning. With a 2-million-dollar NSF grant, Madsen is researching train traffic controllers’ use of algorithms.
2 Min Read
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Student Experiences

Education Report 2022: Collaborating for Impact

March 14, 2023
This year marks a decade of the BYU Crocker Innovation Fellowship program, hosted by BYU Marriott. Teamwork is at the heart of the program, which is designed to be a transformative innovation experience for students from any major across campus.
2 Min Read
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Feature

The Pathway to PhDs

March 14, 2023
BYU leads the nation in the number of students who go on to earn PhDs, and BYU Marriott’s dedicated mentoring and pre-PhD prep tracks are some of the reasons why.
9 Min Read
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Student Spotlight

Clicking the Pieces into Place

May 17, 2022
When Detroit native Eric Louis took his first cybersecurity class at BYU, he was reminded of doing jigsaw puzzles with his grandmother.
3 Min Read
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Student Spotlight

Providing Opportunities for Education

March 14, 2022
Erin Gilbert is passionate about helping underrepresented students overcome obstacles so they can receive more educational opportunities.
1 Min Read
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