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BYU Study Clarifies Misunderstood Motivations Behind IPOs
A face-off between academics and chief financial officers may not sound like the most electrifying of showdowns, but a new Brigham Young University study that pits generally accepted theories against real-world behavior has important implications for investors considering companies' initial public offerings.
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BYU Students Take Top Prize at National xTAX Competition
Death and taxes aren’t the only things in life you can count on. xTax Competition judges have added BYU Marriott School students to their list. BYU accounting students again won national honors at the competition — making BYU the only university to win nationally all four years since the competition began. Not only was this year’s team national winners, they also took home the competition’s top honor, the Hamilton Award, and more than $11,000.
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BYU MBA Continues Upward Climb in Financial Times Rankings
Marriott School 45th among global programs
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New Business Book Shows Cheaters Lose, the Honest Win
CEO of Dell, Massachusetts’ Governor among authors
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Accounting Professor to Help Set National Auditing Standards
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants appointed Marriott School Professor Douglas Prawitt to its Auditing Standards Board. The board consists of 19 members who set auditing standards for private companies, nonprofit organizations as well as state and local governments.
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Marriott School Hosts BYU vs. U of U Case Competition
The Marriott Undergraduate Student Association at Brigham Young University, in conjunction with Dillard’s, invites students to its first annual case competition Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in room 251 of the Tanner Building. The case competition will give business students experience problem-solving an international strategy situation taken from a real-world example.
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eBusiness Day will Exhibit Technological Innovations
The fall eBusiness Day, themed "eGlobal: Connect Locally, Act Globally," will demonstrate how the world is being connected through technology. The event will be held on Friday, Nov. 11, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the second floor atrium and in room 251 of the Tanner Building.
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Marriott School Named “Most Family-Friendly” by The Princeton Review
Princeton Review ranked BYU's Marriott School as the nation's most family friendly business school.
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Corporate philanthropy adds to shareholder wealth, says BYU study
Good deeds act as ‘insurance policy’ against misfortune, scandal and negative headlines
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Microcredit Documentary to Air Nationwide October 27 on Public Television
BYU will host special premiere
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J Dawgs Founder Wins 2005 Student Entrepreneur Competition
A hot dog stand doesn’t quite sound like a business about to take over the world. But with the kind of attention J Dawgs is getting, especially after winning this year’s BYU Entrepreneur of the Year Competition, the little hot dog stand just south of campus has its sights set on becoming one of the big dogs.
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eBusiness Web Site and Strategic Plan Competition Announced
The Marriott School Web Analytics Competition, hosted by the Rollins Center for eBusiness, is looking for an innovative student team. Past eBusiness competitions have challenged student teams to design Web sites or come up with creative solutions to improve existing sites. This semester the eBusiness Center has teamed with Omniture to present a new competition allowing anyone with critical thinking skills to compete.
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Auditing Alumnus Named Academic Fellow to SEC
Somewhere amongst the clouds of his childhood dreams of becoming a private pilot, Mark H. Taylor bumped into the notion of accounting, which brought his feet right back to the ground. But that hasn’t stopped him from rising above the rest to land an academic fellowship at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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There’s No Business Like Show Business for MPA Alumnus
Most people are surprised to learn that lawyer and Marriott alumnus Kelly Crabb has written a cowboy musical, produced a documentary, represented Paul McCartney, and won an Olympic gold medal (well, kind of). His most recent surprise is that he has written a guide to being a movie producer. This media-savvy legal counsel never really meant to go into showbiz, it was simply unavoidable.
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Graduate Builds Successful Civil Engineering Business
As a child, Jose Montoya worked alongside his family picking grapes in California vineyards. Today this Marriott School alum is president of M2 Group, a fast-growing, Mesa, Arizona-based civil engineering firm. Founded in 1998 by Montoya and Tom Palmer, M2 Group has grown from three employees in one location to more than ninety employees in three locations including Mexico.
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Alum Selected as Head Coach of U.S.A. Men’s Volleyball Team
Most MBA graduates put their degrees to use in the boardrooms of the business world. Marriott School alum Hugh McCutcheon, however, took his to the locker room and the arena of international volleyball. The former BYU men’s volleyball assistant coach recently took the job as head coach of the U.S. Olympic Men’s Volleyball Team. He replaces longtime coach Doug Beal, who became CEO of USA Volleyball.
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Alumni Write Another Crucial Bestseller
For a crew of four jokesters, writing their second best-selling book, Crucial Confrontations, came naturally as another part of their series of materials to help people acquire skills needed to communicate effectively. Authors Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Kerry Patterson, and Al Switzler credit their success to years of conducting research, practicing what they preach, and injecting humor into the stuffy world of corporate consultants.
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Student Entrepreneur of the Year Competition Announced
Securing thousands of dollars in capital for a new business and preparing a term paper for an English 315 class is multitasking on another level. For those over achievers who juggle starting a business venture while in college, the Center for Entrepreneurship has a proposition for you.
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