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"Changing Organizations" Focus of Marriott School's MOB Conference

March 14, 2002
Changing Organizations will be the focus of the Marriott School of Management's annual Master of Organizational Behavior program's spring conference April 4-5. The conference will address such topics as "Managing Knowledge Across Boundaries," "Social Change and the Strategic Development of ‘NON' Organizations" and "Crossing the Line: Research on Expressing Anger in Organizations," in an open forum for practitioners, academicians and students.
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Marriott School To Host Fifth Microenterprise Conference 15-16 March

March 08, 2002
BYU's Marriott School of Management will host the Fifth Annual Microenterprise Conference "Practical Approaches to Ending Poverty" 15-16 March 2002. Grounded in a belief that access to resources is the greatest barrier to ending poverty, speakers at this year's conference will examine the best practices of the past, critique today's organizations and take a pragmatic look at the future of the microenterprise movement.
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Finance Expert Named 2002 Outstanding Professor

March 04, 2002
The Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University honored Hal B. Heaton with its 2002 Outstanding Faculty Award, the highest faculty distinction given by the school. The award was presented at a banquet Wednesday when the school also recognized four other faculty members for their contributions in teaching, research, citizenship and service.
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Filling the Venues When the Olympic Frenzy Melts Away

February 20, 2002
So what do you do when the crowds dissipate, the athletes take their medals home and you’re left with empty multi-million-dollar Olympic facilities?
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Student Experiences

Marriott School Names 2002 Hawes Scholars

February 04, 2002
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University named eight MBA candidates as its 2002 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school.
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Alumni Spotlight

MPA Alum Made Editor of Government Journal

February 01, 2002
Peter Christensen launched his writing career as an undergrad working for The Daily Universe. He was promoted from sports reporter to editor and then to editor-in-chief filling numerous other positions while on staff. "If I had my druthers, I might have ended up being a sports writer," Christensen said.
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Grad Leads Wharton MBA Group on African Adventure

February 01, 2002
When Rob Smoot earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he wanted to shout it from the mountaintops. Smoot celebrated the culmination of his education by leading forty fellow students to Africa's highest point the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro 19,341 feet above the vast African plains.
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Marriott Alum Contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

February 01, 2002
Intel business analyst Jason Packham said there might be a correlation between his winnings on ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and his BYU education. One question asked on the show was, "In which of these languages is the first-person singular subject pronoun always capitalized?" Packham gave the correct answer: English.
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Marriott School Sophomore Named National Kemper Scholar

January 30, 2002
The James S. Kemper Foundation, the charitable arm of Kemper Insurance Companies, named Jay Oman, a pre-business major from Springville, Utah, one of 17 Kemper Scholars nationwide. The Kemper Scholars program provides recipients with a three-year scholarship and three summer-internship programs at Kemper Insurance offices around the country.
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Marriott School Adds New Information Systems Major

January 16, 2002
Beginning Fall 2002, students at Brigham Young University will be able to earn a bachelor's of science degree in information systems. The new major, offered through the Marriott School of Management, will replace the information-systems emphasis in the business-management program.
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Marriott School Professor Receives Governor's Points of Light Award

December 07, 2001
Norman Nemrow, professor of accountancy at the Marriott School of Management, received the 47th Governor's Points of Light Award for his volunteer work at Brigham Young University. Nemrow has been a full-time volunteer at BYU since 1992 — donating both his time and his teaching salary to the university.
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Marriott School Micro Ethnographer Digitally Combats Corporate Communication Woes

November 20, 2001
Armed with lipstick cameras, digital editing equipment and a PhD in institutional interaction, micro ethnographer Curtis LeBaron—a professor of organizational leadership and management communication—examines the problems in corporate communication infrastructures frame by frame.
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Chairman and Former CEO of Ryder Named International Executive of the Year

November 16, 2001
The Marriott School of Management and Board of Trustees at Brigham Young University named M. Anthony Burns, chairman of Ryder System, Inc., as the 2001 International Executive of the Year. President Thomas S. Monson, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, presented the award to Mr. Burns at a banquet 16 November.
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School News

Marriott School Completes Its Second-Largest Hiring Season

October 29, 2001
Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management has hired the second-largest group of new faculty in school history — 18 new faculty members. The new faculty will enable the Marriott School to meet the increased demand for business management courses. During the past few years, the administration has increased the total number of faculty members by 10, which has allowed the school to expand its undergraduate enrollment from 700 to 850.
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Forbes Touts Marriott School's

October 19, 2001
Brigham Young University offers MBA students more bang for the buck than any other regional school. The Marriott School of Management's MBA program was ranked number one among regional business schools in the 15 October issue of Forbes. The magazine surveyed 20,000 graduates from 104 top national and international business schools.
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Alumni Experiences

Marriott School Honored Alumnus to Speak on Business Service Opportunities

October 17, 2001
Reed N. Dame, president and CEO of Woodgrain Millwork, Inc. and this year's Marriott School of Management Honored Alumnus, will address faculty, students and alumni during Brigham Young University's Homecoming activities this week. Dame will speak on, "Business, A Power for Good," Thursday at 11 a.m. in 151 TNRB.
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BYU Establishes Institute of Financial Services

October 04, 2001
Preparing for the opportunities and challenges of an evolving financial services industry, Brigham Young University announces the establishment of a new institute of financial services. The new institute, named for former Bank of America executive and Silicon Valley developer H. Taylor Peery, will be housed at BYU's Marriott School of Management.
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Alumni Spotlight

Alumni News - Wyman Roberts

October 01, 2001
For Wyman Roberts, vacationing at Universal Studios proved to be so much fun that he decided to land a career in the industry. Roberts has been appointed executive vice president of marketing—chief marketing officer—for Universal Studios Recreation Group.
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