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The New Frontier of Finance

By Shannon Keeley
March 26, 2024
In a newly created section of Finance 490R: Topics in Finance, Todd Mitton shares the basics and the beauties of the emerging and revolutionary field of decentralized finance.
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Storytelling for Success

By Shannon Keeley
November 27, 2023
BYU Marriott’s Management Communication 320 course helps shape students into powerful presenters and storytellers, which impacts their trajectories.
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Student Experiences

A Full-Circle Transformation

By Kellene Ricks Adams
July 17, 2023
The MSB 380: Executive Leadership Series class is open to any student across campus and features a “fireside Q&A” format.
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Student Experiences

Where Everything Is Awesome

March 13, 2023
In the Classroom
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Feature

Becoming a Disciple-Leader

November 11, 2022
For the past three years, Elder Kim B. Clark has developed and taught a course on leadership and the gospel of Jesus Christ, titled Becoming a Disciple-Leader.
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Surrounded by Data

November 11, 2022
As the business world becomes increasingly data driven, professors in the MBA program at BYU Marriott want their students to graduate equipped with skills that will set them apart from their colleagues and give them a competitive edge in the workforce.
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Delving into the Consumer Journey

By Shirleen M. Saunders
June 21, 2022
In a world of seemingly endless choices, today’s consumers don’t often travel a linear path when making a purchase.
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Student Experiences

Sustainability in the Classroom

By Bremen Leak
June 21, 2022
Broadly, sustainability relates to our natural, built, and social domains. It’s a topic in high demand at BYU Marriott, where new courses are shaping a generation of stewards. Here are two of them.
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Connecting Curriculum to Career

May 24, 2022
To help ease the stress of transitioning from college to the workforce, the ExDM department at BYU Marriott added a new professional prep class for its students.
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Employee Spotlight

Worldwide Traveling and Evergreen Teaching

April 20, 2022
Jerry Christensen draws from his international experience to teach about current issues happening in Germany as an adjunct professor for BYU Marriott.
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Student-Run Grantwell Program Makes an Impact

By Kellene Ricks Adams
March 07, 2022
In today’s faculty-advised, student-run Grantwell program, students consult with real clients on real projects.
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Connections for Success

By Shirleen M. Saunders
November 05, 2021
Connections count in business, especially when you work in real estate.
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Student Experiences

Experiments in Entrepreneurship

By Shirleen M. Saunders
July 07, 2021
Taylor Halverson describes the course, Entrepreneurship 113: Startup Bootcamp, as “learning the scientific method for how to launch a business.”
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Elementary, My Dear Watson

February 23, 2021
With its emphasis on teaching students to discover solutions to seemingly impossible problems, BYU Marriott's course Strategy 421: Strategy Implementation is one that Sherlock Holmes would have approved of.
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Student Experiences

Do Good Better

By Kellene Ricks Adams
January 12, 2021
Doing good even better is a tall order, but it’s one that BYU Marriott’s MSB 375 course, Social Innovation: Do Good Better, has successfully taken on.
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Plan Like a Pioneer

November 04, 2020
Many nineteenth-century members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints trekked more than a thousand miles across North America, pulling handcarts loaded with supplies and other precious possessions for the journey.
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Student Experiences

Fraud: One of Life’s Tests

By Kellene Ricks Adams
October 12, 2020
This BYU Marriott course covers fraud prevention, detection, investigation, issues, and methodology, and includes an examination of past frauds.
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A Cyber Attack Escape Room

By Kellene Ricks Adams
July 14, 2020
Imagine hacking into a Furby, picking a lockbox, shooting targets with Nerf guns, diving into piles of (clean) trash, and sliding under string “laser beams,” all with the end goal of identifying—and then fixing—vulnerabilities in a wireless computer security system.
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