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Student Experiences

Where Everything Is Awesome

March 13, 2023
By the time they get to college, most students have gotten rid of their childhood toys. But in BYU Marriott’s Experience Design and Management (ExDM) program, professors encourage students to play with toys—in fact, it’s a requirement for one class.
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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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Student Experiences

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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Student Experiences

Delving into the Consumer Journey

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

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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Student Experiences

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

March 07, 2022
In today’s faculty-advised, student-run Grantwell program, students consult with real clients on real projects.
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Student Experiences

Connections for Success

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

Experiments in Entrepreneurship

July 07, 2021
When most people hear the phrase scientific method, they think of physics or biology, not starting a company.
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Student Experiences

Elementary, My Dear Watson

February 23, 2021
In many of his fictitious adventures, Sherlock Holmes chides his partner, Dr. Watson, by saying, "You see, but you do not observe."
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Student Experiences

Do Good Better

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 since its inception in 2011.
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Student Experiences

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

October 12, 2020
The course description for Accounting 550, Fraud Prevention and Detection, is pretty straightforward: the course covers fraud prevention, detection, investigation, issues, and methodology, and it includes an examination of past frauds with hands-on cases and computer exercises to identify increased fraud risk, interrogate data, and design prevention and detection controls.
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Student Experiences

A Cyber Attack Escape Room

July 14, 2020
Excitement was high and adrenaline was pumping as a four-member team of BYU Marriott information systems students worked together to hack into a Furby, pick a lockbox, shoot targets with Nerf guns, dive into piles of (clean) trash, and slide 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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Student Experiences

A Semester with Walmart

March 04, 2020
The summer of 2020 will bring big things for Katelynne Hinckley flying to Walmart's worldwide headquarters in Arkansas. Read more about the process and experiences that landed her a dream internship.

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Experiencing the Good Life

November 20, 2019
Walking timidly into the Tanner Building for her first class of her freshman year, Melissa Trautman didn’t know what to expect from the class or from her future BYU experience. She hoped the course title, Creating a Good Life, would come to literal fruition, but she had no idea the significant impact the class would have on her life.
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Student Experiences

Creating a More Inclusive Environment

July 29, 2019
When the BYU Marriott Inclusion Committee gathered data about students’ experiences in the business school, the committee discovered a common theme. While the school had done well with preparing students to meet job qualifications, many individuals desired further guidelines on developing inclusive behavior that they could carry with them into the workplace.
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