Experiences
Read about the experiences students, alumni, and faculty are having at BYU Marriott
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Artificial Intelligence, Advantageous Learning
Students at BYU Marriott are learning to embrace AI as a tool for learning and as a part of their future careers.
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Following a Hunch and Crossing the Globe
A desire to conduct research sent experience design and management (ExDM) students Autumn Tolman and Hannah Knowlton on a flight across the world. Their journey in the Netherlands—the two BYU Marriott School of Business students explain—has changed their fundamental understanding of experience design and provided an opportunity for them to share their findings.
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Networking with New Professionals: The 2026 Marketing Futures Summit
The Marketing Futures Summit, hosted by the BYU Marriott School of Business, offered students the opportunity to both network with recent MBA alumni and develop professional skills.
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Communities of Compassion
For BYU student Katie Young, the biggest lesson she learned from helping run the Community Compassion Collective was simple: social networks matter.
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Following God's Business Plan
Looking back on his entrepreneurial and academic journey, Jimmy Valverde says that God has led him, step-by-step, to opportunities greater than he envisioned for himself.
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BYU Students Share How Faith Shapes Their Entrepreneurial Journeys
During a special interest group summit devoted to faith and entrepreneurship, three Brigham Young University students shared how they’ve combined faith with entrepreneurship with university professors from around the country.
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Accounting Education with a Global Reach
What happens when accounting students become teachers?
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Granting Light: Students Serve through Grantwell
Through Grantwell, education and community outreach happen in tandem as MPA students consult real nonprofit organizations looking to apply for and allocate grant funds.
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Humanizing Business
At the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, student entrepreneurs say entrepreneurship becomes more fulfilling as they work to develop themselves and build relationships.
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Sharing Light in Supply Chain
During the 2025 spring semester, 30 students visited six countries in Asia and the Pacific to identify possible instances of modern slavery. John Gardner, an associate professor who led the trip, says, “From the very first class period, students were encouraged to think about ways that they could share light with each of the people that we would contact: both in the businesses and in our cultural visits.”
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Building Bridges Through Cultural Understanding
As Simon Greathead, a teaching professor of global supply chain at the BYU Marriott School of Business, teaches his students about international business and culture, he says he hopes to help students build bridges of understanding and Christlike culture in their future business roles.
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Designing Experiences and Boosting Confidences
Whether working with international nonprofits or local businesses, experience design and management (ExDM) students at the BYU Marriott School of Business have the chance to apply their education through designing experiences. “It gives us a lot of confidence as we enter the workforce, because we know that our skills are valuable,” says ExDM student Claire Martin.
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Workshopping Growth
While serving at a workshop hosted by the human resource management (HRM) program, HRM students learned that using their education to help others can encourage growth and joy for both themselves and the people they serve.
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Service Brings Great Returns
During the 2025 tax season, more than a hundred SOA students from BYU Marriott helped community members file their taxes for free through the VITA lab. These students filed almost 1,000 tax returns, helping to share light as they empathized and advocated for others through the tax return process, says Jon Kerr, the VITA lab faculty advisor.
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Marketable Skills and Christlike Service
The Marketing Association at BYU Marriott hosted its annual Christmas social in December 2025. This year, for BYU’s 150th anniversary, students had a focus beyond celebrating the end of a semester: service.
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