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Read about the experiences students, alumni, and faculty are having at BYU Marriott

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Crossing the Finish Line

June 24, 2024
In a hands-on opportunity to apply accounting principles, SOA students worked together in pit crews to beat the clock and change the tires of retired NASCAR cars with their wits, high-power impact drills, and a wheeled pit stop jack.
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Cultivating Corporate Stewardship

June 24, 2024
Nearly 100 students at BYU Marriott took the challenge to make a major lifestyle change during January 2024. These modifications included shifting to a vegan or vegetarian diet, adjusting home utility use, and going car-free for a month.
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Faculty Development in International Business: From Blackouts to Breakthroughs

May 29, 2024
Many faculty at the BYU Marriott School of Business travel with and teach students on semester-long trips to other parts of the world. But on their separate visits to the African continent, Tom Meservy and Kristin DeTienne didn’t teach courses or sightsee with students. Through the Faculty Development in International Business program, these professors researched the business practices of other countries and returned with new insights to bring to their classrooms and their research.
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Bridging Local Efforts and Global Impact: The 2023 Buckwalter Award Recipients

April 04, 2024
MPA students Erica Jensen and Brianna Merling each received the 2023 Doyle W. Buckwalter Award for exemplary performance in their respective off-campus internships.
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Learning Christlike Leadership

March 28, 2024
Assistant professor McKenzie Rees had a strong prompting to do a peer-mentoring project for her section of HRM 540: Organizational Effectiveness.
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The New Frontier of Finance

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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From Patient to Healer: MPA Alumnus of the Year

March 08, 2024
Dale Hull, the 2023 MPA Alumnus of the Year, credits his time in the Executive MPA program for giving him the confidence he needed to help people with paralysis.
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Preparing to Perform

February 27, 2024
In order to help global supply chain management (GSCM) students prepare for the disasters they will respond to in the workforce, associate professor Barry Brewer invited Kathy Fulton, executive director of American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN), to run a disaster simulation at the BYU Marriott School of Business.
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Creating Christlike Leaders

February 22, 2024
At the BYU Marriott School of Business, associate professor Taeya Howell prepares MBA students to be Christlike leaders when they enter the workforce.
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The Practicality of Passion

February 13, 2024
Art student Laurel Galli-Graves never imagined working as a data scientist for the Department of Defense. But her time in the MPA program helped her combine her artistic creativity, passion for public service, and love of analytics and machine learning to help further the public good.

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Storytelling for Success

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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BYU Students Win Healthcare Leadership Case Competition

November 17, 2023
A new healthcare case competition called the Wasatch Cup invited students from colleges throughout the region to present healthcare solutions to industry professionals.
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From Campus to Tundra

November 14, 2023
For two weeks, a group of ExDM students and faculty from BYU Marriott traveled through the Alaskan frontier to learn how exposure to nature and practicing grit can help improve quality of life.
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Cooking Up Connections

November 07, 2023
The Department of Finance at the BYU Marriott School of Business reconnects with alumni at the fall 2023 alumni BBQ.
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Three Siblings Serving

August 23, 2023
A surfer, a seamstress, and a storyteller. Despite having different interests, the Putnam siblings have each found their own way to help businesses do good through the Ballard Center.
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