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The Whitmore Global Business Center provides the global education and training necessary for BYU Marriott students to take on the global market.
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Employee Experiences

The Trickle-Down Effect

May 08, 2020
For Corinne Anderson, assistant professor of accounting from Salt Lake Community College, the chance to go to India with BYU Marriott's Whitmore Global Management Center was an opportunity she couldn't pass up.

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Student Spotlight

Becoming a Better Global Citizen

May 06, 2020
Whether he's kayaking to waterfalls in Croatia or exploring the sites of Dubai, Tanner Wegrowski loves to experience the world.

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Student Experiences

Utah High School Students Test Language Skills at GMC Competition

April 25, 2020
BYU Marriott's Whitmore Global Management Center hosted its ninth annual High School Business Language Competition. Fifty-eight teams of students from high schools around the state of Utah gathered to compete.

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Student Experiences

International Business-Minded MBA Students Named 2020 Eccles Scholars

April 23, 2020
BYU Marriott's Whitmore Global Management Center recently recognized eleven MBA students as this year's Eccles scholars.

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Student Experiences

BYU Marriott GMC Team Places High at CUIBE Competition

December 23, 2019
Four students from BYU Marriott's Global Management Center won second place in the NU-CUIBE International Business Case Competition in Boston, taking home more than just hardware.
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Alumni Spotlight

Skateboarding and Business

November 21, 2019
At the age of thirty-six, Marc de Schweinitz strapped on his helmet and barreled down the half-pipe on his skateboard for the first time in fifteen years. This one-of-a-kind BYU Marriott alum chases his dreams, whether on a skateboard or in the office.
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Student Experiences

A Valuable Exchange

August 07, 2019
From developing business relationships in France to watching a sunrise over a mountain in Peru, the Global Management Center foreign exchange programs teach what a classroom can't.
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Student Experiences

Eccles Scholar Award Winners

August 06, 2019
Eleven first-year MBA candidates were recognized from the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University as Eccles Scholars, an award presented by the school's Whitmore Global Management Center.
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Employee Spotlight

Business in the Front, Music in the Back

July 31, 2019
Outside the office, Jonathon Wood, managing director at the Whitmore Global Management Center, spends a lot of his free time playing in a bluegrass acoustic band known as Lincoln Highway.
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Student Experiences

GMC Hosts Seventh High-School Business Language Competition

June 25, 2019
More than one hundred high school students from around the state of Utah participated in the seventh annual Business Language Competition held by BYU Marriott's Whitmore Global Management Center.
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Student Experiences

Excusez Moi, No Need to Pardon our French Team

February 27, 2019
BYU's French language team made no apologies at the Whitmore Global Management Center's annual Business Language Case Competition held during the fall 2018 semester, taking first place in the brand-new French category.
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Employee Spotlight

Preparing Future Game Changers

December 17, 2018
Students in Lee Daniels' International Business class learn to interact within a team framework, and rate each other's presentations. Daniels does this so his students are better prepared for future interviews and job opportunities.
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Student Experiences

GMC Partners with World Trade Center Utah

December 11, 2018
More than 3,500 Utah companies export goods or services internationally, and this semester, students at the BYU Marriott School of Business will help even more companies join those ranks.
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School News

BYU Awarded $1.14 Million International Business Grant

October 31, 2018
The US Department of Education has awarded BYU and the BYU Marriott School of Business a four-year, $1.14 million grant.
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Student Experiences

Vibrant Business Experience

October 01, 2018
In addition to visiting the Great Wall of China and other attractions, students received a unique business perspective on the Asia Pacific Study Abroad.
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Student Experiences

The Experience of a Lifetime

September 25, 2018
Fencing, paragliding, and rowing gondolas are a few of the once-in-a-lifetime experiences that students had on the Experience Design and Management Study Abroad.
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Student Experiences

The World is our Campus

July 26, 2018
From London to Dubai to Munich, BYU Marriott students traveled abroad to learn on BYU's world campus.
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Student Experiences

The Language of Business

By Kellene Ricks Adams
July 03, 2018
Corina Slene Cuevas-Pahl has spoken Spanish her entire life, but when she found out that BYU Marriott offered a business language course in Spanish, she signed up.
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