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Stories which can also be found in the print version of Marriott Alumni Magazine.
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Feature

The Blessings of Determination

October 01, 2010
In my fifty-four years in business I have studied leadership and have been anxious to learn why people are successful. I believe strongly that everyone who wants to be successful will be.
7 Min Read
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Improving Your Vitals

October 01, 2010
 Getting fit may be more about numbers than you ever thought. But don’t worry.
2 Min Read
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Faculty Research

Count U.S. Out?

October 01, 2010
How the French Put U.S. Adoption of International Accounting Standards on the Rocks. 
9 Min Read
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Unscrambling Financial Acronyms

October 01, 2010
So you went to business school. But it’s been a few years . . . And perhaps some of the recent economic news has left you a little befuddled. We’ve unscrambled some particularly tricky terms that will put you back at the head of the class.
2 Min Read
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Feature

The International Scent of Business

By Todd Hollingshead
October 01, 2010
You know you’re in Hong Kong when you smell it. First, it’s flowery-sweet, popcorn-esque jasmine rice. Next, it’s incense from the factories that line the coast just to the north.
13 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

To Infinity and Beyond

October 01, 2010
While many business leaders strive to expand their organization’s reach globally, one Marriott School grad oversees projects that have a more vertical approach—out of this atmosphere, actually.
1 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Three Decades of Crossing the Pacific

October 01, 2010
According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, employees stay at their jobs for an average of 4.1 years. Like most people, Dennis Malloy never expected to stay at his first auditing firm for more than a few years, let alone thirty, but he found his niche at KPMG and never left.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

The Creative Connection

October 01, 2010
Melinda Brimhall always strives to incorporate her creative touch into her management style. And unifying the thirteen departments she manages as the Grand County council administrator in Moab, Utah, into a cohesive masterpiece isn’t always an easy task.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

MPA Alumna Helps City Go Green

October 01, 2010
Janene Eller-Smith gets green. Whether it’s obtaining the green to fund the renovation of multiple buildings or assisting in the city’s plans to make a more eco-friendly Ogden, Utah, she’s the go-to gal.
2 Min Read
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Feature

The Great Escape

June 01, 2010
Avid readers are always looking for their next tome. But even if you don’t consider yourself a bibliophile, here’s your chance to find a great read and get lost in its pages. Some of our Marriott School faculty, staff, and students share their favorite books. No more excuses. . . it’s time to read.
5 Min Read
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Getting Out the Door

June 01, 2010
If you are like most people, getting up and out the door on time can be nothing short of a miracle.
2 Min Read
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Feature

Cougars with Capital

By Todd Hollingshead
June 01, 2010
Give Gary Williams ten minutes to explain Cougar Capital and you’ll be sold. Give him an hour and you’ll not only want to invest but you’ll wonder why more universities aren’t doing the same thing with their business programs. And if you give him two years as an MBA student at the Marriott School you’ll develop such a diverse portfolio of knowledge and skills in venture capital and private equity you might just make a career of it.
9 Min Read
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Other Articles

Who Moved My Chi?

June 01, 2010
The word stress was coined only eighty years ago, yet it is a feeling most people experience every day.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

The Leading Man

June 01, 2010
It’s 9:58 p.m. in a small, dark theater. The audience members, an eclectic mix of fashionistas and film fanatics, sit whispering, their faces washed in the green glow of the theater’s exit signs.
8 Min Read
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Student Experiences

Tinkering Around

June 01, 2010
Bruce Hymas and his teammates had sixteen connectors, fifty-four sticks, and three minutes. The task: build a tower that holds up a golf ball—and make the tower taller than everyone else’s.
2 Min Read
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Feature

Generation Y

June 01, 2010
While watching televised highlights from the Olympic Games in Vancouver, I heard a memorable line from an insurance firm’s commercial: “Will this be known as the great recession or the recession that made us great?” This is good marketing copy and also a profound question. We are, indeed, looking out on a wintry economic landscape, and we are deeply concerned about our students and many others who are struggling to make headway with employment.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Job Swap Gives Alumna New Perspective

June 01, 2010
It sounds like something straight out of reality television: a marketing manager for a consumer health care company in Philadelphia switches places with a manager at one of the nation’s top tech companies in Seattle. For four months they work through the challenge of trading places and come away with new insights on marketing. While this premise could be television’s next big hit, the marketing job swap was reality for one BYU alumna.
2 Min Read
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Alumni Spotlight

Alum Plays Real-Life Spy Games

June 01, 2010
CIA officials knew they had a mole in their midst—they just couldn’t prove it. The FBI was called in to gather evidence until they finally nabbed Harold James Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA agent to ever be convicted of espionage. It sounds like a scene ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel, but for Marriott School alum John McClurg, it wasn’t fiction.
3 Min Read
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