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BYU Marriott School Rises in Financial Times Rankings

January 21, 2003
School Recognized for Finance Education and Salary Increases
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Student Spotlight

MPA Student is First in Utah to Win ACHE Scholarship

January 08, 2003
A Master of Public Administration (MPA) student at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School is the first person in Utah to win an American College of Healthcare Executives scholarship since the fund was started in 1969.
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Student Experiences

Marriott School Students Win First and Second Place in National Tax Competition

December 16, 2002
A team of four accounting graduate students from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School won first place in the national Deloitte & Touche Tax Challenge competition. The school’s undergraduate team placed second in a separate division.
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Faculty Research

BYU Business Professor Wins Five-Year Award for Communication Research

December 10, 2002
The National Communication Association honored a Brigham Young University business communications professor with a five-year Best Paper award at the association’s 88th annual convention in New Orleans.
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Helpful Articles

Marriott School Makes Push for Diversity: Long-Term Initiative to Increase Minority Opportunities

November 07, 2002
Brigham Young University's Marriott School has launched a major initiative to improve minority representation in the school's graduate programs. The diversity initiative is designed to recruit a more diverse student body and faculty; provide students and faculty with cultural awareness and sensitivity to diversity issues; and improve the school's internal climate to be more supportive of female, international, and minority students and faculty.
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School News

BYU MBA Remains Best Buy in Business Week

October 28, 2002
In spite of a tough placement environment and dipping salaries for new graduates, Brigham Young University's MBA program held on to the best buy title in Business Week's 2002 ranking of top business programs. BYU's Marriott School had the best return on investment with only 4.1 years to payback, including the two years at school. Pennsylvania State University came in second at 4.4 years and Purdue was third at 4.5 years.
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School News

Marriott School Offers New Global Management Certificate

October 22, 2002
Marriott School of Management administrators have approved requirements for new undergraduate and graduate certificates in global management. The certificates certify a student’s business language capability, experience in international business and understanding of international business practices.
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Helpful Articles

BYU Professors Win Top Strategy Paper

October 03, 2002
The Strategic Management Society awarded four Brigham Young University Professors the best paper prize last week at the organization’s 22nd annual conference in Paris, France.
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Alumni Spotlight

Alum Celebrates Top Performance in Footwear Industry

October 01, 2002
If a company’s name ever had meaning, it’s Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc. The name stems from the ancient Greek myth of the phoenix rising from the ashes—something the Old Town, Maine, company can relate to.
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Alumni Spotlight

Alum Seizes Entrepreneurial Opportunity

October 01, 2002
Several years ago, Sarah Sandberg watched a television program about one-hundred-year-old people. “I got two things out of it—take good care of your teeth, and take the risks,” she said. “I didn’t want to turn one hundred and wish I had taken more risks.”
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Alumni Spotlight

MPA Grad Learns Value of Networking

October 01, 2002
Lorin Killian and his wife, Lindsay, decided on ten days’ notice—just a week before his graduation from the Marriott School—to move to New York City. Killian felt uneasy about declining a job offer in Salt Lake City to move to New York without any job leads. “I was told countless times during my Marriott School MPA days that networking was crucial in all aspects of business,” Killian said. Out of desperation, he sent emails to his network of friends and acquaintances in the Manhattan area.
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School News

Marriott School Rises in Wall Street Journal Rankings

September 09, 2002
Brigham Young University's business school moved from 41st to 38th in The Wall Street Journal's 2002 ranking of top business schools worldwide. The BYU Marriott School also rose from fifth to third place in the newspaper's "hidden gems" category, a listing of "schools that produce excellent graduates but aren't typically considered top-tier business schools."
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Alumni Spotlight

Alum Uses Rafting Metaphors and Expeditions to Teach Leadership Skills

June 01, 2002
The alignment of paddle strokes, says David Hanna, is a key component of a successful rafting team. “On the river, the consequence of misaligned members is known immediately—the boat moves to the left or to the right rather than in a straight line,” he said. In the business world, the consequences of misaligned members are not so obvious, but just as harmful in terms of goal achievement, Hanna said.
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Alumni Spotlight

Alum Rated No. 1 Analyst in Oil Industry

June 01, 2002
Leaping from third to first, this analyst’s bullishness throughout last year was distinctly rewarded. Ted A. Izatt was recognized by Institutional Investor magazine as the No. 1 All-American fixed income analyst for energy. Izatt, senior vice president of Lehman Brothers, Inc., is responsible for credit research coverage of oil and gas on a global basis. He joined the company’s fixed income research department in July 1997.
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Alumni Spotlight

Alum Finds Success in Buying Market

June 01, 2002
Kristina Khona may not have children yet, but she probably knows more about baby clothes than most parents. “It’s my job,” she says. Khona is a buyer of infant and newborn clothing for Hecht’s and Strawbridge’s, department stores located in the Eastern region of the United States. Hecht’s and Strawbridge’s—the largest division of the May Department Stores Company—owns and operates eighty department stores in eighteen markets including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond.
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Alumni Spotlight

MPA Grad at Work with the State Department

June 01, 2002
Krescent Hancock’s daily commute to Foggy Bottom via the metro’s blue line hasn’t gotten old yet. In fact, “each day is a new adventure,” she says.
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School News

BYU’s Marriott School Wins $1.4 Million International Business Grant

May 12, 2002
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a four-year Center for International Business Education and Research grant to Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management. The grant provides $355,000 per year through 2006.
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Helpful Articles

Marriott School Professor Named SCIP President

April 16, 2002
The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals has elected Marriott School of Management professor Paul Dishman as its 2002-2003 president.
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