The Marriott School of Management's Rollins Center for eBusiness, in connection with LexisNexis and WebCE.com, will stream three business lectures in April to determine the feasibility of making the school's ebusiness, entrepreneurial, executive and MBA lectures available on the Web next fall.
"The goal of this project is to make the resources we have at the Marriott School available to as many alumni and friends of the school as we can," said Owen Cherrington, director of the eBusiness Center. "We are privileged to host top business people from around the world as they come and speak to faculty and students. Now, we can share some of those opportunities with people off campus."
Bob Whitman,; John Fuller,; and Owen Cherrington will address the changing demands in today's information age and how business professionals can best prepare for the times ahead.
Participants in these webcasts will be able to watch the speaker live, participate in a chat room with other BYU alumni and business professionals, and pose questions directly to the speaker via an online moderator.
The first live webcast, featuring John Fuller — founder and director of Vanteon, will take place April 3 at 2 p.m. (MST). The following two webcasts will be held April 10, featuring Bob Whitman — CEO of FranklinCovey, and April 17, featuring Owen Cherrington, also at 2 p.m. For more details, visit ebusiness.byu.edu/streaming or call the eBusiness Center at 801-422-2815.
The Rollins Center for eBusiness is directed by Marriott School professor, J. Owen Cherrington. The Center fosters the study and teaching of how information technology is changing business and management processes. It serves as an intermediary between the high-tech business sector and BYU faculty and students — forming new partnerships and undertaking joint research projects. The Center also works to attract and maintain the highest quality faculty and staff; develop new course materials; expand the number of e-commerce classes; and provide students with new employment opportunities, internships and field study projects.
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Writer: S. Wade Hansen