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Faculty & Employees Students MBA 2023 2016
From active-duty commission to serving as a member of the Army Reserves, Jared Sturgell is earning his MBA at BYU Marriott while assisting BYU’s Army ROTC.
Global supply chain assistant professor Brett Hathaway spends much of his free time summiting mountains. His career path has uniquely equipped him to provide perspective to students in their own journeys.
Taking over the bookkeeping for her family’s Idaho dairy farm taught fourteen-year-old Jenn Larson about unpredictable farming revenues, ignited her lifelong passion for finance, and inspired her to become a role model.
Students, employees, and executives typically work hard to present themselves professionally, ensuring blazers are pressed and handshakes are firm. Yet BYU Marriott professor Kristen DeTienne, who has more than three decades of professional experience, calls for something beyond professionalism. “What’s that extra edge that helps you be effective and enjoy what you’re doing?” DeTienne says, “It’s personal connection.”
Jeffrey Burningham, adjunct faculty and partner to the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, believes the creative process is pivotal to a fulfilling life.
With nearly three decades of experience at BYU Marriott, MBA academic program manager Christine Roundy helps students reach their goals by meeting individual needs.
Grant McQueen didn’t want to leave the classroom when he took on his role as BYU MBA program director.
In 1997, Lisa Jones Christensen took a break after a decade of working in business development to travel the world and work on her Spanish. While in Guatemala, she lived with low-income families in their homes. One night, when the father of one of the families came home from work rejected, mistreated, and empty-handed, she realized she needed to re-evaluate the paradigm she had grown to know about the relationship between business and quality of life.
In a twenty-three-hour turnaround, a team of four MBA students won second place and $1,500 in Baylor University's Business Ethics Case Competition
Gandhi has a story. Winston Churchill has a story. Martin Luther King Jr. has a story. Great leadership is interwoven with great stories, and often this leadership comes when leaders perceive the power of their own stories.
Dean Lee Perry has announced Grant McQueen as the new MBA director and Daniel Snow as the MBA associate director effective August 1.
“Career goals are worthless.”
Graduate business school isn’t easy by any means. MBA students write, work, research, and write some more. And then to top it all off, they are required to spend their precious summer breaks as interns.
Four recent BYU MBA graduates were featured by Poets & Quants with the best of their class from across the country.
John Bingham doesn’t believe in balance.
Student-run companies presented business plans to judges in hopes of scoring prizes up for grabs in the Miller NVC.
The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management named 10 MBA candidates 2016 Hawes Scholars, an honor that carries the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school and a cash award of $15,000.
A team of MBA students were right on the money, recently placing first in the Association of Corporate Growth Utah Cup and winning $5,000.
Thirteen students were honored with the George E. Stoddard Prize, a $4,000 award given annually to exceptional second-year MBA finance students.
The Marriott School's Whitmore Global Management Center awarded 10 first-year MBA candidates the Eccles Scholar award.
A three-day tour of the Bay Area with a group of fellow college students. Sounds fun, right?
A team of BYU MBA students bested squads from Yale, Wharton, Michigan and others to win $4,000 for the MBAMA at the inaugural competition.