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Bill Aho’s quest to make watching movies less offensive has not only caught national media attention but also landed him in the political and legal spotlight.
In the last decade, alum Steven Schone has led a business that started as a lone specialty T-shirt kiosk in Salt Lake’s Fashion Place Mall into an operation of fifty stores throughout North America.
While Donald Trump was making Omarosa and Kwame household names last spring, one Denver radio station was making Marriott School alumna and entrepreneur Becky Tate Orser its apprentice.
When John McKinney graduated with his MBA last August, he wasn’t the only member of his family walking across the stage. He was joined by his wife, April, who earned her BS in community health, and their son, Collin, who earned his MA in Spanish literature. Then, one week after their graduation, John and April began serving a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, working for the Perpetual Education Fund (PEF). President Gordon B. Hinckley announced the PEF in 2001. In a January 2004 Ensign article, Elder John K. Carmack says the PEF was designed to “provide loans to help worthy returned missionaries and other young Latter-day Saint adults gain the training and education necessary for adequate employment in their own countries.”
Soon after Arturo Leon graduated with his MOB from the Marriott School, he found himself on the hot seat, being grilled by the president of the Mexican senate.
MBA grad Candice Wong (Lau, Siu Kuen) is second-in-command at a large Hong Kong jewelry company, and the road to this position was paved with self-discipline, hard work, ana strong sense of leadership.
Cody Strong, a 2002 MPA graduate, has spent the last year working as a public servant—not as a city or state administrator—but as a second lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Iraq.
The Webster brothers know that money doesn’t grow on trees; however, in the last few years they’ve successfully expanded their family’s 200-acre orchard into a profitable online business.
Although Amy Olsen Clark has worked for numerous organizations—Microsoft, UVSC, United Way, Johnson & Johnson to name a few—she says her best job experience came when she worked as a program coordinator for CES youth and family programs while attending BYU.
For some entrepreneurs, inspiration hits in an airport terminal, conference room, or classroom. For Mike Robson, the conversation that put him on the path to his business happened at Burger King.
During BYU’s Homecoming celebration, the Marriott School named Gary P. Williams as its 2003 Honored Alum. The award, presented 9 October, was one of eleven given to outstanding alumni from colleges across campus.
A recent national study has recognized the Marriott School's Information Systems Department as 26th in the country for research.
What ever happened to the guy in your accounting class with the tapered jeans? What about the girl with the loud laugh who skewed the curve? Have you lost track of friends from a study group?
One Management Society member is making the most of her doctors’ orders.
When Bret Bryce graduated from the Marriott School in 2001, he had an array of choices: enroll in one of the law schools that was recruiting him or begin a career as a investment advisor.
When G. Tracy Williams goes on business trips, he sometimes ends up halfway around the world.
When Corine Larsen Bradshaw participated in MPA class discussions on governmental work, she wasn’t just talking about information she knew second-hand—she was talking about her previous job.
School Touted as Place to Hire Ethical Graduates
Prizes will be awarded for the best international business photos
Brigham Young University honored two professors in the Marriott School’s Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy at the 2003 University Conference. Wm. Gerard “Gerry” Sanders received a Young Scholar Award and Kristen B. DeTienne was named an Alcuin Fellow.
University officials announce the creation of the William G. Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change. The new institute, housed in the Marriott School of Management, will further faculty research about organizational change and allocate resources to facilitate student research projects and field studies.
The Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University is pleased to announce the 2003 Staff and Administrator Excellence Awards.
Brigham Young University officials announce the creation of the Center for Economic Self-Reliance to oversee and coordinate the university’s ongoing initiatives to help families throughout the world become economically self-reliant.
Alexis H. Johanson would never have guessed that an internship with a tractor company would lead her to a job more than two thousand miles from her home in Cedar Hills, Utah.