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When it comes to startup companies spun out of universities, there are a lot of zombies out there.
BYU Marriott alumni and former marketing professor Scott Smith was honored during Homecoming Week at Brigham Young University with the prestigious Alumni Achievement Award presented from the BYU Marriott School of Business.
BYU Marriott alum, aspiring pig farmer, and current adjunct teacher Scott Taylor is obsessed with learning.
Hard work pays off for BYU Marriott professor Chad Carlos. Only six years into his research career, Carlos was awarded the 2019 Emerging Scholar Award by the Academy of Management.
All roads lead somewhere, and for BYU Marriott assistant professor of marketing John Howell, the many roads he's traveled have brought him back to where it all began at academia.
Students regularly help with Ryan Elder's research on advertising effectiveness and sensory marketing.
Students in Lee Daniels' International Business class learn to interact within a team framework, and rate each other's presentations. Daniels does this so his students are better prepared for future interviews and job opportunities.
BYU accounting students want to involve auditors during company crises an idea that earned them second place at a national competition hosted by Deloitte.
Big data is a big deal. Professor Jeff Dotson is leading the way for BYU Marriott MBA students to gain hands-on experience in analytics.
The Marriott School honored Michael Swenson as its 2011 Outstanding Faculty. Fourteen others were also recognized.
BYU is being recognized as a business startup factory — churning out hundreds of student-run ventures each year.
Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review place BYU No. 4 at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
You know you’re in a class with entrepreneurship professor Michael Hendron when you’re lectured about sailplanes and how they apply to starting and running a business. Hendron would know, since he is highly experienced in both fields.
Tom Foster, department chair of marketing and global supply chain at the Marriott School, had never played two truths and a lie—a game in which players share two hard-to-believe truths and one lie about themselves, then the other players must guess which is the lie. But when pressed for three statements, he said:
Dean Gary C. Cornia announced the appointment of Bruce Money as chair of the Department of Business Management.
Nine new faculty members joined the ranks of the Marriott School of Management as the 2016-17 school year began this month.
BYU's board of trustees recently approved the creation of the finance department in the Marriott School.
The Marriott School's Tom Foster has been appointed the new editor of the Quality Management Journal.
Scott C. Johnson has been a Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology founder since 2011. Johnson grew up in Ogden, Utah, and despite receiving two scholarships to Brigham Young University, he attended Weber State. It wasn’t until Johnson served a mission in Brazil that he had a self-described “change of heart.” Johnson’s desire to teach at the MTC led him to transfer to BYU post-mission. He didn’t get the MTC job he was hoping for, but he met his wife, Kristen, and graduated from BYU with a degree in near eastern studies and a minor in business in 1994.
Bruce Money will speak on 'The Lord’s “Country and Kingdom” – Your Passport.' at 11:05 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.
School Touted as Place to Hire Ethical Graduates
Students at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management selected two of their classmates and a professor to receive the 2003 Merrill J. Bateman Awards. These honors, now in their second year, are the only awards chosen solely by business school students.
Property Solutions LLC took first place at the 2003 Marriott School Business Plan Competition. The company provides an integrated software solution for property management companies. My Carnivore, a company that sells carnivorous pet plants, took second place. Tying for third place were Dierevo, a company developing technology to create renewable energy solutions, and StrollerWorks, a company which offers a new reversible jogging stroller.
Ralph Christensen, former Hallmark Cards, Inc., executive, will open the Marriott School of Management’s annual Organizational Behavior Conference March 27-28. Christensen will speak about “The Power of Human Resource Management in Leading Change.”