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Brigham Young University's President's Council approved the renaming of the Marriott School of Management's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) as the Global Management Center. The center's name was changed to represent its expanded role beyond the Department of Education's CIBER program and to elevate international business within the school.
As the subject of taxation on Internet commerce becomes increasingly controversial, one tax expert at Brigham Young University is being called on to search for solutions to the issue cited as one of the major causes for state budget losses across the United States.
The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals has elected Marriott School of Management professor Paul Dishman as its 2002-2003 president.
Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management has achieved reaccreditation of its undergraduate, master’s and executive degree programs by recent action of the Board of Directors of AACSB International — The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The official announcement was made 7 April in Chicago, Ill.
U.S.News & World Report ranked Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management 29th among the nation’s best business schools. The rankings appear in the magazine’s 15 April Best Graduate Schools issue.
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 Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University named William H. Hansell, executive director of the International City/County Management Association, as its 2002 Administrator of the Year. Hansell has been executive director of ICMA since October 1983.
BYU's Marriott School of Management will host the Fifth Annual Microenterprise Conference "Practical Approaches to Ending Poverty" 15-16 March 2002. Grounded in a belief that access to resources is the greatest barrier to ending poverty, speakers at this year's conference will examine the best practices of the past, critique today's organizations and take a pragmatic look at the future of the microenterprise movement.
The Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University honored Hal B. Heaton with its 2002 Outstanding Faculty Award, the highest faculty distinction given by the school. The award was presented at a banquet Wednesday when the school also recognized four other faculty members for their contributions in teaching, research, citizenship and service.
Norman Nemrow, professor of accountancy at the Marriott School of Management, received the 47th Governor's Points of Light Award for his volunteer work at Brigham Young University. Nemrow has been a full-time volunteer at BYU since 1992 — donating both his time and his teaching salary to the university.
Armed with lipstick cameras, digital editing equipment and a PhD in institutional interaction, micro ethnographer Curtis LeBaron—a professor of organizational leadership and management communication—examines the problems in corporate communication infrastructures frame by frame.
The Marriott School of Management and Board of Trustees at Brigham Young University named M. Anthony Burns, chairman of Ryder System, Inc., as the 2001 International Executive of the Year. President Thomas S. Monson, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, presented the award to Mr. Burns at a banquet 16 November.
Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management has hired the second-largest group of new faculty in school history — 18 new faculty members. The new faculty will enable the Marriott School to meet the increased demand for business management courses. During the past few years, the administration has increased the total number of faculty members by 10, which has allowed the school to expand its undergraduate enrollment from 700 to 850.
Preparing for the opportunities and challenges of an evolving financial services industry, Brigham Young University announces the establishment of a new institute of financial services. The new institute, named for former Bank of America executive and Silicon Valley developer H. Taylor Peery, will be housed at BYU's Marriott School of Management.
The Marriott School of Management's passion for excellence and progress has once again earned national recognition. Public Accounting Report and the U.S. News & World Report ranked Brigham Young University's undergraduate accounting program third and sixth respectively in the nation for the second straight year.
W. Steve Albrecht, associate dean of Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management, has not only been president of the American Accounting Association and an expert witness in the Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud case but also one of the university’s top faculty. Albrecht was recently recognized with the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award, BYU’s most prestigious faculty honor.
Nineteen businessmen from LG Electronics returned to Korea with anew arsenal of change-management skills after completing an intensive summer organizational-development program at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management.
Paul Dishman, visiting associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School, has been voted vice president of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).
Other than being very large, the 17–foot Christmas tree, trimmed with angel ornaments, looks like most other trees. But it’s not. The ornaments on The Little Angel’s Christmas tree are more than just decorations — they contain the names and ages of children, their clothing sizes and gift ideas. Sponsored by the Campus Chapter of the BYU Management Society and the United Way, the goal is to undecorate the tree by 8 December.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University named Keith Bailey, Chairman, President and CEO of Williams, as the 2000 International Executive of the Year (IEY).President James E. Faust, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will present Bailey with the IEY Award at a banquet Friday, 17 Nov.
The Kevin and Debra Rollins Center for eBusiness at Brigham Young University will host its first e-business conference on Friday, 17 Nov. The conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a ribbon cutting ceremony to launch the school’s new e-business web site (ebusiness.byu.edu)on the second floor atrium of the Tanner Building. Students, faculty and partner companies are invited to participate in the conference.
Although students have been lining up to interview for months with some of the nation's best companies in the Marriott School's business career center, the new facility doesn’t officially open until Thursday, 16 Nov. BYU President Merrill J. Bateman, Marriott School Dean Ned C. Hill and benefactor Georgia A. White will participate in a brief ribbon cutting ceremony at 5:30 p.m. to open the center.
Three professors at BYU’s Marriott School hope their e-business accounting book will give students the upper hand when it comes to electronic commerce. Steven M. Glover, Stephen W. Liddle and Douglas Prawitt’s book, E-Business: Principles and Strategies for Accountants, was written to prepare accounting students to meet the demands of a business world being transformed by technology. Marriott School professors will begin using the book winter semester as a supplement.
Paul Dishman, visiting associate professor at the Marriott School, has been invited by the United Nations to lecture on competitive intelligence and knowledge management in China this September.