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Alumni Students Global Supply Chain
Never give up. That's a lesson that Allison Oberle learned early as a student at BYU Marriott that she has relied on often since graduating in global supply chain management.

Many nineteenth-century members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints trekked more than a thousand miles across North America, pulling handcarts loaded with supplies and other precious possessions for the journey.
Luana Tu'ua, BYU Marriott global supply chain senior, endeavors to pursue her passions for aerospace and make an impact on others abroad, wherever life takes her.

While many college students spend summers between semesters developing their talents, few can say they spent their summer producing an original musical.

BYU Marriott alumna Melinda Malmgren's love for business can be traced back to her fifth-grade days when she participated in a class activity called "Store."

For BYU Marriott global supply chain management junior Nada Elmasry, the Egyptian flag in the Tanner Building's atrium symbolizes the opportunity to represent her home country.

BYU Marriott global supply chain management major and social media student employee Summer Herlevi pairs work and classroom learning to polish BYU's Instagram account.

Four seniors in the BYU Marriott global supply chain management program took third place at the 2019 Bowersox Undergraduate Supply Chain Management Challenge hosted at Michigan State University.
Joey Chen, a senior from BYU Marriott's GSCM program, helped conduct research in China this last summer. Although just an undergrad, she held her own alongside PhD candidates.
Brian Hanks has a job title you may have never heard before: dental transition specialist. Hanks works with dental professionals looking to buy a practice and helps them find financial stability. “Dentists are small-business owners,” he says. “The marketplace is becoming more competitive, and more and more dentists are realizing that they need to be business owners first and dentists second—or at least have those two positions tied in their minds.”
As a member of the BYU gymnastics team, a student in BYU Marriott's global supply chain management (GSCM) program, and a doTERRA intern, Angel Zhong proves that hard work and dedication pay off.

Adopted from China by a family consumed by addiction, Ashley Howe, a senior at BYU Marriott, had a rough start to life straight out of the gate.
Melissa Nielsen's degree in Global Supply Chain Management has allowed her to skip the learning curve, and start making a difference immediately at her first job post graduation.
Students at BYU Marriott are not strangers to the idea of networking with their peers, but this year the Global Supply Chain Association have taken it to a new level.
Amid Independence Day celebrations and summer relaxation in July, pre-business students eagerly wait to find out if they were accepted to BYU Marriott.
What does a BYU Marriott degree and celebrity rock concerts have in common? For alum Jeff Burns, they have everything to do with his profession.
Surviving an earthquake and living overseas are just two experiences that have led senior Clorisa Griffiths to excel in the global supply chain program.
In the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed, BYU Marriott students made new history by winning the 2018 Silver Lake Competition.
How would you invest $10 million dollars? BYU Marriott students answered this question in front of a panel of executives at the Nissin Global Supply Chain Management Case Competition.
At the first-ever Women in Supply Chain event, the Union Pacific EVP and chief marketing officer gave five tips for success in the business world.
Big-name schools made their way to Provo as BYU Marriott hosted the Deloitte Supply Chain Case Competition for the second year in a row.
Throughout her education and career, Marriott School alumna Amy Sawaya has used global supply chain as her catchall answer to what she wants to be when she grows up, even as the details of those plans have changed significantly.
Two spandex-clad riders whizzed into the building, disappearing from view. As the BYU Marriott School students and their advisor stepped into the warehouse, the smell of rubber, aluminum, and cardboard—components of freshly manufactured bicycles—welcomed them into biker paradise.
Adam Mikkelsen grew up on a farm in Oregon where, no matter the chore, he was always looking for ways to improve. At BYU he studied economics before switching to global supply chain so he could be more hands-on with his work. As a student, he interned at an industrial auditing firm as an auditing intern, where he traveled across the western Chinese province of Qinghai in order to share best practices and greener technology between the companies there and in Utah. Later, he worked at Walmart as a merchandising analyst for apparel sourcing. He accepted a job as a strategy and operations consultant at Deloitte after graduating in April 2015 because he believed international consulting will give him a better opportunity to work and travel.