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Manhattan Investment Banker Credits BYU Scholarships For Career Success For someone who always wanted to be a doctor, a position as vice president of JP Morgan Chase & Co., wasn’t exactly what investment banker Katherine Lum had in mind. She lives and works in Manhattan and is responsible for assisting clients in raising debt securities in the private placement market. Depending on the flow of deals, Lum has been known to work up to twenty-hour days. What keeps her motivated? “I truly enjoy my job,” she said.
Reed N. Dame, president and CEO of Woodgrain Millwork, Inc. and this year's Marriott School of Management Honored Alumnus, will address faculty, students and alumni during Brigham Young University's Homecoming activities this week. Dame will speak on, "Business, A Power for Good," Thursday at 11 a.m. in 151 TNRB.
Beginning Fall 2002, students at Brigham Young University will be able to earn a bachelor's of science degree in information systems. The new major, offered through the Marriott School of Management, will replace the information-systems emphasis in the business-management program.
The James S. Kemper Foundation, the charitable arm of Kemper Insurance Companies, named Jay Oman, a pre-business major from Springville, Utah, one of 17 Kemper Scholars nationwide. The Kemper Scholars program provides recipients with a three-year scholarship and three summer-internship programs at Kemper Insurance offices around the country.
Changing Organizations will be the focus of the Marriott School of Management's annual Master of Organizational Behavior program's spring conference April 4-5. The conference will address such topics as "Managing Knowledge Across Boundaries," "Social Change and the Strategic Development of ‘NON' Organizations" and "Crossing the Line: Research on Expressing Anger in Organizations," in an open forum for practitioners, academicians and students.
Kristina Khona may not have children yet, but she probably knows more about baby clothes than most parents. “It’s my job,” she says. Khona is a buyer of infant and newborn clothing for Hecht’s and Strawbridge’s, department stores located in the Eastern region of the United States. Hecht’s and Strawbridge’s—the largest division of the May Department Stores Company—owns and operates eighty department stores in eighteen markets including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond.
If a company’s name ever had meaning, it’s Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc. The name stems from the ancient Greek myth of the phoenix rising from the ashes—something the Old Town, Maine, company can relate to.
For Jeremy Hanks, being an entrepreneur comes naturally. Even though he’s the founder of a successful dot-com company, that doesn’t keep him from thinking about other possible business ventures. “Right now I have ten different ideas of companies I’d like to start that I think would do well,” he says.
Earning a business minor has never been more convenient than it will be this spring and summer. For the first time, the Marriott School at Brigham Young University is making all minor courses available during the spring and summer — enabling students to complete requirements for a business minor in two terms.
Despite being one teammate short, arriving at the competition with only five minutes to spare and having to begin planning their case in a car by flashlight, a team of three students from BYU’s Marriott School recently placed second at an international business ethics competition.
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.
A class of Marriott School students has established the university’s first-ever endowed scholarship funded by a single class. With the help of matching contributions from the BYU Annual Fund campaign, the students contributed enough to form a scholarship endowment of $30,000.
School Touted as Place to Hire Ethical Graduates
In an economy characterized by receding retirement funds and a volatile stock market, a group of BYU MBA students beat the odds – and 18 other universities - to earn a 32 percent return on their portfolio. Sponsors of the competition, brokerage firm D.A. Davidson & Co., awarded the Marriott School's Peery Institute with a $7,000 check for successfully managing the company's $50,000 investment portfolio throughout last year.
MBA Students Win Thunderbird Innovation Challenge
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University announces ten MBA candidates as its 2004 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school.
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.
Good luck and great associates are what Gary L. Crittenden, executive vice president and chief financial officer of American Express Company, attributes much of his success to.
George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees and Brady Nelson of BYU’s class of 2002 share something in common: both are owners of a sports franchise. But, one thing they don’t share is age. Steinbrenner, now 75, purchased the Yankees at the age of 42. At only 28, Nelson is a very young upstart as majority owner of the Spokane Shock.
Many people would feel just as uncomfortable sitting in a mechanic’s waiting room as they would waiting for a dentist’s chair.
Most people would consider three weeks marked by finals, law school graduation, and the birth of a first child as full ones.
Marriott School graduate Dale Holdaway earned the distinguished William S. Smith Certificate of Excellence Award for his performance on the May 2006 administration of the Certified Internal Auditor exam.
The value of a BYU management degree is like that of a diversified stock portfolio: it appreciates with time. The new CFO of Citigroup Inc., Gary Crittenden, graduated thirty years ago and has seen only good come from listing BYU on his résumé. “BYU has a very positive reputation in the business community and that reputation continues to broaden,” he says.
He’s a video creator, business consultant, web site developer, college professor, choir director, and volunteer concert organizer. As a self-described “polypreneur,” Jon Forsyth is engaged in a wide variety of businesses—and he says he’s happier now than he ever was in the corporate world.