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Classroom Students Student Experiences 2005–2009
Filled with fine granular rock and mineral particles, sandboxes are a child’s paradise. They foster creativity in a realm of seemingly endless possibilities. The pull is so strong they often attract even the family cat.
While others are making their morning commute down i-15 catching up on news or traffic, Ray Nelson is strolling down University Avenue brainstorming innovative ways students can learn.
By the end of their first class period, MBA students in the power, influence, and negotiations course are engaged in a full-scale, one-on-one negotiation over the sale of a biochemical plant.
An average person attending a lecture about “model-driven system development” would likely be lost and confused within minutes. Likewise, as Stephen Liddle has attempted to teach this concept in his ISys 532 class, he is often met with blank stares.
Visiting with top executives, touring bustling factories, and meeting with micro-credit applicants is not an everyday occurrence for Marriott School undergraduate students—unless you happen to be on a business study abroad.
After earning a law degree from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, Makoto Ishi Zaka found himself spending more and more time away from his family, holed up in the office of the IT company he worked for.
When Tyler Craig, a Wichita, Kansas, native, began the Marriott School application process, he hadn’t heard much about the school itself, but he’d heard plenty about its accounting program—and he was nervous.
Standing in front of eight corporate leaders worth billions of dollars and presenting them with a new business venture is the epitome of applied classroom learning.
In sports, there’s no better way to learn proper technique than from an accomplished athlete. Likewise, there’s no better way to train for resumé writing and job interviewing than with those who do the hiring.
Non-native speakers from around the nation gathered at BYU to participate in the nation's only business language case competition.
BYU Accounting students took first place in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions at the 2009 Deloitte Tax Case Study Competition.
Students at Brigham Young University are turning ideas into reality at the 2009 SEOY Competition.
Amidst camouflage and battle cries Army ROTC cadets learned basic dodging, crawling and rolling recently to prepare them for future training and provide opportunities to exercise leadership skills.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Marriott School students are equipping themselves with the skills by interning for some of the biggest names in business.
For a handful of Marriott School students, a trip to Ghana exposed them to another corner of the world that needed their services.
More than twenty BYU MBA and MPA students worked this spring to improve small businesses around the world.
Cue the intro, dim the lights and...action! Beginning last October, the Graduate Finance Association made a splash into the world of broadcasting.
Two teams of BYU MBA students put their entrepreneurial businesses to the ultimate test as they competed at the 27th annual Global Moot Corp Comp.
BYU's students reeled in eight awards this spring at the AITP National Collegiate Conference in Oklahoma City.
Two BYU students created Awesome Ball, an iPhone app that topped the free app charts and won $10,000 at the inaugural BYU iPhone App Competition.
For The Tipping Bucket, every dollar brings a social entrepreneur closer to his or her goal of implementing positive change.
Students and a faculty member were honored with 2009 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
The Whitmore Global Management Center named six students from the MBA Class of 2010 as Eccles Scholars.
When the BYU Air Force ROTC drill team started rehearsing last fall, most of the cadets had never shot a rifle before, let alone spun one.