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It started out as a nutty idea, says Jeff Wilks, director of the School of Accountancy. How could students really dive into the topics that current accounting professionals are dealing with?
After a long day at work you come home, put up your feet, and dish out your daily complaints on Twitter.
Sickness, car wrecks, and births—INTEX, the weeklong rite of passage for information systems students, stops for nothing.
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.
The need for STEM professionals is on the rise, and women are happily stepping up to help meet the exploding demand. According to Forbes, eleven of the top twenty highest-paying jobs for women in 2015 are in STEM fields—among those, information systems managers were ranked eighteenth. And at BYU, more female students are discovering the lure of careers in the field.
After a fierce showdown, the Social Venture Academy announced the two newest winners of its Best Venture Competition: SimpleCitizen and Haedrian Labs.
Heavy breathing. Goggles fogged over in the cold. Surrounded by forest. Separated from your squad without information on the remainder of the platoon. Working your way through enemy territory, alone.
Three families’ lives were spared tragedy thanks to one small thing: a sock.
Teams of BYU MBA students took first and third at the Adobe Analytics Competition recently. KSL covered the event, including video interviews with the winning team from the Marriott School.
A group of four recreation management students came from behind in dramatic fashion to win the NRCA National Student Quiz Bowl.
A BYU student startup takes away $125,000 at the first-ever Start Madness competition.
According to Reid Grawe, the only reason his position exists is to help Marriott School students achieve their dreams.
It goes without saying: starting a business is difficult. Even securing basic needs, such as locking down an office space, can stress people with great ideas to the point of giving up their pursuit.
Growing up in La Verne, California, Madison Zylstra always looked forward to watching her brothers play sports. So when they shipped off to play on different BYU teams, she knew she didn’t want to miss a game. Now a few years down the road, Zylstra is getting ready to graduate from BYU’s recreation management program and preparing for a career in sports management.
Employers are scrambling to analyze piles of digital data—and to employ MBA grads who know how to make those numbers talk. That’s why recent MBA grad Venna Barrowes signed up for BYU Analytics, a new Marriott School program started by marketing professor Jeff Dotson to match second-year MBAs with real-world data projects.