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Students Information Systems Marketing 2010–2014
Three tech-savvy students have redesigned a BYU rite of passage: the search for Provo housing.
Forbes.com recently highlighted Nick Walter, who changed his trajectory by teaching Apple's new programming language.
With more than three thousand students, the Marriott School of Management brings together some of BYU’s best and brightest from across the globe. I recently caught up with one of these stellar students, Nicol Pedraza, a sophomore marketing major and Portuguese minor from Mexico City. Pedraza talked about finding her path to BYU, her experience at the Marriott School, and her plans for the future.
The Marriott School honored the winners of the 2013 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected by students.
Students learned proper sales techniques and valuable lessons in preparation for sales competition.
After standing on one foot while trying to decide which printer to buy, students hobble out of 340 TNRB with some extra credit but without the slightest clue what their answers will be used for.
Class begins with everyone looking intently at the same spreadsheet on their laptops. Today’s task: learning how to calculate financial ratios like debt-to-equity, asset turnover, and net profit margin—with the click of a button.
BYU's Marriott School announced the 2012 Bateman Awards—the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
With laptops charged, whiteboards cleared, and markers ready, it’s now up to the Executive MBA students’ careful positioning and strategic thinking to navigate the intricacies of a simulated marketplace. 
A class project turned into a winning business for BYU student Saul Howard in the Crexendo Website Competition.
After a 17-hour test of endurance and IT skill, six BYU students took home nine AITP awards — more than ever before.
It’s hard for many students to remember the days before iPods, Hulu, Twitter, and Skype. If you were to stroll across campus, odds are you could find all of these and many more technologies in use—they have become central to university life.
Amid final exams, papers and projects, ISys students received some exciting news before parting for Christmas break.
Most students usually work a side job, but not many spend their free time running a million-dollar company.
This class doesn’t have a textbook. In fact, some of the required reading comes from Wikipedia, a taboo for just about any other class on campus. But the syllabus states it bluntly: “Text: none; it would be outdated anyway.”
At one of the most elite and grueling ISys competitions in the world, BYU won first-place at the APEX Global Business IT Case Challenge in Singapore.
It wasn't enough for Trevor Fitzgerald to ask "Got milk?" He wanted to know where his milk was being produced.
Competing against 68 other colleges and universities, six BYU information systems students brought home eight awards this spring.
Everyone knows about the deceptive salesperson stereotype. But a new curriculum shows students sales and integrity aren't mutually exclusive.