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Two teams of Marriott School students entered the nation's largest student tax competition armed with only their pens, pencils, and calculators. Seven hours later, they walked away with first- and second-place honors and $30,000 in scholarship money.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University today announced its 1999 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to Marriott School MBA candidates. Ned C. Hill, dean of the Marriott School, presented the Hawes Scholar award to six second-year MBA students at a forum held Friday morning.
After more than 750 hours of research, design and programming, the Marriott School of Management launched a new web site Monday created and built by students in the School of Accountancy and Information Systems.
The Institute of Marketing at Brigham Young University's Marriott School awarded 17 students with cash scholarships amounting to $18,000 at a special luncheon Friday. These students were recognized for their scholarship and contribution to the marketing industry.
Ten Marriott School students will attend the national "Business Tomorrow" conference in San Francisco this October. In what is a highly competitive selection process, the Marriott School has an unusually high representation at this year's conference.
Staring bankruptcy in the face in the early 1990s, General Motors realized it was not on the highway to success, said the company's chief financial officer Michael Losh.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University recently announced its 1999 Eccles Scholars, an honor that gives the eight recipients a tuition scholarship and funding for two or more international experiences.
Accounting students at Brigham Young University's Marriott School did what was thought to be the impossible in 1998, placing among the top three schools at both the undergraduate and graduate levels of the nation's most prestigious tax competition. Last year was the first time any university had placed two teams among the top three.
Jeff Roberts went from intern to full-time employee with Self-Reliance Services/PEF.
Ryan Bastian credits his experiences from Tajikistan to Provo to the connections made and confidence gained at the Marriott School.
Sickness, car wrecks, and births—INTEX, the weeklong rite of passage for information systems students, stops for nothing.
A team of BYU undergraduates recently made the cut as runners-up in the Duff Phelps YOUniversity Deal Challenge.
BYU students won a total of $15,800 in cash prizes at the Mobile App Competition hosted by the Rollins Center.
A great business venture starts with a great idea. The Ballard Center’s Social Venture Academy encourages student entrepreneurs to jump-start businesses with mentoring and cash prizes throughout three different stages of development: idea validation, product development, and execution. Students recently participated in the first stage by submitting videos for the Best Idea Competition.
Nine BYU students received the George E. Stoddard Prize, an honor given to second-year MBA finance students.
When Maria Yacaman came to BYU to play golf, she intended to major in finance, but a required information systems course changed everything.
After a long day at work you come home, put up your feet, and dish out your daily complaints on Twitter.
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.
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.
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.
According to Reid Grawe, the only reason his position exists is to help Marriott School students achieve their dreams.
A BYU student startup takes away $125,000 at the first-ever Start Madness competition.
A group of four recreation management students came from behind in dramatic fashion to win the NRCA National Student Quiz Bowl.
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?