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The return on wellness programs is worth the investment, but organizations still have a hard time getting people fully engaged. New BYU Marriott research digs into which incentives are tied to the best wellness outcomes.
The blow-by-blow on how to promote peace in the workplace and negotiate through conflict.
Of the approximately one thousand cars, trucks, and SUVs on display at last year’s Los Angeles Auto Show, not one car featured the distinctive blue and silver logo of the Swedish automaker Volvo. Instead, visitors to the Volvo booth found a curiously empty stage, a banner that read, “Don’t buy our cars,” and a warm invitation to explore the company’s new subscription service, Care by Volvo.
BYU is a special place. I go to a lot of universities, and there is nowhere else like this. I grew up here on this campus. My father was part of the BYU Marriott faculty for thirty years. There isn’t one part of the Tanner Building that doesn’t have a Smith mark on it somewhere.
When Nate Burton reads books, magazines, or content on the internet, he's always looking for research opportunities.
When Todd Paskett and Grant Hagen sat next to each other at a workshop for a competition in 2018, they had no idea how their lives were about to change.
At first glance, musical theater, business strategy, and chemistry don't seem to have much in common, but BYU Marriott senior strategy student Connor Workman thinks the three pursuits are more similar than you might think.
As vaping becomes an increasingly popular activity among young adults, BYU student Cade Hyde is dedicating his time to curbing the epidemic that he believes plagues his generation.
For Colonel Frederick Thaden, his selection as the department chair of BYU Marriott's Department of Aerospace Studies, also known as BYU Air Force ROTC Detachment 855, is a dream come true.
BYU Marriott alum, aspiring pig farmer, and current adjunct teacher Scott Taylor is obsessed with learning.
Kimball Crockett was qualified for the position he applied for, so getting turned down was a surprise. He didn't let that stop him though, and today he's a world traveler.

Ever since Taunya Brown was hired as events and programs manager at the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at BYU Marriott two years ago she has wanted to start a new women's student group that differs from others on campus.
Behind every BYU Marriott MBA event over the last twenty years, Debbie Auxier worked tirelessly to make sure the event was a success and ran like a well-oiled machine.
While working as a white-water rafting guide in central Idaho during high school, Mat Duerden got his first taste of how experience design can impact lives.
For perhaps the first time in modern history, five generations are coming together in ways that significantly impact how we live. Differences between generations (both real and perceived) have existed since the beginning of time, but the study of those differences has never been more scrutinized and researched than it is currently—and for good reason.
In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T. S. Eliot wrote, “‘Do I dare?’ . . . ‘Do I dare?’ . . . Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” Although I haven’t always recognized it, this simple question has been one that has guided my journey through life.
Choose your words wisely. Research from two BYU professors shows that violent language is causing us to play fast and loose with ethics — and even become more aggressive in our personal interactions.
Thirty-six years after completing her communications undergrad, former news anchor and adjunct faculty member Ruth Todd is thrilled to be back at BYU, but this time as a student.
Will Pham never meant to get involved in the Ballard Center. A minor mistake in class schedule put him in the Do Good. Better course--and changed his college career.
Hard work pays off for BYU Marriott professor Chad Carlos. Only six years into his research career, Carlos was awarded the 2019 Emerging Scholar Award by the Academy of Management.
BYU Marriott ExDM professor Brian Hill, along with three other BYU professors, recently led a group of fourteen students on a six-week expedition exploring Utah's natural wonders.
As a member of the BYU gymnastics team, a student in BYU Marriott's global supply chain management (GSCM) program, and a doTERRA intern, Angel Zhong proves that hard work and dedication pay off.

I am a philosophy major at BYU but an entrepreneur at heart. While in college, I started my career in real-estate investing, learning how to flip houses and lease vacation rentals. It was both exhilarating and exhausting.

All roads lead somewhere, and for BYU Marriott assistant professor of marketing John Howell, the many roads he's traveled have brought him back to where it all began at academia.