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Brigham Young University's Marriott School announces the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Microfinance — the only practitioner and academic journal to deal exclusively with the financing movement that has caught the attention of policy makers, philanthropists and development experts throughout the world.
Brigham Young University's Marriott School was listed as one of the top programs for delivering the fastest return on investment by Forbes and as one of the leading international business schools by Financial Times.
Financial Times, London's premier financial newspaper, ranked the Marriott School as the ninth-best business school for its finance program in a survey comparing business schools covering five continents. Overall, the Marriott School was ranked 71st in the world for its international education.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University will host the third-annual MicroEnterprise Conference March 17–18, 2000.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University announced the appointment of Kristie Seawright as director of the Center for International Business Education Research (CIBER).
Brigham Young University's business and law schools are among the top 50 in the United States, reports the 2001 edition of the U.S. News & World Report guide "Best Graduate Schools."
The Marriott School officially named the Kevin and Debra Rollins Center for eBusiness at Brigham Young University April 7. University and Marriott School faculty and administration, top high-tech business leaders and Elder Henry B. Eyring, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, honored the Rollins family and discussed the future of e-commerce at a special banquet that evening in the Wilkinson Student Center.
Alice Sheets Marriott, the co-founder of Marriott Corporation with her husband, J. Willard Marriott, died Monday, April 17 in Washington, D.C., of natural causes. She was 92 years old.
Six-hundred bags filled with school supplies were prepared by Marriott School staff members for children in need. The staff advisory committee sponsored a humanitarian project in conjunction with the fifth annual Marriott School Staff Excellence Awards.
Best-selling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton Christensen, will address the Marriott School’s sixth annual Management Conference 22-24 June. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, will discuss how listening to customers and good management may cause companies to fail when faced with disruptive technology. Such technologies have the potential to seriously impact some of today’s strongest institutions — including Bell Atlantic, Toyota and Intel.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University is pleased to announce the appointment of recently retired Times Mirror Chairman Mark Willes as the distinguished visiting professor of business management.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University has completed its most successful hiring season to date. The school will introduce twenty new professors to students beginning this fall. The added personnel will increase the school’s full-time faculty from 111 to 118 — making room for 150 additional students. New faculty members will assume their positions during the 2000/2001 academic year.
Although students have been lining up to interview for months with some of the nation's best companies in the Marriott School's business career center, the new facility doesn’t officially open until Thursday, 16 Nov. BYU President Merrill J. Bateman, Marriott School Dean Ned C. Hill and benefactor Georgia A. White will participate in a brief ribbon cutting ceremony at 5:30 p.m. to open the center.
The Kevin and Debra Rollins Center for eBusiness at Brigham Young University will host its first e-business conference on Friday, 17 Nov. The conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a ribbon cutting ceremony to launch the school’s new e-business web site (ebusiness.byu.edu)on the second floor atrium of the Tanner Building. Students, faculty and partner companies are invited to participate in the conference.
In conjunction with the Tanner Building Addition Dedication and the National Advisory Council conference, the school honored Richard E. Marriott and J.W. Marriott Jr. at a banquet 24 October 2008. President Henry B. Eyring, President Cecil O. Samuelson, and Dean Gary C. Cornia presented the brothers with Distinguished Leadership Awards.
Despite the conversion of hundreds of dot.coms to dot.bombs over the past year, Americans continue to view entrepreneurship as a career path with potential.
Against all odds, the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team stole the gold medal at the 1980 Winter games in Lake Placid, New York. The squad of amateurs knocked off Finland in the finals, clasping the gold and earning the title "The Miracle on Ice."
Most people who work for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) leave with the same going-away gift: a frame containing all the covers of the standards they helped publish while there.
More than 20 million Americans are counting on their 401(k) investments to help see them through retirement. Some predict that 401(k) holdings will grow from $500 billion to more than $2 trillion by 2006.1
Good morning. It’s great to be with you today. You are truly an awesome sight. The last time I spoke at a graduation was at my high school ceremony some thirty-three years ago. Then as now, I find it a very humbling task.
Over the next year, many of you will go through a performance review. your direct supervisor will evaluate the contribution that you have made to the success of the organization and help you develop a plan to build on your strengths and focus on opportunities you have to improve.
