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Just as sherpas in Nepal assist mountaineers, BYU Marriott MPA sherpa program helps first-year students on their climb through the MPA program.
Four students from BYU Marriott's Global Management Center won second place in the NU-CUIBE International Business Case Competition in Boston, taking home more than just hardware.
In only four short years, Cougar Strategy Group has already begun opening doors for BYU Marriott MBA graduates and students.
Cadets and faculty in BYU's Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC programs commemorated Veterans Day last month with activities that focused on both honoring the 212 fallen soldiers on the Memorial Wall in BYU's Wilkinson Student Center.
Students from across the country traveled to BYU Marriott to compete in the Global Management Center's two-day Business Language Case Competition in November 2019.

Four seniors in the BYU Marriott global supply chain management program took third place at the 2019 Bowersox Undergraduate Supply Chain Management Challenge hosted at Michigan State University.
Hosted annually by BYU’s Ballard Center, the Peery Film Festival is presented to students to make them aware of a number of current social issues and invite them to consider possible solutions.
Dreams turned to reality for BYU Marriott Society of Human Resources student team on 14 November 2019.

Two BYU Marriott MPA graduates became recipients of the Rumsfeld Foundation Fellowship and received $10,000 along with priceless networking opportunities.
By the time college starts, most students have gotten rid of their childhood toys. But for BYU Marriott's Experience Design and Management (EXDM) program, professors encourage students to play with toys.

Eleven cadets on the joint BYU and Utah Valley University Service First Battalion Ranger Challenge Team won the 5th ROTC Brigade Ranger Challenge at Camp Gruber Oklahoma, 3 November 2019.

The Hinckley at BYU was buzzing with excitement as students networked with professionals during the first ever Career Paths in Real Estate Summit.
More than three hundred students and nearly thirty companies participated in the first-ever Silicon Slopes BYU Marriott MBA Student Career Fair.
As the titleholder for the most family friendly MBA program for the fourteenth year in a row, BYU Marriott works to cultivate an environment that helps students balance both their rigorous coursework and their families.
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.
Walking timidly into the Tanner Building for her first class of her freshman year, Melissa Trautman didn’t know what to expect from the class or from her future BYU experience. She hoped the course title, Creating a Good Life, would come to literal fruition, but she had no idea the significant impact the class would have on her life.
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.
BYU Marriott student Demitri Haddad was recently named a Forbes Under 30 Scholar for 2019 and attended the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit.
Three BYU Marriott MBA students recently took home the $35,000 first-place prize at the 2019 Adobe Analytics Challenge in San Jose, California.
Llamas, lunchtime, and a boy named Edgar played important roles in making Davis Smith, Cotopaxi's founder, the man he is today. Read more about his address and his challenges at the Changemaker Club's September event.

The past, present, and future don't often collide, but they certainly did during the BYU Air Force ROTC's senior capstone event: a six-day staff ride to Washington, DC, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and other historic sites.

BYU Marriott information systems students, supported by faculty and armed with experiential knowledge, took home first- and second-place finishes at the tenth annual Association for Information Systems Student Chapter Leadership Conference.