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Center News Feature 2023 2010–2014
The Marriott family is particular about what they attach their name to. Marriott believes that young people with good values and strong character will be the essence of business success in the future.
Coming up with the tagline "Marriott 25" was simple. But the task—twenty-five thousand hours of service—was Monumental. With a capital M.
A word of advice to the newest graduates of the School of Accountancy: learn to take a good ribbing—because while you may have just earned a coveted degree from a top-ranked accounting program, you’ve also just entered one of the world’s most-stereotyped professions.
Around the world, young social entrepreneurs are leading the way, rewriting the rules, and changing the world. It pays to do good.
We have a son who is studying at the Marriott School. When he was about three years old, our family was living in the Governor’s Residence in Salt Lake City.
Sam sits to your left, but you know him as “the doomsayer.” With each new project, he prophesies epic failure and marks every email urgent—including the one about not microwaving strong-smelling food in the break room.
The 3rd annual TEDxBYU event and the Social Innovator of the Year Award banquet were a part of the festivities.
The Ballard Center honored Kushal Chakrabarti with the 2013 Social Innovator of the Year Award.
Ask the right questions before partnering with an organization to find the right solutions to world problems.
Utah's newest companies will be scouting for talent at the annual job fair sponsored by the Rollins Center.
BYU professors Chris Mattson and David Wiley will utilize their areas expertise within the field of social entrepreneurship.
It’s been twenty-five years  since BYU’s School of Management was rechristened in honor of J. Willard and Alice S.  Marriott. To celebrate the silver anniversary, seven couples recount how their time in the Tanner Building paid the ultimate dividend: a life of wedded bliss.
It’s striking that even in 2013 more than one billion people around the world live in conditions with no access to electricity. That means they have no heat for their homes and nothing to cook their food on. They do not have the ability to clean their water or to refrigerate medicines. They don’t have hospitals.
When advertisers think right, they’re right on.
I was very fortunate to attend Brigham Young University. I graduated with a master’s degree in accounting, and I’m not sure I was really aware at the time of what a great education I had received. When I entered BYU I wanted to play football, but once I began taking accounting and business classes at the Marriott School, I realized I had much better prospects in accounting. 
Solving global problems might seem daunting, but the Ballard Center is stepping up to the challenge.
The Ballard Center recently presented the SIOY award to David Bornstein, an author, and New York Times journalist.
The BYU Romney Institute gives Bair the honor for her management of the FDIC during the recent economic downturn.
This year's TEDxBYU conference was jam-packed with inspiring speakers, a webcast, and an energetic crowd.
Sponsored by the Ballard Center, graduate students created innovative solutions for Newman's Own Foundation.
Have you ever thought of going back to school? Finding the right executive program might be more realistic than you think.
In the typical search for jobs and internships, students seek out the company. Romney Institute students have a different idea.
Students from Utah high schools along the Wasatch Front were at BYU testing their language and business skills.
When comedian Jim Gaffigan takes his young brood on vacation, it’s usually in a giant tour bus between stops on his North American touring circuit. The sleep-deprived father of five, with kids ages one through eight, is best known for his riffs on iconic American food products. But these days it’s his daily observations on parenting that draw the biggest laughs.