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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.
Tektronix, one of the global leaders in communications networking, demonstrated its commitment to higher education by donating one of its highest-quality color printers to the Marriott School's Graduate Career Services office.
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.
Paul Dishman, visiting associate professor at the Marriott School, has been invited by the United Nations to lecture on competitive intelligence and knowledge management in China this September.
Touting the fastest payback in the nation, Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management is a steal according to BusinessWeek’s new ranking of the best b-schools. The magazine reports that BYU’s MBA graduates take only 3.5 years to recoup their investment in lost work and tuition.
For more than thirty years, LDS public management professionals from across the nation have gathered together at the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) conference to exchange more than just business information. LDS city and county managers met this year in Cincinnati to attend the ICMA conference and to build on shared beliefs.
For more than ten years, the Marriott School and LG, Korea’s third largest company, have exchanged students and knowledge. In September, the company honored two Marriott School faculty members for their integral role in building this relationship. Ned C. Hill, dean of the Marriott School and Chris Meek, associate professor of organizational behavior, were recognized for their support in educating LG managers in organizational effectiveness.
In conjunction with Homecoming 2000, the Marriott School at Brigham Young University is proud to name Alan J. Folkman as its honored alum. Folkman will speak Thursday, 19October at 11:00 a.m. in room 151 of the Tanner Building. All are invited to hear his address, “A Formula for Success and Personal Peace.”
Three professors at BYU’s Marriott School hope their e-business accounting book will give students the upper hand when it comes to electronic commerce. Steven M. Glover, Stephen W. Liddle and Douglas Prawitt’s book, E-Business: Principles and Strategies for Accountants, was written to prepare accounting students to meet the demands of a business world being transformed by technology. Marriott School professors will begin using the book winter semester as a supplement.
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.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University named Keith Bailey, Chairman, President and CEO of Williams, as the 2000 International Executive of the Year (IEY).President James E. Faust, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will present Bailey with the IEY Award at a banquet Friday, 17 Nov.
Other than being very large, the 17–foot Christmas tree, trimmed with angel ornaments, looks like most other trees. But it’s not. The ornaments on The Little Angel’s Christmas tree are more than just decorations — they contain the names and ages of children, their clothing sizes and gift ideas. Sponsored by the Campus Chapter of the BYU Management Society and the United Way, the goal is to undecorate the tree by 8 December.
Paul Dishman, visiting associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School, has been voted vice president of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).