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More than 50 graduates entered top doctoral programs
“Buongiorno principessa” may help you get a date, but it probably won’t help you get a job. Taking one of 11 business language classes might.
The Marriott School of Management will host its 11th Annual BYU Management Conference June 29 – July 1, 2006.
When even the most honest stockbrokers call with a hot tip, you should be skeptical of the accompanying earnings forecasts.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded BYU a four-year grant worth $1.4 million to continue its work as a Center for International Business Education and Research. The grant allows BYU to work with other CIBER schools across the nation to improve international business and language courses.
BusinessWeek magazine ranked Brigham Young University’s undergraduate management program eighth overall and first among recruiters in the most comprehensive ranking of U.S. undergraduate business programs to date. The magazine cited the program’s stellar accounting program and ethics-based education as strengths.
A team of Marriott School accounting students earned second place at the 11th Annual National Student Case Study Seminar sponsored by the Deloitte Foundation. Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. took first place. Other national finalist teams represented Pennsylvania State University, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois and University of Wisconsin – Madison.
At the Association of Information Technology Professionals National Collegiate Conference, all four competing BYU information systems teams earned top awards for their computer programming and problem solving skills.
KAM Accelerometer, Inc., a company touting an electronic personal fitness device that measures expended kinetic energy, walked away — make that ran away — with first place at Brigham Young University’s annual Business Plan Competition.
Other graduate programs and specialties also ranked
More than $100,000 in cash and business services are up for grabs Friday as judges pick the most promising new enterprises at Brigham Young University’s Business Plan Competition. The final event, where one of three final teams will walk away with the grand prize valued at $50,000, will take place at 2 p.m. in room 140 of BYU’s Joseph Smith Building.
Who picks up the tab when you go to lunch with a billionaire? Warren Buffett, the world’s second-richest man, treated 22 BYU students to lunch and a 90-minute Q&A session in Omaha, Neb.
Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management named nine MBA candidates as its 2006 Hawes Scholars — the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school. The honor, which carries a $10,000 cash award, recognizes students for scholastic and extracurricular success throughout the graduate program.
David M. Walker speaks out on need for government reform
BYU’s Center for Economic Self-Reliance will host its ninth annual conference Thursday and Friday, March 9-10, in the Wilkinson Student Center. This year’s conference is also sponsored by the BYU eBusiness Center.
It is not everyday students hear from someone whose life surpassed their dreams. Dell CEO Kevin Rollins spoke to Marriott School graduates encouraging them to dream big and live even bigger at Friday’s convocation.
Officials from BYU’s Marriott School of Management announce the naming of the Global Management Center for former Eastman Kodak Company CEO.
A face-off between academics and chief financial officers may not sound like the most electrifying of showdowns, but a new Brigham Young University study that pits generally accepted theories against real-world behavior has important implications for investors considering companies' initial public offerings.
Death and taxes aren’t the only things in life you can count on. xTax Competition judges have added BYU Marriott School students to their list. BYU accounting students again won national honors at the competition — making BYU the only university to win nationally all four years since the competition began. Not only was this year’s team national winners, they also took home the competition’s top honor, the Hamilton Award, and more than $11,000.
Marriott School 45th among global programs
National best-selling author Stephen R. Covey will address Brigham Young University students Jan. 23 at a lecture hosted by the Marriott School’s Business Strategy Club and the Marriott Undergraduate Student Association.
CEO of Dell, Massachusetts’ Governor among authors
Public Accounting Report, a top accounting trade publication, ranks Brigham Young University’s undergraduate and graduate accounting programs 2nd in their 2005 annual survey. Both programs at BYU’s Marriott School of Management moved up one spot from last year’s rankings — marking the 10th consecutive year that the school’s undergraduate and graduate programs have been among the top three in the nation.
Executives found to 'flee' unrealistic job demands