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Marriott School information systems students received top marks during the National Collegiate Conference in Atlanta April 7-9. BYU students placed first and second in a database design contest and received honorable mentions for system analysis and design. About 800 students representing 88 schools across the nation attended this year’s conference.
Students at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management selected two of their classmates and a professor to receive the 2005 Merrill J. Bateman Awards – the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
BYU study explains how to prevent the loss of key employees
Brigham Young University’s Marriott School is named one of the best collegiate entrepreneurship programs in the United States. In the April 2005 issue of Entrepreneur magazine, BYU appears in the first tier of the top 50 regional programs in the country.
Brigham Young University’s Romney Institute of Public Management named Olene S. Walker, former governor of Utah, as the 2005 Administrator of the Year. A scholarship was also founded in her honor.
Alianza, a company that offers reduced telephone rates to Mexican residents by routing calls through the Internet, was named winner of the 2005 Business Plan Competition. Brian Beutler, CEO of Alianza, and Scott Bell, CTO of Alianza, accepted the $50,000 award of cash and in-kind services at the BPC finals April 1. Additionally, Alianza received the $9,000 Global Award prize from BYU’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Global Management Center.
The Marriott School’s MPA program gets another stamp of approval after completing its reaccreditation process last year. Of the national MPA programs eligible for participation in peer review, only 54 percent have been accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. Those numbers are growing, however, because schools recognize the benefits.
Other graduate programs and specialties in top 100
Utah Valley residents will have the chance to hear from Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. when he addresses the Brigham Young University community Thursday, March 31, during the Rollins Center for eBusiness' second winter semester eBusiness Day.
The players are on the board and the territories are outlined. In what may seem like a massive game of “Risk,” today’s top companies must develop business strategies, anticipate what competitors will do and decide when and how to act. In such an environment, it’s no wonder that about 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies have employees dedicated to competitive intelligence.
Marriott School students, faculty and administrators are challenged to race the stairs for the BYU Annual Fund. The event will take place in the Tanner Building on March 26 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The Brigham Young University Center for Economic Self-Reliance, the Romney Institute of Public Management and the Rollins eBusiness Center will host the 2005 Economic Self-Reliance Conference, "Building Economically Self-Reliant Families," Thursday and Friday, March 10-11, in the Wilkinson Student Center.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University named ten MBA candidates as its 2005 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school.
The BYU Marriott School Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy named Dr. Paul D. McKinnon the 2005 William G. Dyer Distinguished Alumnus. The Dyer award is presented annually to an alumnus who makes a significant contribution in the field of organizational behavior.
Teaching ten-year-olds how to balance a checkbook and live within a budget may seem like a futile task — especially when money management befuddles many adults. But Marriott School graduate students have seen success teaching basic finance to fifth-grade students throughout Utah County.
Help is on the way for small businesses struggling to meet stringent requirements initiated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations — at the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission — launched a project this month to help small businesses comply with financial reporting regulations. COSO appointed Marriott School Professor Doug Prawitt to its 15-member task force responsible for the project.
Marriott School 49th Among Global Programs
The auditing section of the American Accounting Association named Associate Dean W. Steve Albrecht Outstanding Auditing Educator for 2005. He was selected from auditing professors across the country for the prestigious award.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education awarded the Marriott School’s alumni magazine a Gold Medal of Excellence Award at a recent district conference in San Francisco. The Marriott Alumni Magazine was honored with the top award in the “Outstanding Communications: Illustration” category.
Professors Research How to Increase Online Transactions
When Darrell Hill created a web site for one of his ISYS classes last year, he didn’t anticipate the high number of hits and emails it would generate. His site — which examined the economic value of knowledge — attracted attention from high-profile companies, identifying a topic of concern for many organizations worldwide.
A team of four Marriott School undergraduate business students took first place at the inaugural Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Case Competition at Ohio State University Nov. 3–5. The BYU team competed with students from universities in Hong Kong, Denmark, Ireland, Mexico and the United States to take top honors at the competition sponsored by the Fisher School of Business at Ohio State University and in part by the U.S. Department of Education.
BYU management and law students have teamed to produce their first interdisciplinary journal. The new International Law and Management Review combines legal and business interests, giving students in both areas opportunities to participate on the journal’s editorial board.
Winners can earn up to $3,200