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The James S. Kemper Foundation, the charitable arm of Kemper Insurance Companies, named Jay Oman, a pre-business major from Springville, Utah, one of 17 Kemper Scholars nationwide. The Kemper Scholars program provides recipients with a three-year scholarship and three summer-internship programs at Kemper Insurance offices around the country.
Eleven Recognized for Significant Contributions
Dr. Crawford is retiring in July and talks about his time at BYU and his future plans in this question-and-answer interview.
It took ten years and three invitations, but last summer finance professor Karl Diether made the move from Dartmouth College to BYU’s Department of Finance.
For OLS professor David Cherrington, arriving at his teaching career didn’t come as expected.
You don’t mess with a Texan’s pickup truck, says BYU finance professor Andrew Holmes. So, needless to say, back in the 90s when someone broke into his truck, stole his checkbook, and started writing fraudulent checks in his name, he was pretty upset.
Explosions, accidents, and disasters—surprisingly, that’s what motivated Peter Madsen to pursue a degree in management.
Jessi Valentine’s spirit animal is a chameleon.
Michael Hatch, a recent finance graduate, was honored at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Volleyball Championship for his academic achievements.
When two young missionaries lost the trail while hiking Mont Pelée, a volcano on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, Reid Robison had to act quickly. After receiving the news that the two young men had gone missing, Robison, then president of the West Indies Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, immediately flew to Martinique from mission headquarters in Trinidad and brought in twenty additional missionaries from surrounding islands in the mission to help search alongside the local police force.
In 1997, Lisa Jones Christensen took a break after a decade of working in business development to travel the world and work on her Spanish. While in Guatemala, she lived with low-income families in their homes. One night, when the father of one of the families came home from work rejected, mistreated, and empty-handed, she realized she needed to re-evaluate the paradigm she had grown to know about the relationship between business and quality of life.
Formerly ready to dabble in the arts, Erika Mahterian has become a passionate advocate for the opportunities to be found in the finance program.
Go. Learn. Become Global. The slogan for BYU’s Global Management Center (GMC) is something Stephen Shepherd, a senior at BYU studying finance and Portuguese, takes seriously. From Brazil to the United States and back to Brazil, Shepherd hops to and fro in an effort to gain global experience and stand out from other students.
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan plowed through the Philippines with 25 million people in its path. Braeden Santiago was one of those people when the lethal storm hit.
Erin Hildebrandt left her fifth and final interview and collapsed into a nearby chair. Now all she had left to do was wait and hope. Hildebrandt, a senior in the OBHR program at the Marriott School of Management, was undergoing an extensive application process for a full-time position with Goldman Sachs.
Early bird recruiters are on the heels of incoming OBHR students. So close, in fact, that OBHR senior Sarah Duvall felt the need to research how to better prepare students to meet them.
Although senior Sarah Lyman has always loved the real estate business, she never expected to find a home for that passion while studying finance.
Braeden Santiago made the switch from medicine to business when he realized HR was in his blood.
Former department chair and current professor Steven Thorley reflects on the growth of the finance program.
The travel bug is contagious as Troy Nielson leads groups of students on international trips.
It was 2 a.m. on Feb. 18, and Ryan Montgomery was 64 miles into a 100-mile footrace through the snowy tundra and sub-zero temps of Big Lake, Alaska.
BYU Marriott finance professor Todd Mitton always strives to see the big picture, which enables him to spread his influence through the Tanner Building and beyond.
Shad Morris's career has taken him to over sixty countries, which is convenient because this associate professor is continually searching the world for new ideas to teach his students.
Benjamin Galvin has been named the faculty advisor to the HR program, and is dedicated to creating high-impact experiences for his students.