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Center News Employee Experiences Student Spotlight 2016
In conjunction with the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance's Peery Film Festival, the BYU Health Science Department was honored to host three Sudanese refugees, at the film showing of "Lost Boys of Sudan."
BYU alumna Emily Brand won the Ballard Center's first Changemaker Film Competition for her short documentary depicting one social innovator's work to combat hunger.
Football training compression shirts, mobile ultrasounds, wearable chairs, worm poop, and bathroom app the stakes were high for students presenting some of the most creative ideas The Big Idea Pitch has ever seen.
Thanks to the Ballard Center, BYU students had the opportunity to utilize their skills in the research and development of a survey that is tackling poverty.
Brad Agle, George W. Romney Endowed Professor, spoke with CNBC recently on recent controversies surrounding Wells Fargo and Mylan.
Most who hear the name Ned Hill think of Professor Hill, Dean Hill, or President Hill. But not everyone gets the chance to know the “real” Hill.
New research from Marriott School professors Kristen DeTienne, Bruce Money and Katie Liljenquist turns the system of customer feedback surveys on its head.
Executive director of the International City/County Management Association named the 2016 Administrator of the Year.
School of Accountancy professor Douglas Prawitt headlined this year's honorees at the annual school luncheon.
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to make a difference, the Ballard Center of Economic Self-Reliance can help you reach your goals.
Twenty million—that’s how many people read the Wall Street Journal every month and potentially how many sets of eyes saw a recent article highlighting the research of finance professor Jim Brau. What’s more impressive: this isn’t the first time.
The Marriott School's Tom Foster has been appointed the new editor of the Quality Management Journal.
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.
Formerly ready to dabble in the arts, Erika Mahterian has become a passionate advocate for the opportunities to be found in the finance program.
Mike Norton dreamed of playing lacrosse in college on the East Coast. But thanks to his mom, he's now a budding entrepreneur major with new startups in his sights.
Last summer, recreation management senior Rebekah Boaz Hebdon took junior core classes and toured the country with the women’s collegiate All-American rugby team, which is comprised of the top players in the nation. This semester, Hebdon is working even harder; she is finishing her final year of school, starting on BYU’s women’s rugby team, and preparing for a tournament with the national rugby team.
Four recent BYU MBA graduates were featured by Poets & Quants with the best of their class from across the country.
School of Accountancy graduate Kevin Steed won the Student Manuscript Award and Professor Monte Swain received the R. Lee Brummet Distinguished Award for Educators.
BYU MBA joins past global champions including MIT, Columbia, Yale, Wharton and others in winning the prestigious competition.
Michael Hatch, a recent finance graduate, was honored at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Volleyball Championship for his academic achievements.
Life is just like riding a bike, right? Well for Jake Homer sometimes it is more like a sprint triathlon—literally.