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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.
Michael Hatch, a recent finance graduate, was honored at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Volleyball Championship for his academic achievements.
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.
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.
Rachel McDougal has heard all kinds of HR stereotypes, but make no mistake: she's no Toby Flenderson.
As a child growing up in Recife, Brazil, Thiago Gomes never would have believed he would be studying at BYU Marriott with a job offer in New York.
Born in a Thailand refugee camp and raised in Cambodia by her sister, Channika "Nika" Noun never expected to complete any kind of education. Now, she prepares to graduate from the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business.
Sam Aden attended a private Christian school as a child and never even heard the name Brigham Young University until he was sixteen years old. Once he discovered BYU Marriott's finance program, however, Aden knew BYU was the right fit for him.
Throughout her life, BYU Marriott HR junior Rebecca Garrett hasn't found a personal, athletic, or professional bar she couldn't clear.
While she can trace her family history back to BYU-building namesakes such as Jesse Knight and George H. Brimhall, Rachel Hair is making her own impact on the school as the president of BYU's Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) club.

From selling peanuts on the streets of Nigeria to help provide for her family to moving to the United States alone at the age of nineteen with only fifty dollars in her pocket, Patience Atebata isn't letting her past define her future.

Clarissa Keller, a senior studying human resource management at BYU Marriott, shares her love through plates of food, days at work, and conversations with friends.

When asked what real estate is, most people will say the topic has to deal with something about the home-buying process. BYU Marriott finance senior Dallin Curriden challenges that simple explanation.

With her boss more than 5,000 miles away, Allison Harker took charge of projects to impact a Portuguese company from her apartment in Provo.

When BYU Marriott finance major Jack Abumanneh flew to the United States to begin his BYU education, all he had was what he could carry in a single suitcase and backpack.

Whether he's training employees, helping nonprofits set their budget, or staging fights in authentic medieval armor, Austin Smith follows his passions to find success.

Alex Kim hopes to make the most of his time with the BYU Marriott School of Business through studying finance, teaching international students, and much more.

After surviving cancer, BYU Marriott finance senior Preston Willey is working to give back to the medical industry that saved his life.