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Alumni Spotlight Student Experiences MPA 2005–2009
While the health care debate rages on Capitol Hill, one Marriott School grad and his health care organization were recognized for low-cost, expert care.
Early in his career, Ed Thatcher's boss warned him about launching into the realm of city management.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Marriott School students are equipping themselves with the skills by interning for some of the biggest names in business.
For a handful of Marriott School students, a trip to Ghana exposed them to another corner of the world that needed their services.
More than twenty BYU MBA and MPA students worked this spring to improve small businesses around the world.
An innovative self-help program engineered by Marriott School graduate João Bueno, recently reached the 10,000-person milestone in villages throughout Mozambique.
Mergers and acquisitions can be lucrative, as a team of BYU MBA students learned at the Smith MBA Competition in Maryland.
A new program at Brigham Young University is giving graduate students the chance to become board members of nonprofits in Utah Valley.
While many Marriott School students take classes to learn research strategies, MPA student Jean Kapenda brings to graduate classes years of tried and tested real-world research from his extensive genealogy work.
Students presented their solution to a panel of city managers in an event that pitted them against other Utah schools.
Two statewide awards were given to Tamara Lewis, new chair of the Romney Institute Advisory Board, in recognition of her efforts to improve Utahns’ health. Lewis was named a 2006 Health Care Hero by Utah Business magazine and also received a 2006 Public Health Hero Award from the Utah Public Health Association.
Education is a family affair for Sarah Westerberg.
Eighteen students from BYU’s Romney Institute of Public Management traveled to Ghana for a two-week educational field study and a chance to share their business knowledge with 12 local nonprofit organizations.
How can someone help a country with more than thirty-four million orphaned children, where the average life expectancy is thirty-four years and one-tenth of the population is infected with HIV? “One family at a time,” says Joao Bueno, the area director of Care for Life in Africa.
Most people are surprised to learn that lawyer and Marriott alumnus Kelly Crabb has written a cowboy musical, produced a documentary, represented Paul McCartney, and won an Olympic gold medal (well, kind of). His most recent surprise is that he has written a guide to being a movie producer. This media-savvy legal counsel never really meant to go into showbiz, it was simply unavoidable.