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Alumni Spotlight Student Experiences 2015
Club events, such as next week's Finance Underclassmen Academy, can help students learn how to land top internships.
If you're worried about the cost of hiring an accountant this tax season, BYU accounting students can help.
Another year led to another win for a team from Brigham Young University at the national PwC Challenge Tax Competition.
A team of BYU accounting students took home first place and $20,000 at the national Deloitte FanTAXtic Competition.
Five SOA students will be traveling to the Land of the Rising Sun after winning the EY Beam Abroad Case Competition.
It reads like a worst-case scenario: you’re slicing through rough air to check on an offshore oil rig when the unfathomable happens—the chopper goes down. Would you survive?
Sickness, car wrecks, and births—INTEX, the weeklong rite of passage for information systems students, stops for nothing.
Playing the part of butcher Lazar Wolf in Fiddler on the Roof came naturally to 1983 MPA alum Chris Miasnik: his last name is made up of the Russian occupational suffix and the word for meat. But there were a few other factors involved in landing the role of rejected suitor in the Bluffdale Arts Council production. “I was the oldest guy there, and I had the whitest beard,” he admits.
Jolene Day Weston’s two children can practically ski circles around her, even though they’re only three and a half. Her career path and journey to motherhood have taken a similar circuitous course.
A team of BYU undergraduates recently made the cut as runners-up in the Duff Phelps YOUniversity Deal Challenge.
By gaining the ear of the Canadian government, alum Ken Kyle helped snuff out the light of tobacco companies in his home country. And the effects of his work are still filtering across the world.
When Pat Harmer Bluth expressed an interest in mathematics and engineering, her brother responded, “Girls don’t major in math.”
BYU students won a total of $15,800 in cash prizes at the Mobile App Competition hosted by the Rollins Center.
Last month BYU global supply chain management students got a week off of class but it was no vacation.
Through a recent collaboration with Walmart, a group of Marriott School undergraduates earned high-profile internships.
The Utah Startup Marketplace hosted by the Rollins Center connected students with local startups.
A great business venture starts with a great idea. The Ballard Center’s Social Venture Academy encourages student entrepreneurs to jump-start businesses with mentoring and cash prizes throughout three different stages of development: idea validation, product development, and execution. Students recently participated in the first stage by submitting videos for the Best Idea Competition.
Nine BYU students received the George E. Stoddard Prize, an honor given to second-year MBA finance students.
Noemi Morales, a native of Roswell, Georgia, started out as a photography major at BYU-Idaho. Although it took her a few years in Rexburg, an LDS mission to St. George, Utah; and lots of decisions, Morales has finally found her calling in the Marriott School’s recreation management program. She’s even landed an internship with a popular new company called Slide the City that puts on giant waterslide events across the country.
Helping students find academic success is all in a day’s work for BYU’s MBA program director Christine Roundy, who manages curriculum and tracks student progress. After nineteen years at the Marriott School, Roundy knows what it takes to succeed as an MBA student. Read on for her best advice.
The BYU student-run company took the grand prize totaling more than $700,000 last Saturday in Houston.
High schoolers from across Utah gathered at the Marriott School to put their Spanish and marketing skills to the test.
BYU information systems students earned three awards at the 2015 AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
What if moving halfway around the world wasn’t a grand departure into the unknown but, rather, a return to the familiar?