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Two Marriott School alumni were initiated into one of the most exclusive groups in the accounting world as recipients of the Elijah Watt Sells Award.
Timing is everything that's just one of his grandfather's lessons accounting alum Greg Drennan has implemented on his career as a successful entrepreneur in the self-storage business.
Alfred Gantner, cofounder of Partners Group and an MBA alum, shared his insights on a balanced life as the featured speaker at convocation on 28 April.
As a twelve-year-old boy, John Southcott started mowing lawns so he could buy paintball equipment. However, before ever firing his hard-earned munition, Southcott habitually took apart each gun he bought, laying out all the pieces in order to understand how the gun worked.
Alexis H. Johanson would never have guessed that an internship with a tractor company would lead her to a job more than two thousand miles from her home in Cedar Hills, Utah.
For the Driggs brothers running a business with relatives is not only a family affair, it’s something in their blood.
Though she doesn’t have blonde pigtails, a lisp, or 1970s clothes, Cindy Brighton Andersen’s husband once confused her with Cindy Brady.
Take one accounting alumna, add about fifty more women, one trip to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and what do you get? The Miss America Pageant.
Sometimes serious cramming sessions do pay off. Upon graduating with his MAcc, R. Marcus Young took a consulting job in Portland, Oregon. When CPA exam season came, he wasn’t even sure he was going to take it until his brother-in-law convinced him to.
When Rob Smoot earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he wanted to shout it from the mountaintops. Smoot celebrated the culmination of his education by leading forty fellow students to Africa's highest point the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro 19,341 feet above the vast African plains.