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Faculty Research School News 2000–2004
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Who’s Putting Their Money Where Their Mouse Is?
Professor and Student’s Research Study to be Published in Utah Academy Journal
In the midst of accounting scandals and the aftermath of 9/11, a study by a Brigham Young University professor and other accounting experts provides organizational guidance through a revolutionary risk-management framework that helps companies prepare for corporate catastrophes.
Today’s graduates enter the workforce in the midst of a tremendous famine—not a famine of bread and water—but a famine of time for what makes life worth living. The realities of a global 
Study Measures Impact of Cronyism in Malaysia
The National Communication Association honored a Brigham Young University business communications professor with a five-year Best Paper award at the association’s 88th annual convention in New Orleans.
Students from Brigham Young University’s Association of College Entrepreneurs capitalized on their training and zeal to win the most first-place awards of any university at the National Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization Conference Nov. 4–6 in Chicago. The BYU chapter brought home the coveted Best Chapter Award and four other “best of” awards — taking first in five of 14 categories.
Brigham Young University’s Master of Business Administration program ranked fifth among regional schools in The Wall Street Journal’s 2004 ranking of top business programs. BYU ranked second in the ethical standards category, “best for hiring graduates with high ethical standards,” and fifth worldwide for its excellence in accounting.
Are you looking for ways to distinguish yourself? Do you want to become a more attractive recruitment candidate or make contact with professionals in your field? Consider joining one or more of the 24 student clubs or associations at the Marriott School during Club Week 2004.
Brigham Young University’s undergraduate accounting specialty ranked 6th in U.S. News & World Report's annual survey, "America's Best Colleges."
Students have the opportunity to put their business acumen to the test in BYU’s 13th annual Student Entrepreneur of the Year competition this fall. If testing entrepreneurial skills isn’t enough, this year’s prize money has tripled previous years, totaling $60,000 in cash and in-kind services.
Two-thousand and four is turning out to be a very good year for first-year MBA students at BYU. After weathering several rough years, internship placement has risen sharply this spring and summer. As of the first of July, 92 percent of students seeking internships were placed, compared to 61 percent placed in 2003.
New research suggests collaboration may turn the traditional view of competition on its head. “Firms are recognizing the tremendous advantage of collaborating with supplier networks and competing as teams rather than as individual enterprises,” said Jeff Dyer, a professor at BYU’s Marriott School and author of an eight-year study on competitive advantage.
A recent national study has recognized the Marriott School's Information Systems Department as 26th in the country for research.
What ever happened to the guy in your accounting class with the tapered jeans? What about the girl with the loud laugh who skewed the curve? Have you lost track of friends from a study group?
School Touted as Place to Hire Ethical Graduates
Prizes will be awarded for the best international business photos
University officials announce the creation of the William G. Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change. The new institute, housed in the Marriott School of Management, will further faculty research about organizational change and allocate resources to facilitate student research projects and field studies.
The Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University is pleased to announce the 2003 Staff and Administrator Excellence Awards.
Brigham Young University officials announce the creation of the Center for Economic Self-Reliance to oversee and coordinate the university’s ongoing initiatives to help families throughout the world become economically self-reliant.
Students at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management selected two of their classmates and a professor to receive the 2003 Merrill J. Bateman Awards. These honors, now in their second year, are the only awards chosen solely by business school students.
Brigham Young University’s business and law schools are among the top 50 in the United States, reports U.S.News & World Report in the magazine’s April 14, Best Graduate Schools issue.
Ralph Christensen, former Hallmark Cards, Inc., executive, will open the Marriott School of Management’s annual Organizational Behavior Conference March 27-28. Christensen will speak about “The Power of Human Resource Management in Leading Change.”