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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.
Study Measures Impact of Cronyism in Malaysia
Warner Woodworth was recognized as a leading innovator for guiding student-led relief projects in Thailand.
The Marriott School honored Kevin D. Stocks with the Outstanding Faculty Award, and fifteen others were also recognized for contributions.
A BYU professor was honored by his peers as one of the top venture entrepreneurs in Utah for the second time in three years.
People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a BYU-led study.
A study by Jeff Dyer and two associates says innovative CEOs spend 50 percent more time practicing key skills than do their less creative counterparts.
A BYU study shows that any entrepreneur looking for the best ROI might be better served by a combination of two strategies.
Many business schools are not teaching MBAs to create new businesses, according to two of BYU's innovation gurus.
W. Gibb Dyer, Ballard Center academic director, explains the connection between strong families and the economy.
Scott C. Johnson has been a Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology founder since 2011. Johnson grew up in Ogden, Utah, and despite receiving two scholarships to Brigham Young University, he attended Weber State. It wasn’t until Johnson served a mission in Brazil that he had a self-described “change of heart.” Johnson’s desire to teach at the MTC led him to transfer to BYU post-mission. He didn’t get the MTC job he was hoping for, but he met his wife, Kristen, and graduated from BYU with a degree in near eastern studies and a minor in business in 1994.
You know you’re in a class with entrepreneurship professor Michael Hendron when you’re lectured about sailplanes and how they apply to starting and running a business. Hendron would know, since he is highly experienced in both fields.
Professor Chad Carlos is making the world his campus by teaching BYU Marriott entrepreneurship principles across the globe.
A new study by BYU Marriott professors shows barely making a top 100 corporate ranking list may actually be worse for your company's financial future than being left off altogether.
Hard work pays off for BYU Marriott professor Chad Carlos. Only six years into his research career, Carlos was awarded the 2019 Emerging Scholar Award by the Academy of Management.
BYU Marriott alum, aspiring pig farmer, and current adjunct teacher Scott Taylor is obsessed with learning.
When it comes to startup companies spun out of universities, there are a lot of zombies out there.
Academics and popular culture may seem like topics that are worlds apart, but the research that Brian Reschke conducts explores how these two different worlds collide.

When Gary Williams sold his company, the next step in his life was obvious: create learning opportunities for BYU Marriott students.

She might be dealing with cancellations or organizing presentations while stuck in a snowstorm, but Anne Sledd always finds ways to make things happen.

Liz Dixon often sheds joyful tears as she watches her students present their solutions at international case competitions.

A self-proclaimed "learntrepreneur," Taylor Halverson values two things in his career more than anything else: learning and entrepreneurship.

When teaching his class to MBA students, BYU Marriott professor Nile Hatch shares his own method of innovation: developing a deep understanding of other's needs.

As an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship, Jason Christensen strives to instill the same ambition within his students that propelled his own success.