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Employee Spotlight Faculty Research 2020 2000–2004
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.
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 
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
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.
Who’s Putting Their Money Where Their Mouse Is?
Professor and Student’s Research Study to be Published in Utah Academy Journal
Marriott School Dean Ned C. Hill named Gary Cornia as the new director of the George W. Romney Institute of Public Management. Cornia, the Stewart Grow Professor of Public Management and former Marriott School associate dean, will replace Robert Parsons, who served four-and-a-half years in that position.
The Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University announced its 2004 Staff and Administrator Excellence Award winners at a luncheon 11 May.
Research Advises Businesses When to Ally and When to Acquire
Brigham Young University awarded Marriott School Professor of Organizational Leadership and Strategy William H. Baker an Alcuin Fellowship at the 2004 Annual University Conference on Aug. 24. The fellowship recognizes teacher-scholars whose university work has made significant contributions to the general education and honors curriculum. Fellowship appointments are for three years and include a stipend for curriculum development, teaching and research.
Professorships and Fellowships
Much like Tolkien's famed hobbit Bilbo Baggins, James Oldroyd has certainly been there and back again.
When it comes to startup companies spun out of universities, there are a lot of zombies out there.
Whether it's keeping bees or mentoring students, professor Steve Liddle enjoys the simple but powerful things in life.

For BYU Marriott experience design and management assistant professor Sarah Agate, the common phrase "family that plays together, stays together," couldn't be more true.

BYU Marriott information systems professor Degan Kettles pushes himself beyond his limits—whether he’s competing in triathlons or working in the business world. Training for strenuous and mentally exhausting physical feats has helped Kettles learn to overcome adversity, something that has translated into his career.
Some people fear change, but BYU Marriott Marketing Lab director Matt Madden embraced change to pursue a career that combined his professional experience in marketing and insights consulting with his desire to teach.
Since losing his mom at just eight years old, professor Josh Lee has relied on a cassette tape recording she left him to guide him throughout his life that led him back to BYU Marriott.

Almost twenty years after retiring, Doyle W. Buckwalter's legacy at BYU Marriott continues to resonate and positively influence the MPA program, and all of BYU's campus.
BYU Marriott faculty members are deeply committed to both top-tier research and individual student success which creates a distinctive learning environment.
Lori Wadsworth, the director of BYU Marriott's MPA program, missed only one night of classes during her time as a student in the BYU Marriott Executive MPA (EMPA) program the night of her son's birth.

While BYU Marriott faculty member Lisa Jones has a diversity of experience fighting global poverty, her greatest goal remains simple. She wants to use her spare time for other people and help other students find a way to do the same.

Capt. Jordan Woods enjoys building through carpentry and woodwork, but he also enjoys building positive relationships in BYU's Air Force ROTC program.