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Employee Spotlight In the News Student Experiences Global Supply Chain
Despite being one teammate short, arriving at the competition with only five minutes to spare and having to begin planning their case in a car by flashlight, a team of three students from BYU’s Marriott School recently placed second at an international business ethics competition.
A class of Marriott School students has established the university’s first-ever endowed scholarship funded by a single class. With the help of matching contributions from the BYU Annual Fund campaign, the students contributed enough to form a scholarship endowment of $30,000.
In an economy characterized by receding retirement funds and a volatile stock market, a group of BYU MBA students beat the odds – and 18 other universities - to earn a 32 percent return on their portfolio. Sponsors of the competition, brokerage firm D.A. Davidson & Co., awarded the Marriott School's Peery Institute with a $7,000 check for successfully managing the company's $50,000 investment portfolio throughout last year.
MBA Students Win Thunderbird Innovation Challenge
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University announces ten MBA candidates as its 2004 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school.
Six students from BYU's Marriott School of Management won second place and $2,000 at FedEx's supply chain competition.
Klymit and SchoolTipline won honors and cash awards at Global Moot Corp—the Super Bowl of business plan competitions.
Four Marriott School students are interning at the U. S. Treasury in a time of economic turmoil of historic proportions.
After competing in a rigorous contest, six Marriott School of Management undergraduate students heard those magic words: "You're hired."
A team of BYU marketing students placed third at the Wake Forest Undergraduate Case Challenge.
Students and a faculty member were honored with 2009 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Marriott School students are equipping themselves with the skills by interning for some of the biggest names in business.
Chris Huntington is the first BYU student to earn the most nationally recognized award in supply chain management.
Students at BYU's Marriott School are gearing up for study abroad programs hosted by the Global Management 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.
Marriott School undergraduate programs continue to earn high marks from U.S. News, including top rankings in accounting, international business and entrepreneurship.
Brigham Young University's undergraduate and graduate programs ranked No. 2 and No. 7, respectively, in The Princeton Review's recent annual survey for Entrepreneur magazine.
Marriott School students has devised an innovative device to keep outdoor enthusiasts in touch while in nature: A tiny two-way radio that connects to your phone or headphones via Bluetooth.
McKenzi McDonald and Tanner Stutz are spotlighted on Poets and Quants list of Best and Brightest Business Majors.
Around the world in thirty days? Carolee Corbett checked that one off her bucketlist.
Tom Foster, department chair of marketing and global supply chain at the Marriott School, had never played two truths and a lie—a game in which players share two hard-to-believe truths and one lie about themselves, then the other players must guess which is the lie. But when pressed for three statements, he said:
No matter where life takes him, global supply chain professor Simon Greathead always seems to find his way back to Provo.
“I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.” Global supply chain management professor Scott Sampson keeps this quote from David Letterman hanging in his office. In essence, it’s what Sampson is all about.