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Employee Spotlight Student Experiences MBA 2016
In 1997, Lisa Jones Christensen took a break after a decade of working in business development to travel the world and work on her Spanish. While in Guatemala, she lived with low-income families in their homes. One night, when the father of one of the families came home from work rejected, mistreated, and empty-handed, she realized she needed to re-evaluate the paradigm she had grown to know about the relationship between business and quality of life.
“Career goals are worthless.”
In a twenty-three-hour turnaround, a team of four MBA students won second place and $1,500 in Baylor University's Business Ethics Case Competition
Gandhi has a story. Winston Churchill has a story. Martin Luther King Jr. has a story. Great leadership is interwoven with great stories, and often this leadership comes when leaders perceive the power of their own stories.
John Bingham doesn’t believe in balance.
Graduate business school isn’t easy by any means. MBA students write, work, research, and write some more. And then to top it all off, they are required to spend their precious summer breaks as interns.
Student-run companies presented business plans to judges in hopes of scoring prizes up for grabs in the Miller NVC.
The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management named 10 MBA candidates 2016 Hawes Scholars, an honor that carries the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school and a cash award of $15,000.
A team of MBA students were right on the money, recently placing first in the Association of Corporate Growth Utah Cup and winning $5,000.
Thirteen students were honored with the George E. Stoddard Prize, a $4,000 award given annually to exceptional second-year MBA finance students.
The Marriott School's Whitmore Global Management Center awarded 10 first-year MBA candidates the Eccles Scholar award.
A three-day tour of the Bay Area with a group of fellow college students. Sounds fun, right?
A team of BYU MBA students bested squads from Yale, Wharton, Michigan and others to win $4,000 for the MBAMA at the inaugural competition.