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When the BYU Marriott Inclusion Committee gathered data about students’ experiences in the business school, the committee discovered many individuals desired further guidelines on developing inclusive behavior that they could carry with them into the workplace.
Kurt Sandholtz, BYU Marriott assistant professor of organizational behavior and human resources, has learned the importance of moving forward in faith with a decision, without completely understanding what lies ahead.
Benjamin Galvin has been named the faculty advisor to the HR program, and is dedicated to creating high-impact experiences for his students.
Rachel McDougal entered BYU and was indecisive about which program to pursue. Through the BYU Student Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) club, McDougal discovered what she wanted to study.
Shad Morris's career has taken him to over sixty countries, which is convenient because this associate professor is continually searching the world for new ideas to teach his students.
The travel bug is contagious as Troy Nielson leads groups of students on international trips.
Jorgen Rasmussen has always been heavily involved in SHRM. He now hopes to contribute to its growth as the organization's new president.
HR students don't have to worry about striking out at this career fair organized by SHRM.
Two BYU Marriott teams hit last-minute curveballs out of the park at an HR case competition.
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.
With a competitive pass rate and record scores, it's no surprise that BYU's student club won the Clark Johnson Award and a $5,000 grant.
When two young missionaries lost the trail while hiking Mont Pelée, a volcano on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, Reid Robison had to act quickly. After receiving the news that the two young men had gone missing, Robison, then president of the West Indies Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, immediately flew to Martinique from mission headquarters in Trinidad and brought in twenty additional missionaries from surrounding islands in the mission to help search alongside the local police force.
An economics major, a math major, a strategy major, a psychology major, and a human resource major may not have a lot in common except when it comes to winning.
As Kelly Andrews began his freshmen year at BYU, he participated in activities offered by the Society of Human Resource Management’s student OBHR chapter. But after noticing only a handful of people in attendance at each meeting, Andrews was determined to make a change.
Explosions, accidents, and disasters—surprisingly, that’s what motivated Peter Madsen to pursue a degree in management.
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.
For OLS professor David Cherrington, arriving at his teaching career didn’t come as expected.
Through a recent collaboration with Walmart, a group of Marriott School undergraduates earned high-profile internships.
Last month BYU global supply chain management students got a week off of class but it was no vacation.
Students at BYU's Marriott School are gearing up for study abroad programs hosted by the Global Management Center.
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.
Students and a faculty member were honored with 2009 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
A team of BYU marketing students placed third at the Wake Forest Undergraduate Case Challenge.
After competing in a rigorous contest, six Marriott School of Management undergraduate students heard those magic words: "You're hired."