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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.
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.
The Marriott School honored Kevin D. Stocks with the Outstanding Faculty Award, and fifteen others were also recognized for contributions.
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.
Why can't an online dating concept be used to make matches in the business world? One Marriott School professor thinks it can.
Bruce Hymas and his teammates had sixteen connectors, fifty-four sticks, and three minutes. The task: build a tower that holds up a golf ball—and make the tower taller than everyone else’s.
Quick thinking and fast fingers earned a team of RMYL students 2nd place at the Park and Recreation Student Quiz Bowl.
With laptops charged, whiteboards cleared, and markers ready, it’s now up to the Executive MBA students’ careful positioning and strategic thinking to navigate the intricacies of a simulated marketplace. 
A painted papier-mâché mask with a lively hodgepodge of primary colors and an obvious grin sits quietly in a Marriott School office, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the professor sitting only a few feet away. 
At one point the BYU RMYL was down more than 2,000 points. But that didn't stop its members from turning things around.
Soccer is usually about making the goal. But for student coaches the objective is more complex.
Through tweets, hashtags, and blogs, professor Teppo Felin has become one of the most influential professors online.
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.
Growing up in La Verne, California, Madison Zylstra always looked forward to watching her brothers play sports. So when they shipped off to play on different BYU teams, she knew she didn’t want to miss a game. Now a few years down the road, Zylstra is getting ready to graduate from BYU’s recreation management program and preparing for a career in sports management.