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The Wall Street Journal tapped Marriott School Professor Glen Christensen for his corporate branding expertise in a recent article on corporate logos.
Dr. Crawford is retiring in July and talks about his time at BYU and his future plans in this question-and-answer interview.
It took ten years and three invitations, but last summer finance professor Karl Diether made the move from Dartmouth College to BYU’s Department of Finance.
Here’s a challenge marketing professor Lee Daniels poses his students:
You don’t mess with a Texan’s pickup truck, says BYU finance professor Andrew Holmes. So, needless to say, back in the 90s when someone broke into his truck, stole his checkbook, and started writing fraudulent checks in his name, he was pretty upset.
Jessi Valentine’s spirit animal is a chameleon.
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:
Former department chair and current professor Steven Thorley reflects on the growth of the finance program.
Big data is a big deal. Professor Jeff Dotson is leading the way for BYU Marriott MBA students to gain hands-on experience in analytics.
BYU accounting students want to involve auditors during company crises an idea that earned them second place at a national competition hosted by Deloitte.
BYU Marriott finance professor Todd Mitton always strives to see the big picture, which enables him to spread his influence through the Tanner Building and beyond.
Students in Lee Daniels' International Business class learn to interact within a team framework, and rate each other's presentations. Daniels does this so his students are better prepared for future interviews and job opportunities.
Students regularly help with Ryan Elder's research on advertising effectiveness and sensory marketing.
BYU Marriott staff member Troy Carpenter advises over five hundred members of the BYU Real Estate Club and does everything in his power to help students succeed.
All roads lead somewhere, and for BYU Marriott assistant professor of marketing John Howell, the many roads he's traveled have brought him back to where it all began at academia.
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.
The BYU Marriott marketing program recently made efforts to help alumni connect with each other during the program's first alumni conference.

When Michael Swenson, BYU Marriott Christensen Professor of Marketing, was a PhD student, the words of a visiting professor changed his life.

For the last twenty years, Bryan Sudweeks has loved teaching the students in the BYU Marriott finance program. Now as his career comes to an end, he is finishing his last semester at BYU Marriott and moving on to the next chapter in his life.

As a singer, BYU Marriott faculty member Jeff Larson recognizes the value of following instructions to create music. However, he encourages students to look beyond the instructions they're given to create new digital marketing strategies.

Marc Dotson, assistant professor of marketing, ventured through various fields of study, before discovering how marketing could help fulfill his main aspiration.

Finance professor Barrett Slade never imagined that the hard work he learned while working with horses would bring him to the BYU Marriott School of Business.

BYU Marriott finance professor Hal Heaton has become well-known for his method of challenging students' case study positions to prepare them for the "unknowns" of the business world.