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The department chair and a professor of finance at BYU Marriott, Taylor Nadauld thanks his 25-year-old self for choosing to leave a lucrative position on Wall Street to earn a PhD.
Global supply chain assistant professor Brett Hathaway spends much of his free time summiting mountains. His career path has uniquely equipped him to provide perspective to students in their own journeys.
Taking over the bookkeeping for her family’s Idaho dairy farm taught fourteen-year-old Jenn Larson about unpredictable farming revenues, ignited her lifelong passion for finance, and inspired her to become a role model.
Students, employees, and executives typically work hard to present themselves professionally, ensuring blazers are pressed and handshakes are firm. Yet BYU Marriott professor Kristen DeTienne, who has more than three decades of professional experience, calls for something beyond professionalism. “What’s that extra edge that helps you be effective and enjoy what you’re doing?” DeTienne says, “It’s personal connection.”
Jeffrey Burningham, adjunct faculty and partner to the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, believes the creative process is pivotal to a fulfilling life.
With nearly three decades of experience at BYU Marriott, MBA academic program manager Christine Roundy helps students reach their goals by meeting individual needs.
As a student at BYU Marriott, Brad Agle was intrigued by why people act unethically. Now a professor, Agle helps students crack their own tough ethical questions.
Jess Dansie Anderson works hard to reach and inspire more students across campus to become changemakers.
Although BYU Marriott accounting professor Mike Drake was raised in Nevada, he calls BYU home.
Shawna Gygi is a matchmaker at the BYU Marriott MBA program, but her efforts aren't focused on pairings that result in weddings.
As the operations officer for the Army ROTC program at BYU, Roland Griffith hopes to be a role model for his cadets.
After retiring from a long career in sales for startup software companies, Greg Zippi knew exactly what he wanted to do next—teach.
When Tom Peterson graduated from BYU in 1981, he thought he had already come to fully appreciate the value of his BYU education.
The office door of BYU Marriott professor Jim Brau is always open. Brau believes making connections with his students is the most important part of his job.
BYU Marriott MBA director Daniel Snow wishes he had a dollar for every time hears received compliments about his BYU Marriott graduates in the workforce.

When teaching his class to MBA students, BYU Marriott professor Nile Hatch shares his own method of innovation: developing a deep understanding of other's needs.

The career of Gibb Dyer has been one full of interesting twists and turns. Throughout all of his world travels, Dyer teaches people how to build family businesses.

As a professor of experience design and management, Mark Widmer finds ways to combine his love of wilderness exploration with the principles of experience design.

Behind every BYU Marriott MBA event over the last twenty years, Debbie Auxier worked tirelessly to make sure the event was a success and ran like a well-oiled machine.
Thirty-six years after completing her communications undergrad, former news anchor and adjunct faculty member Ruth Todd is thrilled to be back at BYU, but this time as a student.
Cindy Blair wasn't always sure she wanted to teach, but whenever life was uncertain, she would ask, 'what's next?' and keep moving forward.
Assistant teaching professor Scott Webb believes the best way to teach is to fill the classroom's atmosphere with love and concern for each other.
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.
Monte Swain feels a rush when standing at the front of a classroom. That rush has energized him for nearly 30 years of teaching at BYU Marriott.