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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.
Students regularly help with Ryan Elder's research on advertising effectiveness and sensory marketing.
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.
Benjamin Galvin has been named the faculty advisor to the HR program, and is dedicated to creating high-impact experiences for his students.
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.
BYU accounting students want to involve auditors during company crises an idea that earned them second place at a national competition hosted by Deloitte.
The travel bug is contagious as Troy Nielson leads groups of students on international trips.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Explosions, accidents, and disasters—surprisingly, that’s what motivated Peter Madsen to pursue a degree in management.
For OLS professor David Cherrington, arriving at his teaching career didn’t come as expected.
Here’s a challenge marketing professor Lee Daniels poses his students:
The Wall Street Journal tapped Marriott School Professor Glen Christensen for his corporate branding expertise in a recent article on corporate logos.