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In conjunction with the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance's Peery Film Festival, the BYU Health Science Department was honored to host three Sudanese refugees, at the film showing of "Lost Boys of Sudan."
BYU alumna Emily Brand won the Ballard Center's first Changemaker Film Competition for her short documentary depicting one social innovator's work to combat hunger.
Football training compression shirts, mobile ultrasounds, wearable chairs, worm poop, and bathroom app the stakes were high for students presenting some of the most creative ideas The Big Idea Pitch has ever seen.
Thanks to the Ballard Center, BYU students had the opportunity to utilize their skills in the research and development of a survey that is tackling poverty.
Research by Marriott School finance professor Taylor Nadauld finds schools increase sticker-price tuition sixty cents for every dollar of subsidized loans available.
Executive director of the International City/County Management Association named the 2016 Administrator of the Year.
Couples that play together stay together
New research from Cody Reeves, assistant professor of organizational leadership and strategy, can help leaders avoid headaches when telecommuters are on a team.
Software developers listen up: if you want people to pay attention to your security warnings on their computers or mobile devices, you need to make them pop up at better times.
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to make a difference, the Ballard Center of Economic Self-Reliance can help you reach your goals.
Once the lifeblood of campfires and living rooms, stories are redefining global communication, according to recent Marriott School research.
New doctor's orders: No earbuds, no music, and no watching TV while eating.
You’re on the web, responding to an email or watching a YouTube video, when a message pops up on your browser. Do you read it, or do you close the window and get back to what you were doing?
The national publication highlighted research by David Benson and Jim Brau on how firms cover up policies investors won't like.
When it comes to flight safety, U.S. airlines are pretty good at learning from accidents. But new research shows airlines should be learning more from accidents that never happen.
Professorships and Fellowships
Who’s Putting Their Money Where Their Mouse Is?
Professor and Student’s Research Study to be Published in Utah Academy Journal
In the midst of accounting scandals and the aftermath of 9/11, a study by a Brigham Young University professor and other accounting experts provides organizational guidance through a revolutionary risk-management framework that helps companies prepare for corporate catastrophes.
Today’s graduates enter the workforce in the midst of a tremendous famine—not a famine of bread and water—but a famine of time for what makes life worth living. The realities of a global 
Study Measures Impact of Cronyism in Malaysia
The National Communication Association honored a Brigham Young University business communications professor with a five-year Best Paper award at the association’s 88th annual convention in New Orleans.
New research suggests collaboration may turn the traditional view of competition on its head. “Firms are recognizing the tremendous advantage of collaborating with supplier networks and competing as teams rather than as individual enterprises,” said Jeff Dyer, a professor at BYU’s Marriott School and author of an eight-year study on competitive advantage.