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Alumni Experiences Faculty Research 2023 2010–2014
New research shows pinching pennies can actually cost you more
Warning Instagrammers: Marriott School research suggests you might want to stop taking so many pictures of your food.
Ever been trading text messages when there's suddenly a long pause? Marriott School research shows you should be leery.
A study by Marriott School professors found that tottering consumers were more likely to select budget-friendly items.
Bringing your spouse to work could yield big dividends at home financially.
New research is tweaking an old competitive workplace adage: It's not just who you know, but what you believe in.
This winter the BYU Management Society's impact grew to include another branch in Asia.
It’s said in the academic world that professors live and die by their research. We’re pleased to report that many at the Marriott School are thriving. Regular publishing in some of the industry’s top journals has put them on the leading edge of business and made some stars in their fields.
A new study co-authored by business professor Katie Liljenquist finds that powerful people are blind to risks.
Peter Madsen takes the admonition to turn lemons into lemonade quite seriously.  In grad school Madsen, now a Marriott School organizational leadership and strategy professor, became fascinated with how organizations learn from catastrophes. “Most of my research focuses on how they deal with and try to prevent rare, bad events,” says Madsen, who earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. “Whether mistakes happen internally or externally, companies can glean information that allows them to reduce their chances of being involved in accidents.”
Some babies are born with the double helixes that turn into blue eyes and heads of light, curly hair. Most people think that innovators are born with special genes, like those that determine physical features, that enable them to be innovators an endowment you either have or you don’t.
Inc. featured three former BYU students and their composting company, EcoScraps, for social entrepreneurship innovation.
Setting a price limit when shopping often backfires, says new research from BYU and Emory marketing professors.
According to a new BYU study, online role-playing games negatively affect real-life marital satisfaction.
Airlines' accident risk is highest when they are performing very close to their financial targets, according to a BYU study.
A new study finds persuasive packaging can cause consumers to use less of a product once they take it home.
Two BYU MPA graduates capitalize on their talents after being named finalists for the Presidential Management Fellows program.
BYU Professor Jeff Dyer's new book helped Forbes to rank the world's most innovative companies.
A member of Provo’s Municipal Council will soon expand her role from serving the city to serving her country.
What do you do when your company is comfortably selling a product, and then suddenly a competitor offers a similar one for free?
The Romney Institute honored alumnus Rulon Stacey as this year's Administrator of the Year for his role in creating an award-winning health care system.
Most accountants spend their days ensuring financial records are up to standards. But for a handful of BYU MAcc grads, it's a different story.
Under the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, three Marriott School grads are tackling their MBAs at the West Coast campus of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As part of the 2011 Executive MBA class, Brandon Savage, Mark He, and James Marsh were strangers before classes began. But since last May one thing has brought them together—and it isn’t business.
In the lush Polochic Valley of Guatemala, sleepy villages are nestled along dusty roads and populated with the friendly faces of the Mayan Q’eqchi people. But for eight days in August, the quiet valley burst into life with the arrival of the Singular Humanitarian experience (SHe), a unique service organization for Latter-day Saint singles, which was created by a Marriott School MBA grad and his friends.