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Investors looking to hit it big in 2010 may want to consider a new study by three BYU finance professors.
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.
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.
When I arrived at BYU eight years ago, I was in my new office, organizing books and filing papers, when I received a telephone call informing me that there had been a glitch in payroll processing, and I would not be receiving a paycheck during the first two months of my employment. I said, “Thank you,” hung up the phone, and started thinking about how to break this news to my wife, Jan.
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.
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.
A member of Provo’s Municipal Council will soon expand her role from serving the city to serving her country.
Two BYU MPA graduates capitalize on their talents after being named finalists for the Presidential Management Fellows program.
A BYU study shows that any entrepreneur looking for the best ROI might be better served by a combination of two strategies.
What does space exploration have to do with business strategy? More than you'd think.
How the French Put U.S. Adoption of International Accounting Standards on the Rocks.
Employees who love their company and hustle to please their bosses can lead to a higher likelihood of unethical behavior.
Inc. featured three former BYU students and their composting company, EcoScraps, for social entrepreneurship innovation.
What do you do when your company is comfortably selling a product, and then suddenly a competitor offers a similar one for free?
BYU Professor Jeff Dyer's new book helped Forbes to rank the world's most innovative companies.
A new study finds persuasive packaging can cause consumers to use less of a product once they take it home.
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.
Airlines' accident risk is highest when they are performing very close to their financial targets, according to a BYU study.
According to a new BYU study, online role-playing games negatively affect real-life marital satisfaction.
This winter the BYU Management Society's impact grew to include another branch in Asia.
Setting a price limit when shopping often backfires, says new research from BYU and Emory marketing professors.
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.”
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.