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Faculty Research 2016 2015 2000–2004
Research by Marriott School finance professor Taylor Nadauld finds schools increase sticker-price tuition sixty cents for every dollar of subsidized loans available.
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.
Couples that play together stay together
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.
In new research, professor Jeffrey Jenkins can tell if you're angry by the way you move a computer mouse.
Can watching a violent movie make you more likely to lie, cheat or steal? What about reading a violent book?
Marriott School research shows camp jobs teach essential workforce skills
The prototype wasn’t pretty. Wrapped in tinfoil and dotted with hand-drawn circles, the cardboard cylinder could have easily passed for an elementary school project, but the student entrepreneurs didn’t mind.
It's no surprise that some of the most celebrated leaders in the business world also happen to be self-promoting narcissists.
BYU assistant professor Ryan Elder's research found that people react significantly faster to warning signs that depict greater movement.
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.