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Student Experiences 2019
Twelve Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business students were honored with the George E. Stoddard Prize, a $5,000 award given to exceptional second-year MBA finance students.
BYU Marriott named ten MBA candidates 2019 Hawes Scholars, an honor that carries the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school and a cash award of $10,000.
Deciding between two summer employment opportunities, especially two great organizations that seemed like a perfect fit, was the root of conflicting emotions for BYU Marriott student Autumn Clark.
Two BYU Marriott students were recently recognized for their outstanding performance in their internships by The Doyle W. Buckwalter Award.
While the hustle and bustle of big cities in America are characterized by taxis and Uber and Lyft vehicles, Madagascar's ubiquitous mode of travel looks very different.
Three hundred million tons of plastic waste are produced each year, causing harm to wildlife and the environment. Wanting to help solve this waste problem, four BYU students have developed a solution to this predicament and took top honors along the way.
More than five hundred students, faculty, and alumni gathered together for the annual presentation of the Bateman Awards, which honor the students and professors who best exemplify the values of BYU Marriott.
Pointillism can give insightful perspective on a student's academic journey. BYU Marriott ExDM students learned how at the department's first-ever Senior Peak Experience.
The Girls Co. hope this win will inspire other women to realize their entrepreneurial dreams.
BYU Marriott School of Business MBA students found themselves among elite company at the global Venture Capital Investment Competition.
ExDM student Lindsey Sampson river rafted in Thailand, visited the great mountains of Nepal, and climbed the Great Wall of China all for school credit.
BYU Marriott sent five students to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, for the Venture Capital and Investment Competition. For the second year in a row, BYU came out on top, winning both the regional and national competitions.
More than one hundred high school students from around the state of Utah participated in the seventh annual Business Language Competition held by BYU Marriott's Whitmore Global Management Center.
Standing on Utah Beach, each senior cadet told the story of a soldier or civilian involved in the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. Cadets told these stories in the first person while looking at the battlefield on which Americans fought.
Undergraduates typically don't have to worry about fulfilling a contract with the Department of Defense managing a drone company's mistakes. But that's exactly what two BYU Marriott students were tasked with doing.
Juniors from the BYU Marriott ROTC program who are now attending Advanced Camp, a thirty-one-day training event held at Fort Knox, Kentucky, were given a practice during field training conducted in St. George, Utah.
The Ballard Center's Social Venture Academy works to solve social issues across the globe, and recent participants seem to be setting a new trend in social entrepreneurship women helping women.
Air Force Detachment 855's annual military parade was held this spring as one hundred sixty cadets drilled across the Richards Building fields.
When the BYU Marriott Inclusion Committee gathered data about students’ experiences in the business school, the committee discovered many individuals desired further guidelines on developing inclusive behavior that they could carry with them into the workplace.
Eleven first-year MBA candidates were recognized from the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University as Eccles Scholars, an award presented by the school's Whitmore Global Management Center.
The Nonprofit Management Student Association (NMSA) was incorporated into the Ballard Center during the 2018-2019 academic year. The NMSA has grown from its infancy in 2009 to a total of seventeen board members and seventy-eight student members.
From developing business relationships in France to watching a sunrise over a mountain in Peru, the Global Management Center foreign exchange programs teach what a classroom can't.
Social Innovation Projects (SIP) is an on-campus internship program that gives students an opportunity to make a real-life impact in their local communities while receiving teamwork experience. Four students—Emily Meadows, an environmental science major from Alpine, Utah; Brad Allison, a chemical engineering major from Mesa, Arizona; Becky Fuller, a chemical engineering major from Denver; and Nathan Guzman, an economics major from Washington, DC—signed up for SIP and were paired together on a team during Fall 2018 semester. Their team was given the project of working on carbon credits accountability with Greening Youth, a brand-new SIP class partner.
BYU Marriott's Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology is helping entrepreneurs through its International Business Model Competition.