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When Josh Steimle won the BYU business plan competition (now known as the Miller New Venture Challenge) in 2001, he was awarded the $5,000 he needed to make payroll for the week and the confidence to keep his new company, MWI, going for the next twelve years.
Jeff Holdaway, a 1982 finance graduate, knew there was a way for him to combine his passion for business and law. After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1985 and working at a national law firm, an opportunity arose that he couldn’t turn down. Twenty-four years later Holdaway is still glad he jumped at the chance to work at Marriott International.
BYU undergrads are consistently outperforming the market in the Marriott School's portfolio management course.
Marriott School of Management students co-authored a story in Forbes on their Ballard Center Social Innovation Projects.
Finance professor J. Michael Pinegar will deliver this year's Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecture during a BYU forum.
Ever been trading text messages when there's suddenly a long pause? Marriott School research shows you should be leery.
Wally works at Wal-Mart. It may sound like a tongue twister, but Wally Potts’s story is all business. In a little more than two years, Potts has brought in millions of dollars of revenue for the corporation.
The prize named after the late George E. Stoddard was awarded to 21 BYU MBA finance students.
In an ever-expanding digital universe, Brad Rencher and his team at Adobe Systems Inc. navigate the Cloud like rocket men.
Dr. Crawford is retiring in July and talks about his time at BYU and his future plans in this question-and-answer interview.
The Marriott School honored the winners of the 2013 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected by students.
Top finance professors from around the country gathered to present research at BYU's Red Rock Conference.
On the cutting edge of research and education, Jeff Jenkins is leading the pack. A 2009 master of information systems graduate, Jenkins is now finishing up a doctoral program at the University of Arizona and is set to graduate this spring.
Three members of the Marriott School's faculty and staff were honored at BYU's annual University Conference.
Class begins with everyone looking intently at the same spreadsheet on their laptops. Today’s task: learning how to calculate financial ratios like debt-to-equity, asset turnover, and net profit margin—with the click of a button.
A group of Brigham Young University finance students are finding unique ways to use their investing skills while helping those in poverty worldwide.
Not long after putting their pencils down on the last bubble sheet, many Marriott School students say good-bye to their final exams and to Y Mountain, leaving Provo in pursuit of internships and experience.
BYU has been recognized as one of the nation's premier academic institutions in the area of cybersecurity education.
Gregory Cornell has had a front row seat to history. After graduating from BYU in finance in 1985, he joined the U.S. Army and served his first four years in Germany at the end of the Cold War.
It may sound like the concept for the next reality TV hit: give twenty-five undergrads nearly $1 million and turn them loose. But this is no TV show; this is a typical day in one Marriott School classroom.
Marriott School announces the winners of the 2011 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
A class project turned into a winning business for BYU student Saul Howard in the Crexendo Website Competition.
After a 17-hour test of endurance and IT skill, six BYU students took home nine AITP awards — more than ever before.
It’s hard for many students to remember the days before iPods, Hulu, Twitter, and Skype. If you were to stroll across campus, odds are you could find all of these and many more technologies in use—they have become central to university life.