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Students at BYU's Marriott School are gearing up for study abroad programs hosted by the Global Management Center.
The Marriott School honored Michael Swenson as its 2011 Outstanding Faculty. Fourteen others were also recognized.
Good communicators are supposed to work behind the scenes, but sometimes they can't help getting pulled on stage.
In the winter of 1989, the snow and pine trees of Sundance Resort set the backdrop for Doug and Judith Maughan’s second date. Doug, an MBA student at the time, had asked Judith to accompany him to a Valentine’s dinner and dance sponsored by the Marriott School. “He was handsome, smart, and probably the most polite man I had ever met,” says Judith of her date. Doug was also persistent and outdoorsy—during the summers, he caught salmon in Alaska as a commercial fisherman to help pay for school. After Doug worked his charms that evening in the mountains, dates with Judith became increasingly frequent. Sharing space in the Tanner Building, where she was also a Marriott School student, helped fuel their courtship.
This year hundreds more Marriott School graduates were hired, resulting from an intensified focus on placement.
What do you do when your company is comfortably selling a product, and then suddenly a competitor offers a similar one for free?
With laptops charged, whiteboards cleared, and markers ready, it’s now up to the Executive MBA students’ careful positioning and strategic thinking to navigate the intricacies of a simulated marketplace.
BYU is being recognized as a business startup factory — churning out hundreds of student-run ventures each year.
While students are usually pitching themselves to companies, this time the tables were turned.
CIS students from across the globe experienced a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as they visited with LDS Church leaders.
Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review place BYU No. 4 at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
While a 234-mile trip may not be your average commute, students are increasingly willing to traverse state lines to earn a Marriott School graduate degree.
BYU's undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs were ranked No. 4 and No. 7, respectively.
Many business schools are not teaching MBAs to create new businesses, according to two of BYU's innovation gurus.
The Romney Institute honored Ruth Ann Jefferies, a property tax specialist, for her career success and community service.
Bruce Money will speak on 'The Lord’s “Country and Kingdom” – Your Passport.' at 11:05 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.
With more than three thousand students, the Marriott School of Management brings together some of BYU’s best and brightest from across the globe. I recently caught up with one of these stellar students, Nicol Pedraza, a sophomore marketing major and Portuguese minor from Mexico City. Pedraza talked about finding her path to BYU, her experience at the Marriott School, and her plans for the future.
It only took five seconds for Ryan Judkins’s boss to approve his beard plan. Surprised, Judkins, a sales representative for Callaway Golf and a normally clean-cut guy, asked, “You do realize I might have a beard that’s five, six, or seven inches long at one point?”
A BYU business professor reveals that discrimination is still tainting the American Dream for minorities.
Heather Chewning received the President's Appreciation Award at BYU's annual University Conference on August 27.
Jeffery Thompson will succeed David Hart, who served for six years as director of the Romney Institute.
When Jackie Saumweber joined the BYU MPA program, she didn't know she would find her niche in corporate social responsibility.
Larry Walters will discuss citizenship as accountability and commitment to the well-being of the whole on April 1 at 11 a.m.
The red Porsche featured clean lines and 390 horsepower, but for fifteen-year-old Eric Watson, it might as well have been the family station wagon. This was the first time the high schooler had slid into the driver’s seat.