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Students at BYU's Marriott School are gearing up for study abroad programs hosted by the Global Management Center.
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?
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.
While students are usually pitching themselves to companies, this time the tables were turned.
Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review place BYU No. 4 at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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.
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?”
Call it a cruel but fortunate twist of fate: Dan Handy’s companies tend to undergo extreme growth when it comes time for him to hit the books. As an undergrad and a grad student at the Marriott School, the current CEO of Bluehost.com guided two internet start-ups to success, sometimes smashing against current trends with a Ping-Pong paddle.
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.
BYU's Marriott School announced the 2012 Bateman Awards—the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
The details made the difference at the inaugural Walmart Business Case Competition held at BYU.
Most students usually work a side job, but not many spend their free time running a million-dollar company.
The professorship, funded by Brent and Bonnie Jean Beesley, was created to recognize Hill's influence on students in Provo.
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.
Curtis Bedont thought he knew what it meant to be in the military. Though he spent his formative years on bases in foreign outposts, his fighter-pilot father never faced deployment.
Fifty-six years and 1.3 million birthday parties may seem impossible, but it sums up John Huish’s career. He’s had a hand in facilitating cake-and-candle celebrations across five states and has provided jobs for more than one hundred thousand people.
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.
A BYU business professor reveals that discrimination is still tainting the American Dream for minorities.
Figuring out the reasons behind the strange things consumers do is Tamara Masters’s passion, one she follows by studying consumer behavior, both in the marketplace and in restaurants. Masters, an assistant professor in the business management department, recently conducted a study that suggests when diners use larger forks, they eat less. Today she shares her thoughts on eating with spatulas, marketing, and consumer goals.