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Accounting Human Resources MBA 2017
Alfred Gantner, cofounder of Partners Group and an MBA alum, shared his insights on a balanced life as the featured speaker at convocation on 28 April.
Two BYU Marriott teams hit last-minute curveballs out of the park at an HR case competition.
With a competitive pass rate and record scores, it's no surprise that BYU's student club won the Clark Johnson Award and a $5,000 grant.
The BYU MBA program maintained its national status in the U.S. News World Report ranking, coming in at No. 34 in the country.
Braeden Santiago made the switch from medicine to business when he realized HR was in his blood.
The Brigham Young University Board of Trustees has approved a change to the name of the university's business school and two of its departments in addition to changing seven undergraduate emphases to majors.
Jackson, Wyoming—the gateway to the grand Tetons—is almost always bustling. Snow-capped peaks and expansive horizons draw crowds to this tiny outpost in the American west.
Reducing the compensation of a CEO by half is not an easy decision. But for board members with shareholders to consider, tough decisions like these are sometimes necessary.
Marriott School of Management dean Lee Perry has announced John Bingham as the new chair of the organizational leadership and strategy department, effective 1 July.
When senior MAcc student Josey Hedquist tells her classmates she's been running around like crazy all day, she's actually being quite literal.
Early bird recruiters are on the heels of incoming OBHR students. So close, in fact, that OBHR senior Sarah Duvall felt the need to research how to better prepare students to meet them.
The junior core may elicit a bevy of emotions, but this group of accounting students associates it with outdoor fun and team-building.
An economics major, a math major, a strategy major, a psychology major, and a human resource major may not have a lot in common except when it comes to winning.
Clark Anderson stood confidently on the diving board at the community pool in St. George, Utah. The eighth grader noticed the lifeguards talking among themselves and imagined they were discussing how skilled of a swimmer he was. He decided to prove them right.
A BYU MBA team's solutions for a big name company were rewarded at a recent ethics case competition.
David Wood, associate professor of accountancy, received the 2017 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award from the American Accounting Association. The award is his seventh AAA best paper award overall.
Erin Hildebrandt left her fifth and final interview and collapsed into a nearby chair. Now all she had left to do was wait and hope. Hildebrandt, a senior in the OBHR program at the Marriott School of Management, was undergoing an extensive application process for a full-time position with Goldman Sachs.
Alum Jason Barron's new book, taken from sketches he made while taking notes during his EMBA courses, is two years of business school packed into one priceless book of pure awesomeness.

The BYU Marriott School of Business MBA program was cited for its human resource emphasis and its support of student families.
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan plowed through the Philippines with 25 million people in its path. Braeden Santiago was one of those people when the lethal storm hit.
The program improved two spots over its previous ranking thanks to its outstanding return on investment.
Two Marriott School alumni were initiated into one of the most exclusive groups in the accounting world as recipients of the Elijah Watt Sells Award.
Timing is everything that's just one of his grandfather's lessons accounting alum Greg Drennan has implemented on his career as a successful entrepreneur in the self-storage business.
John had Yoko, Scott had Zelda and Johnny had June, but for five BYU MBA students, the secret to case competition success depended on a muse of their own creation.