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Finance MBA 2015
Club events, such as next week's Finance Underclassmen Academy, can help students learn how to land top internships.
Ryan Bastian credits his experiences from Tajikistan to Provo to the connections made and confidence gained at the Marriott School.
A team of BYU undergraduates recently made the cut as runners-up in the Duff Phelps YOUniversity Deal Challenge.
When Pat Harmer Bluth expressed an interest in mathematics and engineering, her brother responded, “Girls don’t major in math.”
A team of BYU MBA students took second in The Economist's Int'l MBA Case Competition against 23 business schools from around the world.
The BYU Marriott School of Management named 10 MBA candidates as its 2015 Hawes Scholars.
BYU's law and business schools once again showed well in the U.S. News World Report's latest graduate school rankings.
Nine BYU students received the George E. Stoddard Prize, an honor given to second-year MBA finance students.
BYU hosted a two-day data analytics competition last month featuring five top business schools.
Helping students find academic success is all in a day’s work for BYU’s MBA program director Christine Roundy, who manages curriculum and tracks student progress. After nineteen years at the Marriott School, Roundy knows what it takes to succeed as an MBA student. Read on for her best advice.
When the alarm clock blares on a workday morning, MBA academic program manager Christine Roundy is not one to grumble. “I don’t wake up and think ‘oh no, I have to go to work,’” she says. “I love coming to work; I’m excited to go.”
Procrastination is the greatest obstacle to effective estate planning, but it’s never too early to start looking ahead. Estate planning can be time-consuming, but don’t get overwhelmed—take it one step at a time. Here are three simple tasks you can get done this summer.
What if moving halfway around the world wasn’t a grand departure into the unknown but, rather, a return to the familiar?
After a long day at work you come home, put up your feet, and dish out your daily complaints on Twitter.
Model rockets, toys, and board games. This isn’t a child’s wish list; it’s Myles Christensen’s résumé. The 2001 MBA grad and design engineer recently added one more fun item to his line-up—electric bikes. He’s connecting customers with electric bicycles and making many people happy in the process.
You don’t mess with a Texan’s pickup truck, says BYU finance professor Andrew Holmes. So, needless to say, back in the 90s when someone broke into his truck, stole his checkbook, and started writing fraudulent checks in his name, he was pretty upset.
Friends, family, students and colleagues gathered together to show support for a leader who has inspired them throughout the years.
Employers are scrambling to analyze piles of digital data—and to employ MBA grads who know how to make those numbers talk. That’s why recent MBA grad Venna Barrowes signed up for BYU Analytics, a new Marriott School program started by marketing professor Jeff Dotson to match second-year MBAs with real-world data projects.
USA Today featured finance major Taysom Hill and the influence his Marriott School education and summer internship at Pelion Venture Partners has had on his future plans.
Assistant finance professor Colby Wright received a Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship at Brigham Young University's annual University Conference.
It was 6:30 p.m., and Dora Ho-Ellis was still in her office. “Normally, I’m not that hardworking,” she quips. But when the phone rang with a pivotal opportunity for the entrepreneurship education program she spearheaded at Singapore Polytechnic, she was grateful she was there to answer.
Doug Jackson is bringing sight to tens of thousands around the globe—thanks to a new kind of vision for humanitarian work.
BYU's MBA program recently earned the No. 27 spot from Bloomberg Businessweek amongst 177 business school programs.
Teams of BYU MBA students took first and third at the Adobe Analytics Competition recently. KSL covered the event, including video interviews with the winning team from the Marriott School.