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Life is just like riding a bike, right? Well for Jake Homer sometimes it is more like a sprint triathlon—literally.
Whether it be climbing the tallest mountains in Europe and Africa or climbing the ladder toward a successful business career, Charles Barrett, a 2009 graduate from the Marriott School strategy program, reaches the top one step at a time.
No matter where life takes him, global supply chain professor Simon Greathead always seems to find his way back to Provo.
Keith Olsen was looking for real-world experience when he arrived at BYU. This semester, Olsen found what he wanted by leading a team of five students in a case competition hosted by the Strategy Club. The team worked together for almost three hours a day to prepare a corporate strategy for LucidChart, a local software company.
When it comes to being involved on BYU campus, Allison Oberle has been there, done that. She graduated in 2015 from the global supply chain program. During her time at BYU, she worked on the women’s initiative of GSC, served as VP of Women’s Outreach, led as co-president of the Global Supply Chain Association her senior year, and worked in the Global Management Center. She also danced competitively on BYU’s international folk dancing team for three consecutive years, traveling for months at a time. She now works for Sun Products Cooperation in Salt Lake City as a customer supply chain specialist.
Tom Foster, department chair of marketing and global supply chain at the Marriott School, had never played two truths and a lie—a game in which players share two hard-to-believe truths and one lie about themselves, then the other players must guess which is the lie. But when pressed for three statements, he said:
Nine new faculty members joined the ranks of the Marriott School of Management as the 2016-17 school year began this month.
Marriott School programs are notorious for having limited enrollment and low acceptance rates. Every summer, hopeful Marriott School applicants anxiously await the news of whether they’ve been accepted into their prospective majors.
New research from Cody Reeves, assistant professor of organizational leadership and strategy, can help leaders avoid headaches when telecommuters are on a team.
The Marriott School's Tom Foster has been appointed the new editor of the Quality Management Journal.
A team of Brigham Young University students want you to scream for ice cream, especially on game day.
Around the world in thirty days? Carolee Corbett checked that one off her bucketlist.
Gandhi has a story. Winston Churchill has a story. Martin Luther King Jr. has a story. Great leadership is interwoven with great stories, and often this leadership comes when leaders perceive the power of their own stories.
Whether you’re a freshman with a passing interest in business or a senior in the program with graduation drawing ever closer, the Business Strategy Club (BSC) can help give you both the “know how” and the “know who” to prepare you for the future.
In a twenty-three-hour turnaround, a team of four MBA students won second place and $1,500 in Baylor University's Business Ethics Case Competition
Brigham Young University's MBA program has been ranked No. 23 in the country by Bloomberg Businessweek, up four spots from last year's ranking.
Grant McQueen didn’t want to leave the classroom when he took on his role as BYU MBA program director.
In 1997, Lisa Jones Christensen took a break after a decade of working in business development to travel the world and work on her Spanish. While in Guatemala, she lived with low-income families in their homes. One night, when the father of one of the families came home from work rejected, mistreated, and empty-handed, she realized she needed to re-evaluate the paradigm she had grown to know about the relationship between business and quality of life.
Each spring, world-language teacher Lori LeVar Pierce’s work takes her out of the classroom and into the gladiator ring. There, after months of studying Latin, her students take on a different side of ancient culture while competing at the Junior Classical League Convention, participating in gladiator fights, footraces, javelin throws, and even a student-built chariot race. “It’s a lot of fun to act like the ancient Romans and the ancient Greeks,” Pierce says.
Dean Lee Perry has announced Grant McQueen as the new MBA director and Daniel Snow as the MBA associate director effective August 1.
Graduate business school isn’t easy by any means. MBA students write, work, research, and write some more. And then to top it all off, they are required to spend their precious summer breaks as interns.
Four recent BYU MBA graduates were featured by Poets & Quants with the best of their class from across the country.