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Business Management Entrepreneurship MBA 2021
When Tom Peterson graduated from BYU in 1981, he thought he had already come to fully appreciate the value of his BYU education.
When teaching his class to MBA students, BYU Marriott professor Nile Hatch shares his own method of innovation: developing a deep understanding of other's needs.

Entrepreneurship is, in many ways, the lifeblood of our economy. Each year, more than half a million businesses are started, and millions of jobs are created in the United States alone. Additionally, the entrepreneurial itch helps advance technology and diversifies the economy.
BYU students across campus can gain a business background for any number of careers by earning the entrepreneurship minor.
While a trolley bus system has not been used in Utah for 75 years, an antique bus will soon be gracing the streets of Provo thanks to BYU Marriott entrepreneurship senior Afton Ellis Long.
Since completing a social impact internship in Mexico City, entrepreneurial management alum Nathan Noble has charted a career path dedicated to serving others and helping people in need.
Connections count in business, especially when you work in real estate.
EMBA grad Bob Ycmat is proud of the lessons he has learned and the impact he has had throughout his career, a journey he says was reenergized by BYU Marriott.
George Erickson's dynamic railroad career took him to a variety of prestigious positions, but he says what he is most proud of has nothing to do with his work.
Not long after Kim Scoville began teaching at BYU Marriott, she noticed a need for legal knowledge in the entrepreneurship program and decided to do something about it.
Almost everything is a learning curve when you’re starting a business, and Sandy Whitaker, a 2003 business management alum, acknowledges that there can be plenty of bumps and detours along the way. But as she and her husband, Tim, a physical therapist, worked to realize their long-term goal of opening a physical therapy practice, Whitaker found that navigating the curve was easier because of knowledge and skills she had gathered along the way—from her formal education, her past jobs, and even her hobbies.
When Stephen H. Russell reflects on his life, he is struck by the way seemingly small decisions and ordinary situations have blossomed into extraordinary opportunities. “None of this was part of a strategic plan,” he says, “and I feel grateful when I see all the times Heavenly Father has blessed me.”
As a part of this year's Homecoming, BYU presented an Alumni Achievement Award to BYU Marriott MBA graduate Brandon Robinson.
The skills BYU Marriott MBA alum Eduardo Dallagnese learned in his Cardon International Scholarship classes prepared him for leadership roles throughout his career.
Oahu’s Aloha Stadium has been part of Michael Iosua’s life for almost as long as he can remember. In his younger years, he shopped at the swap meet and spent Saturdays in the stands, cheering on the University of Hawaii football team. During college, it was his home field when he played defensive lineman for the Rainbow Warriors. Now he attends football games there with his own family, and he has just completed a term as president of the N Koa Football Club, the University of Hawaii’s official booster organization.
While entrepreneurship has been a lifelong goal for senior Nathan Miller, he did not fully commit to his dreams until listening to a guest speaker in one of his BYU Marriott classes.
The office door of BYU Marriott professor Jim Brau is always open. Brau believes making connections with his students is the most important part of his job.
The journey to becoming the first-ever chief operating officer and chief safety officer for the Natural History Museum of Utah was not one that BYU Marriott MBA alumna Abby Curran expected.
As an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship, Jason Christensen strives to instill the same ambition within his students that propelled his own success.

Blake Barkdull, an entrepreneurship junior at BYU Marriott, has paired his entrepreneurship lessons with real-life experience to create a business of tasty concoctions.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Thomas Y.K. Fong has long loved learning about the earth’s natural processes. He originally planned to earn a bachelor’s degree in geology at BYU and then pursue graduate studies in oceanography. But during one midwinter geology field trip to St. George, Utah, a sandstorm blew through the group’s campsite, prompting Fong to reconsider whether his studies had brought him too close to nature for comfort. “Halfway through that cold, sand-blown night, I’m thinking, ‘Is this really what I want to do for the rest of my life?’” Fong recalls.
In 1968 more than 150 students graduated from BYU Marriott with degrees in business management. Kristi Taylor Lawrence was one of the few women in that graduating class.
BYU junior Isaac Dushku was recently announced as the 2021 Student Entrepreneur of the Year by the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.


With a little help from the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, Bryan Stringham is now living out his childhood dream of becoming an inventor.