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The BYU supply chain program was doubly honored this week at Deloitte Consulting's annual Supply Chain Challenge.
BYU strategy professor James Oldroyd was flying to Singapore for a job interview when a colleague called and asked him to stop by South Korea. With no expectations, Oldroyd complied and made a pit stop at the Sungkyunkwan Graduate School of Business (SKK GSB). This brief trip changed the course of his life for the next five years.
The BYU MBA program jumped fifteen spots to place No. 65 in the world in the latest Financial Times ranking. The rise up also included a bump in the program's rank among U.S. schools.
Giuseppe Vinci could hardly sit still, eyes glued to the TV in his humble home of Milan, Italy. It was the 1996 Olympic opening ceremonies and Muhammad Ali was lighting the torch, sending goosebumps all down Vinci’s neck. Right then Vinci knew he had to be in the Olympics some day.
You know you’re in a class with entrepreneurship professor Michael Hendron when you’re lectured about sailplanes and how they apply to starting and running a business. Hendron would know, since he is highly experienced in both fields.
Melanie Sander believes in hard work. As a self-proclaimed “late career changer,” she knows what it means to take risks with calculation and savvy. These elements have been a running theme throughout her life and her international career in education, and they’ve given her the momentum to get back into the classroom—this time as a student—and into the world of business.
Melanie Sander believes in hard work. As a self-proclaimed “late career changer,” she knows what it means to take risks with calculation and savvy. These elements have been a running theme throughout her life and her international career in education, and they’ve given her the momentum to get back into the classroom—this time as a student—and into the world of business.
BYU's MBA global supply chain program brought home its second national case competition win in as many weeks, leaving other programs scrambling to keep up.
A team of five BYU MBA students placed first in the statewide Association for Corporate Growth Cup Competition, defeating teams from the University of Utah and Utah Valley University and winning $5,000.
Students from majors all over campus gather early on a Saturday morning for an eight-hour class on innovating and testing ideas. It’s their first and their last lecture of the semester, and once it’s over, they have five days to apply what they learned by creating a startup business plan to present to the professor the following Thursday.
The BYU MBA program maintained its national status in the U.S. News World Report ranking, coming in at No. 34 in the country.
To remedy their boredom one summer afternoon in 2009, Jeffrey Handy and his high school buddies decided to get a trailer, fill it with cardboard boxes, and build a giant fort in his friend’s backyard. To their surprise, the fort built from two hundred boxes attracted more than three hundred spectators and earned them the record for world’s largest cardboard fort.
Eleven students were honored with the George E. Stoddard Prize, a $5,000 award given to exceptional second-year MBA finance students.
A realization prompted four entrepreneurship majors to create Kudoz, an app similar to Pocket Points that incentivizes phone users to keep their phones locked while driving.
Beginning April 10, BYU MBA alum and former MBA director Henry J. Eyring will start his assignment as the 17th president of Brigham Young University-Idaho.
Ten first-year MBA candidates have been announced as Eccles Scholars, an award presented by the school's Whitmore Global Management Center.
Swim with sperm whales in Dominica—check. Visit an underground city in Turkey—check. Canyoneer in Indonesia—check. See the annual lantern festival in Thailand; swim with penguins in the Galapagos; and kayak with dolphins in Australia—check, check, check!
North Carolina may have danced through March Madness, but on the Tar Heels' own campus it was BYU that made it to the finals of the world's most respected venture capital competition.
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.
Three students in BYU’s No. 2-ranked entrepreneurship program aren’t waiting to apply what they’re learning until after graduation; instead, they have a jump start on their business ventures:
The BYU MBA program Autumn Wagner has been featured as one of the Best &Brightest MBAs in the nation by Poets & Quants.
As an MBA student at BYU, 2016 graduate Mike Johnson walked the streets of Europe, full of hope that he would someday live and work there. Now he lives in Madrid, and he credits the Whitmore Global Management Center (GMC) with helping make his dream a reality.
“We’re riding a rocket ship right now,” says 2006 MBA alum Sam Bernards of his work with one of Utah’s fastest-growing companies, comfort-tech manufacturer Purple. His career has been a series of fast-paced experiences, from innovating within the world’s largest retailer to angel and venture investing, and he’s not planning to stop pursuing new ideas anytime soon.
MBA alum and American Express VP Shawn Bryant has more than a few stamps in his passport.