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Entrepreneurship MBA 2016 2010–2014
A three-day tour of the Bay Area with a group of fellow college students. Sounds fun, right?
BYU students know what it takes to create a successful company, and they have the results to prove it.
This year hundreds more Marriott School graduates were hired, resulting from an intensified focus on placement.
The Marriott School honored Michael Swenson as its 2011 Outstanding Faculty. Fourteen others were also recognized.
Good communicators are supposed to work behind the scenes, but sometimes they can't help getting pulled on stage.
The professorship, funded by Brent and Bonnie Jean Beesley, was created to recognize Hill's influence on students in Provo.
BYU is being recognized as a business startup factory — churning out hundreds of student-run ventures each year.
While students are usually pitching themselves to companies, this time the tables were turned.
Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review place BYU No. 4 at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Skyler Carr grew up dreaming of traveling through space and hunting aliens. His favorite day in grade school included a trip to the Space Center in Pleasant Grove, where he could practice being a spaceman. He never forgot those days, and in 2012 he was devastated to hear the Space Center would be shut down.
Mike Norton dreamed of playing lacrosse in college on the East Coast. But thanks to his mom, he's now a budding entrepreneur major with new startups in his sights.
BYU students' 422 companies and $719 million in funding raised in the last five years are just two ways the entrepreneurship program is ranked one of the strongest in the nation.
Cotopaxi has a reputation of generating new and ingenious designs, but its newest product, the Inti 2, takes innovation to a whole new level.
Student entrepreneurs from Brigham Young University took 15 of the top 25 spots at the annual Utah Student 25 Awards.
The International Business Model Competition is the first and largest lean startup competition in the world. But who's thinking lean when they can bring home the bacon?
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.
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.
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.
Morgan Edwards has always been a builder.
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.