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Global Supply Chain MBA ROTC 2017
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.
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.
What does it take to turn a twenty-mile journey into a first place victory?
As a young man, alum Cameron Cozzens never planned to serve in the military; he didn’t even come from a military family. But one suggestion from a high school counselor to look into the military changed his mind—and from there, the BYU Army ROTC changed the course of his life, leading him on a path of leadership.
Lt. Col. Forrest Cook encouraged attendees at the program held in Sandy, Utah, to remember the significance of Memorial Day.
The Brigham Young University Board of Trustees has approved a change to the name of the university's business school and two of its departments in addition to changing seven undergraduate emphases to majors.
Forty-three cadets passed seven evaluations to receive the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge to test participants' physical and mental skills.
Chase Dowse, a senior majoring in geospatial intelligence who recently received the George C. Marshall ROTC Award for leadership after serving as company commander over all BYU and UVU Army ROTC cadets.
Throughout her education and career, Marriott School alumna Amy Sawaya has used global supply chain as her catchall answer to what she wants to be when she grows up, even as the details of those plans have changed significantly.
BYU’s Army ROTC has a lasting tradition of producing top military leaders. Founded in 1968, BYU’s program has become the largest in the nation. In January 2016, the program received the Geronimo Award, an honor given to the best large-level program within the seven-state region. As of last year, fifty percent of BYU Army ROTC graduates ranked in the top twenty percent of graduates nationwide.
With a competitive pass rate and record scores, it's no surprise that BYU's student club won the Clark Johnson Award and a $5,000 grant.
Marriott School of Management dean Lee Perry has announced John Bingham as the new chair of the organizational leadership and strategy department, effective 1 July.
Jackson, Wyoming—the gateway to the grand Tetons—is almost always bustling. Snow-capped peaks and expansive horizons draw crowds to this tiny outpost in the American west.
Reducing the compensation of a CEO by half is not an easy decision. But for board members with shareholders to consider, tough decisions like these are sometimes necessary.
Two spandex-clad riders whizzed into the building, disappearing from view. As the BYU Marriott School students and their advisor stepped into the warehouse, the smell of rubber, aluminum, and cardboard—components of freshly manufactured bicycles—welcomed them into biker paradise.
While Kevin Barker and Renae Rockwood, two juniors in the global supply chain program, are both involved students who worked hard to get into their program, their future endeavors couldn’t be more different. Read on for their takes on global supply chain, the Marriott School, and internships, as well as their aspirations in the fields of aerospace and academia. (Note: Their responses have been edited for length and clarity.)
Popular prejudice often says that a good salary comes at the expense of job satisfaction. But Dain Berrett, outgoing president of BYU’s Product Management Association, argues that isn’t always the case. Berrett, a second-year MBA student, says studies show product managers enjoy one of the best combinations of job satisfaction and salary of any profession. And, with the tech industry continuing to grow, the need for professionals to bridge the gap between product development and consumers is increasing as well.
Adam Mikkelsen grew up on a farm in Oregon where, no matter the chore, he was always looking for ways to improve. At BYU he studied economics before switching to global supply chain so he could be more hands-on with his work. As a student, he interned at an industrial auditing firm as an auditing intern, where he traveled across the western Chinese province of Qinghai in order to share best practices and greener technology between the companies there and in Utah. Later, he worked at Walmart as a merchandising analyst for apparel sourcing. He accepted a job as a strategy and operations consultant at Deloitte after graduating in April 2015 because he believed international consulting will give him a better opportunity to work and travel.
“I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.” Global supply chain management professor Scott Sampson keeps this quote from David Letterman hanging in his office. In essence, it’s what Sampson is all about.
Two BYU Marriott teams hit last-minute curveballs out of the park at an HR case competition.
A BYU MBA team's solutions for a big name company were rewarded at a recent ethics case competition.
Alum Jason Barron's new book, taken from sketches he made while taking notes during his EMBA courses, is two years of business school packed into one priceless book of pure awesomeness.

The BYU Marriott School of Business MBA program was cited for its human resource emphasis and its support of student families.
The program improved two spots over its previous ranking thanks to its outstanding return on investment.