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As a professor of experience design and management, Mark Widmer finds ways to combine his love of wilderness exploration with the principles of experience design.
A common theme throughout BYU Marriott MBA student Joseph van Scheltema's life is to carry on through coping with family tragedy, supporting his family as a student, and traveling through a global pandemic.
Doing good even better is a tall order, but it’s one that BYU Marriott’s MSB 375 course, Social Innovation: Do Good Better, has successfully taken on.
An all-women team of students from the MBA program at the BYU Marriott School of Business took first place at the Utah Venture Capital Case Competition.
Recruiting season is a crazy time of trying to balance schoolwork with interviews. BYU Marriott MBA student Lillian Barton navigated all that during the final weeks of her pregnancy.
The career of Gibb Dyer has been one full of interesting twists and turns. Throughout all of his world travels, Dyer teaches people how to build family businesses.
After the loss of his younger brother, BYU Marriott MBA student Easton Johnston, was inspired to make a personal reset on his career.
Whether he's flying helicopters across Afghanistan and Iraq or running 100-mile ultramarathons, Jeff Timmons applies lessons that he learned at BYU Marriott.
For BYU Marriott alum Uros Stampe, success is a journey that comes one step at a time, with each experience helping him uncover his interests and gain confidence in the skills he's worked diligently to develop.
As a mom of six, the CEO of her own company, an entrepreneur, and a business coach, Stacy Paulsen knows all too well that women are capable of wearing many hats.
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.
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.
Whether Christian Hsieh is talking with a veteran of finance or a young employee of a startup, the BYU Marriott MBA alum is constantly learning something new.
Every semester, students in BYU Marriott's Silver Fund manage more than three million dollars of real investments through trading stocks.
During her career in higher education, BYU Marriott alumna Alison Davis-Blake has prized building mentorship relationships with students and colleagues.
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.
The 2020–21 Williams Scholars were recently announced at a special event in the Tanner Building. This year's four recipients are Caitlin Jolley, Angela Smith, Jacob Valentine, and Logan Wooden.
BYU Marriott MBA director Daniel Snow wishes he had a dollar for every time hears received compliments about his BYU Marriott graduates in the workforce.
The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business MBA program has awarded ten students with the 2021 George E. Stoddard Prize, an award given to first- and second-year students in the BYU Marriott MBA program.
Ten students were named as 2021 Hawes Scholars, an honor that carries the highest distinction given to MBA students at BYU Marriott.
The Whitmore Global Business Center at BYU Marriott announced that eleven MBA students were recently recognized as the 2021 Eccles Scholars.
BYU Marriott MBA alum Trent Hamilton spends his days building teams of people who drive the medical technology of the future forward and whose innovations help save lives.
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.”
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.