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MPA Marketing 2010–2014
Setting a price limit when shopping often backfires, says new research from BYU and Emory marketing professors.
Romney Institute students are willing to travel all over the world to gain valuable experience through internships.
The details made the difference at the inaugural Walmart Business Case Competition held at BYU.
This year hundreds more Marriott School graduates were hired, resulting from an intensified focus on placement.
Have you ever thought of going back to school? Finding the right executive program might be more realistic than you think.
In the typical search for jobs and internships, students seek out the company. Romney Institute students have a different idea.
Gary Gustafson, a 1994 MPA graduate, is a man who just keeps going. His career is full of accomplishments and adventures, but his endurance continues outside the office.
Just four years after completing her joint JD/MPA degree, Kristi Anderson has become a rising star in the Navy JAG Corp. As a prosecuting attorney and a naval officer, Anderson handles a variety of civilian and military cases. She credits her time at the Marriott School for giving her an extra boost in skills and experience to land the job and excel in her responsibilities.
With laptops charged, whiteboards cleared, and markers ready, it’s now up to the Executive MBA students’ careful positioning and strategic thinking to navigate the intricacies of a simulated marketplace. 
BYU's Romney Institute awarded Francine Giani with its 2011 N. Dale Wright Distinguished Alumni Award.
What do you do when your company is comfortably selling a product, and then suddenly a competitor offers a similar one for free?
With an accomplished career in the health care industry, Gary Pulsipher found himself where no one wants to be: in the middle of a natural disaster.
Gov. Gary Herbert appointed David Hart to join a new state council looking to give Utah an economic and managerial boost.
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.
According to education reformer Horace Mann, "human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated"
Most students usually work a side job, but not many spend their free time running a million-dollar company.
Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review place BYU No. 4 at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
For soon-to-be graduates attempting to join the workforce, knowing the right people is more pertinent than ever.
CIS students from across the globe experienced a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as they visited with LDS Church leaders.
This class doesn’t have a textbook. In fact, some of the required reading comes from Wikipedia, a taboo for just about any other class on campus. But the syllabus states it bluntly: “Text: none; it would be outdated anyway.”
It’s 9:58 p.m. in a small, dark theater. The audience members, an eclectic mix of fashionistas and film fanatics, sit whispering, their faces washed in the green glow of the theater’s exit signs.
Jamie Cope Bennee, a 34-year-old BYU Executive MPA student, died in a tragic plane crash in Payson, Utah, on Nov. 18.
Rex Facer has been appointed to the Federal Salary Council to help evaluate pay comparability of 1.3 million federal employees.