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Business Management Marketing 2016 2010–2014
BYU's undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs were ranked No. 4 and No. 7, respectively.
Many business schools are not teaching MBAs to create new businesses, according to two of BYU's innovation gurus.
It only took five seconds for Ryan Judkins’s boss to approve his beard plan. Surprised, Judkins, a sales representative for Callaway Golf and a normally clean-cut guy, asked, “You do realize I might have a beard that’s five, six, or seven inches long at one point?”
Students at BYU's Marriott School are gearing up for study abroad programs hosted by the Global Management Center.
BYU's Marriott School announced the 2012 Bateman Awards—the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
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.
What do you do when your company is comfortably selling a product, and then suddenly a competitor offers a similar one for free?
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.
While students are usually pitching themselves to companies, this time the tables were turned.
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.
Poised on the foothills of “Silicon Slopes,” BYU Marriott School marketing professors are determined to make their students more marketable than ever.
Marriott School programs are notorious for having limited enrollment and low acceptance rates. Every summer, hopeful Marriott School applicants anxiously await the news of whether they’ve been accepted into their prospective majors.
Tom Foster, department chair of marketing and global supply chain at the Marriott School, had never played two truths and a lie—a game in which players share two hard-to-believe truths and one lie about themselves, then the other players must guess which is the lie. But when pressed for three statements, he said:
You’re scrolling through Facebook, and a video catches your eye. A man is riding a horse on a beach and telling you he is the man your man could smell like.
Nine new faculty members joined the ranks of the Marriott School of Management as the 2016-17 school year began this month.
Kim Borup knows a good investment when she sees one.
As a busy neuroscience graduate student and teacher of undergrad psychology courses at Duke University, Stephanie Santistevan-Swett needed a versatile outfit to get her through busy days. Rompers—loose, one-piece garments combining a shirt and pants or shorts—were the perfect mix of comfy and cute, but she was having a hard time finding any with sleeves. So she took her love of fashion and her 2009 BYU marketing degree, patched together with some imagination and passion, and stitched together her own company, Eva Jo, to design, manufacture, and sell comfortable and fashionable clothing.
Working as an attorney at one of the oldest firms in New York City, Chandler Tanner finally understood what the classic rock band Loverboy meant when they sang “Working for the Weekend.”
New doctor's orders: No earbuds, no music, and no watching TV while eating.
The Marriott School's Tom Foster has been appointed the new editor of the Quality Management Journal.