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Finance Global Supply Chain Strategy 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.
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.
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.
Former department chair and current professor Steven Thorley reflects on the growth of the finance program.
Strategy and economics alum Ryan Harrison talks Netflix and marketing tricks and may throw in a word or two in Dutch.
Investment-minded students are traveling to Europe, managing a real fund, and working with executives from top companies and the world in an innovative study abroad.
What a BYU Marriott finance alum is doing to maximize his personal success while still paying it forward.
Strategy professor Ben Lewis was recognized for his research paper discussing rating systems, corporate responsibility, and a paradox between the two.
The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business welcomes three professors to the Tanner Building this fall.
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.
As a child growing up in South Africa during apartheid, Curtis LeBaron, associate professor of organizational leadership and strategy, was exposed to the circumstances and attitudes that defined the era.
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.
Although senior Sarah Lyman has always loved the real estate business, she never expected to find a home for that passion while studying finance.
Two Marriott School alumni were initiated into one of the most exclusive groups in the accounting world as recipients of the Elijah Watt Sells Award.
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.
Information systems senior Nick Kerr and finance senior Priscilla Hobbs are featured in Poets & Quants; list of the top undergraduate students in the nation.
Alumni LaDon Linde and Justin Oldroyd have always enjoyed a fast-paced work environment. Prior to their current positions, they both spent time at global strategy consulting firms, and Linde played a key role in a San Francisco-based tech company’s growth from twenty to two-hundred employees. Though their jobs were good, both men felt the need for something more—to use their knowledge and abilities for a work close to their hearts.
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.
Associate Dean Keith Vorkink discussed the challenges of learning how to make correct judgments in the face of uncertainty at Tuesday's BYU Devotional.
Slot canyons, river rafting, and . . . finance research papers?
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.
Cooper Brown had no aspirations to become a DJ—he just liked to entertain. One Saturday night when he was 16 and nothing else was going on, Brown and his friend threw a backyard dance party. In the following days at school, their classmates praised the party, and a business was born. Eight years later, Brown’s company, One Above Entertainment, has grown to be one of the top DJ businesses in Utah.