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If there were a poster child for the importance of developing relationships—real relationships—throughout your career, Amy Sawaya Hunter would be it.
The potential to achieve lasting and meaningful success in life is within each of us—at least that's what strategy senior David Rawson says.
Life is just like riding a bike, right? Well for Jake Homer sometimes it is more like a sprint triathlon—literally.
Four BYU Marriott students helped create a sustainable alternative for Walmart's supply chain process through the Ballard Center for Social Impact.
After spending most of his time as an undergraduate student preparing for law school, Kurt Herrmann received surprising inspiration to change career paths.
Bringing people together from all walks of life is important to BYU Marriott global supply chain management senior Victoria Lopez.
The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business welcomes nine new professors this fall.
What do you get when you combine business strategy and students from 16 different majors? A group dedicated to applying strategic principles to any career.
The more Breann Hunt learns about social impact causes, the more the strategic management senior envisions businesses changing the way they operate forever.
After realizing his student apartment did not have a recycling program, BYU Marriott strategy alum Ryan Smith went to work to create his gig economy recycling company Recyclops.
When Dublin native John Connolly first came to visit Utah, he had no idea that he would eventually be a professor at BYU Marriott School of Business only eight years later.
Global supply chain management alumna McKenzi Gebhard believes that she wouldn't be where she is today if not for the BYU Marriott School of Business.
Four years ago, BYU Marriott alum Stephen Farnsworth wanted to move technology forward. In order to reach his goals, he took a risk—one that has paid off years later.
With its emphasis on teaching students to discover solutions to seemingly impossible problems, BYU Marriott's course Strategy 421: Strategy Implementation is one that Sherlock Holmes would have approved of.
At home in Australia, strategy senior Jaysen Valdes felt that his goals were out of reach. However, he now uses his skills to reach all of his aspirations.
Even though students cannot be prepared for all future changes, a new analytics class at BYU Marriott helps teach students some of the skills they'll need to make decisions in their future careers.
No matter where life takes him, global supply chain professor Simon Greathead always seems to find his way back to Provo.
When it comes to being involved on BYU campus, Allison Oberle has been there, done that. She graduated in 2015 from the global supply chain program. During her time at BYU, she worked on the women’s initiative of GSC, served as VP of Women’s Outreach, led as co-president of the Global Supply Chain Association her senior year, and worked in the Global Management Center. She also danced competitively on BYU’s international folk dancing team for three consecutive years, traveling for months at a time. She now works for Sun Products Cooperation in Salt Lake City as a customer supply chain specialist.
Keith Olsen was looking for real-world experience when he arrived at BYU. This semester, Olsen found what he wanted by leading a team of five students in a case competition hosted by the Strategy Club. The team worked together for almost three hours a day to prepare a corporate strategy for LucidChart, a local software company.
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:
Whether it be climbing the tallest mountains in Europe and Africa or climbing the ladder toward a successful business career, Charles Barrett, a 2009 graduate from the Marriott School strategy program, reaches the top one step at a time.
Nine new faculty members joined the ranks of the Marriott School of Management as the 2016-17 school year began this month.
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.
New research from Cody Reeves, assistant professor of organizational leadership and strategy, can help leaders avoid headaches when telecommuters are on a team.