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Students at BYU Marriott are not strangers to the idea of networking with their peers, but this year the Global Supply Chain Association have taken it to a new level.
Students in Lee Daniels' International Business class learn to interact within a team framework, and rate each other's presentations. Daniels does this so his students are better prepared for future interviews and job opportunities.
The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business welcomes five new faculty members, all of whom began teaching with the commencement of the Fall 2018 semester.
Amid Independence Day celebrations and summer relaxation in July, pre-business students eagerly wait to find out if they were accepted to BYU Marriott.
Assistant teaching professor Scott Webb believes the best way to teach is to fill the classroom's atmosphere with love and concern for each other.
Surviving an earthquake and living overseas are just two experiences that have led senior Clorisa Griffiths to excel in the global supply chain program.
In the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed, BYU Marriott students made new history by winning the 2018 Silver Lake Competition.
What does a BYU Marriott degree and celebrity rock concerts have in common? For alum Jeff Burns, they have everything to do with his profession.
How would you invest $10 million dollars? BYU Marriott students answered this question in front of a panel of executives at the Nissin Global Supply Chain Management Case Competition.
At the first-ever Women in Supply Chain event, the Union Pacific EVP and chief marketing officer gave five tips for success in the business world.
Big-name schools made their way to Provo as BYU Marriott hosted the Deloitte Supply Chain Case Competition for the second year in a row.
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.
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:
Life is just like riding a bike, right? Well for Jake Homer sometimes it is more like a sprint triathlon—literally.
The Marriott School's Tom Foster has been appointed the new editor of the Quality Management Journal.
Around the world in thirty days? Carolee Corbett checked that one off her bucketlist.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University announces ten MBA candidates as its 2004 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school.
MBA Students Win Thunderbird Innovation Challenge
In an economy characterized by receding retirement funds and a volatile stock market, a group of BYU MBA students beat the odds – and 18 other universities - to earn a 32 percent return on their portfolio. Sponsors of the competition, brokerage firm D.A. Davidson & Co., awarded the Marriott School's Peery Institute with a $7,000 check for successfully managing the company's $50,000 investment portfolio throughout last year.
School Touted as Place to Hire Ethical Graduates
A class of Marriott School students has established the university’s first-ever endowed scholarship funded by a single class. With the help of matching contributions from the BYU Annual Fund campaign, the students contributed enough to form a scholarship endowment of $30,000.
Students at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management selected two of their classmates and a professor to receive the 2003 Merrill J. Bateman Awards. These honors, now in their second year, are the only awards chosen solely by business school students.
Despite being one teammate short, arriving at the competition with only five minutes to spare and having to begin planning their case in a car by flashlight, a team of three students from BYU’s Marriott School recently placed second at an international business ethics competition.