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In 1988 I was with my brothers and sisters when the conversation drifted to our father, who had passed away many years earlier. We shared our memories of Dad: his ways of doing things, his favorite sayings, our fishing trips where all he did was bait hooks, and so forth.
A study by Jeff Dyer and two associates says innovative CEOs spend 50 percent more time practicing key skills than do their less creative counterparts.
Two BYU teams put their Portuguese-speaking skills to the test at the BYU Business Language Case Competition winning first and second place.
While the health care debate rages on Capitol Hill, one Marriott School grad and his health care organization were recognized for low-cost, expert care.
It took a chorus of happy Whos to help Mr. Grinch. At the Marriott School, all it took was a festive tree and an invitation to give.
A typical college career fair features logos from the top Fortune 500 companies, but at this career fair, the big names weren't even invited.
For one BYU professor, adaptive sports is a solution to break down barriers for people with disabilities.
Non-native speakers from around the nation gathered at BYU to participate in the nation's only business language case competition.
BYU Accounting students took first place in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions at the 2009 Deloitte Tax Case Study Competition.
The program was ranked 14th by academics and 19th by practitioners on a highly visible list in the Supply Chain Management Review.
At age ten, Kent Andersen set his sights on being a doctor. He never once doubted his future in medicine—that is, until he submitted his medical school application. To the shock of friends and family, Andersen decided being a doctor wasn’t what he wanted to spend his life doing after all.
With the exterior complete and the interior finish work picking up pace, the Tanner Building Addition is quickly coming to life.
The retirement question often surrounds how much money you’re making, saving, and spending. It’s all about the time when work ends and, presumably, fun begins. You’ve either been stashing cash away, buying stocks, or even building a family business with the possible goal of selling it and enjoying retirement. Yet once retiree life begins, the financial work doesn’t suddenly end. The question now becomes: How will you make your savings last so you don’t run out of money before you run out of life?
If you think about the decisions you make between the ages of eighteen and thirty, you’ll realize they have a fundamental impact on where your life actually ends up.
While many Marriott School students take classes to learn research strategies, MPA student Jean Kapenda brings to graduate classes years of tried and tested real-world research from his extensive genealogy work.
One of the most important projects in my ongoing education is training my emotions and recognizing how vital they are in doing good work. We don’t check our emotions at the door when we come to work. And we take the emotional aftertaste of work back into our homes.
People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a BYU-led study.
Individuals and organizations interested in eliminating poverty worldwide will meet at BYU for the 12th annual Economic Self-Reliance Conference Nov. 5-6.
Family, Faculty Important Factors for Students
Students at Brigham Young University are turning ideas into reality at the 2009 SEOY Competition.
Amidst camouflage and battle cries Army ROTC cadets learned basic dodging, crawling and rolling recently to prepare them for future training and provide opportunities to exercise leadership skills.
It’s difficult to forge friendships with employees of a rival company in the business world. So what happens when your rival’s employee also happens to be your sister?
When 2007 Marriott School alumnus Cyle Adair was deployed to Iraq in January 2009, he didn’t think he would be using his business degree. As a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he thought of leading soldiers in firing mortars, conducting mounted and dismounted patrols, and training Iraqi forces. But none of those tasks proved to be his toughest job.
MBA graduate John Arthur Harris’ multinational ancestry of English, Chinese, Swiss, and Spanish blood isn’t his only international connection. Serving in various assignments in business and diplomatic roles, he learned to adjust quickly to new climates, cultures, and languages.