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Most people are surprised to learn that lawyer and Marriott alumnus Kelly Crabb has written a cowboy musical, produced a documentary, represented Paul McCartney, and won an Olympic gold medal (well, kind of). His most recent surprise is that he has written a guide to being a movie producer. This media-savvy legal counsel never really meant to go into showbiz, it was simply unavoidable.
Somewhere amongst the clouds of his childhood dreams of becoming a private pilot, Mark H. Taylor bumped into the notion of accounting, which brought his feet right back to the ground. But that hasn’t stopped him from rising above the rest to land an academic fellowship at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
No one in Beatrice Cortes’ family has ever completed graduate school. So when the California native and Mexican descendent graduates from the Marriott School next year with her MBA, she will be making history. But passing that milestone was only a dream until she received an Extended Reach scholarship. “The scholarship got me into grad school sooner than I could have done on my own,” she says. “I am fortunate to have it and am very appreciative.”
Talk to any cheese importer, student studying abroad, or retired couple finally realizing their dream to see the Sistine Chapel, and you're bound to hear that leaving the United States hurts, especially in the pocketbook.
This is the fourth of a five-part personal financial planning series sponsored by the Peery Institute of Financial Services. The final installment, on savings and retirement, will appear in the Winter 2006 issue.
For centuries China has fascinated Westerners, exerting its influence in culture, government, philosophy, and religion across the globe. Although many Americans associate the country with egg rolls and sweet-and-sour chicken, China is shaking off stereotypes and embracing new ideas to increase its worldwide economic strength.
More than eight hundred people crowd BYU’s Joseph Smith Auditorium on a spring afternoon—some anxious, others curious. With the mix of chatter and upbeat music filling the room, a pep rally may seem imminent, but this gathering is a bit more cerebral in nature.
When we think about principles of leadership, some things work quite consistently across many organizations with widely different objectives, cultures, communities, and people. These principles work because they’re fundamental and simple—therefore you may have a tendency to dismiss them.
The Marriott School Web Analytics Competition, hosted by the Rollins Center for eBusiness, is looking for an innovative student team. Past eBusiness competitions have challenged student teams to design Web sites or come up with creative solutions to improve existing sites. This semester the eBusiness Center has teamed with Omniture to present a new competition allowing anyone with critical thinking skills to compete.
A hot dog stand doesn’t quite sound like a business about to take over the world. But with the kind of attention J Dawgs is getting, especially after winning this year’s BYU Entrepreneur of the Year Competition, the little hot dog stand just south of campus has its sights set on becoming one of the big dogs.
Good deeds act as ‘insurance policy’ against misfortune, scandal and negative headlines
Princeton Review ranked BYU's Marriott School as the nation's most family friendly business school.
The fall eBusiness Day, themed "eGlobal: Connect Locally, Act Globally," will demonstrate how the world is being connected through technology. The event will be held on Friday, Nov. 11, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the second floor atrium and in room 251 of the Tanner Building.
The Marriott Undergraduate Student Association at Brigham Young University, in conjunction with Dillard’s, invites students to its first annual case competition Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in room 251 of the Tanner Building. The case competition will give business students experience problem-solving an international strategy situation taken from a real-world example.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants appointed Marriott School Professor Douglas Prawitt to its Auditing Standards Board. The board consists of 19 members who set auditing standards for private companies, nonprofit organizations as well as state and local governments.
Public Accounting Report, a top accounting trade publication, ranks Brigham Young University’s undergraduate and graduate accounting programs 2nd in their 2005 annual survey. Both programs at BYU’s Marriott School of Management moved up one spot from last year’s rankings — marking the 10th consecutive year that the school’s undergraduate and graduate programs have been among the top three in the nation.
CEO of Dell, Massachusetts’ Governor among authors
National best-selling author Stephen R. Covey will address Brigham Young University students Jan. 23 at a lecture hosted by the Marriott School’s Business Strategy Club and the Marriott Undergraduate Student Association.
Marriott School 45th among global programs
Alison Davis-Blake, senior associate dean for academic affairs at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, has been named dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. When she begins her term at the Carlson School in July 2006, Davis-Blake will be the school’s first female dean, as well as the highest-ranking female dean at any business school in the United States.
Good luck and great associates are what Gary L. Crittenden, executive vice president and chief financial officer of American Express Company, attributes much of his success to.
It was just one of those days.