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Two-thousand and four is turning out to be a very good year for first-year MBA students at BYU. After weathering several rough years, internship placement has risen sharply this spring and summer. As of the first of July, 92 percent of students seeking internships were placed, compared to 61 percent placed in 2003.
David A. Wood has been selected by The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation as the recipient of the 2004 Esther R. Sawyer Scholarship Award.
Brigham Young University’s Romney Institute of Public Management honored Karen Suzuki-Okabe with its 2004 N. Dale Wright Outstanding Alumni Award. The Romney Institute presented the award at a banquet held 21 May.
9 abuses conspired to create "perfect fraud storm"
“The only constant in our business is that everything is changing. We have to take advantage of change and not let it take advantage of us.”
—Michael Dell, Chairman
Dell Computer Corporation
Assistant Dean Joseph D. Ogden discusses the growing impact of fraud with international fraud expert and Associate Dean W. Steve Albrecht. Albrecht has published more than eighty articles in professional journals and numerous books on fraud, personal finance, and accounting. Throughout his career he has consulted for more than sixty-five organizations including British Petroleum, Bank of America, General Motors, IBM, the United Nations, and the FBI. In addition, he has served as an expert witness in twenty-six major fraud cases, the largest of which was $2.8 billion. Finally, Albrecht has been recognized by Accounting Today as one of the top one hundred most influential people in accounting.
My family and I are very proud to have our name associated with this great school—not only because it’s a terrific educational institution, but because we espouse similar values.
Industrious alaskans have developed unique stress management techniques. Many employers in the northern region give employees “subsistence leave” as a negotiated benefit. How do the thrifty natives use their subsistence leave? They prepare for the cold months ahead by drying and packaging hundreds of fish and enjoy family time together handpicking quarts of blueberries.
When John McKinney graduated with his MBA last August, he wasn’t the only member of his family walking across the stage. He was joined by his wife, April, who earned her BS in community health, and their son, Collin, who earned his MA in Spanish literature. Then, one week after their graduation, John and April began serving a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, working for the Perpetual Education Fund (PEF). President Gordon B. Hinckley announced the PEF in 2001. In a January 2004 Ensign article, Elder John K. Carmack says the PEF was designed to “provide loans to help worthy returned missionaries and other young Latter-day Saint adults gain the training and education necessary for adequate employment in their own countries.”
Soon after Arturo Leon graduated with his MOB from the Marriott School, he found himself on the hot seat, being grilled by the president of the Mexican senate.
MBA grad Candice Wong (Lau, Siu Kuen) is second-in-command at a large Hong Kong jewelry company, and the road to this position was paved with self-discipline, hard work, ana strong sense of leadership.
The Marriott School of Management will host its 9th Annual BYU Management Conference 24–26 June 2004. Nationally recognized speakers will discuss principles for building outstanding leaders in organizations, communities and families. Special entertainment and evening activities are planned for the whole family.
The Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University announced its 2004 Staff and Administrator Excellence Award winners at a luncheon 11 May.
Three teams with Brigham Young University students finished first, second and third at the University of Utah Entrepreneurial Challenge. Tropi-Cool, SilentWhistle.com and The Mayan Tree beat out seven other finalists to claim prizes at the April competition. Tropi-Cool, a company specializing in Mexican ice cream treats, won $40,000 for their first-place finish.
Marriott School information systems students recently placed at a national competition and technology conference. The students placed 2nd, 3rd and 4th in a Java programming contest and 3rd and 4th place in a database design contest during the National Collegiate Conference (NCC) in Omaha, Neb.
A team of Marriott School accounting students earned first-place at the National Student Case Study Seminar sponsored by the Deloitte Foundation -- beating out other top accounting schools including University of Southern California, University of Notre Dame and Indiana University.
BYU undergraduate startup Property Solutions was announced as the winner of $250,000 in funding from the National Institute for Entrepreneurship’s Venture Bowl 2004. Venture Bowl is the nation’s largest college business plan competition.
Marriott School professor Paul Godfrey received the Civic Engagement Award for Brigham Young University from the Utah Campus Compact April 6. Godfrey, associate professor of strategy, was honored for his work designing and implementing financial literacy programs for elementary, junior high and high schools.
Superoots USA captured first place at Brigham Young University’s nationally recognized business plan competition April 2. Brant Walker, owner and president of Superoots USA, beat out two other finalists to claim this year’s title with his plan to manufacture and distribute Air-Pot plant containers. The team won $25,000 in cash and $25,000 in in-kind support services for their business. In addition to winning the business plan competition, Walker was named BYU Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003.
Ninety fifth and sixth graders from Provo's Timpanogos Elementary School will be testing their business acumen during the first-of-its-kind mini-business fair at Brigham Young University Friday, April 4, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. on the plaza between the BYU Bookstore and Harold B. Lee Library.
Nine Recognized for Contributions in Teaching, Research and Citizenship
The Marriott School’s Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy named Kerry Patterson the 2004 William G. Dyer Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient. The Dyer Award is presented annually to an alumnus who makes a significant contribution in the field of organizational behavior. He wrote the New York Times bestseller, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High .
Headaches are mounting as people struggle to make sense of their taxes with April 15 fast on their heels. But taxes are no headache for five BYU accounting students whose tax knowledge recently earned them a substantial return at the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ xTAX competition.
Students at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management selected two of their classmates and a professor to receive the 2004 Merrill J. Bateman Awards. These honors, now in their third year, are the only awards chosen solely by business school students.