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Six MBA students from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University won first place in the Daniels Ethics Case & Race in Denver. The competition, hosted by the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business, included a business ethics case competition and a downhill ski challenge.
Marriott School students host exercise fundraiser
MBA and MPA students from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management teamed with students from New York University on a pilot project to help with the United Nation’s Global Compact develop a worldwide program for MBA students. Students from both universities contributed analysis of corporate citizenship activities for participating companies. The students presented their findings at the U.N.’s New York headquarters Feb. 6, 2004.
Quanto costa inserire pubblicità nel giornale? Learning how much an advertisement costs in a foreign language is only the beginning of what students can experience in business Italian and Arabic classes, now offered for the first time through the Global Management Center at BYU.
All it took was a simple challenge for Lisa and Jack Williams to get involved. After attending a BYU microcredit conference in 2000, Lisa and Jack started their own action group in Elk Grove, Calif. The group meets bi-monthly, educating themselves on microenterprise and discussing their goals and progress in collecting money for a microcredit bank.
Students, faculty and staff at Brigham Young University can receive free on-campus income tax preparation assistance through March 26, a service that is also available to local community members who earned below $35,000 in 2003.
Looking at the proliferation of business school rankings may make you feel like you’re staring down an IRS tax form. They’re complex, constantly changing, and often confusing. In fact, there are now more major business school rankings than major accounting firms. So why are there so many different rankings? What is the school ranked and why? Administrators and faculty are often asked these questions. The problem is, the answers are not simple and are rarely consistent over time. Nonetheless, examining the fine print and contrasting the perspectives of some of the most prominent rankings provides some answers and valuable insights. 
Today’s graduates enter the workforce in the midst of a tremendous famine—not a famine of bread and water—but a famine of time for what makes life worth living. The realities of a global 
An employee who underperforms usually belongs to either the “can do/won’t do” or the “will do/can’t do” category. Those who can but won’t have motivation problems and those who will but can’t have performance problems associated with lack of skills.
Cody Strong, a 2002 MPA graduate, has spent the last year working as a public servant—not as a city or state administrator—but as a second lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Iraq.
The Webster brothers know that money doesn’t grow on trees; however, in the last few years they’ve successfully expanded their family’s 200-acre orchard into a profitable online business.
Although Amy Olsen Clark has worked for numerous organizations—Microsoft, UVSC, United Way, Johnson & Johnson to name a few—she says her best job experience came when she worked as a program coordinator for CES youth and family programs while attending BYU.
For some entrepreneurs, inspiration hits in an airport terminal, conference room, or classroom. For Mike Robson, the conversation that put him on the path to his business happened at Burger King.
During BYU’s Homecoming celebration, the Marriott School named Gary P. Williams as its 2003 Honored Alum. The award, presented 9 October, was one of eleven given to outstanding alumni from colleges across campus.
Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management will host the inaugural insyte conference 6 February 2004 for information systems and technology executives. Sponsored by BYU’s Master of Information Systems Management program faculty in conjunction with the Rollins eBusiness Center at BYU and the Utah Information Technology Association, this conference will provide educational and networking activities in a vendor-free setting.
Borrowing from the Marriott School’s top-ranked graduate programs, administrators and faculty have created a unique experience for undergraduate students. For one semester, students work together everyday in the same business management, marketing, organizational behavior, supply chain, and business management suite classes.
Marriott School Dean Ned C. Hill named Gary Cornia as the new director of the George W. Romney Institute of Public Management. Cornia, the Stewart Grow Professor of Public Management and former Marriott School associate dean, will replace Robert Parsons, who served four-and-a-half years in that position.
James Hawkes's photograph of a Peruvian boy won "Best Overall Photo" in GMC's International Business Photo Contest.
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.
Professor and Student’s Research Study to be Published in Utah Academy Journal
A Marriott School undergraduate team recently placed first and a graduate team placed second at the national Deloitte Tax Case Study Competition—beating out other top accounting schools including University of Texas at Austin, University of Illinois and University of Georgia. For the seventh time in the twelve-year history of the competition, both Marriott School teams placed among the top three in the graduate and undergraduate division—an unparalleled accomplishment.
MBA Students Win Thunderbird Innovation Challenge
For nearly two decades, Eric Olsen was solidly employed as a manager in the high-tech sector. But, last year his employment streak ended when he and 1.7 million other Americans were laid off.1