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Young social entrepreneurs are leading the way, rewriting the rules, and changing the world. It pays to do good.
It's not always easy to know if a charity is effectively using its funds. Enter the students of the Grantwell program.
The U.S. Dept. of Education awarded BYU a four-year grant of more than $1.1 million to further international business.
The Marriott School's global supply chain programs shot up to their highest spots ever in the latest rankings.
Finance professor Karl Diether took second place in the Journal of Financial Economics' Best Paper Prizes.
I keenly remember sitting in my basement apartment in Utah and reviewing with my wife our meager student finances. Given the recent birth of our first son and my heavy academic load, I could only afford to work part time. Even with our combined efforts, money was very tight for my wife and me. We were incredibly grateful for the low tuition, the scholarships, and the financial aid which allowed me to receive such an outstanding degree, and we committed to someday give back what had generously been given to us.
Three BYU professors won a pair of prestigious awards for research from the American Accounting Association.
A sleek product deserves accessories that are equally suave. Blending mechanical prowess with beautiful materials is alum Eric Rea's forte.
Taking a cue from major corporations, professor Greg Anderson is helping students navigate group projects with the Color Code personality test.
Forbes compiled a list of the best Master's degrees to get right now. In the number one spot was a master's of information systems.
Growing up with a father in foreign services, Reneta Bezerra ventured far beyond her home country of Brazil. Now that she has a family of her own, she’s still on the move.
Call it a cruel but fortunate twist of fate: Dan Handy’s companies tend to undergo extreme growth when it comes time for him to hit the books. As an undergrad and a grad student at the Marriott School, the current CEO of Bluehost.com guided two internet start-ups to success, sometimes smashing against current trends with a Ping-Pong paddle.
As soon as Thaylene Lowe Rogers made her decision to return to school for an Executive MBA, she hit the GMAT prep books. During a trip to Newport Beach, California, vacation time turned into study time as she and her son began plowing through the math section. After a year of brushing up, she was in. By 2015 she’ll be sporting a new Marriott School degree on her office wall.
Fifty-six years and 1.3 million birthday parties may seem impossible, but it sums up John Huish’s career. He’s had a hand in facilitating cake-and-candle celebrations across five states and has provided jobs for more than one hundred thousand people.
The AICPA recently appointed Marriott School of Management associate dean Steve Glover to its Auditing Standards Board.
Hard work and dedication paid off for four BYU MAcc students who took first place at the IMA National Case Competition.
BYU's undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs were ranked No. 4 and No. 7, respectively.
Many business schools are not teaching MBAs to create new businesses, according to two of BYU's innovation gurus.
Randy Judd’s story begins in the Ozarks of Arkansas, where he grew up with no indoor plumbing and went to school in a two-room schoolhouse. His family’s financial situation created what he feels was a truly fortunate opportunity to work full-time during college—a path that led him to the restaurant business.
Heather Chewning received the President's Appreciation Award at BYU's annual University Conference on August 27.
Leading research company Gartner ranks the Marriott School's global supply chain program top ten in the U.S.
CEOs might want to tamp down their fightin' words — they could be shooting themselves in the foot.
It's not often that a piano-playing gig leads to landing your dream job at Google.
When there’s fresh powder on the mountains, you can expect Monte Swain to be out shredding the slopes. But the Marriott School of Management accounting professor wasn’t always so adept at carving on a snowboard.