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Employee Spotlight Student Experiences 2017
Former department chair and current professor Steven Thorley reflects on the growth of the finance program.
Recreation management professor Brad Harris doesn’t want to be one of those people who go through the motions every day. He’s never been the kind of person to just daydream about making a difference—he actually does something about it. This mentality has inspired Harris to work in nonprofits throughout his life.
As a child growing up in South Africa during apartheid, Curtis LeBaron, associate professor of organizational leadership and strategy, was exposed to the circumstances and attitudes that defined the era.
It was 2003 when Erik Lamb’s name was first called in the Marriott Center. Fully suited in his cap and gown, he accepted his diploma and thought his time at BYU was complete.
After forty years at BYU, Marshall Romney speaks of the program that he will be leaving behind in April by quoting the well-known Carpenters’ song, “We’ve only just begun.”
Jeffery Thompson stands before a large crowd once again, delivering the words he has prepared. All eyes are on him, but with eighteen years of teaching under his belt, Thompson remains unfazed. As he finishes speaking, the audience rewards him with a roar of applause for his performance. The curtains close, and Thompson can add another playbill bearing his name to his budding collection.
You know you’re in a class with entrepreneurship professor Michael Hendron when you’re lectured about sailplanes and how they apply to starting and running a business. Hendron would know, since he is highly experienced in both fields.
BYU strategy professor James Oldroyd was flying to Singapore for a job interview when a colleague called and asked him to stop by South Korea. With no expectations, Oldroyd complied and made a pit stop at the Sungkyunkwan Graduate School of Business (SKK GSB). This brief trip changed the course of his life for the next five years.
“I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.” Global supply chain management professor Scott Sampson keeps this quote from David Letterman hanging in his office. In essence, it’s what Sampson is all about.
Reducing the compensation of a CEO by half is not an easy decision. But for board members with shareholders to consider, tough decisions like these are sometimes necessary.
After five missionaries from the Madagascar Antananarivo Mission returned home, they felt compelled to give back to the people they had lived and worked with for two years.
Two BYU Marriott teams hit last-minute curveballs out of the park at an HR case competition.
Paper, tape, scissors, pipe cleaners, and cookies. These were some of the items used during the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance's new family home evening event.
A BYU MBA team's solutions for a big name company were rewarded at a recent ethics case competition.
The annual competition saw Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic teams from five schools but language barriers were not an issue for these competitors-turned-friends.
Alyssa Flake no longer sings a cappella with BYU's renowned female musical group, but her TR internship at a female treatment center was nothing short of noteworthy.
The AIS Club held BYU's first ever service hackathon, a competition for tech-savvy students who are programmed to serve.
Regardless of students backgrounds or majors, the Ballard Center's Impact Investing Program teaches them the fundamentals of determining which companies will be financially successful and create real social change.
Miranda Dennett breathed fresh air into the corporate entertainment world of Las Vegas via her undergraduate internship last summer.
Entrepreneurship student Morgan Glessing and his team have a plan to (literally) open the doors of possibilities at every college campus nationwide.
One hundred college students, ten days, and one social problem to solve. Students across campus came together to creatively provide a realistic solution for Lava Mae, a nonprofit serving those experiencing homelessness.
What does it take to turn a twenty-mile journey into a first place victory?
Investment-minded students are traveling to Europe, managing a real fund, and working with executives from top companies and the world in an innovative study abroad.
What big problem-solving ideas did students pitch in just ninety seconds at this year's competition?