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2017
Associate Dean Keith Vorkink discussed the challenges of learning how to make correct judgments in the face of uncertainty at Tuesday's BYU Devotional.
Eleven students were honored with the George E. Stoddard Prize, a $5,000 award given to exceptional second-year MBA finance students.
Alumni LaDon Linde and Justin Oldroyd have always enjoyed a fast-paced work environment. Prior to their current positions, they both spent time at global strategy consulting firms, and Linde played a key role in a San Francisco-based tech company’s growth from twenty to two-hundred employees. Though their jobs were good, both men felt the need for something more—to use their knowledge and abilities for a work close to their hearts.
A realization prompted four entrepreneurship majors to create Kudoz, an app similar to Pocket Points that incentivizes phone users to keep their phones locked while driving.
BYU professor Linda Reynolds sees the skills she teaches as more than a mixture of aesthetics, images, symbols, and words her design classes teach students to do good better.
For Vikram Ravi, making a difference isn't a far-off dream. It's his reality. Ravi's experiences with the Ballard Center helped him land a position as a digital literacy and access VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) for the AmeriCorps program.
For Vikram Ravi, making a difference isn’t a far-off dream—it’s his reality.
At the Y, Marriott School faculty have the cutting-edge resources to help them answer “Why?”
Beginning April 10, BYU MBA alum and former MBA director Henry J. Eyring will start his assignment as the 17th president of Brigham Young University-Idaho.
Two years after graduating with a degree in marketing from the Marriott School in 1990, Jenner Marcucci decided he was going to make his first $100,000 and buy a house—and then he did it.
While Kevin Barker and Renae Rockwood, two juniors in the global supply chain program, are both involved students who worked hard to get into their program, their future endeavors couldn’t be more different. Read on for their takes on global supply chain, the Marriott School, and internships, as well as their aspirations in the fields of aerospace and academia. (Note: Their responses have been edited for length and clarity.)
Ten first-year MBA candidates have been announced as Eccles Scholars, an award presented by the school's Whitmore Global Management Center.
Swim with sperm whales in Dominica—check. Visit an underground city in Turkey—check. Canyoneer in Indonesia—check. See the annual lantern festival in Thailand; swim with penguins in the Galapagos; and kayak with dolphins in Australia—check, check, check!
Information systems senior Nick Kerr and finance senior Priscilla Hobbs are featured in Poets & Quants; list of the top undergraduate students in the nation.
Ten candidates received the 2017 Hawes Award, an honor that carries the highest distinction given to BYU MBA students and a cash award of $10,000.
As a homeless college student, Sam Cobbs was humiliated while he stood in line to get food stamps. Welfare services said he would need to drop out of college if he wanted their aid, but he knew that college was his only chance at escaping poverty.
Eight entrepreneurs entered the waters at this year's Shark Tank-themed New Venture Challenge. There was only one survivor.
More than six hundred Marriott School students, faculty, and alumni came together for to honor this year's Bateman Award honorees.
The BYU Marriott School has again earned AACSB accreditation, a hallmark of excellence in business education given to less than 5 percent of the world's business schools.
Fingers flashed across computer keyboards and eyes skimmed screens as more than four hundred students participated in tech competitions as part of the annual AITP conference in St. Louis.
BYU is one of the top five universities in the country for turning research discoveries into new technology, products and companies, according to a report released today.
Michael Thompson, Shane Allred, and others were recognized at the annual Marriott School Awards Luncheon for their contributions to the university and their respective fields.
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.
North Carolina may have danced through March Madness, but on the Tar Heels' own campus it was BYU that made it to the finals of the world's most respected venture capital competition.