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2017
Marriott School of Management dean Lee Perry has announced Bonnie Anderson as the new chair of the information systems department, effective 1 June.
Time was running out as a team of BYU recreation management students rushed to diffuse a bomb in the office of a Russian spy. Though the stakes felt high, the students were in no danger; this was just an intense escape room game.
Three students in BYU’s No. 2-ranked entrepreneurship program aren’t waiting to apply what they’re learning until after graduation; instead, they have a jump start on their business ventures:
Two spandex-clad riders whizzed into the building, disappearing from view. As the BYU Marriott School students and their advisor stepped into the warehouse, the smell of rubber, aluminum, and cardboard—components of freshly manufactured bicycles—welcomed them into biker paradise.
Early bird recruiters are on the heels of incoming OBHR students. So close, in fact, that OBHR senior Sarah Duvall felt the need to research how to better prepare students to meet them.
Alfred Gantner, cofounder of Partners Group and an MBA alum, shared his insights on a balanced life as the featured speaker at convocation on 28 April.
School is winding down, the sunshine has actually started to feel warm, and one question is on everyone’s mind: what to do this summer?
By the numbers, Kim Chi Pham is an outlier. But it was a love of numbers that carried her through homesickness, past language barriers, and eventually placed her at the top of her field.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More than six hundred Marriott School students, faculty, and alumni came together for to honor this year's Bateman Award honorees.
Eight entrepreneurs entered the waters at this year's Shark Tank-themed New Venture Challenge. There was only one survivor.
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.
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.
Information systems senior Nick Kerr and finance senior Priscilla Hobbs are featured in Poets & Quants; list of the top undergraduate students in the nation.
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!
Ten first-year MBA candidates have been announced as Eccles Scholars, an award presented by the school's Whitmore Global Management Center.
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.)
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.
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.