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Poised on the foothills of “Silicon Slopes,” BYU Marriott School marketing professors are determined to make their students more marketable than ever.
Tom Foster, department chair of marketing and global supply chain at the Marriott School, had never played two truths and a lie—a game in which players share two hard-to-believe truths and one lie about themselves, then the other players must guess which is the lie. But when pressed for three statements, he said:
You’re scrolling through Facebook, and a video catches your eye. A man is riding a horse on a beach and telling you he is the man your man could smell like.
Nine new faculty members joined the ranks of the Marriott School of Management as the 2016-17 school year began this month.
As a busy neuroscience graduate student and teacher of undergrad psychology courses at Duke University, Stephanie Santistevan-Swett needed a versatile outfit to get her through busy days. Rompers—loose, one-piece garments combining a shirt and pants or shorts—were the perfect mix of comfy and cute, but she was having a hard time finding any with sleeves. So she took her love of fashion and her 2009 BYU marketing degree, patched together with some imagination and passion, and stitched together her own company, Eva Jo, to design, manufacture, and sell comfortable and fashionable clothing.
New doctor's orders: No earbuds, no music, and no watching TV while eating.
Gandhi has a story. Winston Churchill has a story. Martin Luther King Jr. has a story. Great leadership is interwoven with great stories, and often this leadership comes when leaders perceive the power of their own stories.
The Marriott School's Tom Foster has been appointed the new editor of the Quality Management Journal.
In a twenty-three-hour turnaround, a team of four MBA students won second place and $1,500 in Baylor University's Business Ethics Case Competition
Brigham Young University's MBA program has been ranked No. 23 in the country by Bloomberg Businessweek, up four spots from last year's ranking.
Grant McQueen didn’t want to leave the classroom when he took on his role as BYU MBA program director.
In 1997, Lisa Jones Christensen took a break after a decade of working in business development to travel the world and work on her Spanish. While in Guatemala, she lived with low-income families in their homes. One night, when the father of one of the families came home from work rejected, mistreated, and empty-handed, she realized she needed to re-evaluate the paradigm she had grown to know about the relationship between business and quality of life.
Whether it be climbing the tallest mountains in Europe and Africa or climbing the ladder toward a successful business career, Charles Barrett, a 2009 graduate from the Marriott School strategy program, reaches the top one step at a time.
Each spring, world-language teacher Lori LeVar Pierce’s work takes her out of the classroom and into the gladiator ring. There, after months of studying Latin, her students take on a different side of ancient culture while competing at the Junior Classical League Convention, participating in gladiator fights, footraces, javelin throws, and even a student-built chariot race. “It’s a lot of fun to act like the ancient Romans and the ancient Greeks,” Pierce says.
Dean Lee Perry has announced Grant McQueen as the new MBA director and Daniel Snow as the MBA associate director effective August 1.
Graduate business school isn’t easy by any means. MBA students write, work, research, and write some more. And then to top it all off, they are required to spend their precious summer breaks as interns.
Four recent BYU MBA graduates were featured by Poets & Quants with the best of their class from across the country.
Student-run companies presented business plans to judges in hopes of scoring prizes up for grabs in the Miller NVC.
The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management named 10 MBA candidates 2016 Hawes Scholars, an honor that carries the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school and a cash award of $15,000.
A team of MBA students were right on the money, recently placing first in the Association of Corporate Growth Utah Cup and winning $5,000.
Thirteen students were honored with the George E. Stoddard Prize, a $4,000 award given annually to exceptional second-year MBA finance students.