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Friends, family, students and colleagues gathered together to show support for a leader who has inspired them throughout the years.
You don’t mess with a Texan’s pickup truck, says BYU finance professor Andrew Holmes. So, needless to say, back in the 90s when someone broke into his truck, stole his checkbook, and started writing fraudulent checks in his name, he was pretty upset.
Flat Facer explores the world in an envelope. Professor Rex Facer needs a bit more room.
EMPA alum Chris Banford recently teamed up with Ellen DeGeneres to surprise his wife, Mary.
Model rockets, toys, and board games. This isn’t a child’s wish list; it’s Myles Christensen’s résumé. The 2001 MBA grad and design engineer recently added one more fun item to his line-up—electric bikes. He’s connecting customers with electric bicycles and making many people happy in the process.
When Terisa Poulsen Gabrielsen finished her business management degree, the year was 1982 and the economy was bleak. Though she was determined to enter the business world, her best offer was a job teaching accounting at Salt Lake Community College. There, Gabrielsen discovered an unexpected love for teaching that kept her at the school for the next twenty-five years. Despite that love, she realized she had a job rather than a career. That realization became a turning point that would take her to the University of Utah, then to the streets of Philadelphia, and back to a BYU classroom.
In 1980 finance alum Ryan Tibbitts was one year away from graduating, but it wasn’t the textbooks he was hitting hard. Tibbitts was gearing up, along with the rest of the BYU football team, to take on Southern Methodist University—a showdown now immortalized in Tibbitts’s new book, Hail Mary: The Inside Story of BYU’s 1980 Miracle Bowl Comeback.
“Deciding to be a full-time mom over working full-time is the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make,” says Marie Nielson Canaday. In fact, it’s a decision she still struggles with. While tending to two active boys keeps her very busy, Canaday is nurturing both her sons and her thriving love of all things business.
BYU information systems students earned three awards at the 2015 AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Kaitek Labs, a student-founded company based in Chile, took home first place and more than $30,000 at the IBMC held at BYU.
Procrastination is the greatest obstacle to effective estate planning, but it’s never too early to start looking ahead. Estate planning can be time-consuming, but don’t get overwhelmed—take it one step at a time. Here are three simple tasks you can get done this summer.
BYU took six of the top seven slots at the Utah Student 25, an annual competition recognizing Utah's top student-founded businesses.
Here’s a challenge marketing professor Lee Daniels poses his students:
The Marriott School successfully launched its student-run and student-focused fundraising campaign this past semester.
High schoolers from across Utah gathered at the Marriott School to put their Spanish and marketing skills to the test.
The BYU student-run company took the grand prize totaling more than $700,000 last Saturday in Houston.
When the alarm clock blares on a workday morning, MBA academic program manager Christine Roundy is not one to grumble. “I don’t wake up and think ‘oh no, I have to go to work,’” she says. “I love coming to work; I’m excited to go.”
Cash prizes in six figures were at stake for students competing in the Miller NVC Final hosted by the Rollins Center.
Fifteen faculty, staff and administrators were recognized at the annual Marriott School awards luncheon.
When Maria Yacaman came to BYU to play golf, she intended to major in finance, but a required information systems course changed everything.
Helping students find academic success is all in a day’s work for BYU’s MBA program director Christine Roundy, who manages curriculum and tracks student progress. After nineteen years at the Marriott School, Roundy knows what it takes to succeed as an MBA student. Read on for her best advice.
Led by SimpleCitizen, five BYU startups came out on top at the annual Utah Entrepreneur Challenge.
Hundreds of MPA students, alumni and faculty joined together in six cities on the MPA Days of Service celebrating the program's 50th anniversary.
BYU Army ROTC cadets learned training exercises that reflect the changing roles of military officers.