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While California gets much of the attention for up-and-coming technology news, Utah’s own “Silicon Slopes” feature many companies making headlines in the tech world.
Overseeing project management for advertising and marketing for one of the largest newspapers in the country may seem like a daunting task. But for Jaimie Rush, it’s just another day at the office.
As president of the Management Society’s Charlotte, North Carolina, Chapter, Dennis Dalling works hard. He’s busy organizing activities, helping the community, and providing for his family. At first glance, Dennis Dalling seems like an ordinary man.
Underneath glittering stage lights the bass player and keyboardist pound out a melody. The lead singer sidles up to the microphone and belts out “American Idiot” with enough angst to fool anyone into believing he’s a member of a teenage garage band.
CIA officials knew they had a mole in their midst—they just couldn’t prove it. The FBI was called in to gather evidence until they finally nabbed Harold James Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA agent to ever be convicted of espionage. It sounds like a scene ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel, but for Marriott School alum John McClurg, it wasn’t fiction.
It sounds like something straight out of reality television: a marketing manager for a consumer health care company in Philadelphia switches places with a manager at one of the nation’s top tech companies in Seattle. For four months they work through the challenge of trading places and come away with new insights on marketing. While this premise could be television’s next big hit, the marketing job swap was reality for one BYU alumna.
It’s 9:58 p.m. in a small, dark theater. The audience members, an eclectic mix of fashionistas and film fanatics, sit whispering, their faces washed in the green glow of the theater’s exit signs.
Vern is a retired Major League Baseball Pitcher who played 16 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates between 1950-1967. Vern put his promising and rewarding baseball career on hold to voluntarily enlist to serve his country during the Korean War missing the 1952-1953 seasons. As a baseball player he won a World Series with the Pirates, the Cy Young Award, was a member of the National League All Star team, and was recognized for the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award. Vern has also been a prominent Provo citizen, BYU baseball coach, and a stalwart member of the church. For his duty to God and Country, let us all say “Thank you” to Brother Vern Law.
Janene Eller-Smith gets green. Whether it’s obtaining the green to fund the renovation of multiple buildings or assisting in the city’s plans to make a more eco-friendly Ogden, Utah, she’s the go-to gal.
Melinda Brimhall always strives to incorporate her creative touch into her management style. And unifying the thirteen departments she manages as the Grand County council administrator in Moab, Utah, into a cohesive masterpiece isn’t always an easy task.
According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, employees stay at their jobs for an average of 4.1 years. Like most people, Dennis Malloy never expected to stay at his first auditing firm for more than a few years, let alone thirty, but he found his niche at KPMG and never left.
While many business leaders strive to expand their organization’s reach globally, one Marriott School grad oversees projects that have a more vertical approach—out of this atmosphere, actually.
Born on a pair of Levi’s in a small trailer and circumcised by a doctor whose surname was Butcher, Daniel Burleigh’s entrance into the world seems like the beginning of a modern-day Charles Dickens tale.
The old adage “He that travels far knows much” is an apt description for one Marriott School grad. Jeff Strong earned his undergraduate degree in business from the Marriott School in 1988 and hasn’t stopped learning or traveling since.
Mike Bond specializes in seeing eye to eye with people. Although his original plan in college was to become an optometrist, his focus shifted to business, and he hasn’t looked back.
Above or below the equator, in the boardroom or in remote fields of Africa, Jennifer Birtcher influences change.
Marriott School alumna Alison Davis-Blake will become the first female dean in the top-10 business school's storied history.
The Romney Institute of Public Management honored the late John W. Keys III as its 2011 Administrator of the Year.
BYU's Executive MBA program presented awards to alumna Carine Clark and associate professor Burke Jackson.
According to education reformer Horace Mann, "human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated"
The idea had always glowed—however faintly—in the back of Steve Oldham’s mind. He jokes about it now, saying that just like every other missionary who returns from Brazil, he came home with dreams of starting his own Brazilian steakhouse.
As a foreign exchange student thousands of miles from home, Thomas Hung didn’t realize living in Utah would put his future career in finance on the fast track.
Laura Pearson steps to the line and bounces the fuzzy, yellow ball in a simple cadence. A few seconds later, her team is ahead 15–love. This Marriott School grad may be queen of the court, but she also doubles as a financial analyst at Google.
Sumptuous. Decadent. Delightful. Few words could more adequately describe a box of Lula’s Chocolates. Neatly perched inside each mahogany-colored package await aromatic round crèmes, salted caramels, square truffles, and nuts cloaked with melt-in-your-mouth cocoa.