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BYU teams excel at the Business Language Case Competition placing 1st and 3rd in the newly added Chinese section.
If presenting a business plan to company management isn't stressful enough, try doing it in another language.
Jamie Cope Bennee, a 34-year-old BYU Executive MPA student, died in a tragic plane crash in Payson, Utah, on Nov. 18.
Student finalists in the Speed Pitch Competition rapidly presented their business ideas as part of the BYU BPC.
Rex Facer has been appointed to the Federal Salary Council to help evaluate pay comparability of 1.3 million federal employees.
Entrepreneurially minded students from across campus pitched their brightest ideas in the annual Idea Pitch Competition.
How creativity is helping the hunt for work
Finding a job may be more of a numbers game than you ever thought.
When I arrived at BYU eight years ago, I was in my new office, organizing books and filing papers, when I received a telephone call informing me that there had been a glitch in payroll processing, and I would not be receiving a paycheck during the first two months of my employment. I said, “Thank you,” hung up the phone, and started thinking about how to break this news to my wife, Jan. 
Henry Ford famously said, “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are right.” His profound statement may explain the fantastically varied results of millions of New Year’s resolutions that Americans make each January. By summertime many of us have achieved our goals. Others have given up. And still a few of us muscle onward, clinging courageously to goals we have set but not yet met. 
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.
What do you do when your neighbor or friend is out of work? It can be difficult to bring up the subject because there’s often a great deal of stress and emotion attached to the issue.
How Exchange Rates Affect Business and You
This class doesn’t have a textbook. In fact, some of the required reading comes from Wikipedia, a taboo for just about any other class on campus. But the syllabus states it bluntly: “Text: none; it would be outdated anyway.”
The start of each new calendar year prompts serious reflection upon the events of the past. Two-thousand and nine presented a host of monumental challenges for students, faculty, and programs at the Marriott School.
Lights. Camera. Make a difference. Four student films were showcased at the first-ever Peery Film Festival.
For the first time ever, five tribal colleges from Native American reservations attended Rocky Mountain CIBER Conference.
Sports dynasties are commonly spoken of with admiration and fervor, and the band of brothers that competes in the ROTC Ranger Challenge is no exception.
Survival of the fittest is not only found in nature but also in business, and Nathan Furr set out to determine the cause.
Study abroads, internships and field studies — oh my! The first-ever International Study Fair was held Sept. 15.
The military is typically a male-dominated field, but that has not stopped women from positively infiltrating their ranks.
Pick up the Fall 2010 Marriott Alumni Magazine and you will no doubt notice something different — very different.
Last week BYU was busy hosting Homecoming activities, and the Marriott School was no exception.
Management Society leaders from seven countries and three continents gathered in Provo to share and learn innovative ideas.