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After racking up more than 25,000 hours of service, the Marriott School of Management’s twenty-fifth anniversary celebration is coming to an end. However, the question you’ve been asking us on social media remains: what’s happening to the tennis balls?
The Marriott School recently appointed Bruce Money as the director of the Whitmore Global Management Center.
With more than three thousand students, the Marriott School of Management brings together some of BYU’s best and brightest from across the globe. I recently caught up with one of these stellar students, Nicol Pedraza, a sophomore marketing major and Portuguese minor from Mexico City. Pedraza talked about finding her path to BYU, her experience at the Marriott School, and her plans for the future.
Working at the Oracle Corporation, alum Liz Wiseman found herself constantly surrounded by intelligent people. But she noticed an ebb and flow—not of intelligence but of how leaders capitalized on or closed off that intelligence. One executive she coached was brilliant but shut down others, leaving their ideas untapped. Wiseman searched for something to share with this leader about the dynamic he was caught in but found nothing. “Someone needed to research how what leaders did either diminished or multiplied the intelligence of the people around them,” Wiseman says. “This seemed like a worthy pursuit, so I just did it.”
It only took five seconds for Ryan Judkins’s boss to approve his beard plan. Surprised, Judkins, a sales representative for Callaway Golf and a normally clean-cut guy, asked, “You do realize I might have a beard that’s five, six, or seven inches long at one point?”
I’m an INFJ, red-blue split, and least like an otter. Though that won’t all fit on a nametag, knowing your personality type can help move business along. In Marriott Alumni Magazine’s Summer 2014 issue, author Bremen Leak explored the impact of personality types in the workplace. Now it’s time to find out who you are in this web of codes and colors.
A BYU business professor reveals that discrimination is still tainting the American Dream for minorities.
When we asked for a Marriott School of Management faculty member with unusual hobbies, the ROTC sent us straight to recruiting and operations officer Dave Jungheim. As it turns out, building the Salt Lake Temple out of more than thirty-five thousand Lego bricks can get you noticed.
BYU student Jeremy Penrod's website lists offerings for more than 25,000 dresses from dozens of popular retailers.
Student teams receive coaching from veteran entrepreneurs at the competition sponsored by the Rollins Center at BYU.
In the winter of 1989, the snow and pine trees of Sundance Resort set the backdrop for Doug and Judith Maughan’s second date. Doug, an MBA student at the time, had asked Judith to accompany him to a Valentine’s dinner and dance sponsored by the Marriott School. “He was handsome, smart, and probably the most polite man I had ever met,” says Judith of her date. Doug was also persistent and outdoorsy—during the summers, he caught salmon in Alaska as a commercial fisherman to help pay for school. After Doug worked his charms that evening in the mountains, dates with Judith became increasingly frequent. Sharing space in the Tanner Building, where she was also a Marriott School student, helped fuel their courtship.
The winning team is in Uganda establishing their nonprofit, Kuishi, to distribute needed medicine.
The Marriott School honored the winners of the Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards chosen by students.
BYU student Spencer Quinn's business, FiberFix, took first at the premier recognition program for Utah's student entrepreneurs.
Jen sat in the BYU Varsity Theatre eager to learn on her first day of class in the accounting junior core. Rod Hinze was also in class that day, but he found it hard to focus on academics once he saw Jen. When the teacher announced that the students would be forming two-person teams, Rod knew who his partner would be—Jen didn’t have a chance to look around before he was leaping over the seats to get to her. “I looked for the cutest girl in the class and Jen was sitting two rows in front of me, so I literally jumped over the two rows and sat next to her,” Rod says. “She was a little surprised when I asked her to be my partner, but she said yes.”
For Martissa Spencer, patience is definitely a virtue. When Martissa met her now-husband Mike in September 1991, she was busy having her first real romance with the newly returned missionary she had dated in high school. Martissa had plans to serve a mission of her own and was surprised to find out that her boyfriend wasn’t willing to wait. The relationship ended. “I couldn’t change my course,” Martissa says. “I felt very strongly about serving a mission.”
Six BYU students took home awards from the Association for Information Technology Professionals Competition.
Twenty-three MBA finance students received the Stoddard Award for academic excellence and service.
BYU's team won first place in the regional competition and Entrepreneur's Choice in the Global Finals.
Marriott School Associate Dean, Steven M. Glover, will address students in a BYU devotional Tuesday, May 12 at 11:05 a.m.
Be inspired by talks covering topics such as prison reform and innovative philanthropy.
Teams from 10 countries will compete in Provo for funds to start their businesses at the International Business Model Competition.
A team of Brigham Young University students took first place at the AIS Student Competition in Tempe, Ariz.
If you’re looking to join the ranks of successful start-ups like Owlet Baby Monitors, FiberFix, and EcoScraps, BYU’s entrepreneurship program—rated third in the country—is the place for you. Even if you’re not in the program, there are many resources on campus and online to help you get started. Here’s some wisdom we’ve found to help you build your own business.