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The Marriott School at Brigham Young University will host the second annual MicroEnterprise conference March 26-27, 1999.
The Center for Entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School has named William H. Child as its 1999 Administrator of the Year.
W. Mitt Romney, president and chief executive officer of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games (SLOC), will deliver the convocation address for Brigham Young University’s Marriott School April 23. The convocation will begin at 8 a.m. in the Marriott Center.
An associate dean at Brigham Young University's Marriott School was recently honored as Accountant of the Year by Beta Alpha Psi, a national professional accounting and business information fraternity.
A company's mission statement must drive everything it does to be successful in today's economy, stated J. Chris Lansing, president and chief executive officer of Ted Lansing Corp. at the 1999 Marriott School Honored Alumni Lecture Oct. 7.
Marriott School Professor James D. Stice of the School of Accountancy and Information Systems Management has been awarded the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award by President Merrill J. Bateman at the annual University Conference. He was selected as one of three teachers university wide to receive one of the most prestigious awards given to BYU faculty.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University honored former Procter & Gamble Chairman John E. Pepper as the International Executive of the Year last Friday.
In a move to become one of the nation's leading high-tech business research centers, officials at Brigham Young University's Marriott School announced the formation of a new center for electronic business. Dell Vice Chair and Marriott School alumnus Kevin Rollins and his wife, Debra, contributed $3 million to establish the center.
Tektronix, one of the global leaders in communications networking, demonstrated its commitment to higher education by donating one of its highest-quality color printers to the Marriott School's Graduate Career Services office.
The Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University's Marriott School named Rebecca Bennion Buchanan Salti as its Administrator of the Year at a banquet held in her honor 15 Feb.
Weldon Johnson Taylor, the first dean of the College of Business at Brigham Young University, died 21 August in his home at the age of 92. As a well known business educator and educational administrator, Taylor’s long life was one of great service, contribution and example.
Paul Dishman, visiting associate professor at the Marriott School, has been invited by the United Nations to lecture on competitive intelligence and knowledge management in China this September.
Touting the fastest payback in the nation, Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management is a steal according to BusinessWeek’s new ranking of the best b-schools. The magazine reports that BYU’s MBA graduates take only 3.5 years to recoup their investment in lost work and tuition.
For more than thirty years, LDS public management professionals from across the nation have gathered together at the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) conference to exchange more than just business information. LDS city and county managers met this year in Cincinnati to attend the ICMA conference and to build on shared beliefs.
For more than ten years, the Marriott School and LG, Korea’s third largest company, have exchanged students and knowledge. In September, the company honored two Marriott School faculty members for their integral role in building this relationship. Ned C. Hill, dean of the Marriott School and Chris Meek, associate professor of organizational behavior, were recognized for their support in educating LG managers in organizational effectiveness.
In conjunction with Homecoming 2000, the Marriott School at Brigham Young University is proud to name Alan J. Folkman as its honored alum. Folkman will speak Thursday, 19October at 11:00 a.m. in room 151 of the Tanner Building. All are invited to hear his address, “A Formula for Success and Personal Peace.”
Three professors at BYU’s Marriott School hope their e-business accounting book will give students the upper hand when it comes to electronic commerce. Steven M. Glover, Stephen W. Liddle and Douglas Prawitt’s book, E-Business: Principles and Strategies for Accountants, was written to prepare accounting students to meet the demands of a business world being transformed by technology. Marriott School professors will begin using the book winter semester as a supplement.
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University named Keith Bailey, Chairman, President and CEO of Williams, as the 2000 International Executive of the Year (IEY).President James E. Faust, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will present Bailey with the IEY Award at a banquet Friday, 17 Nov.
Other than being very large, the 17–foot Christmas tree, trimmed with angel ornaments, looks like most other trees. But it’s not. The ornaments on The Little Angel’s Christmas tree are more than just decorations — they contain the names and ages of children, their clothing sizes and gift ideas. Sponsored by the Campus Chapter of the BYU Management Society and the United Way, the goal is to undecorate the tree by 8 December.
Paul Dishman, visiting associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School, has been voted vice president of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).
One student’s experience at Brigham Young University has driven him nuts. Nathan Murray, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering from Shelley, Idaho, is the founder and president of Nutty Guys, a business selling a variety of nuts at discount prices. Murray is not only a budding entrepreneur but also the 2000 Student Entrepreneur of the Year. Murray received a $5,000 award for his first place finish in the BYU Marriott School’s entrepreneur competition.
The founder and CEO of WinFiles.com (formerly Windows95.com) will be the keynote speaker at Brigham Young University’s semi-annual e-business conference on Friday, 9 Feb. Steve Jenkins, who sold WinFiles.com in February 1999 to CNET, Inc. for $11.5 million, will address the conference’s theme, “Dot-Coms Melt Down: How Companies Survive and Thrive in our Current Economic Situation.” Hosted by the Marriott School’s Kevin and Debra Rollins Center for eBusiness, the conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. in room 151 of the Tanner Building. The conference will cater to students but is also open to BYU faculty and staff.
One Marriott School student recently received a big boost from the Kemper Foundation. Kyle Widdison, a sophomore from Hooper, Utah, majoring in accounting, has been named one of 80 national Kemper Scholars. The honor, which provides financial support and summer internships for three years, will assist Widdison in fulfilling his aspiration to become a successful business leader.
How much is an idea worth? The Marriott School’s Center for Entrepreneurship thinks its worth $5,000 in cash — the award for this year’s Business Plan Competition winner. All Brigham Young University students are invited to submit business plan ideas before 5 p.m. on Monday, 12 March in 610 TNRB.