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The Marriott School at Brigham Young University anticipates hundredsof participants at its fourth annual Microenterprise Conference 5-7 April 2001. The free conference, believed to be the largest of its kind, is open to BYU students, faculty, staff and the public. Microenterprise is amovement that uses small loans and business education to help the poor become self-reliant. This year’s theme, “Practical Approaches to Ending Poverty,” will bring together educators, investors and non-governmental organizations from around the world.
It’s a stinky situation but nothing a group of marketing students at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School can’t handle. Cows at the BYU Dairy are supplying the dairy notonly with thousands of gallons of milk but also with mountains of manure each year.
Brigham Young University’s business and law schools are among the top 50 in the United States, reports the 2002 edition of the U.S. News & World Report guide “Best GraduateSchools.”
Marriott School Professor Lawrence C. Walters was recognized by the American Society of Public Administration for the best public administration article in 2000. His article,“Putting More Public in Policy Analysis,” which appeared in the July/August edition of Public Administration Review (PAR), won the Louis Brownlow Award for the best article by a practitioner.
Dodging a final exam proved profitable for students at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management. Vit Miska, a second-year MISM student and Jeremy Hafen, a second-year MAcc student, earned cash awards and funding for the school with their winning entries in an e-commerce essay contest sponsored by Federal Express.
In its first-ever ranking of business schools, The Wall Street Journal named Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management one of ten “hidden gems.” The Marriott School ranked fifth, in the hidden gems category — “less-heralded schools with great graduates.”
The Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School named Elder Alexander B. Morrison, emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as its Administrator of the Year.
Participants in the Marriott School’s Seventh Annual Management Conference will be treated to an in-depth exploration of emerging e-business technologies, a behind the scenes look at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and much more June 28-30.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) recognized the educational accomplishments of Brigham Young University professor W. Steve Albrecht with its most prestigious educators award last month.
The Marriott School of Management’s Exchange magazine has been keeping alumni informed and in touch with innovative business information and ideas for 25 years. Now, with its latest innovation, Exchange has a new look, new features and a new name: Marriott Alumni Magazine.
The dean’s office presented the sixth annual Marriott School Staff Excellence Award to five staff members May 24 in recognition of their contributions to Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management.
Marriott School of Management professor Brent D. Wilson says “aloha” to Provo and Brigham Young University and “aloha” to Laie and BYU—Hawaii.
Emeritus Professor Doyle W. Buckwalter received the lifetime service award from the Utah Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) on 4 June for his 30-plus years of service to students at the Marriott School of Management, the Romney Institute of Public Management and the ASPA.
They’ve started many successful businesses and are now helping returned missionaries in the Philippines do the same.
Stephen Jenkins, a 1996 MBA graduate of Brigham Young University’s Marriott School, and his wife, Kay-dawn, have contributed half a million dollars to fund a professorship and several scholarships at the school.
Benjamin O. Austin became the youngest graduate in Marriott Schoolof Management history as he walked across the stage and received his diploma this month.
A team of six accounting students from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School was selected as the National Champion at the sixth annual Deloitte & Touche National Student Case Seminar in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Nineteen businessmen from LG Electronics returned to Korea with anew arsenal of change-management skills after completing an intensive summer organizational-development program at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management.
W. Steve Albrecht, associate dean of Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management, has not only been president of the American Accounting Association and an expert witness in the Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud case but also one of the university’s top faculty. Albrecht was recently recognized with the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award, BYU’s most prestigious faculty honor.
The Marriott School of Management's passion for excellence and progress has once again earned national recognition. Public Accounting Report and the U.S. News & World Report ranked Brigham Young University's undergraduate accounting program third and sixth respectively in the nation for the second straight year.
The Marriott School of Management and Board of Trustees at Brigham Young University named M. Anthony Burns, chairman of Ryder System, Inc., as the 2001 International Executive of the Year. President Thomas S. Monson, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, presented the award to Mr. Burns at a banquet 16 November.
Armed with lipstick cameras, digital editing equipment and a PhD in institutional interaction, micro ethnographer Curtis LeBaron—a professor of organizational leadership and management communication—examines the problems in corporate communication infrastructures frame by frame.
Norman Nemrow, professor of accountancy at the Marriott School of Management, received the 47th Governor's Points of Light Award for his volunteer work at Brigham Young University. Nemrow has been a full-time volunteer at BYU since 1992 — donating both his time and his teaching salary to the university.
So what do you do when the crowds dissipate, the athletes take their medals home and you’re left with empty multi-million-dollar Olympic facilities?