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Many people would be content with running the semifinals of the 100x4 meter relay in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Not Kenneth Andam; he plans to compete again in the 2004 games and bring home a medal. However, his wins aren't only on the track. He is lapping competitors on the business fast track as well. Andam earned a double BS in information systems and economics from BYU in 2000 and is now a graduate student at BYU studying mass communications. His education gives him the technical and analytical skills he needs to compete in the global economy.
When Rob Smoot earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he wanted to shout it from the mountaintops. Smoot celebrated the culmination of his education by leading forty fellow students to Africa's highest point the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro 19,341 feet above the vast African plains.
After Patrick Tedjamulia graduated from the Marriott School, he landed a great job at Novell, thanks to an alum who helped get his foot in the door. Unfortunately, not all job hunters are lucky enough to have professional mentors, Tedjamulia says.
When Matthew Bowman came to Sire Technologies in late 2005, the company’s sales were riding a roller coaster.
The partners and advisors of Salt Lake City–based Aptus Advisors have more in common than just their employer. They all have degrees from the same school.
On the cutting edge of research and education, Jeff Jenkins is leading the pack. A 2009 master of information systems graduate, Jenkins is now finishing up a doctoral program at the University of Arizona and is set to graduate this spring.
Wally works at Wal-Mart. It may sound like a tongue twister, but Wally Potts’s story is all business. In a little more than two years, Potts has brought in millions of dollars of revenue for the corporation.
When Josh Steimle won the BYU business plan competition (now known as the Miller New Venture Challenge) in 2001, he was awarded the $5,000 he needed to make payroll for the week and the confidence to keep his new company, MWI, going for the next twelve years.
Alum Mirella Petersen is bold, organized, and driven—the perfect combination for getting autism insurance reform passed in Utah.
Service must be the primary focus of those who seek a generous heart and blessed life, writes Sonia Clayton.
The Utah Governor’s Mansion was blanketed in soft, blue light. The occasion was World Autism Awareness Day 2014, and buildings across the country were swapping bulbs to highlight a disorder that affects one in sixty-eight American children.
Call it a cruel but fortunate twist of fate: Dan Handy’s companies tend to undergo extreme growth when it comes time for him to hit the books. As an undergrad and a grad student at the Marriott School, the current CEO of Bluehost.com guided two internet start-ups to success, sometimes smashing against current trends with a Ping-Pong paddle.
I keenly remember sitting in my basement apartment in Utah and reviewing with my wife our meager student finances. Given the recent birth of our first son and my heavy academic load, I could only afford to work part time. Even with our combined efforts, money was very tight for my wife and me. We were incredibly grateful for the low tuition, the scholarships, and the financial aid which allowed me to receive such an outstanding degree, and we committed to someday give back what had generously been given to us.
What does Matt McGhee say most prepared him to thrive in his dream job at a multinational tech giant? Participating in his LDS young single adult ward activity committees—planning dances and mix-and-mingles.
As hand-cut steaks sizzle on the grill, Trevor Mecham is up to his elbows in a pile of sweet potato fries. In the oven a sheet of enormous cinnamon rolls–each roughly the size of a dinner plate–awaits a schmear of sugary-sweet frosting.
Alfred Gantner, cofounder of Partners Group and an MBA alum, shared his insights on a balanced life as the featured speaker at convocation on 28 April.
For information systems alum Brent Anderson and his wife, Michelle, first came love, then came marriage, and then came app development.
Andrew Sanford, a recent MISM grad and ORCA grant recipient, developed a framework aimed to help auditors better detect fraud.
The fact that information systems alum Roy Peckham can't sit still has led to his success at ExxonMobil, where he leads the company's design thinking efforts.
The day Brian Carini’s first child, Isabella, was born, Carini emerged from the hospital in the early morning after being by his wife’s side throughout the night.
While studying at BYU Marriott, Jordan Barlow accepted an invitation to participate in the PhD preparation track of the MISM program. That decision set him on the path to become an information systems professor.
Before rediscovering his love for cycling and running, BYU Marriott alum Steve Todd spent twelve years devoted to growing a startup he co-founded.
In the late 1980s, Usenet was still popular, the World Wide Web wasn’t yet available to the public, and Shelley Hunter was in an information management class where she heard her professor say, “Five years out from your degree, you won’t be doing anything you think you’re going to be doing.” The professor was likely referencing how technological advancements would transform the information management industry. But in Hunter’s case, the shift would come later and from a different source.
When Kent C. Dodds graduated from BYU Marriott in 2014 with his master's degree in information systems, he had one goal: to impact the world by creating software.