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Brigham Young University’s Marriott School is named one of the best collegiate entrepreneurship programs in the United States. In the April 2005 issue of Entrepreneur magazine, BYU appears in the first tier of the top 50 regional programs in the country.
BYU study explains how to prevent the loss of key employees
Students at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management selected two of their classmates and a professor to receive the 2005 Merrill J. Bateman Awards – the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
Marriott School information systems students received top marks during the National Collegiate Conference in Atlanta April 7-9. BYU students placed first and second in a database design contest and received honorable mentions for system analysis and design. About 800 students representing 88 schools across the nation attended this year’s conference.
When Sherman Doll, Jay Wirig, and Steve Leininger graduated from the MAcc program in 1979 and 1980, they never guessed that just a few years later they would be together again as partners in an accounting firm. They attribute their longtime friendship and professional success to their Marriott School training and something they call “The Seven O’Clock Club.”
A student-initiated fundraiser is reaching new heights at the Marriott School. The second annual Corporate Climb, held 26 March 2005, helped raise more than $12,000 for the school’s annual fund. Participants sprinted up stairs and raced around corners—but not because they were late for class.
In finance there’s a well-known problem called the principal-agent conflict. The conflict arises when managers and owners of a firm have different incentives. When that happens, managers may make decisions that benefit themselves at the expense of owners.
This is the third of a five-part personal financial planning series sponsored by the Peery Institute of Financial Services. The next installment, about getting out of debt, will appear in the Fall 2005 issue.
Judith Martin, of Miss Manners newspaper fame, wrote in a recent column, "Question: At what age should children be taught how to eat properly? Answer: In their mid-to late-twenties. Question: What is the best venue for this instruction?
This is the fifth and final installment of a five-part personal financial planning series sponsored by the H. Taylor Peery Institute of Financial Services.
All Martin Egbert wanted was the best treatment for his son. What he found was a unique, nonsurgical method of treating clubfoot—promulgated on the Internet—and an opportunity to share his discovery with others.
For someone trained as a nurse, the choice to pursue an MBA may have seemed atypical. Instead of giving bedside care to hospital patients, Christina Bowen Peterson opted for two more years of school and a slightly different career. However, her medical training proved to be an asset as she entered the workplace and prepared for motherhood.
One month after Alianza won BYU’s Business Plan Competition, the company placed in the top eight and received the Outstanding Business Plan Award in their division during the 22nd annual Global MOOT CORP Competition. On May 7 at the University of Texas at Austin, 40 teams of MBA students competed from top schools around the world including London Business School, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University and Thammasat University.
Business Week recently named Provo one of the best five cities for entrepreneurs, citing factors such as BYU’s entrepreneurial students and the city’s competitive tax rates. Students’ missionary service was also highlighted.
Master of Public Administration Program Celebrates 40 Years
The Marriott School announces the division of the School of Accountancy and Information Systems into two parts: the School of Accountancy and the Information Systems Department. The change resulted from numerous discussions among BYU faculty and administration.
The Marriott School has caught the eye of CEOs according to a new poll by Chief Executive magazine. The survey, released in the publication’s July 2005 issue, asked magazine subscribers to name their top 10 business school programs from BusinessWeek’s top 25 b-schools. However, the 477 respondents didn’t limit views to the likes of Wharton, Sloan and Columbia. They also nominated BYU along with a few other business programs.
Brigham Young University is ranked 71st in U.S.News & World Report's annual survey, "America's Best Colleges," with the Marriott School's undergraduate program ranked among the top 50 in "Best Business Programs," coming in at 35th.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Roughly 250 Marriott School accounting students are about to participate in the campus’ first Pit Crew Challenge, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The team-building event will take place Thursday and Friday in the Marriott Center parking lot, and Saturday in the Wilkinson Student Center parking lot south of the law school.
School Ranks Second as Place to Hire Ethical Graduates
Securing thousands of dollars in capital for a new business and preparing a term paper for an English 315 class is multitasking on another level. For those over achievers who juggle starting a business venture while in college, the Center for Entrepreneurship has a proposition for you.
For a crew of four jokesters, writing their second best-selling book, Crucial Confrontations, came naturally as another part of their series of materials to help people acquire skills needed to communicate effectively. Authors Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Kerry Patterson, and Al Switzler credit their success to years of conducting research, practicing what they preach, and injecting humor into the stuffy world of corporate consultants.
Most MBA graduates put their degrees to use in the boardrooms of the business world. Marriott School alum Hugh McCutcheon, however, took his to the locker room and the arena of international volleyball. The former BYU men’s volleyball assistant coach recently took the job as head coach of the U.S. Olympic Men’s Volleyball Team. He replaces longtime coach Doug Beal, who became CEO of USA Volleyball.
As a child, Jose Montoya worked alongside his family picking grapes in California vineyards. Today this Marriott School alum is president of M2 Group, a fast-growing, Mesa, Arizona-based civil engineering firm. Founded in 1998 by Montoya and Tom Palmer, M2 Group has grown from three employees in one location to more than ninety employees in three locations including Mexico.