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Student Experiences

A Semester with Walmart

March 04, 2020
The summer of 2020 will bring big things for Katelynne Hinckley flying to Walmart's worldwide headquarters in Arkansas. Read more about the process and experiences that landed her a dream internship.

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Student Experiences

How to Live a Meaningful Life

January 30, 2019
Have you wondered what your life is going to be like after college graduation? Do you dream about making a difference with your career, yet worry that it won't be financially viable?
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Alumni Experiences

Social Impact a Utah Business Focus

June 13, 2018
The Ballard Center is a member of the new Utah chapter of the Social Enterprise Alliance, encouraging entrepreneurs to network and help each other improve impact.
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Student Experiences

New Internship Encourages Innovation

January 23, 2018
BYU's new on-campus internship allows students to earn class credit while working for leading companies in the field of corporate social responsibility.
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Alumni Experiences

Utah: The Giving State

January 09, 2018
According to Cicero Social Impact's report The Giving State, the first ever statewide report on philanthropy, Utah gives more time and money than any other state in the United States.
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Employee Spotlight

OBHR PROFESSOR RETURNS THE FAVOR

November 14, 2016
In 1997, Lisa Jones Christensen took a break after a decade of working in business development to travel the world and work on her Spanish. While in Guatemala, she lived with low-income families in their homes. One night, when the father of one of the families came home from work rejected, mistreated, and empty-handed, she realized she needed to re-evaluate the paradigm she had grown to know about the relationship between business and quality of life.
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Alumni Spotlight

STRATEGY ALUM CHARLES BARRETT KEEPS CLIMBING

November 02, 2016
Whether it be climbing the tallest mountains in Europe and Africa or climbing the ladder toward a successful business career, Charles Barrett, a 2009 graduate from the Marriott School strategy program, reaches the top one step at a time.
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Employee Spotlight

OBHR LESSONS FROM THE CARIBBEAN

October 11, 2016
When two young missionaries lost the trail while hiking Mont Pelée, a volcano on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, Reid Robison had to act quickly. After receiving the news that the two young men had gone missing, Robison, then president of the West Indies Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, immediately flew to Martinique from mission headquarters in Trinidad and brought in twenty additional missionaries from surrounding islands in the mission to help search alongside the local police force.
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Center News

Solving Problems One 'Stoplight' at a Time

August 03, 2016
Thanks to the Ballard Center, BYU students had the opportunity to utilize their skills in the research and development of a survey that is tackling poverty.
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Student Experiences

Putting a Freeze on Food Waste

August 04, 2015
Many students want to save the world. Michael Snow and Steven Johnson want to save food.
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Student Spotlight

Ballard Internship Propels Career

January 03, 2015
Jeff Roberts went from intern to full-time employee with Self-Reliance Services/PEF.
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Student Experiences

IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS: YOUR STORIES

January 08, 2014
It’s been nearly two months since we asked for your international stories and the response has been overwhelming! Thank you. Working in a foreign land can certainly be the adventure of a lifetime.
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Center News

BYU Hosts Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship Case Competition

April 09, 2012
Sponsored by the Ballard Center, graduate students created innovative solutions for Newman's Own Foundation.
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Student Experiences

Ghanaian Fish Farms Take Global Category at 2011 BPC

April 26, 2011
A team of MBA students are putting the age-old maxim of teaching a man to fish to the real-world test at the 2011 BYU BPC.
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Student Spotlight

MPA Students Help Bring Electricity to Schools in Ghana

August 06, 2008
On a recent field study trip to Ghana, BYU MPA students teamed with a charity powering rural schools with merry-go-rounds.
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Employee Experiences

Business Professor Earns International Award for Social Issue Leadership

November 18, 2007
In recognition for the integration of social issues in research and teaching, The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education presented the 2007 Faculty Pioneer Award in External Impact to Marriott School Professor Warner Woodworth.
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