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Partner with the Lord in Your Career

October 20, 2025
Lee Bird's 2025 convocation speech illustrates that career building and kingdom building are not mutually exclusive. In fact, when brought together, they can create a powerful combination.
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“Let Us Run with Patience the Race That Is Set Before Us”

June 05, 2025
As a business ethics professor... one of my core goals is to help my students prepare to thrive by increasing their ability to make gospel- and principle-based decisions about work and life.
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School News

Connecting Christ and Careers after Graduation

By Kiana Aquino
May 19, 2025
Lee Bird shares with graduates how partnering with the Savior has blessed his career and life.
3 Min Read
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Ingredients of Happiness

February 27, 2025
When I tell people that I teach happiness, they think I’m lying... but the neuroscience, social psychology, behavioral economics, and strategies that make up the science of happiness can elevate people who, in turn, can lift others.
14 Min Read
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Finance, Family, & Fulfillment: A Conversation with John Waldron

June 24, 2024
John Waldron, president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs and BYU Marriott's 2023 International Executive of the Year, shared counsel with students in a special Q&A session moderated by Dean Brigitte Madrian.
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How Will You Carry His Name?

March 26, 2024
Drawing upon her experiences in the professional and academic worlds, associate professor Abigail Allen shares how followers of Christ can represent His Church.
14 Min Read
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Christlike Transformation

November 28, 2023
From a young age, Melissa Larson developed a love of reading and learning, and set the goal of graduating from a university. However, as the first person in her family to pursue higher education, she wasn’t sure what it would take to achieve her goal.
14 Min Read
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Deliverance

July 18, 2023
We are all living a deliverance story, explains Michael S. Drake, K. Fred Skousen Professor of Accounting, in this condensed version of his byu devotional address. Deliverance is “a central and recurring theme of this film called mortality,” he says, and each of us can participate in the work of deliverance together with our Savior to ease the sufferings and burdens of others.
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In Awe: The Astonishing Goodness of God

November 11, 2022
My wife, Amy, loves new experiences. In 2017 she convinced our family that we needed to travel five hours from Provo to eastern Idaho to see the full solar eclipse in person.
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Lessons from the Turnaround

June 21, 2022
Address by Gail J. McGovern, President and CEO of the American Red Cross
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Seeing the Divinity in Others

November 05, 2021
When our children were teenagers, whenever they would leave our home, my husband or I would usually say to them, “Remember who you are.”
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Bridging the Divide

July 07, 2021
When I reach across the aisle, does someone reach back?
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Women and Education

February 23, 2021
A Future Only God Could See for You
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The Levite, the Priest, and the Good Samaritan in a World of Racial Injustice

November 04, 2020
The many instances of some- times lethal violence and discrimination against Black people that have been widely publicized in the news media in the last several months have been deeply disturbing to me and
7 Min Read
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Joy, Truth, and Brass Rings

July 14, 2020
Unless you are either unusually lucky or incredibly unlucky, and in most cases even then, most of your careers will not be composed of drama.
14 Min Read
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Be All In

November 20, 2019
BYU is a special place. I go to a lot of universities, and there is nowhere else like this. I grew up here on this campus. My father was part of the BYU Marriott faculty for thirty years. There isn’t one part of the Tanner Building that doesn’t have a Smith mark on it somewhere.
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Employee Experiences

Harry Potter and the Five Gospel Truths

October 17, 2019
On 8 October during university devotional, BYU Marriott School of Business dean Brigitte Madrian helped students to see the value in finding gospel connections from cherished childhood stories.
5 Min Read
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Disrupting the Universe

July 29, 2019
In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T. S. Eliot wrote, “‘Do I dare?’ . . . ‘Do I dare?’ . . . Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” Although I haven’t always recognized it, this simple question has been one that has guided my journey through life.
8 Min Read
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