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When Religion Goes to Work

December 19, 2024
Paul Lambert hopes to empower students at the BYU Marriott School of Business to see their faith as one of their biggest assets in the workplace.
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Ambitions up in the Air

December 17, 2024
A life-threatening car crash was just one of many mental and physical feats that Erin Cole, a senior in Brigham Young University’s Army ROTC, believes has shaped who she is today.
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Excited to Fail, Excited to Serve

December 12, 2024
Jose and Adela Montoya Brañez—a sibling duo studying entrepreneurial management at the BYU Marriott School of Business—are passionate about entrepreneurship and the chance it gives them to serve others.
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Speaking the Language of Compassion

December 10, 2024
MPA student Rahel Meyer is preparing herself to help refugees and make the difference she wants to see in the world.
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Greater Joy in a Greater Plan

December 05, 2024
If Michael McLennan had followed his own plan, he would still be in Scotland. Instead, he followed the Lord's promptings and found greater joy and purpose.
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3 Countries, 3 Languages, and a Soccer Game: The Power of Taking Chances

December 04, 2024
During an internship in Berlin made possible by the Whitmore Global Business Center, Finance senior Emilio Ramos Barrios has learned that determination will take you places—literally.
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Signing Up to Be Challenged

November 21, 2024
As the president of the Strategy Society, Adam Boswell hopes to help students thrive by encouraging them to adopt an optimistic attitude about the rigor of the junior core.
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A Commitment to Practical Learning

November 19, 2024
As a professor in the finance department at the BYU Marriott School of Business, Barrett Slade strives to equip his students with practical tools to thrive in the “real world” of real estate.
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Transact to Transform

November 14, 2024
Jay Meldrum, a principal at PwC and the recipient of the BYU Marriott School of Business 2024 Alumni Achievement Award, recently spoke to students about the power of transactions that transform—in both business and everyday life.
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Trials and Triumphs of a Combat Rescue Officer

November 12, 2024
Cameron Strawn, an assistant professor of aerospace studies at Brigham Young University, shares how his commitment to try has allowed him to accomplish many feats that people once told him were too difficult to attempt or improbable to achieve.
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Collaboration, Not Competition

November 07, 2024
As a former collegiate gymnast, Elaina Greco knows a thing or two about competition, but when she joined the finance program at the BYU Marriott School of Business, she found an environment that instead emphasized collaboration and mutual support.
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BYU Marriott Names John Pence as the 2024 International Executive of the Year

November 05, 2024
In a lecture hall packed with prospective and current business students, Sunrise Technologies Founder and President John Pence shared how saying yes early in his career eventually led him to start and run his own company.
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Resourceful Thinking in Rural Communities

November 01, 2024
There can be many economic and social problems in rural, resource-dependent communities, and finding solutions is challenging. However, Aaron Kelson, an instructor at Minnesota North College, is determined to help the residents of his central Minnesota community flourish.
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Embarking on a Lifelong Adventure

November 01, 2024
On the first official day of BYU Marriott’s 2011 Europe Business study abroad, two students took a photo together at a windy lighthouse in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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A Curious Nature

November 01, 2024
Sabrina Wu has cared for rescued circus elephants in Thailand, navigated a team of huskies across a frozen lake and through a forest in Finland, and now works as the anti-fraud officer for Morgan Stanley in Australia.
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A Legacy of Leadership

October 31, 2024
On a ferry near the northern coast of France, Brigham Young University senior Joseph Ward imagined himself as a solider on the morning of June 6, 1944, preparing to invade Normandy. Ward, a member of the BYU Army ROTC, was touring the main locations of Operation Overlord—the campaign that turned the tide of World War II—and discovered a deeper understanding of leadership.
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Living Life from a Team Perspective

October 29, 2024
If there’s one word that BYU Marriott alum Tyler Banks uses every day, it’s team. Whether he is at work or with his family at home, Banks believes that teamwork is essential to make meaningful progress in life.
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Trusting in God’s Plans

October 24, 2024
When Jeffrey Pickerd graduated from BYU Marriott, he knew he wanted to return as a faculty member someday. Now a new associate professor in the SOA, Pickerd has seen the Lord’s hand guiding his journey back to BYU Marriott as he continued forward in faith.
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