News Releases
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Bateman Awards Honor Students, Professor and Organization
Monday, Apr 30, 2012
Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management announced the winners of the 2012 Bateman Awards — the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students — at an awards banquet on April 6.
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BYU MBA Students Win ACG Cup Competition
Monday, Apr 09, 2012
A team of Brigham Young University MBA students bested teams from other Utah schools by winning first place and $5,000 at this year's Association for Corporate Growth Cup Competition in Salt Lake City.
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Graduate Competition Aims to Improve Social Organization
Friday, Apr 06, 2012
Graduate students from across the country gathered at Brigham Young University to create solutions for problems facing social organizations in the second annual Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship Case Competition.
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Budgeting Backfires – Shoppers Unconsciously Spend More When Trying to Limit Costs
Wednesday, Apr 04, 2012
Setting a price limit when shopping often backfires, according to new research from Brigham Young University and Emory University marketing professors. The study found that merely thinking about prices leaves you likely to spend more than you would otherwise.
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MBA Students Win Stoddard Prize
Monday, Apr 02, 2012
Twenty-one Brigham Young University MBA finance students received a significant return on investment by being awarded the George E. Stoddard Prize, which comes with a cash award of $2,000. This year 10 second-year and 11 first-year students received the honor.
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Student-Run VC Fund Turns 15x Profit on Investment
Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012
Brigham Young University MBA students have accomplished what some investors only dream of: selling their investment with a return of nearly 15 times the original cost.
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Financial Times Rates BYU HR and Accounting Teaching No. One
Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012
The Brigham Young University MBA program has two big reasons to celebrate with the Financial Times rating both human resources and accounting teaching number one worldwide. The Times' teaching rank comes from a survey of alumni. The London-based paper also ranked BYU's MBA program 98th in its Global MBA Ranking 2012.
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MBA Students Hit High Mark at National Competition
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012
A team of MBA students from Brigham Young University received second place and a $1,000 cash prize at the 2012 Wharton MBA Buyout Case Competition, beating out other top Ivy League and international schools. The high-profile competition, which took place in Philadelphia, tested graduate students on their leveraged buyout knowledge.
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BYU Business and Law Schools Both Among Top 40, U.S. News says
Other BYU grad programs rank well too - Tuesday, Mar 13, 2012
Brigham Young University’s law and business schools are both among the Top 40 in the country, according to the latest U.S.News & World Report graduate school rankings, released today.
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BYU Marriott School Announces 2012 Hawes Scholars
Tuesday, Mar 06, 2012
The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management named ten MBA candidates as its 2012 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school.
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Video Game Creator Named 2012 Student Entrepreneur of the Year
Thursday, Mar 01, 2012
From his humble beginnings as owner of a lemonade stand to becoming founder of a million-dollar gaming company, Brad Moss was rewarded for his latest entrepreneurial endeavors by winning the Student Entrepreneur of the Year. The competition, sponsored by the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, recognizes student entrepreneurs for running profitable companies while in school and comes with a cash prize of $10,000.
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MBA Students Place Third at International Logistics Competition
Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012
After 24 hours in their war room analyzing a supply chain problem, a team of Brigham Young University MBA students emerged with a solution that took home a top finish.
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Four Years Family Strong
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
The Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University is adding another title to its collection, but this one has been seen before. For the fourth year in a row, the Marriott School has been voted the most family-friendly business school in the United States by The Princeton Review.
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Career Initiative Boosts Job Placement
Friday, Oct 28, 2011
This year hundreds more Marriott School of Management graduates were hired than in 2010, resulting from an intensified focus on placement and a slowly recovering economy. Placement rates increased by 14 percent for graduate degrees and five percent for undergraduate degrees in 2011, reaching 91 percent and 76 percent, respectively.
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BYU Ranks 2nd in the Nation for Entrepreneurship
Thursday, Sep 29, 2011
Brigham Young University's entrepreneurship students are some of the best prepared to start their own businesses, according to a recent survey by The Princeton Review for Entrepreneur magazine. BYU's Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology graduate and undergraduate programs came in at No. 2 and No. 7, respectively. This is the second year in a row both programs have made it in the top 10, with the graduate program moving up two spots.
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Professor Monte Swain Appointed Associate MBA Director
Friday, Sep 02, 2011
As the MBA program turns 50 years young this year, Marriott School of Management Dean Gary C. Cornia appointed accounting professor Monte Swain to serve as the new associate director of the MBA program.
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BYU Tops Professor Ratings Site
Friday, Aug 26, 2011
It's a place many students love to turn to when picking their professors, and now RateMyProfessors.com has returned the love, naming Brigham Young University the top college for the 2010–2011 school year.
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Forbes Ranks BYU MBA No. 15 on ROI
Friday, Aug 05, 2011
It looks like an MBA from Brigham Young University is well worth the opportunity cost and risk, according to Forbes magazine's biennial list of best business schools. The BYU program placed 15th for return on investment, one spot ahead of its position in 2009, the last time Forbes published the list.
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BYU Prof’s New Book and Forbes Article Tell How Everyone Can Innovate Like the Best
Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011
Where does Forbes turn when looking for a methodology to rank the world's most innovative companies? To Brigham Young University's Jeff Dyer and the insights found in his book released this week by the Harvard Business Review Press.
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BYU Biz Profs’ Harvard Biz Review Article: How to Beat Free
Their 5/40 rule quantifies a tough decision established companies often get wrong - Tuesday, Jun 07, 2011
What do you do when your company is comfortably selling a product, and then suddenly a competitor offers a similar one for free? Well, if you’re like two-thirds of the companies in a new study, you’ll get it wrong.
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