Paul Dishman, visiting associate professor at the Marriott School, has been invited by the United Nations to lecture on competitive intelligence and knowledge management in China this September. “It is a great honor to have a representative speaking at this important forum,” said Ned C. Hill, dean of the Marriott School at Brigham Young University.

Weldon Johnson Taylor, the first dean of the College of Business at Brigham Young University, died 21 August in his home at the age of 92. As a well known business educator and educational administrator, Taylor’s long life was one of great service, contribution and example.

The Marriott School at Brigham Young University has completed its most successful hiring season to date. The school will introduce twenty new professors to students beginning this fall. The added personnel will increase the school’s full-time faculty from 111 to 118 — making room for 150 additional students.

Five accounting students from the Marriott School at Brigham Young University cooly handled the pressures faced by auditors — placing second in national competition. Graduate students Brent Pugh, Troy Sheen, Heather Madsen, Josh Rowley and Ryan Oviatt participated in the Deloitte & Touche Foundation’s Fifth Annual National Student Case Study Seminar.

The Marriott School at Brigham Young University is pleased to announce the appointment of recently retired Times Mirror Chairman Mark Willes as the distinguished visiting professor of business management. Willes joins the school’s business faculty after retiring in April from his position as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Times Mirror, which published the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, five other newspapers and 18 magazines.

The stock market’s recent slump has left one BYU Marriott School student feeling anything but down. On the contrary, Nathan Gardner, an undergraduate business management major, beat out 2,100 students and faculty to win the iExchange.com$100,000 Business School Challenge.

Whether it’s finding a hiking trail in the Rocky mountains or a fly fishing shop in Australia, Brigham Young University students are giving outdoor enthusiasts selectivity.Outdoorsman.com, a new online business, categorizes outdoor equipment, outfitting and recreation sites according to region, interest and business description.

Best-selling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton Christensen, will address the Marriott School’s sixth annual Management Conference 22-24 June. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, will discuss how listening to customers and good management may cause companies to fail when faced with disruptive technology.

A 2000 Brigham Young University graduate believes improving student Internet access will pay off and the judges agreed. Becky Tate, a recent graduate from the Marriott School at BYU, led a team of students from BYU and Utah Valley State College (UVSC) to a first place finish at the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge 6 May 2000.

Six-hundred bags filled with school supplies were prepared by Marriott School staff members for children in need. The staff advisory committee sponsored a humanitarian project in conjunction with the fifth annual Marriott School Staff Excellence Awards. The committee planned a service project in lieu of their annual training session.

Vadim Ovchinnikov, a second-year master of accountancy (MAcc) student from Russia, has been selected as one of six students selected to work with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in 2001. Ovchinnikov is one of only a handful of foreign students and the first Russian to work with the board.

Alice Sheets Marriott, the co-founder of Marriott Corporation with her husband, J. Willard Marriott, died Monday, April 17 in Washington, D.C., of natural causes. She was 92 years old. Mrs. Marriott and her husband, who died in 1985, personified the American dream. The nine-stool root beer stand they opened in 1927 was the beginning of Marriott Corporation, one of the world's leading hospitality companies.

Utahns support the idea of a tax on Internet sales but only if it replaces the sales tax on food or reduces the overall sales tax rate, according to a study conducted by Brigham Young University graduate students. A full report of the students’ findings will be presented to the Governor’s Tax Review Commission April 14.

The Marriott School officially named the Kevin and Debra Rollins Centerfor eBusiness at Brigham Young University April 7. University and Marriott School faculty andadministration, top high-tech business leaders and Elder Henry B. Eyring, a member of the Quorum of theTwelve for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, honored the Rollins family and discussed thefuture of e-commerce at a special banquet that evening in the Wilkinson Student Center.

Brigham Young University's business and law schools are among the top 50 in the United States, reports the 2001 edition of the U.S. News & World Report guide "Best Graduate Schools." The J. Reuben Clark Law School is ranked 32nd in the nation, and the Marriott School is ranked 42nd. Yale University tops the nation's law schools, while Harvard University and Stanford University are in a first-place tie in the business school rankings.

The Marriott School at Brigham Young University announced the appointment of Kristie Seawright as director of the Center for International Business Education Research (CIBER). Seawright will replace Stan Fawcett, who served as director of the center for two years. Fawcett was recently awarded the Donald L. Staheli Professorship in International Management and will continue teaching full time.

Sabita Tuladhar is convinced she paid more taxes last year than she should have. But this year she says that won't happen. Tuladhar is a senior at the Marriott School majoring in information systems from Kathmandu, Nepal. "Sometimes it's really confusing," she admits, "and I've been using the easy form." To understand the complex U.S. tax code, Tuladhar is getting free tax help from the largest collegiate lab in the United States.

Romanna Giulia Remor dreams of being a senator in the Brazilian Congress. In fact, she plans to run for office in her home state of Santa Catarina in the 2002 elections. “I think it’s possible,” said Remor, a twenty-five-year-old Brazilian native and first-year MPA student at the Marriott School’s Romney Institute of Public Management. Her state, home to a “small” population of only 5 million, is one of the most developed and industrial states in Brazil.

The Master of Organizational Behavior program at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School will present its fourth-annual William G. Dyer Distinguished Alumni Award to J. Bonner Ritchie at a banquet Friday, Mar. 31 at the Provo Marriott Hotel. Recognized internationally for his integral role in Mideast peace talks, Ritchie will retire from the Marriott School this year to teach with his wife at universities in Palestine and Jordan.

The Marriott School at Brigham Young University will host the third-annual MicroEnterprise Conference March 17–18, 2000. The theme of this year's conference is "Building Bridges to Self-Reliance." The conference, the largest of its kind in the world, brings together educators, investors and non-governmental organizations involved with MicroEnterprise, and it hopes to educate the general public about the fundamental principles of this movement. The conference will include large group presentations and small action-oriented workshops planned to help both experienced volunteers and interested newcomers get involved in the various aspects of MicroEnterprise.