By Denise Han With companies like HireVue, SkillSurvey, and Fama boasting great success in improving the recruitment process through artificial intelligence, you might be wondering how to capitalize on these innovative HR trends. After all, your industry peers are finding that implementing this software enables highly efficient processing, the capturing of more intangible human qualities, and more successful job matching. However, here is a word … Continue reading The Rose: Artificial Intelligence in the Current Hiring Process

By Philip Morgan Note from the editor: The following article was adapted from an honors thesis of the same name written by the author. The full text is available on the Marriott Student Review ScholarsArchive website.   According to data from Thomson Reuters, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) represent a vital mechanism for consolidation and restructuring within industries and carry significant influence over rapid changes in … Continue reading Synopsis: Predictive Power? Textual Analysis in Mergers and Acquisitions

Note from the editor: The following article was adapted from an honors thesis entitled The Digital Global Supply Chain: The Growing Case for Blockchain Technology Expansion Within Global Supply Chain written by the author. The full text is available on the ScholarsArchive website. What is Blockchain? What is Blockchain? Blockchain is a decentralized and digitally distributed ledger or database of records and transactions that facilitates … Continue reading Synopsis: A Bit about Blockchain

The Digital Global Supply Chain: The Growing Case for Blockchain Technology Expansion Within Global Supply Chain By Jonathan Chichoni Note from the editor: The following article was adapted from an honors thesis of the same name written by the author. The full text is available on the ScholarsArchive website. Also, for further background explanations on blockchain data storage technology, the reader is directed to “A … Continue reading Synopsis: A Digital Global Supply Chain

Review by Ammon Kou Most startups fail. Unfortunately, that’s the bitter truth. Groundbreaking products and services fail to penetrate the world of the consumer. Those that do are quickly drowned out by a plethora of imitations and substitutions. Why do businesses fail so often? According to serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and co-founder of Paypal Peter Thiel, the simple reason is because they fail to go from … Continue reading Book Review: Zero to One by Peter Thiel

“What did you do as a child that excited you? How can you recreate that today?” Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism, asks readers to rediscover their child-like behaviors. Why? To help them eliminate frivolity. This may seem counter-intuitive. However, in McKeown’s compelling book, he provides readers with a number of strategies to recognize what promotes their success and what merely distracts them. Reserving time for … Continue reading Book Review: Essentialism by Greg McKeown

Review by Marianna Richardson Who doesn’t like a good story? From nursery rhymes to fairy tales to Star Wars, a good story becomes a part of our way of thinking. Stories take us to new ideas and places where we would never go. We fondly remember the first time we heard about Jack Sprat who ate no fat, the magical kiss that saved Snow White’s … Continue reading Book Review of Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte

By Elisabeth McClatchie In recent decades, the human ability to leverage the sun has expanded well beyond tanning and frying ants on the sidewalk. Revolutionized technology and research has both illuminated sustainability issues and provided potential solutions, many of which are being successfully implemented. Within suburban neighborhoods, it is common to see solar panels on every other house, wind turbines on visits to the beach, … Continue reading Industry Spotlight: Solar Energy

By Michael Jarman 2018 Phi Kappa Phi MarriotT School of business Business Article Winner One year ago, the United Nations Refugee Agency announced there were 65.6 million displaced people worldwide (Edwards, 2017), meaning 1 in every 113 persons is a refugee. The world needs to find answers to two questions, where will all these people go, and how will we take care of them all? … Continue reading GDP and Refugees: An Economic Argument For Accepting Refugees

By Jacob Thorpe While the benefits of an MLM business model are indisputable, inherent risks exist that not only put in question the validity of direct sales interactions, but also can create ethical and legal dilemmas. About two years ago, I was recovering from a bout of a fairly serious illness. I was bed-ridden for over a month. It took me almost two months to … Continue reading The Benefits and the Risks of Multi-Level Marketing

By Kylan Rutherford Adam Chase has been CEO of Chase Marketing, a Utahbased marketing firm, for ten years. Chase Marketing was started by his father, Mike Chase, in 1992. “It’s a family business, but it works because we all have such different strengths.” Adam has worked with his father, brother, and now his sister to build Chase Marketing from the ground up. A career’s worth … Continue reading Executive Spotlight: Adam Chase, CEO Chase Marketing

BY Catherine Gardiner, Madie Neeley, and Mat D. Duerden Even though its origins extend back more than 50 years, interest in design thinking has grown exponentially over the last 15 to 20 years across multiple industries, corporations, and universities, including Brigham Young University. With broad applicability and a human-centered focus, educators, researchers, and business executives have been using design thinking to develop innovative concepts and solutions. … Continue reading Design Thinking And The Marriott School

Note from the editor: The following article was adapted from an honors thesis entitled The Digital Global Supply Chain: The Growing Case for Blockchain Technology Expansion Within Global Supply Chain written by the author. The full text is available on the ScholarsArchive website. What is Blockchain? Blockchain is a decentralized and digitally distributed ledger or database of records and transactions that facilitates the process of … Continue reading A Bit About Blockchain

By Jonathan Chichoni Note from the editor: The following article was adapted from an honors thesis of the same name written by the author. The full text is available on the ScholarsArchive website. Also, for further background explanations on blockchain data storage technology, the reader is directed to “A Bit about Blockchain,” located in this issue of MSR, or “Strategic Implications of Blockchain” from MSR … Continue reading The Digital Global Supply Chain: The Growing Case for Blockchain Technology Expansion Within Global Supply Chain

By Ryan Yauney “Nations hire him to get to outer space. His solar company is cash-flow positive. His electric supercars seat seven. Superheroes emulate him. He wants to die on Mars. He is… Elon Musk.”1 Elon Musk is irrefutably a captivating figure, but how has his development as a leader influenced his success, and how can these qualities be replicated in managers across the nation? … Continue reading Leadership Development: A Study of Elon Musk