By Jhana Aristando Note from the editor: The following article was adapted from a study of the same name written by the author. The full text is available on the ScholarsArchive website, and can downloaded here. Utah is known for its variety of recreational areas and activities and has been one of the top states for outdoor enthusiasts through the last couple of decades. Home … Continue reading Synopsis: Tourism in Utah as an Economic Tool
By Jacob Thorpe Two years ago, I applied for a program at the Marriott School. I reviewed my applications with mentors and even went over everything with one of the former heads of the department, who expressed his confidence in my experience and confidence that I would be accepted to the program. By all accounts, I should have gotten in. You can imagine my surprise … Continue reading Coping Mechanisms to Failure and Adversity
By Evan D. Poff Amid the gamut of human ailments and frailties plaguing the world today, medical devices restore and even redefine health.The medical device industry comprises wide varieties of technologies that repair life and augment living. These range from internal pacemakers to external defibrillators, from full-size wheelchairs to small dental implants, and from individualized knee replacements to institution-wide MRI machines. Indeed, the scope of … Continue reading Industry Spotlight: Medical Devices
By Ryan Yauney Ahmad Corbitt is a director in the public affairs department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the former director of the Church’s New York office of public and international affairs. He received a BA in sociology from Richard Stockton college of New Jersey and a law degree from Rutgers University and has been a regular moderator and lecturer … Continue reading Executive Spotlight: Ahmed Corbitt
Jargon that will keep you going through the year By Sarah Romney 1 Bleeding edge A product or service that is very new, a little more so than “cutting edge.” Bleeding edge usually refers to a technology that very few customers are using and implies some uncertainty and unreliability. 2 Freemium A combination of the words “free” and “premium”—a model that allows some basic or … Continue reading Buzzwords
By Sarah Romney Responsible. Authentic. Driven. These are the top three qualities that undergraduate business students identified as being important traits in a great leader. In a study conducted by Svetlana Holt and Joan Marques from Woodbury University, students in five business classes at Woodbury were asked to list qualities that they thought would be essential for a leader to be effective. Of the ten … Continue reading The Empathetic Leader
Review By Jennifer Ann Goldsberry Business is simpler than it is made out to be. Al Dunlap argues in his book, Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great, that the principles he teaches, if understood, would make schools of business everywhere obsolete. The way Dunlap writes, basic business principles are broken down very simply (“Remember that business is simple: don’t … Continue reading Book Review : “Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great” by Al Dunlap
Review By Marianna Richardson Contemporary adults often feel like a juggler keeping multiple balls up in the air, frantically trying not to let one ball drop. Or, they try to balance their external and internal lives equally, like an acrobat standing precariously on a board placed on a ball, teetering from side to side trying not to come crashing down onto the floor. The authors … Continue reading Book Review: Beyond Juggling
Review By Erica Knight Continue reading The Zookeeper’s Secret : Finding Your Calling In Life
Review By Alyssa Clark To attain greater gender equality in the workplace, women must actively lean in to their work, take a seat at the table, and advocate for themselves and other women. Using social science research to back up her personal experiences, Sheryl Sandberg shows that gender discrimination still exists in the workplace and argues that not only can it be remedied, but it … Continue reading Lean In
By Ryan Stenquist Continue reading Navigating Modern Sino-American Business Relationships
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