By Becca Gibb Wireless connections, like a customer support chat, can be a great way to connect people—until it’s not. Under the guise of looking for information about his paycheck, a caller named Brad bullied the customer support rep assigned to the chat to “teach a lesson to the younger generation.” The anonymity made it easy for Brad to feel disconnected from the person he … Continue reading Wireless Dehumanization

By Kenzie Koehle A hot topic that has popped up in the last year or two has been that of a work-life balance. For many employees who now work from home in a space where their workplace and safe space have blended into one, they wonder how they can keep these two halves of themselves—their work life and their normal life—balanced. Niko Pfund, the president … Continue reading Podcast Review: Niko Pfund on University Presses

By Elaine Pfeil Picture a CEO. The CEO runs a strategic, risk-taking Fortune 500 company. The CEO is personable, highly respected, and always well dressed. What color suit do you picture the CEO wearing? What color tie? Did you picture a man? If so, you are not alone; most people do. To your credit, only 41 of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women, and only … Continue reading The Women’s Leadership Gap in America

By Sarah Romney How do we end poverty? World hunger? High death rates? These are complicated issues that people have been trying to solve for centuries, but Melinda Gates proposes that the solution to many of the world’s problems is to give women a voice “because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.” In The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates shares stories and … Continue reading Book Review: The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

By Sam Lambert ¿Cómo se debe buscar el éxito si hay una barrera en el camino? El Marriott Student Review comparte la meta de la Escuela de Negocios Marriott de BYU de “recognize the inherent worth, divine potential, and agency of each person”.[i] Por eso queremos “[connect] the leaders of tomorrow with the issues of today”.[ii] Mas reconocemos que este esfuerzo implica ayuda distinta para … Continue reading Apoyaremos a los Estudiantes Internacionales

By Sam Lambert We all live in a meritocracy-like society that values high productivity and achievement. This doesn’t leave much margin for error. As such, we’ve trained our brains to find the right answer, to avoid getting distracted, and to employ willpower to remain focused on achieving success. Annabelle Sorensen, however, doesn’t agree with this paradigm. She asserts that we must teach ourselves to allow … Continue reading Podcast Review: Annabelle Sorensen on Balancing the Positives and Negatives

By Sydney Springer The number was staggering: $1.1 million per player. That’s how much the US Men’s National Soccer team would have made if they accelerated to the World Cup finals. The year was 2019, and the US Women’s National Team had just clobbered Netherlands 2–0 at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. The trophy was packed, the paychecks were written, and the (soccer) ball was … Continue reading Sexism at Its Peak: Gender Inequality in National Sports

By Jake Welling Have you heard someone say that it doesn’t matter how much of their data is collected because they have nothing to hide? You may have said this very same thing at one point in your life. In recent years, data privacy has become an important topic on a government, company, and individual level. New laws, such as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) … Continue reading Have Nothing to Hide? Why Data Privacy Is Still Important for You

By Lydia Mercado “If you’re not giving people something that they can’t get elsewhere, then your podcast will fail.” Such a bold (and bordering brash) statement may give the potential podcaster pause, but Robert Smith is simply being direct. And Smith certainly has the life experience to merit such boldness. While attending high school in Park City, Smith began his radio journal at a local … Continue reading Podcast Review: Robert Smith on Radio, Storytelling, and Economics (May 2, 2021)

By Dani Mattsson Jonathan Keats, famous author and philosopher who was “acclaimed as a ‘poet of ideas’ by The New Yorker and a ‘multimedia philosopher-prophet’ by The Atlantic,”[1] assures analog-lovers that “Confirmation comes time and time again. Film refuses to die.”[2] Walmart’s shelves are consistently filled with quality film. The hashtag #filmisnotdead has over 19 million tags on Instagram. Four of the nine Oscar nominations … Continue reading Film is Not Dead but Kodak Almost Killed It

By Julie Irvine Imagine an undergraduate student named Taylor. Taylor is about to start her first day of classes for the fall semester, but she still needs to buy her textbooks. She is taking 15 credits this semester, so she anticipates buying at least eight books and some additional course supplies (maybe even an iClicker). She gets ready to check out, and the student behind … Continue reading Eliminating the $60 Paperweight: How Open Educational Resources Save Students Money

By Jacob Hansen: “One must spend money to make money.” Though we’ve all heard the proverbial phrase, in business two questions always remain: How and where should a company spend its money to make a greater profit? The answer your company seeks is employee wellness incentives. Katherine Baiker, renowned economic analyst, found that every dollar put towards wellness programs saves a company over three dollars … Continue reading Wellness Incentives: An Employee-Focused Profit Multiplier

By: Tyler Curtis In March of 2021, Abbie Anderson from the Marriott Student Review’s Podcast team interviewed Dr. Mark Keith, an associate professor of Information Systems department in the Marriott School  at BYU. In this episode (found under March 23, 2021) Dr. Keith and Abbie discuss Information Systems and the basics of the major, share tips on being successful in the Information Systems Program, and … Continue reading Podcast Review: Mark Keith on Academic Success in Information Systems

By Jacob B. Grant According to a recent poll by Pew Research, 45% of U.S. adults are in favor of a guaranteed, unconditional cash transfer of $1,000 per month for all adult citizens.[1] Such proposals, commonly referred to as universal basic income (UBI) strategies, have quickly captured public interest due to their increased traction in modern politics. Figure 1, which illustrates this growing interest, shows … Continue reading A Universal Basic Income: Effective or Overkill?

By: Tanner Stanford Everyone knows the popular adage of “You can accomplish anything you set your mind to.” Countless books have been written on this subject, but few come close to the original, Napoleon Hill’s classic work, Think and Grow Rich. Endorsed by incredibly successful businessmen, inventors, and politicians like Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Woodrow Wilson, John D. Rockefeller and … Continue reading Book Review: Think and Grow Rich