Information Systems News
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Movers, Shakers, and Innovators of Tomorrow
BYU Marriott Alum Named Forbes Under 30 Scholar Wednesday Nov 20 2019
BYU Marriott student Demitri Haddad was recently named a Forbes Under 30 Scholar for 2019 and attended the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit. There he joined an elite group of 1,000 college students from around the country who represent the movers and shakers, innovators, and leaders of tomorrow.
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BYU Marriott Students Win Big at AIS Competitions
Wednesday Nov 06 2019
BYU Marriott information systems students, supported by faculty and armed with experiential knowledge, took home first- and second-place finishes at the tenth annual Association for Information Systems conference.
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BYU Marriott Welcomes New Faculty in 2019
Friday Nov 01 2019
The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business welcomes seven new professors to the Tanner Building this fall.
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Are Siri and Alexa making us ruder? The answer is...
Friday Aug 16 2019
Is the way we bark out orders to digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant making us less polite? Prompted by growing concerns, two BYU information systems researchers decided to ask.
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A BYU Marriott Education Extends to Harvard
Tuesday Apr 16 2019
Deciding between two summer employment opportunities, especially two great organizations that seemed like a perfect fit, was the root of conflicting emotions for BYU Marriott student Autumn Clark.
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Diligence Leading to Exploration
Monday Mar 18 2019
BYU Marriott School of Business information systems professor Jeff Jenkins is no stranger to the hard work and patience needed to delve into unexplored areas of his discipline. Growing up on a dairy farm in Rigby, Idaho, taught him about diligence, an attribute Jenkins has had to continually rely on during nearly ten years of researching areas of untapped research.
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Professor Receives Award for Outstanding Contribution to IS Education
Tuesday Mar 05 2019
From the comfort of his office, BYU Marriott School of Business information systems professor James Gaskin has taken on some of the most difficult concepts in statistics and taught them to a global audience.
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Study: Collaborative video games could increase office productivity
Monday Jan 28 2019
Move over trust falls and ropes courses, turns out playing video games with coworkers is the real path to better performance at the office.
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BYU Marriott Welcomes Its New Dean
Brigitte Madrian Began Term 1 January Monday Jan 07 2019
After six months of anticipation, Brigham Young University finally welcomes its newest dean. On 1 January 2019, Brigitte C. Madrian began her tenure as dean of the BYU Marriott School of Business.
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Women Tech Council Honors Two BYU Marriott Students
Monday Nov 12 2018
Two BYU Marriott information systems students were among three finalists for the Women Tech Council Student Pathways Award.
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IS Students Take Home $1,500 after Winning BI Competition
Friday Oct 26 2018
A team of four BYU Marriott information systems students is seeing signs after winning a BI competition. Dollar signs, that is.
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Refining Teaching Technique
Friday Sep 21 2018
Each semester, BYU students have the opportunity to confidentially provide feedback about their courses and professors. “That moment was a turning point in my career,” Keith says.
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An Evolving Career
Monday Jul 23 2018
The fact that information systems alum Roy Peckham can't sit still has led to his success at ExxonMobil, where he leads the company's design thinking efforts.
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Improving Deception Detection
Thursday Jun 28 2018
Andrew Sanford, a recent MISM grad and ORCA grant recipient, developed a framework aimed to help auditors better detect fraud.
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Thompson Named Interim Dean
Tuesday Jun 12 2018
Michael P. Thompson will serve as interim dean from 1 July 2018 to 31 December 2018. Steve Glover and Keith Vorkink will continue to serve as associate deans.
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Paying Attention to Notifications
Thursday May 24 2018
Using brain data, eye-tracking data and field-study data, a group of BYU Marriott researchers have confirmed something about our interaction with security warnings on computers and phones: the more we see them, the more we tune them out.
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New Dean Announced
Wednesday May 23 2018
Brigham Young University Academic Vice President Jim R. Rasband has announced that Brigitte C. Madrian has been named the ninth dean of the BYU Marriott School of Business.
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Confidence Keys Success
Thursday May 17 2018
Information systems students took a unique approach in a business case for the NHL's Minnesota Wild. Their findings secured the team third place at the CoMIS Competition.
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BYU Marriott Awards Honor Personnel
Wednesday Apr 25 2018
Faculty, staff, and administrators received recognition for their outstanding teaching, research, and service during the school’s annual year-end awards luncheon.
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Collecting Hardware
Tuesday Apr 24 2018
BYU Marriott information systems students dominated at the AIS Student Leadership Conference, taking home one second place and two first place trophies.