Management
Department of Management
Administration
Chair: Paul Godfrey
Department Information:
590 TNRB
801-422-5742
marriottschool@byu.edu
Advisement Center:
460 TNRB
801-422-4285
msb_advisement@byu.edu
Entrepreneurial Management
The Discipline
Entrepreneurs seek to make the world a better place by creating valuable products and services that improve the lives of customers and add value to the economy. Entrepreneurs may create and start business ventures to bring these ideas to market, while others pursue these efforts as employees in companies ranging from startups to established firms. Others may focus on acquiring, owning and managing business ventures of all sizes and types. No matter where they find themselves, entrepreneurs seek to discover problems and innovate to solve those problems.
What Can Entrepreneurial Management Graduates Do?
Graduates typically create, launch, and manage a new business venture, work for startup ventures or rapidly growing enterprises, or join a larger established company in a product development and business development role.
Previous companies entrepreneurship students have started include: 1-800-Contacts, Allegiance, DearElder.com, J Dawgs, KT Tape, Novi Security, HM Cole, Eco-Scraps, FiberFix, Owlet, Estify, KiTech, and Entrata (formerly Property Solutions). Students have also been hired by larger firms such as Kohls, Barclays Capital, General Mills, Aramark, and Qualtrics.
Human Resources Management
The Discipline
Converting human capital (employee skills and knowledge) into strategic, sustainable competitive advantages for organizations. Specifically, attracting, selecting, developing, and retaining the best talent to help an organization achieve its strategic goals through the management of the employee experience.
What Can Human Resource Graduates Do?
Human resource professionals’ main focus is to recruit, develop, and retain the employees of an organization. They maximize an organization’s use of talent by finding and hiring capable employees and providing training and development experiences. As the bridge between managers and employees, they maintain positive employee relations and improve employee satisfaction, and performance. They administrate employee benefits, supervise development and wellness programs, and oversee disciplinary systems and rewards programs. Other options include careers in leadership development and in organizational or human capital consulting focusing on an organization’s structure, strategy, or culture. HRM professionals may become senior executives, such as the Chief Human Resources Officer or the Executive Vice President of Human Resources.
Strategic Management
The Discipline
A company’s strategy is a plan to gain and sustain competitive advantage. This plan reflects how company leaders think about what it takes to succeed in their market. At its core, strategy is the idea that successful companies will figure out how to offer to customers unique value that cannot be imitated by competitors.
What Do Business Strategists Do?
Strategists help a company achieve competitive advantage by developing plans that allow the company to offer unique value to their customers. Strategists collect and analyze information about competitors, customers, and the resources and capabilities of the company. Strategists use this analysis to make recommendations about where to invest and what actions to take, over time, in order to achieve superior firm performance. Recommendations may address revenue growth, competitive positioning, acquisitions, building internal processes and capabilities, structuring existing assets or resources, entering new markets, product launches, or any other aspects that can result in higher performance for the company or ensure that competitors will find it difficult to imitate a company’s moves.
Strategists work in several interesting roles such as business managers, business analysts, consultants, corporate strategists, and product management.
Graduation Requirements
To receive a BYU bachelor's degree a student must complete, in addition to all requirements for a specific major, the following university requirements:
The University Core, consisting of requirements in general and religious education.
At least 30 credit hours must be earned in residence on the BYU campus in Provo as an admitted day student
A minimum of 120 credit hours
A cumulative GPA of at least 2.0
Be in good standing with the Honor Code Office
Students should see their college advisement center for help or information concerning the undergraduate programs
