Issue 1
Avoiding “’Til Debt Do Us Part”: Financial Strategies for Newly-Wed Couples
Too often, the romantic sentiment of “‘Til death do us part” is being replaced with “‘Til debt do us part.”
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Study Abroad: The Key to Being a Top Hire
Laura and Spencer graduated college ready to enter the work force. Within a month, Laura landed the job of her dreams. Six months later, Spencer is still looking for work. What gave Laura such an advantage? Laura spent a semester studying abroad before she graduated.
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Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket: Diversify Your Supply Chain for Future Stability
Imagine your fifth birthday is tomorrow. All you want is the new Barbie dreamhouse. You wake up excited and run down the stairs, hoping to find the birthday present of your dreams waiting for you. Your dreams are crushed when you learn that your Barbie dreamhouse is still sitting on a port in Los Angeles, California. It may be weeks or even months until the dreamhouse makes its way to your doorstep. Unfortunately, overcrowded shipping ports are to blame for far more than just disappointing five-year-old girls on their birthdays; this congestion is affecting everyday Americans, like yourself, and the supply chain on a global scale
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Now Is The Time: How Business Leaders Can Better Address Mental Health
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health cases have risen exponentially: 93% more people are seeking treatment for depression and 63% more people are seeking treatment for anxiety.[i] Statistically speaking, any given company will have many employees struggling with mental illness. Therefore, supervisors and executives must devise new plans to better address mental health—doing so will help increase productivity and profitability for the company.
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Podcast Review with Mark Keith
In March of 2021, Abbie Anderson from the Marriott Student Review’s Podcast team interviewed Dr. Mark Keith, an associate professor of Information Systems 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 talk about Dr. Keith’s beginnings Information Systems and how that led his decision to enter the realm of academia.
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How to Write the Perfect Email for Work (Following Grice’s Maxims)
No matter how long you’ve been in the business world, you will benefit from writing more efficient and orderly emails. In the last few decades, emailing has shifted business communication from arduous to instantaneous. This is crucial when you consider the words of Elena B. Kuzhevskaya: “The success of any business activity depends on the success of extensive business contacts with partners, potential customers, suppliers, and numerous organizations, which, in its turn, is ensured by the strategic correctness of business communication.”¹
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Book Review: “Woe Is I”
Most can agree that grammar isn’t easy to master, nor is it particularly entertaining or riveting. While no one wants to re-study the basic foundations of grammar in their spare time, we have all fallen victim to using the wrong lay vs. lie in a sentence from time to time, or perhaps forgotten how to correctly apply ‘whom.’ With the highly entertaining and informative read, Woe Is I, my grasp over basic yet vital grammar skills has been sharpened, better equipping me to deal with simple mistakes. In Patricia T. O’Conner’s Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English, grammar and semantics are made to be both informational and congenial, making tedious concepts easier to understand and apply. Each chapter is full of humorous anecdotes and play-on-words that anyone can appreciate, from “Plurals before Swine” to “Comma Sutra.” Before reading O’Conner’s book, I never would have thought that a book on grammar could actually be enjoyable and lighthearted (apologies to my grammar professor). But O’Conner has proven me wrong.
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Benefits and Challenges of Demographic Diversity in Teams
“Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter,” “How Diverse Teams Produce Better Outcomes,” and “Why You Need Diversity on Your Team” are the top three results when I Google “diversity in teams.”
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La Contribución de los Inmigrantes en la Economía Estadounidense
Nuestro consumo de productos y servicios domésticos e internacionales tiene una alta contribución de migrantes a los Estados Unidos. Esto es un efecto de la compleja combinación entre la alta demanda de empleos, y la alta demanda de inmigración. En este artículo se explica la relación entre la inmigración, la demanda de empleo en Estados Unidos, algunas situaciones que ponen en riesgo al inmigrante, junto con la necesidad de nuevas regulaciones.
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Buzzwords
Jargon that will keep you going through the year
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Want to Be Successful? Work Less.
Would you rather work a long 50-hour week or go on vacation to the Bahamas? To most people, the answer is obvious. They would rather go on vacation, of course. But their actions tell us otherwise.
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