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Alumni Magazine Winter 2013 Building an When Corporate Loyalty George Bodenheimer: The Tanner Building Inspired Career p 4 Goes Too Far p 10 Taking a Chance on espn p 14 Turns Thirty p 30 alumni magazine 2013 winter alumni magazine issue Winter 2013 marriottschool.byu.edu Publisher Gary C. Cornia Managing editor Joseph D. Ogden editor Megan Bingham art director Jon G. Woidka coPy editors Lena Harper Monica Weeks contributing editor Nina Whitehead assistant editor Michelle Kaiser contributing writers, editors, Janet Barton designers, & PhotograPhers Dina Beylis Andrew Devey Emily Smurthwaite Edmonds Dylan Ellsworth Cecelia Fielding Meredith Francom Robert G. Gardner Aaron Garza Todd Hollingshead Chadwick Little Craig Mangum Miriam Shumway Magazine design BYU Publications & Graphics all coMMunication should be sent to Marriott Alumni Magazine 490 Tanner Building Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602-3187 Phone: 801-422-7696 Fax: 801-422-0501 eMail: [email protected] Marriott aluMni Magazine is Published by the Marriott school oF ManageMent at brighaM young university, Provo, utah. the views exPressed in Marriott aluMni Magazine are not necessarily endorsed by byu or the church oF Jesus christ oF latter-day saints. coPyright 2013 by brighaM young university. all rights reserved. Find this and Past issues oF Marriott aluMni Magazine online at marriottmag.byu.edu snowcaPPed Mountains ForM a wintry backdroP For the caMPus. Photo by Mark a. Philbrick. Dude, is she older than you? Yeah, but she has the most amazing résumé. Maybe someday I’ll be as lucky as you. • Get outside yourself. Don’t be a programmer, be a real person. • These slides are copyrighted, but I give you permission to use them in family home evening or in sacrament meeting. • Look, it’s more than looking smart. You really have to communicate and show them you have the skills to be a good employee. • Sorry, I almost ran you over. I forgot to overheard look both ways before crossing the hallway. • Getting your in the calculator out is like slipping a gun from a holster. • Any student who graduates from tanner BYU and doesn’t take Accounting 310 wastes their money. • Your Learning Suite is not working because you’ve done something wrong in the past and now you’re being punished; it’s nothing less than you deserve. • As my brother would say if he were here, “If you get confused, say it slowly.” • I don’t even know what job to apply for! How am I supposed to know where I want to live after graduation? • Have you heard of strawberry Fanta? Yeah, it’s good. I just heard about it. It’s amazing. • He’s going in the wrong room. That’s gonna be awkward. • This is my young friend. I am not young! I am twenty-two years old! I have nylons older than you. Yeah, that’s gross. • You don’t want to go there. Have you seen the people on the first floor? • It is best to do it right in the first place—that’s why companies should only hire BYU students. • When I was little, since I was the youngest, no one would play with me. I always thought it would be fun to have a buddy. • I said that with such confidence you believed me. Girl, you crazy. • Read the Wall Street Journal; it’s the daily diary of the American Dream. • Algebra is fine in moderation. • We should make chocolate cake. Or just get some Little Debbies. Yeah, I’ll call her. Dear Debbie, come party with us. • ADD is not a disability, it’s a superpower! Well, you tend to use it as a super excuse! • I love school. I think I’m really going to miss it. I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. • Excel is like your own personal-information slave. • Be respectful. We have the tallest member of the Marriott School faculty with us today. It’s an honor. • Hold the elevator. Thank you for risking your hand so I could ride up four floors. No problem. It was my left hand. • What, are you stalking me now? I know where you live. That’s because we’re neighbors. • I want to be in the ISys core. I know it will be tough, but I think it’s worth it. And who needs a social life for a year anyway? • You’re an econ major? Why in the world are you in the Tanner Building? What? I love it here! I guess we can accept all walks of business life. Contents | winter 2013 18 24 30 10 Features 4 A spire to Be inspired 18 re CreAtion And the things Plus . Andrea Thomas is used to calling the shots, thAt mAtter most but this Walmart exec’s career proves there’s Spending time with family—outdoors and 8 Around the Cooler more to decisions than facts and figures. unplugged—is professor Patti Freeman’s High Resolution prescription for a less material-based life. 17 inside the ClAssroom 10 risky Business A Dose of Healthy Advice Professor John Bingham uncovers the motives fAmily style 24 28 By the numBers behind seedy behavior. His findings show even Reachel Bagley fashioned an MBA into a Tax Season Savings trustworthy employees can take unethical turns. sartorial empire, discovering the label she loves most is mom. 36 sChool news 14 growing up with espn 43 Alumni news Thirty-two years ago George Bodenheimer, 30 the tAnner’s Coming of Age 2012 International Executive of the Year, took Turning thirty never looked so good. a job in the mail room at ESPN. The rest is broadcasting history. Cover photo courtesy of ESPN Images WINTER 2013 3 BY ANDREA THOMAS ILLUSTRatIONS BY TIM ZELTNER JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ast August I was at a landfill site in São Paulo, Brazil. It had L been a dump where people sorted through garbage looking for valuable items so they could put food on their tables. you, I will impart unto you of my Spirit, which shall enlighten your Through a grant from the Walmart Foundation, that dump was mind, which shall fill your soul with joy.” transformed into a recycling center. Items are sorted and recycled Inspiration causes us to think or do something we wouldn’t other- by the same people—only now they’re employed. wise do, and being inspired is different from receiving inspiration. I talked with them, and many said they feel they have meaning We can be so much more than we ever imagined if we allow our in their lives because they’re helping save the planet by recycling selves to be an instrument in the hands of the Lord. He wants us these materials. They are helping the whole planet. Their stories to be successful, and He gives us inspiration that causes us to do - were inspirational to me. things we wouldn’t have imagined for ourselves. As I reflected on that experience, I’ve thought about inspiration I’d like to share some lessons from my life when inspiration has and how important it’s been for me to receive in my life. led me down a path different than I ever imagined. When you look up inspiration in the dictionary, it says to fill with I was raised in Salt Lake City, the second of six kids, in an an animating, quickening, or exalting influence. That’s an academic family. I had a happy, easy childhood. I didn’t really make any big description, and it doesn’t do justice to what we know, from the plans for the future because I didn’t think about the future. LDS scriptures, inspiration really means. I can remember a summer night around 2 a.m. My sister and I set Doctrine and Covenants 11:13 reads, “Verily, verily, I say unto off the smoke alarm frying donuts because, well, we felt like donuts. My mom came in, and rather than yelling, she joined us, and we had a lovely donut-making party in the middle of the night.WINTER Growing 2013 up 5 in that creative, unstructured environment gave me a high tolerance There were a lot of struggles early on because people were tell- for ambiguity. I’ve found I don’t need a ton of structure in my life. ing us how things were supposed to be. When you had kids, you It took me a while to come to that conclusion. I’m supposed were supposed to stay at home. You were not supposed to send your to have a plan, right? I found I didn’t need that structure. What I kids to day care. needed was a support network. Then I had an epiphany. As my husband and I were taking a walk with our two little girls, I realized that when I went in for my LESSON ONE: Surround yourself with people who encourage you. temple recommend interview, they didn’t ask me if I worked or My husband and I first met working for an airline while we were sent my kids to day care. That gave me permission to do things a students at the University of Utah. We dated for two years because little differently. I had a drive to finish college. I told him, “I love you, but you’re not going to mess up my ability to graduate.” LESSON THREE: Don’t get too specific—there might be something We got married the day after he graduated, but I still had six bigger waiting for you.
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