The atmosphere at the David Eccles School of Business felt a little bit like game night at Vivint Arena last week as we welcomed Ryan Smith, founder and executive chairman of Qualtrics and owner of the Utah Jazz and Real Salt Lake, as keynote speaker for the 32nd Annual Spencer Fox Eccles Convocation. Smith started Qualtrics when he was a student at Brigham Young [...]
How do you go from having an idea to running a profitable and enduring business? Joel Peterson spoke about how to accomplish this using the concepts from his new book Entrepreneurial Leadership at the 30th Annual Spencer Fox Eccles Convocation last Monday. Hosted by the David Eccles School of Business, Peterson had the opportunity to address a select group of students in-person with [...]
Successful leaders not only make a positive and significant impact on the world, but they encourage and enable others to do the same. That was the message delivered by speaker Greg Goff at the 2019 Spencer Fox Eccles Convocation, hosted Thursday by the David Eccles School of Business. Goff, Executive Vice Chairman of Marathon Petroleum Corporation, encouraged students to focus on three fundamental words [...]
The annual Spencer Fox Eccles Convocation address doesn't pack the house every year, but Mitt Romney is no typical guest speaker. Students, faculty and local dignitaries filled the auditorium in the Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building, and a live video-stream ran in rooms elsewhere in the business complex as the 2012 Republican nominee for U.S. president, former Massachusetts governor, CEO of the Salt Lake [...]