Weldon Johnson Taylor | |
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Born | 1908 |
Died | August 21, 2000 Provo, Utah, United States |
Education | B.S. (1934) M.S. (1937) Ph.D. (1952) Marketing |
Alma mater | Brigham Young University Harvard University New York University |
Occupation | Former Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University |
Weldon Johnson Taylor was an American educator who served as the first Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University (BYU). He received a B.S. from BYU in 1934, a M.S. from Harvard University in 1937, and a Ph.D. in Marketing from New York University in 1952.
Taylor served as a statistician for the Federal Power Commission in Washington, D.C., and in his academic career, Taylor took a year’s sabbatical leave in 1963 to join the Ford Foundation to work with the National Institute of Management Development in Cairo, Egypt. [1] He also co-authored the widely used textbook Marketing: An Analytical Approach (1981). [2] Taylor served as the first dean of the Marriott School of Management from 1957 to 1974, helping to create the school's Department of Organizational behavior while there. [1]
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