The Marriott School at Brigham Young University has completed its most successful hiring season to date. The school will introduce twenty new professors to students beginning this fall. The added personnel will increase the school’s full-time faculty from 111 to 118 — making room for 150 additional students. New faculty members will assume their positions during the 2000/2001 academic year.
“We’re excited for the contributions these new faculty members will make,” said W. Steve Albrecht, associate dean of the Marriott School. “New researchers and teachers always bring a lot of energy to the school.”
This year’s recruits have earned advanced degrees from some of the nation’s top graduate schools including MIT, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, University of Washington, George Washington University, University of Illinois at Urbana and University of Arizona. In addition, many are accomplished researchers and publishers.
“This group of new faculty have conducted or are conducting exciting research relating to management accounting, e-business, financial accounting, international finance, international marketing, government and business relationships and organizational strategy,” Albrecht said.
The Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Business and the International Journal of Public Administration are a few of the publications featuring new faculty members’ research.
“There is a natural camaraderie among the faculty at the Marriott School that is hard to achieve anywhere else,” said Jeff Dyer, an associate professor of organizational leadership and strategy, who left the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School last year to join the Marriott School faculty. “I think it is built upon our common values and beliefs. Therefore, there is the potential for more effective collaboration in teaching and research.”
The Marriott School is located at Brigham Young University, the largest privately owned, church-sponsored university in the United States. The university enrolls approximately 33,000 students representing more than 100 countries. The school has nationally and internationally ranked programs in accounting, business management, information systems, organizational behavior and entrepreneurship. The mission of the Marriott School is to educate men and women of faith, character and professional ability who will become outstanding managers and leaders throughout the world. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in the Marriott School’s graduate and undergraduate programs.
New Faculty Members
School of Accountancy and Information Systems
Conan Albrecht – A PhD graduate from the University of Arizona, Albrecht focused his dissertation research on the development of a distributed framework for real-time, network-intensive collaborative behavior. Albrecht will teach information systems.
John Barrick – Barrick, CPA, earned his PhD in business administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he was granted the AAA/ABO Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Besides teaching there, he has also taught at Northeastern University and worked as a senior tax consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Tatia Beaslin – Beaslin, CPA, earned her MAcc and BS in accountancy from BYU. She has worked for Arthur Andersen LLP as manager of tax and business advisory and senior tax consultant. Beaslin volunteers at the LDS Hospital Emergency Room and the Utah Chapter of American Women’s Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Ervin Black – Black earned his PhD from the University of Washington and has since taught there, at the University of Arkansas and at the University of Wyoming. He has been published in dozens of print and online publications and has sat on numerous committees.
Ted Christiansen – Christiansen, CPA, earned his PhD and has taught at the University of Georgia. He has also instructed at Case Western Reserve University, BYU and Utah Valley State College. He has co-authored articles in Accounting, Organizations and Society and The Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Christiansen is also involved in several academic and community service organizations.
Kip Krumweide – Krumweide received his PhD from the University of Tennessee and his MAcc from BYU. He joins the Marriott School from Washington State University, where he began teaching as an assistant professor in 1996. He is a certified public accountant and has researched and published widely in the field of cost and managerial accounting.
Gyung Paik – Paik earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana in financial accounting. He taught accounting at the University of Illinois and has researched at the Korea Telecom Research Center in Seoul. He is the recipient of several awards including the Irwin Fellowship from 1999–2000.
Darrell Walden – Walden, CPA, earned his PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University. His research and teaching interests include financial and managerial accounting, accounting information systems, environmental reporting, issues in accounting education, innovations of technology in higher education and e-commerce issues.
Jeff Wilkes – A Cornell PhD graduate, Wilkes has taught at Cornell as well as at BYU. He has received numerous honors and awards including the Deloitte & Touche Doctoral Fellowship and BYU’s Outstanding Accounting Undergraduate.
Business Management
Paul Dishman – Dishman earned his PhD from the University of North Texas in marketing and his undergraduate degree from Trinity University. He has taught at Idaho State University and Texas Women’s University.
Todd Mitton – Mitton earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in financial economics. His areas of interest include corporate finance, international finance and behavioral finance. Mitton has worked as teaching and research assistants.
Barrett Slade – Slade earned his PhD from the University of Georgia in business administration. To supplement his extensive teaching experience, his research interests include real estate indices, institutional real estate, mortgage markets and real estate securities.
Bryan Sudweeks – Sudweeks earned his PhD in business administration from George Washington University. A certified financial analyst, Sudweeks has published two books – Equity Market Development in Developing Countries and Foreign Portfolio Investment: Country Profiles and Cases – and numerous articles.
Keith Vorkink – Vorkink earned his PhD in economics from the University of Rochester with his dissertation, “Robust Estimation Techniques Can Help Explain Asset Pricing Anomalies.” He held instructor and teaching assistant positions at Bryant College, the University of Rochester and W.E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration.
Romney Institute of Public Management
David Hart – A State University of New York at Albany PhD recipient, Hart earned his MPA and undergraduate degrees from BYU. He co-authored Wall Street Policies Itself: How Securities Firms Manage the Legal Hazards of Competitive Pressures and has been published in several publications. He has taught at Mary Washington College, Texas Tech University and Empire State College. His teaching emphasis will be in the political and social environment of public administration.
Lori Wadsworth – Wadsworth earned her PhD in business administration from the University of Utah after receiving her MPA and BS from BYU. Her research interests include intragroup processes and relationships, work-family conflict and ethics. She is affiliated with the Academy of Management and the Western Regional Academy of Management.
Organizational Leadership and Strategy
Nile Hatch – Hatch earned his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and has taught courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include the acquisition, management and transfer of knowledge within and across links in the value chain. Hatch has published reports in several periodicals and serves on two insurance companies’ board of directors.
Center for Entrepreneurship
Gary Williams – Williams earned his MBA from Arizona State University and his BS from BYU. Williams is the former president and CEO of Sterling Wentworth Corporation. He has served on various boards of directors and as executive with other high tech and manufacturing firms. Williams has taught marketing and strategy at BYU and Portland State University.
AROTC
Brent Anderson, CPT – Anderson has received awards and decorations for service and achievements for national defense in the Army and Air Force. He has completed courses in Paladin Commanders Course and Field Artillery Officer Advance course. His assignments have included positions in Limestone, Maine; Cedar City, Utah; St. George, Utah; and Provo, Utah.
Erik Hendrik Verhoef – A graduate in combined Arms and Services Staff School, Verhoef lived in Europe for twenty-three years gaining first-hand knowledge of foreign affairs and history. He has served as captain, fist lieutenant and second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Verhoef earned his BS from Utah State University where he majored in biology and minored in chemistry, military science and Dutch.
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Writer: Carrie Beckstead