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Faculty & Employees Employee Spotlight Finance Global Supply Chain
“I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.” Global supply chain management professor Scott Sampson keeps this quote from David Letterman hanging in his office. In essence, it’s what Sampson is all about.
No matter where life takes him, global supply chain professor Simon Greathead always seems to find his way back to Provo.
Tom Foster, department chair of marketing and global supply chain at the Marriott School, had never played two truths and a lie—a game in which players share two hard-to-believe truths and one lie about themselves, then the other players must guess which is the lie. But when pressed for three statements, he said:
Jessi Valentine’s spirit animal is a chameleon.
Around the world in thirty days? Carolee Corbett checked that one off her bucketlist.
You don’t mess with a Texan’s pickup truck, says BYU finance professor Andrew Holmes. So, needless to say, back in the 90s when someone broke into his truck, stole his checkbook, and started writing fraudulent checks in his name, he was pretty upset.
It took ten years and three invitations, but last summer finance professor Karl Diether made the move from Dartmouth College to BYU’s Department of Finance.
Dr. Crawford is retiring in July and talks about his time at BYU and his future plans in this question-and-answer interview.
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