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Employee Spotlight Finance Global Supply Chain Strategy
For the last twenty years, Bryan Sudweeks has loved teaching the students in the BYU Marriott finance program. Now as his career comes to an end, he is finishing his last semester at BYU Marriott and moving on to the next chapter in his life.

BYU Marriott strategy professor Ben Lewis is carrying on his ancestor's legacies at BYU while pioneering his own groundbreaking research

Much like Tolkien's famed hobbit Bilbo Baggins, James Oldroyd has certainly been there and back again.
As BYU Marriott's own Napoleon Dynamite, assistant professor Mark Hansen credits his involvement with the Future Farmers of America as one step that led him to where he is today.
BYU Marriott staff member Troy Carpenter advises over five hundred members of the BYU Real Estate Club and does everything in his power to help students succeed.
Simon Greathead, a native of Lancaster, England, who comes from a working-class background, is the first to say he was unlikely to become a professor. However, Greathead feels he is now living his dream at BYU Marriott.
Students in Lee Daniels' International Business class learn to interact within a team framework, and rate each other's presentations. Daniels does this so his students are better prepared for future interviews and job opportunities.
Assistant teaching professor Scott Webb believes the best way to teach is to fill the classroom's atmosphere with love and concern for each other.
Strategy professor DK Kryscynski's use of videos before class is helping students dive right into the material when they step into the Tanner Building.
BYU Marriott finance professor Todd Mitton always strives to see the big picture, which enables him to spread his influence through the Tanner Building and beyond.
Dr. Paul Godfrey loves the pursuit of knowledge and does not intend to slow down anytime soon.
Former department chair and current professor Steven Thorley reflects on the growth of the finance program.
As a child growing up in South Africa during apartheid, Curtis LeBaron, associate professor of organizational leadership and strategy, was exposed to the circumstances and attitudes that defined the era.
“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.
Through tweets, hashtags, and blogs, professor Teppo Felin has become one of the most influential professors online.
Dr. Crawford is retiring in July and talks about his time at BYU and his future plans in this question-and-answer interview.
Why can't an online dating concept be used to make matches in the business world? One Marriott School professor thinks it can.
The Marriott School honored Kevin D. Stocks with the Outstanding Faculty Award, and fifteen others were also recognized for contributions.