Weldon J. Taylor

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name = Weldon J. Taylor


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birth_date = 1908
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death_date = August 21, 2000
death_place = Provo, Utah, USA
occupation = Former Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University
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alma_mater = Brigham Young University
Harvard University
New York University
education = B.S. (1934)
M.S. (1937)
Ph.D. (1952) Marketing
religion = The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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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.

During his lifetime, 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.cite web | url = http://marriottschool.byu.edu/news/release.cfm?id=53 | title = First BYU Business Dean Dies at 92 | publisher = Brigham Young University | accessdate = 2008-05-30 ] He also co-authored the widely used textbook "Marketing: An Analytical Approach" (1981). [cite web | url = http://www.allbookstores.com/book/9780538197304/Richard_J_Semenik/Marketing.html | title = Marketing: An Integrative Approach | publisher = [http://www.allbookstores.com/ All Bookstores] | accessdate = 2008-05-30 ] 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.

Works

*cite book |last= Taylor |first= Weldon J. |title= Pragmatics of values: History of the first twenty years of the National Advisory Council in partnership with the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott School of Management : 1966-1985 |publisher= Brigham Young University |year= 1991 |isbn= 0842523022

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