Weldon J. Taylor Explained

Weldon Johnson Taylor
Birth Date:	1908
Death Date:	August 21, 2000
Death Place:	Provo, Utah, United States
Occupation:	Former Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University
Alma Mater:	Brigham Young University Harvard University New York University
Education:	B.S. (1934) M.S. (1937) Ph.D. (1952) Marketing

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. 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]

Works

• Book: Taylor, Weldon J. . 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 . . 1991 . 0-8425-2302-2 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: First BYU Business Dean Dies at 92 . . 2008-05-30 .
2. Web site: Taylor . Weldon . Shaw . Roy . Marketing: An Integrative Approach . 2008-05-30 . South-Western Publishing Co.