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Warner P. Woodworth
Warner P. Woodworth is a global social entrepreneur and professor emeritus in the Department of Management in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University (BYU). He is a leading advocate of development of microcredit and has been involved in researching as well as developing such programs. Woodworth graduated from South High School in 1960. Woodworth holds BS and MS degrees from BYU and an MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. He has also held various visiting scholar appointments including as the first Peter Drucker Centennial Scholar at the Drucker School of Management of Claremont Graduate University, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Business School, University of Michigan. Among other positions, Woodworth has served as co-editor of the ''Journal of Microfinance''. Among the organizations Woodworth has helped to found have been Mentors International, Unitus Microcredit and HELP International. HELP International was an outgrowth of HE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriott School Of Business
The Marriott School of Business is the business school of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and located in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1891 and renamed in 1988 after J. Willard Marriott, founder of Marriott International, and his wife Alice following their $15 million endowment gift to the school. The school is housed in the N. Eldon Tanner Building and supports 137 full-time faculty and approximately 200 adjunct, part-time or visiting faculty, full-time staff and students who teach. It has approximately 2,100 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students, and approximately 62 percent of its student body are bilingual. As of 2019, its alumni base numbers 55,000. Description Going by several different names since its inception in 1891, the business school at BYU had been known as the Marriott School of Management since 1988, when Marriott International founders J. Willard and Alice Marriott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
