Friday, January 25, 2013

WILLIAM J. CHRISTENSEN, Ph.D. Dean of the Udvar-Hazy School of Business speaks at BYU Management Society

The St. George Area Chapter of The BYU Management Society invites you to join us for our monthly chapter lunch featuring WILLIAM J. CHRISTENSEN, Ph.D., Dean of the Udvar-Hazy School of Business & the school of Communication at Dixie State College of Utah
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2013. Dixie College Gardner Center located at 225 South 700 East
St. George , UT at 12:00 Noon. The cost is $15.00 per person. BYU Management Society is now accepting cash, check or credit cards. You can Like us on Facebook by searching for BYU Management Society SGU. Please RSVP as soon as possible to:  Nate McNamee at  nate@twmadvisor.com or call Nate at (435) 669-9400 or at www.byusg.com under the Calendar tab.


WILLIAM J. CHRISTENSEN, Ph.D., is Dean of the Udvar-Hazy School of Business, and the school of Communication at Dixie State College of Utah.  He teaches courses in supply chain and strategic management.  Dr. Christensen holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies and an MBA from California State University, Hayward, and earned his doctorate in Business Administration at Oklahoma State University.  He also studied at Michigan State University.  Before embarking on an academic career, Dr. Christensen held executive positions at Mercury Marine and Clark Material Handling Company, and was an international buyer at Whirlpool Corporation.  Dr. Christensen has consulted for a number of companies including Whirlpool, Pennzoil and Dell Computers, and has published research in top-level journals including the Journal of Operations Management.  He and his wife Robin Merrill Christensen, have been married for close to 35 years and have two children and five grandchildren.  He served an LDS mission in Nagoya, Japan, from 1974-76, after attending BYU his freshman year.

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