Professor S. Tom Foster (teaches Operations Management)
Professor S. Tom Foster is an internationally recognized expert in quality and global supply chain management. He has experience in manufacturing, financial services, and international oil exploration. He has consulted for over 30 organizations such as Hewlett-Packard, Heinz Frozen Foods, Hyundai Corporation, and the United States Department of Energy.
Foster is the editor for Quality Management Journal. He is also on the editorial boards of Decision Sciences and the Journal of Operations Management. He has published more than seventy quality related articles in journals such as Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, and the Quality Management Journal. His book titled, Quality Management: Integrating the Supply Chain is an international best seller. He recently coauthored Managing Supply Chain and Operations: An Integrative Approach.
Professor Cindy Blair (teaches Purchasing)
Dr. Cindy Blair is an Associate Professor of Global Supply Chain Management in the Marriott School and was granted the Hazel Speirs Thorsell Research Fellowship. Her award-winning research focuses on buyer-supplier interfaces in both developed and developing countries. She also studies how purchasing organizations work with other functions within the firm to make supplier selection decisions. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Journal of Business Logistics, and the International Journal of Production Research.
Professor Blair teaches Strategic Sourcing and Operations in the undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA programs and is a co-author for the textbook Managing Supply Chain and Operations: An Integrative Approach.
Before earning her PhD in supply chain management from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Professor Blair worked in several supply chain positions for Intel Corporation, and as an auditor for the Defense Contract Audit Agency. She also holds an MBA with an emphasis in finance and operations and a BS in accountancy from Brigham Young University
Professor John Gardner (teaches Quality Management)
John Gardner is an Associate Professor of operations and global supply chain management. Gardner’s research passions include organizational learning and improvement, innovation in emerging economies, and the management of networks. His current research focus is on the application of operations management principles and information systems to improve reliability in healthcare quality and patient satisfaction in hospitals. The results, which examine how practices and information are utilized in various contexts, have been presented at numerous conferences and are published in the Journal of Operations Management.
Professor Gardner completed doctoral studies in Management Science at the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University where he also taught courses on operations and supply chain management. John holds an MBA from the Marriott School of Management and a Master of Arts in International and Area Studies from BYU, for which he completed research on business development services for small business entrepreneurs. He also holds a Bachelor of Music for violin performance and pedagogy from the BYU School of Music.
Gardner’s previous professional industry experience includes five years of work at Honeywell International where he served in both the process solutions and aerospace industries. Positions included lead information technology, business systems analyst, pricing and business analyst for marketing and product management, and senior financial analyst for global financial planning and analysis. John also worked as a manager of branch operations and customer service at Zions Bancorp.
Professor Simon P. Greathead (teaches Negotiations)
Simon P. Greathead is an international business and global supply chain instructor. Greathead earned an MBA from Henley Business School at the University of Reading in the UK and a BS in Business Management from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. Greathead’s current research focuses on global issues in supply chain development, and the global supply chain as a strategic concern.
Before entering academia Greathead spent 15 years in international business, primarily in supply chain and operations roles in Europe working for major retailers such as Millets Ltd. and Next Plc. . As a native of Great Britain he has extensive international experience in Ireland, Great Britain, Holland, France, and Germany. More recently Greathead managed European Operations for a major Inc. 500 company and then most recently as the COO of VisVeritas Advisors, a local management consultancy focused on advising global growth companies. Greathead began teaching at BYU in 2008 as an international business instructor and currently teaches global supply chain, operations, and international business courses.
Professor Scott Sampson (teaches Customer Relationship Management)
Dr. Scott Sampson is the Thorsell Professor of Business Management. His award-winning research focuses on design and innovation in service businesses. He teaches Service Management and Customer Relationship Management in the undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA programs. In addition to his work at BYU, Professor Sampson has taught in the MBA programs at Cambridge University in the UK, Pforzheim University in Germany, and the Chinese European International Business School in Shanghai. He has been a Visiting International Fellow with Cambridge University’s Advanced Institute for Management and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne School of Business & Economics. He has also been an invited lecturer at the IE Business School in Spain, Exeter, Aston, and Cardiff Universities in the U.K., Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, Catholic University of Portugal, and other venues.
Professor Sampson has published his pioneering work on service system design in leading academic journals, and has won five Best Paper awards. Also, his article on bidirectional supply chains was named “Most Influential Service Operations Paper Award” by the Production and Operations Management Society’s College of Service Operations. He has been recognized as the third most prolific publisher of top-tier articles on Service Operations Management worldwide. Scott received his MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Virginia (Darden School) and an undergraduate degree in Human Resource Development from BYU.
Professor Scott Webb (teaches Logistics)
Scott is an Associate Teaching Professor of Global Supply Chain Management who specializes in Logistics Management. He received his PhD in Logistics and Operations Management form the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. In addition to his PhD, Scott earned a Master’s of Science in Logistics Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a Bachelors of Arts in experimental psychology from the College of Idaho.
Scott was previously an instructor at BYU for two years and then was an Assistant Professor of Logistics at Georgia Southern University. Prior to academia, Scott was a Logistics Readiness Officer for the United States Air Force for twelve years. During his Air Force Career, Scott worked at base level, command level and pentagon level assignments. Scott separated from active duty military service in 2008 at the rank of Major and after earning both AF Commendation Medals and the AF Meritorious Service Medal. He has published in the Journal of Operations Management, the Journal of Business Logistics, and Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. He has won several national awards for creating teaching simulations and games.
Scott’s interests include his family, college basketball – especially Michigan State basketball, BYU sports, history and the outdoors.
Professor Daniel Snow (MBA Core instructor, MBA Program Director)
Daniel Snow is an Associate Professor in the Marriott School and is known internationally for his research in technology management. Professor Snow’s research seeks to improve our understanding of technological innovation, and specifically of the complex relationship between new and old technologies that exists during technology transitions. While most work on technology and innovation has taken a “neo-philic” approach, focusing largely on issues surrounding adoption of new and emerging technology, his work highlights the economic and performance growth potential of “old” technologies. Dr. Snow has published widely in journals such as the Harvard Business Review and Industrial Corporate Change.
Before coming to BYU, he taught at Harvard and has also taught executive education programs at UCLA, Tsinghua University, Chalmers University, University of Xiamen, Universidad de la Sabana (Bogotá), and many others. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and an MBA from BYU’s Marriott School of Management.
Professor Bekki Brau (teaches Strategy)
Rebekah Brau is an Assistant Professor of Global Supply Chain Management in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. Her research passions include the value creation of analytics in supply chains and the integration of model forecasts and human judgment. Her research has received the Doctoral Dissertation Award and first place for the Best Practical Application from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). Her research has also been nominated for the Chan Hahn Best Paper Award as well as the Best Student Paper Award at the Academy of Management (AOM). She has been an invited presenter at firms and industry groups such as Walmart International and the Association of Supply Chain Management (ASCM).
Professor Barry Brewer
Barry Brewer has a variety of industry and academic experience. He has 20 years of industry experience a logistics officer with the United States Air Force in many different positions and locations. In addition to being an associate professor at the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business, he has held academic positions at the Air Force Institute of Technology, the United States Air Force Academy, the University of Wyoming and New Mexico State University. He currently teaches MBA and undergraduate supply chain and operations management courses. Barry has a history of working with companies to enable student success. At New Mexico State University he was the director of the Center for Supply Chain Entrepreneurship and at the University of Wyoming he led the University of Wyoming Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship initiative.
His research interests are in the areas of humanitarian disaster response, energy supply chain management, outsourcing, supply chain trust, and the new product development interface with supply chain management. His research has been published in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, The Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, The International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, The Journal of Cleaner Production, and The International Journal of Production Research.