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Education
BYU entrepreneurship professor gets $5,000 grant to study family businesses -- Brigham Young University entrepreneurship professor W. Gibb Dyer received a $5,000 grant from the Family-Owned Business Institute to study how family-owned businesses affect relationships. The study also received a $5,000 grant from BYU's Marriott School.
Dyer and his son Justin began serving one-year Research Scholar appointments in May.
Dyer, who also serves as academic director for the BYU Economic Self-Reliance Center at the Marriott School of Management, recognized that the data presented a rare opportunity to find correlations between business success or failure and the health of family relationships. Justin Dyer is completing his Ph.D. in family science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
To analyze the data, the Dyers will work with research assistant Richard Gardner, a second-year BYU master of public administration student from Manhattan, Kan., to examine trends over time in couples and families who start their own businesses. Business success will be measured in terms of profits, and family success will be measured through the accomplishment of goals and how effectively family members communicate.
Supported by the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., FOBI awarded six research scholarships totaling $30,000 this year.
People on the Move
Payson nutraceutical company names new president -- Sabinsa Corp, a Payson-based nutritional supplements maker, named Jim Cudahy its president. He will be responsible for managing daily operations of both the New Jersey and Utah offices.
Cudahy has more than 26 years of experience in the consumer packaged goods industry, working for several Fortune 100 companies including Kraft and Kellogg. He also has manufacturing, supply chain, quality, engineering, contract manufacturing and sales experience in the natural products industry including Nellson Nutraceuticals. Cudahy graduated from Manhattan College with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.
Rocky Mountain University adds new director -- Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions in Provo named H.D. Stearman its director of institutional effectiveness.
For the past two years, he has served as associate director of institutional planning and effectiveness at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Stearman, who has more than two decades of higher education experience, received his Ph.D. degree in English from Indiana University, and his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in English from Austin State University in Texas. |
