Gary Rhoads, Center Director & Professor of Entrepreneurship & Marketing

Bill Price, Center Managing Director

Nile Hatch, Academic Director, Professor of Entrepreneurship

Craig Earnshaw, Teaching Professor & Senior Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Steve Gibson, Teaching Professor

Hal Heaton, Associate Center Director & Professor of Finance

John Richards, Associate Center Director & Teaching Professor

Brent Strong, Professor in Engineering and Engineering Technology

Gary Williams, Associate Center Director & Teaching Professor

Ron Lindorf, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Professor of Entrepreneurship

Kimberly Scoville, Professor of Entrepreneurship

Our objective is to have entrepreneurship and intrepreneurship integrated throughout the Marriott School and across all disciplines on campus. Twenty faculty members (or about 17% of the total business school faculty) will be involved in teaching courses whose primary focus is on some element of entrepreneurship this year.

The Center for Entrepreneurship provides support to faculty teaching entrepreneurship classes in several ways. The Center offers four full professorships as follows: (1) The Nyal McMullin Professorship in Entrepreneurship held by Donald H. Livingstone; (2) Denny Brown Professorship in Entrepreneurship held by Dr. Hal B. Heaton; (3) O. Leslie Stone Professorship in Entrepreneurship held by Dr. W. Gibb Dyer; (4) Lorin Farr Professorship in Entrepreneurship held by Brent Strong of the BYU School of Technology. Providing this professorship to someone in the School of Technology enables the Center for Entrepreneurship to partner in education and ideas. Additionally, the Center provides the following fellowships: (1) Stephen M. Covey Fellowship held by Dr. Gary K. Rhoads; 2) Thorsell Fellowship in Sales held by Dr. Michael J.Swenson.

While we offer a number of courses specifically focused on entrepreneurship, the mainstream curriculum of the Marriott School allows students to learn about entrepreneurial principles.

Faculty who teach business classes are selected from those who have expressed an interest in the field of entrepreneurship. Spreading these opportunities throughout faculty and offering them the opportunity to utilize Founders and their cases in these classes are great recruiting tools to expand the number of faculty interested in entrepreneurship.

On-campus mentoring is provided by several experienced entrepreneurs, who provide up to 20 hours a week, without compensation, in mentoring, plus teaching in the classroom. Most of these individuals have attended some form of entrepreneurial educational program, such as the SEE programs at Babson College.

Many of our entrepreneurship classes involve team-teaching with faculty and Entrepreneur Founders. A group of more than 120 entrepreneurs, who come at their own expense, discuss cases written on their companies and teach entrepreneurship principles based on their own experiences. Adjunct Professors, who generally come from the entrepreneurial "real world," teach some courses specifically designed to meet current needs and trends.