John Eric Richards

Associate Teaching Professor
Managing Director
Business Management, Department of

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Office: 629 TNRB
Phone: (801) 422-1663
Email: john.richards@byu.edu
Office hours: By appt only

Expertise:
  • Advertising
  • Budgeting
  • Business in a Gospel Context
  • Business policy and strategy
  • Business-to-business marketing
  • Cash management
  • Consulting
  • Corporate Strategy
  • Customer service
  • Database
  • Database: concepts
  • Electronic commerce
  • Entrepreneurial finance
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Family-owned business
  • Management: consulting
  • Micro economics
  • Personal selling and sales management
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Strategic alliances
  • Technology: impact on people at work
  • eBusiness
Research:
  • Ongoing research in multiple strategic areas involving eBusiness and Entrepreneurship.
Education:
  • BA, CHEMISTRY, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1985
Group Affiliations:
  • Business Management - Primary
  • E-Business - Primary
  • Entrepreneurship - Primary
  • Center for Economic Self-Reliance - Secondary
  • SOA Professional - Secondary
  • Information Systems - Tertiary
Selected Publications: Experience:
   Teaching
  • Associate Managing Director, BYU Economic Self-Reliance Center, 2004
  • Managing Director, Kevin & Debra Rollins eBusiness Center @ BYU, 2003
  • Associate Director, Kevin & Debra Rollins eBusiness Center @ BYU, 2001-2003
  • Associate Director, BYU Center for Entrepreneurship, 2001
  • Associate Teaching Professor, Brigham Young University, 2001
   Professional
  • Vice President, InfoSpace, Inc., 1998-2001
  • President, Locator USA, Inc., 1997-1998
  • President/CEO, NTD Publishing, Inc., 1993-1997
  • Executive Vice President, NTD Publishing, Inc., 1989-1993
  • Vice President - Sales, Neighborhood Telephone Directories, Inc., 1987-1989
  • IS Director, West Seattle Associates, Inc., 1985-1987
Languages:
  • Spanish