W. Burke Jackson

Associate Professor of Business Management
Organizational Leadership and Strategy, Department of

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Office: 632 TNRB
Phone: 801-422-2394
Email: burke_jackson@byu.edu
Expertise:
  • Business policy and strategy
  • Competitive advantage: sources of
  • Ethics
  • Leadership and change
  • Operations strategy
Research:
  • World class manufacturing - a benchmarking diagnostic
  • Strategy implementation and leadership
  • Integration of manufacturing with other functions
Education:
  • PHD, INDUSTRIAL + ENGINEERING SCIEN, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 1978
  • MS, OPERATIONS RESEARCH, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 1968
  • MBA, ACCOUNTING, RUTGERS UNIV, 1964
  • BS, INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT, YALE UNIVERSITY, 1963
Group Affiliations:
  • Strategy - Primary
  • Entrepreneurship - Secondary
  • Operations - Tertiary
Selected Publications:
  • "Designing Programs to Internationalize Marketing Students: Responding to Lessons From the Literature," Procdeedings of Marketing Educators Conference Pages 116-, April, 2006    
  • "Expanding Global Business Education: Building on Existing Programs," Marketing Educators Association Conference Proceedings April, 2002    
  • "An Empirical Study of Travel Time Variability and Travel Choice Behavior," Transportation Science 1982    
Experience:
   Teaching
  • Visiting Professor, College of William and Mary, 2005
  • Visiting Associate Professor, The Darden School- U. of Virginia, 2001
  • Guest Professor, Cambridge Uniiversity, 2000
  • Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, 1985
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University, 1984-1985
  • Associate Professor, Director of MBA Program, Brigham Young University, 1983-1984
  • Assistant Professor, Associate Director of MBA Program, 1981-1983
  • Visiting Professor, IMEDE, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1980-1981
  • Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, 1973-1980
   Professional
  • Member, Provo City Energy Board
  • Executive Education on Manufacturing Excellence, CIBA-GEIGY
  • Executive Education on Manufacturing Excellence, ICI
  • Executive Education, IMI, Switzerland
  • Executive Education on Manufacturing Excellence, University of California Los Angeles
  • Executive Education on Manufacturing Excellence, Rockwell
  • Executive Education on Manufacturing Excellence, General Electric
  • Executive Seminars on Manufacturing Excellence, Unilever
  • Executive Education on Manufacturing Excellence, Washington University-St. Louis
  • Executive Education in Manufacturing Excellence, SCA
  • Executive Education on Leading Organizations and Managing Change, Marsh, Inc.
  • Executive Education on Leadreship, Pacific Coast Banking School, 2003
  • Auditor, Arthur Young & Co., 1964-1965
Awards:
  • Teaching Excellence Award , BYU Marriott School , 2004
  • Supply Chain Excellence Teaching Award , MBA Students, BYU , 2001
  • Professor of the Year , Brigham Young University MBA , 1987
  • Teacher of the Year , Brigham Young University MBA , 1979
Languages:
  • French