About the contributor

I am Professor of Management Emeritus and the former Dean of the Gore School of Business at Westminster College of Salt Lake City. I was born in Estonia. From there my father and I fled to Germany during World War II. After the war I completed my elementary education in Hamburg, Germany and spent a year at sea as a deckboy before immigrating to the United States in l950. Upon completing preparatory school in Manlius, New York, I earned a B.A. degree from Colgate University, an M.B.A. from Syracuse University, a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma and an honorary doctorate from Westminster College.