Warner P. Woodworth
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Warner P. Woodworth is a professor in the Department of Organizations Leadership and Strategy in the Marriott School of Management
at Brigham Young University
(BYU). He is a leading advocate of development of micro-credit and has been involved in researching as well as developing such programs.
Woodworth holds BS and MS degrees from BYU and an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan
. He has also held various visiting scholar appointments including as the first Peter Drucker Centennial Scholar at the Drucker School of Management of Claremont Graduate University
.
Among other positions, Woodworth has served as co-editor of the Journal of Microfinance.
Among the organizations Woodworth has helped to found have been Enterprise Mentors International
, Unitas Microcredit and HELP-International. Woodworth currently serves as chairman of the board of HELP International. HELP International was an outgrowth of HELP Honduras, which was an organization formed to provide aid in Honduras in the wake of Hurricane Mitch
.
He is also the founder of MicroBusiness Mentors.
Among the books Woodworth has co-authored are Small Really is Beautiful (1997), United For Zion: Principals for Uniting the Saints to Eliminate Poverty and Working Toward Zion co-authored with James W. Lucas (1999).
In the wake of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Woodworth was involved in forming the group Sustain Haiti.
Woodworth has been a consistent and vocal critic of the growing trend of for-profit organizations entering into operations that they have claimed constitute micro-financing.
Marriott School of Management
The Marriott School of Management is a business school located in Provo, Utah at Brigham Young University , a private university in the United States owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
(BYU). He is a leading advocate of development of micro-credit and has been involved in researching as well as developing such programs.
Woodworth holds BS and MS degrees from BYU and an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. He has also held various visiting scholar appointments including as the first Peter Drucker Centennial Scholar at the Drucker School of Management of Claremont Graduate University
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont Graduate University is a private, all-graduate research university located in Claremont, California, a city east of downtown Los Angeles...
.
Among other positions, Woodworth has served as co-editor of the Journal of Microfinance.
Among the organizations Woodworth has helped to found have been Enterprise Mentors International
Enterprise Mentors International
Enterprise Mentors International is a 501, nonprofit organization based in Draper, Utah, that uses microenterprise, mentoring, and business training to alleviate poverty worldwide. Mentors International was officially founded in 1990 by a group of businessmen with extensive international business...
, Unitas Microcredit and HELP-International. Woodworth currently serves as chairman of the board of HELP International. HELP International was an outgrowth of HELP Honduras, which was an organization formed to provide aid in Honduras in the wake of Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was the most powerful hurricane and the most destructive of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph . The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the season. Along with Hurricane Georges, Mitch...
.
He is also the founder of MicroBusiness Mentors.
Among the books Woodworth has co-authored are Small Really is Beautiful (1997), United For Zion: Principals for Uniting the Saints to Eliminate Poverty and Working Toward Zion co-authored with James W. Lucas (1999).
In the wake of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Woodworth was involved in forming the group Sustain Haiti.
Woodworth has been a consistent and vocal critic of the growing trend of for-profit organizations entering into operations that they have claimed constitute micro-financing.
Publications
- "Where to Microfinance" with Christopher Dunford and Gary M. Woller.
- "Microfinance as Grass-Roots Policy for International Development" in Policy Studies Journal Vol. 29, Issue 2 (May 2001), p. 267-282.
- Managing by the Numbers: Absentee Ownership and the Decline of American Industry with Christopher Meek and W. Gibb Dyer. ISBN 020116129X
- "Third World Economic Empowerment in the New Millennium: Microenterprise, Microentrepreneurship, and Microfinance" in S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal Vol. 65 (2000) no. 4.
- Creating Labor-Management Partnerships also with Christopher Meek. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.
Sources
- Drucker Business School announcement of appointment of Woodworth as Global Entrepreneur in Residence
- April 2, 2007 msnbc article
- Mormon Scholars Trestify bio
- Woodworth's web-page
- HELP International list of Board of Directors
- Good Reads listing of Warner's books
- Business Week profile of Woodworth
- http://books.google.com/books?id=-iSVA0KRs4MC&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=warner+woodworth&source=bl&ots=_LIUqDKJWS&sig=d3zInko4t8FHP6iwDEhyG-heRio&hl=en&ei=LD-lTeTrMsPagQeXwvmKCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBDhu#v=onepage&q=warner%20woodworth&f=falseRonald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker and James B. Allen. Mormon History. (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001) p. 196.]
- LDS Church News April 25, 2009
- Deseret News Dec. 12, 2010