Gene Wray Dalton was a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

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 and later at Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

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 (BYU).

Dalton was born in Pocatelo, Idaho to Dell Moroni Dalton and his wife the former Rachel Wray. He was an alumnus of Pocatello High School. Dalton served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Central States Mission. He earned a bachelors degree in accounting from the University of Utah

University of Utah

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. He was than an accounting instructor at Idaho State University

Idaho State University

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 before joining the Air Force ROTC in 1955 and studying 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...

. He then went on to receive a Doctorate of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...

.

From 1983-1987 Dalton was the chair of BYU's Department of Organization Behavior.

The Marriott School of Management

Marriott School of Management

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 has a scholarship named after Dalton.

Among other positions in the LDS Church Dalton served as a stake president.

Dalton was married to the former Bonnie LaRae Berrett. They were the parents of eight daughters.

Publications

• Novations: Strategies for Career Management with Paul H. Thompson
  Paul H. Thompson
  Paul H. Thompson is an American educator and administrator. Paul received a doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University in 1969. From 1969 to 1973, he was an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration...
  
  , 1986.
• The Distribution of Authority in Formal Organizations with Abraham Zaleznik and Louis B. Barnes.
• Motivation and Control in Organizations with Paul R. Lawrence and Jay Lorsch.

Sources

• Deseret News Jan. 9, 1997 Obituary of Dalton
• Ernest L. Wilkinson, ed., Brigham Young University: The First 100 Years (Provo: BYU Press, 1976) Vol. 4, p. 107.
• article on Paul R. Lawrence
• history of BYU's Department of Organizational Behavior