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Ned C. Hill served as dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University from July 1998 to July 2008. During his tenure as dean, the school’s endowment quadrupled, a $43 million building addition was completed, and rankings of the school’s programs rose to national and international prominence. BusinessWeek ranked the Marriott School’s undergraduate program #7 in the nation and #1 among recruiters. The Financial Times ranked its Accounting program #1 worldwide. The Wall Street Journal rated the BYU MBA program #1 among the smaller programs in the nation and #2 for Ethics.

Prior to his appointment as dean, he served for two years as assistant to President Merrill J. Bateman, assuming responsibility for strategic planning in the areas of facilities and space management, distance learning, information systems, international relations, auditing, accreditation, and assessment. Before joining the administration, he chaired the Marriott School’s Department of Business Management. He joined the Marriott School faculty as the Joel C. Peterson Professor of Business Administration in 1987 and received the School’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 1992. He is currently the National Advisory Council Professor in the Marriott School and a fellow in the Wheatley Institution at BYU where he contributes to the area of personal and household finance.

Educational Background
Hill started his academic career as an assistant professor of finance at Cornell University 1976-77. Then, from 1977 to 1987 he was a finance professor on the faculty of Indiana University. MBA students at both BYU and Indiana University elected him their outstanding teacher several times. Hill holds a PhD in finance from Cornell, an MS in chemistry from Cornell, and a BS in chemistry from the University of Utah[2] where he studied under Henry Eyring.

Professional Work
Hill is a widely published author and frequent speaker on the subjects of business ethics, treasury management, electronic commerce, and personal finance. In 1987 he co-founded with Daniel M. Ferguson, The EDI Group, one of the first organizations to offer seminars on electronic commerce. The same year he co-founded and became senior editor of EDI FORUM: The Journal of Electronic Commerce. He co-authored three books and more than 80 professional articles on the topics of corporate finance, electronic commerce, and business ethics. For several years he served on the Information Technology Commission for the state of Utah; he has been a regional director of the Financial Management Association and has served on various accreditation committees of the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business. He currently serves on the boards of Morgan Stanley Bank, Beneficial Financial Group, and Soltis Investment Advisors.

Church Service and Community Work
While at Indiana University, Hill served as stake president of the Bloomington Indiana Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[1] Also in Indiana, he served for several years as vice president of finance for the Hoosier Trails Council for the Boy Scouts of America. He served as stake president of the BYU 5th Stake from 1999 to 2004. For the past five years he has been on the board of the Pete Suazo Business Center in Salt Lake City, an organization that helps minorities start and develop businesses. He served as an Institute of Religion teacher for the LDS Church from 1969-70 while a graduate student at Cornell and then again, with his wife, Claralyn, from 2006-2007 in Provo, Utah. He serves on the advisory boards of the Academy for Creating Enterprise and Friends for Sight.

Military
In 1971, Hill was drafted into the U.S. Army. He served most of his two-year assignment in Dugway, Utah, as a chemist where he received the Army Commendation Medal.

Birding
Hill is an avid birder. His life list in North America is more than 700 species. He has birded in almost every state including two extensive trips to Alaska where he visited Attu, Gambel, the Pribilofs, Nome, and the Anchorage area. He helped found Utah County Birders and has served on its executive committee for many years. He is a frequent contributor to birding newsletters where he has described his birding adventures to Australia, Costa Rica, Southern Africa, and Brazil’s Amazon Basin.

Family
Ned Hill and his wife, Claralyn Martin Hill, were married in 1968. She graduated in English from the University of Utah, received a master’s in counseling psychology from Indiana University, and a JD from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. They are the parents of five grown children and the grandparents of fifteen.

Political
While Hill has never been politically active, he approved an email that was sent by his associate dean W. Steve Albrecht to some members of the BYU’s Management Society and National Advisory Council seeking possible interest in the campaign of an alum and school benefactor, Mitt Romney. When BYU legal counsel advised them that such an implied endorsement was inappropriate given the LDS Church’s and BYU’s political neutrality, both Albrecht and Hill apologized for their action.

Hill’s wife, Claralyn, is currently running for the Utah State House of Representatives as a moderate Democrat in the area of northeast Provo.