Volume 14. Issue 2

Haslam Impact

What’s in a name? So much.

Ten years ago, the Haslam College of Business became the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s first named college. Since that transformative gift from the Haslam family, much has changed for the college.

Student Impact

In Their Own Words

The Haslam naming gift empowers the college to impact students in positive ways, from hiring world-class faculty to extending accessibility, creating new programs, and fostering a supportive, generous community.

In This Issue

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Advancing Supply Chain

At the ASCC, industry research and data combine with academic research and theory to generate concrete solutions.

Digits Influence Consumer Decisions and Behavior

Entrepreneurs in Training

Wesley Pitts

Making the Cut

Justin Hill

Why Stop Now?

Dan Dougherty

Cultivating Future Leaders

New Building Update

Future

Marketing Mavericks

Interns All in for Partnership Marketing

Thought Leadership

Nashville Banner

"Online retail had been steadily growing for years, but the pandemic supercharged that growth, and probably pulled forward a decade of online retail growth into just a couple years."

Michael Galbreth - Pilot Corporation Chair of Excellence

The Conversation

“The challenges facing companies today mirror the economic planning debates of the Cold War, with many of the same issues returning. There are clear differences with Soviet-style centralized planning. But an increasingly consolidated set of companies plan huge swaths of the U.S. economy.”

Dan Pellathy - Assistant Professor of Practice; Director of Operations, Advanced Supply Chain Collaborative

The Conversation

“There’s mounting evidence that a short-term win at the bargaining table can mean a loss in terms of overall trust and cooperation. That can leave everyone—including the ‘winner’—worse off.”

Kate Vitasek - Distinguished Fellow, Global Supply Chain Institute

Globe and Mail

“These steamship lines are having to be agile to the circumstances. The other ports are ready to receive. What is a challenge for Baltimore is an opportunity up and down the coast”

Thomas Goldsby - Dee & Jimmy Haslam Chair of Supply Chain, David P. Perrot Supply Chain Management Faculty Fellow

Bloomberg

“To get more women into senior positions, we need more in junior positions. And delivering the same degrees to the same number of women as men is the foundation for future equity.”

Amy Cathey - Associate Dean for Graduate and Executive Education, Distinguished Lecturer

The National Desk

“In terms of our dependence on China and other foreign sources, it’s a drop in the bucket. More significantly, it begins to plug a gaping hole in the lithium supply chain, refining. Coupled with refining expertise built over the last two decades and less-stringent work standards, loosening China’s grip on the lithium supply chain will be easier said than done.”

Alan Amling - Assistant Professor of Practice

Deseret News

“Given the peer-reviewed, empirical evidence of its effectiveness, this policy will decrease voter participation, especially among those who face the most barriers: racial minorities, the elderly, the disabled, the military, and stressed-out parents with young children.”

Michael Kofoed - Research Assistant Professor

Agenda

“The audit committee should be paying attention to the nature of the deficiency to better understand if this is something that could allow a material misstatement to go undetected at their company.”

Lauren Cunningham - Keith Stanga Professor of Accounting, Cheryl Massingale Business Faculty Scholar

The Wall Street Journal

“[During the holidays], stores typically have people that maybe are new or temporary seasonal hires, and they’re easier marks for criminals.”

Alan Amling - Assistant Professor of Practice

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