Freight Waves
As wages rise, the relative cost of technology drops. I expect you will see accelerated investments in technology that help employees become more productive, and in some cases, replace them. With the rise of AI, this will extend into the white-collar workforce as well.
Alan Amling - Assistant Professor of Practice
The Conversation
Intersectionality explores how people experience life through multiple coexisting identities. Outside of intersectionality’s academic origins, there are many debates today over whether it is important for understanding workplace and policy issues.
Christina Hymer - Assistant Professor, Douglas A. and Brenda Horne Faculty Fellow
Industry Today
If the major automakers suffer significant losses, it could result in workers getting laid off or [being] forced to decrease their work hours. Naturally, this translates to economic ripple effects such as less consumer spending and shaken confidence that result in additional ripple effects.
Thomas Goldsby - Dee & Jimmy Haslam Chair of Supply Chain, David P. Perrot Supply Chain Management Faculty Fellow
Harvard Business Review
We believe a paradigm shift is occurring. Organizations will increasingly adopt platform solutions like COSMOPlat and TYS that will solve systemic supply chain issues for a vast number of players. Supply chain management will be transformed.
Kate Vitasek - Distinguished Fellow, Global Supply Chain Institute
Alan Amling - Assistant Professor of Practice
AI Business
Before generative AI came into existence, the limiting factor for bad actors to produce biased content was research, language skills, and copywriting time. With generative AI, bad actors can mass-produce high-quality content in any language.
Michel Ballings - Associate Professor, Douglas A. and Brenda Horne Faculty Fellow
WalletHub
Bank deposits are very sticky (i.e., people with money in a bank CD often roll their money into a new CD with the same bank). Investors should be aware of CD rates that other financial institutions are paying before rolling a CD over at their bank.
Andy Puckett - Department Head, Paul & Beverly Castagna Professor of Investments, Charles & Dorothy Duggan Faculty Research Fellow
Scripps News Tonight
Alan Amling - Assistant Professor of Practice
The Center Square
Tennessee’s economy continues to outpace the nation’s and shows no signs of slowing down. These record-high new business filings in the state, along with strong personal income and stable unemployment rates, are yet another sign of continued economic growth in the coming months.
Don Bruce - Boyd Distinguished Professor
Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog
Overall, we find that female board appointments are influenced by institutional holdings, employees, customers, and incumbent board and executive gender diversity. We further find that the proportion of female board appointments is increasing faster than overall boardroom gender diversity, which explains why boardroom gender diversity in the U.S. is slow to change.
Lauren Cunningham - Keith Stanga Professor of Accounting, Cheryl Massingale Business Faculty Scholar, Associate Professor
WalletHub
States are often conduits of funds for people (often coming from the federal government) or local governments (state tax revenues transferred to local governments), making state governments appear to have more resources than they ultimately control.
William Fox - Boyd Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Special Advisor to the UTK Chancellor
Harvard Business Review
They really put their money where their mouth is in terms of gaining visibility across their operations.
Chad Autry - Associate Dean, Myers Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, R. Stanley Bowden II Faculty Research Fellow
Newbuilding Mockup image The Haslam College of Business has grown dramatically over the past decade. Undergraduate enrollment soared. Additional graduate programs have launched and enrollment in existing programs has expanded. The college hired dozens of new faculty and staff members to support new students and programs. To sustain this growth and support the number of students passing through the college’s doors, in 2023, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, prioritized the growing need for an additional business school building.
