The Gracious Leadership of Sharon Pryse
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Winter 2020
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Fueling Entrepreneurship at Haslam
Man Sitting In Big Orange Chair image A hematology specialist and serial entrepreneur in Nashville, Ralph Korpman has always had an entrepreneurial spark. That spark kindled into a flame as Korpman watched his son, Dillon, become involved with the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (ACEI) as an undergraduate student at the Haslam College of Business.In This Issue
Thought Leadership
Daily Memphian
“I don’t think that we’re looking at anything that would be of sufficient magnitude to derail the economy unless we saw an interruption of oil supplies, unless we saw a major military escalation.”
Matthew Murray - Ball Corporation Professor in Business, Baker Center Director, and Associate Director and Professor
Chattanooga Times Free Press
"I don't think this monthly increase in the unemployment rate means anything in terms of the underlying economic performance and direction of Tennessee's economy. We still have an unemployment rate that is near historically low levels and in this environment anyone who has the skills and wants to work can find a job. With unemployment so low, it is harder to sustain the kind of growth in employment or decline in the jobless rate we saw in previous years but that simply reflects how strong the economy is right now."
William Fox - Boyd Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Special Advisor to the UTK Chancellor
Institute for Supply Management
While procurement professionals have always had to deal with trade wars, geopolitical events or natural disasters, rarely have they had to grapple with so many potential roadblocks, simultaneously. Whether this the new normal for supply management is to be determined. But it’s certainly a new era — one that will likely redefine global supply chains, says Shay Scott, Ph.D., MBA, executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is also a faculty member.
Shay Scott - Professor of Practice; Vice Dean & Chief Operating Officer, Digital Learning
Authority Magazine
“Given that culture is a shared system of values and beliefs, organizations that don’t have a diverse leadership team are likely perpetuating a culture that is not likely to be embraced by the vast majority of its employee-base. Further, that culture is likely to become stale and out of touch because leadership lacks a vital trigger to cultural and organizational inertia—diversity."
Randy V. Bradley
Logistic MGMT
"Lessons from past disruptions, including the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the Icelandic volcanoes in 2010, among other events, come with risks that could disrupt and ripple into your supply chain at a huge cost. This disruption of tariffs is the most recent example of this global disruptions.”
Ted Stank - Harry J. & Vivienne R. Bruce Chair of Excellence
Tech News World
"Drones are for real in key areas of the supply chain -- checking inventory levels in huge distribution centers, flying manufacturing lines to determine when new parts are needed on the line, inspecting far flung facilities and pipelines"
Ted Stank - Harry J. & Vivienne R. Bruce Chair of Excellence
A Growing Global Reach
Haslam welcomed 18 new faculty members in September 2019. Coming from China, Germany, South Korea and Turkey and from all quarters of the United States, these new faculty members demonstrate Haslam’s growing global reach and bring decades of experience in industry and in the classroom.
Sources of Funds
Providing the best student focused, academic support to our students starts with maintaining a great faculty. This past year, with the support of our donors and campus leadership, we embarked on a 5 year plan to add 25 net new tenure line faculty. Graduate and Executive Education continues to make positive impacts on our community and launched our first new fully online programs to add to the portfolio of graduate degrees already offered. The revenues continue to grow and be reinvested into the infrastructure and support of our student experience. Private philanthropy remains an important funding source allowing the college to implement new programming, expand current offerings, and support our students in their time here at the Haslam College of Business. Increasing private philanthropy, launching successful new programs that attract additional students, and controlling our costs are always important, and particularly so as we strive to slow the increase in tuition levels given the economic realities facing our students and their families. 
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