Knox News
“We need to ask ourselves as a community, is this a once-in-a-thousand-year event or are we going to see more of these climate and weather patterns change? If we think that this kind of extreme weather is going to become more commonplace, then now is the time to make investments to prevent the next disaster."
Lance Saunders - Jerry & Suzanne Ratledge Professor of Supply Chain Management, Vallett Family Faculty Fellow
Michael Kofoed - Research Assistant Professor
On Hurricane Helene's swath of destruction in upper east Tennessee and western North Carolina.
Supply Chain Management Review
"By adopting a proactive approach to cybersecurity, integrating it into supplier evaluations, and treating it as a continual improvement process, organizations can better protect themselves against the evolving threat landscape of supply chain cyberattacks."
Seongkyoon Jeong - Assistant Professor
On the need for organizations to constantly improve their cybersecurity functionality.
Newstalk 98.7
“It’s hard to do good rapidly. It’s easier to do harm. Our political system makes it challenging to make big changes quickly. People look at the presidential election and may have concerns about what one candidate or the other is going to do. If those policies you are concerned about require being passed through Congress, that’s going to be a tough sled.”
Scott Gilpatric - Department Head and Professor
On if presidents can affect rapid changes to the economy.
Daily Mail
"The data would suggest Nashville is doing among the best in the state and the best in the country. I don't see a strong statistical case for anything remotely resembling a recession in Tennessee or Nashville."
Don Bruce - Boyd Distinguished Professor
On the possibility of a recession.
Inbound Logistics
"The WMS lets companies make sure they have inventory on the shelves because they have one shot at retaining a customer. Companies should never get to the point where they get a signal that they need to fulfill an order and don’t have the inventory."
Thomas Deakins - Managing Director, Global Supply Chain Institute; Lecturer
On how essential sophisticated warehouse management systems are to fulfillment centers.
Axios Nashville
"A growing senior population doesn't just have implications for the health care system. The full array of senior-oriented services—such as housing, transportation, and other types of personal care—will also be in higher demand over the coming years.”
Matthew Harris - Boyd Distinguished Professor of Health Economics, Dr. Michael Stahl PEMBA Faculty Fellow (2017-2022-2023)
On projections that one in five Tennesseans will be age 65 or older by 2040, per research from UT’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research.
Fortune
“He basically is just not afraid of suing on any grounds. I’m not saying he disregards the law, but he really does like to push the envelope on the law. He'll listen to legal advice, and then he does what he wants, and then somebody has to clean up the mess, from a lawyering perspective, afterward. And even if he loses the case, he doesn't seem to care."
Joan Heminway - Rick Rose Distinguished Professor of Law
On Tesla, X, and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk's propensity for lawsuits.
News Medical Life Sciences
"Rural hospitals are losing, on average, a lot of money. There are more bankruptcies of rural hospitals than urban ones. Local governments and authorities are trying hard to protect them so local patients can have access to healthcare providers. From a policy perspective, there should be more collaboration programs where the rural hospitals can get a share from this telehealth provision so they do not end up in bankruptcy."
Zihan Ye - Assistant Professor
On one of the ways telehealth offered by wealthier urban hospitals negatively affects poorer rural hospitals.
The Wall Street Journal
"Students are great at finding out pretty quickly where companies are hiring and what they're paying. We have undergraduates coming to us that come in from other fields, they may be high school music teachers or IT folks. That group has been influenced by the heightened attention to supply chains."
Ted Stank - Harry J. & Vivienne R. Bruce Chair of Excellence
On college students' new awareness of job possibilities in supply chain because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CBC Radio
"Demand is very tempestuous. We're very sensitive to interest rates and trends and our own pocketbook issue. These automakers have to be placing bets months and months and months in advance, and then they cross their fingers and hope that their supply matches demand."
Thomas Goldsby - Dee & Jimmy Haslam Chair of Supply Chain, David P. Perrot Supply Chain Management Faculty Fellow
On the vagaries of Canadian automobile supply and demand.
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
On the pandemic's impact on consumer product returns nationwide and reverse logistics overall.
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Dave Clark (MBA, ’99) has an ambitious goal. He wants to use the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform supply chain management. 
