Summer 2020

Moll Anderson

The Gift of Encouragement

Settled in Nashville, Anderson started a new job in a furniture store. Her first interior design client led to more work and soon she launched her own highly successful company. “I’d never had the opportunity to go to design school, but what I didn’t know actually served me,” she says. “For example, I didn’t know you couldn’t design a 3,000-square-foot house in three months, so I went for it.” She became known for interior design that was both quick and cost-efficient.

Statistics: Then & Now

IN 1942, Jane Greer Puckett sat in an introductory statistics course and took copious notes. She worked the problems behind simple linear regression by hand, utilizing calculus equations and other mathematical skills.

Alex Rodrigues

A Global Perspective

Alex Rodrigues brings a truly global perspective to his role at the Haslam College of Business. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he also has spent significant time in Spain, Germany, and the United States.

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Mark Tasman

A World of Toys

Career Leadership Academy

Haslam in the time of COVID-19

Management Welcomes Entrepreneurship into the Fold

Young Alumni Mentor Undergraduates Through Haslam Network

Jan Kercheval

Helping Students Succeed: A Family Tradition

Max McGehee

Rise and Grind

Kara White

Third-Generation Alumna Pursues Career Goals While Serving Community

Kenzie Carlson

Collegian of the Year

Empty Campus

A Photo Essay

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Thought Leadership

Supply Chain Dive

"COVID-19 is vastly accelerating digital transformation," Mary Long, director of the Supply Chain Forum at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, told Supply Chain Dive. As the pandemic has thrown the world into economic upheaval, manufacturers and supply chain leaders are reconsidering digital initiatives that previously sat on the back burner, Long said. "We just took a huge leap forward. Companies that have always taken the safe, always-as-it-was approach are suddenly looking at anything that takes touches out of the system," she said.

Mary Long - Lecturer

Bloomberg

“For now, most supply chains are chugging along just fine, and because we’ve all been forced indoors, many have surplus inventory. The headline-grabbing few that aren’t – bathroom tissue, anti-bacterial soap, certain food products – sold out because of severe demand shocks that forecasters simply couldn’t have predicted.”

Chad Autry - Associate Dean, Myers Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, R. Stanley Bowden II Faculty Research Fellow

Memphis Commercial Appeal

“I have never seen in my 25 years in HR a mass exodus with offices closed,” said Jennifer Rittenhouse, a human resources consultant and faculty member of the University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business. “It’s absolutely unprecedented.”

Brenda Patterson - Contracts and Sponsored Projects Manager

Christie Ekern - Lecturer

Katie McCay - Executive Director

Blythe Kanaswood - Senior Financial Associate

Investor Place

Ryan Z. Farley, assistant clinical professor of finance at the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business, notes that if the alternative meat firm “can leverage scale and access to capital in order to aggressively build market share, smaller companies like Impossible Foods may not be able to compete in the long term.”

Ryan Farley - Torch Fund Program Director and Clinical Assistant Professor

Supply Chain Dive

“Businesses need to think of these processes outside the bounds of supply chain planning. If it’s just perceived as supply chain planning, it gets very tactical and you really lose the opportunity to have a strategic view of both demand and supply."

Mark Moon - Lyle M. & Marcella J. Flaskerud Faculty Fellow (this is a logistics excellence fund)

Research

Entrepreneurial Passion Differs Between Men and Women ALTHOUGH A GROWING body of research demonstrates that passion is a key factor in entrepreneurial performance, few researchers have studied what sparks this passion. Recog-nizing the social context of entrepreneurship, Melissa Cardon, Nestlé Endowed Professor of Business Administration in the Haslam College of Business, investigated how social consid-erations such as gender drive passion among entrepreneurs. Read article