Volume 14, Issue 1

Stepping Forward

Haslam's Growth Exemplified In New Business Building

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.

Q&A With The Design Team

Knoxville-based McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects (MHM) is heading up the design of the new building in collaboration with New York-based Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) and other engineering consultants. MHM’s familiarity with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, campus, coupled with RAMSA’s extensive national experience in designing business schools, yielded an innovative design that supports the college’s goals and collaborative culture and feels cohesive with surrounding campus structures. Members of the design team provide their thoughts on the project.

Investing in the future

The Importance Of Involved Donors

Alumni donors are appreciated college stakeholders and essential to making the new Haslam College of Business building a reality. Three alumni share why they chose to give, as well as their hopes for the college’s future.

Student Stakeholders

Meet The New Building Committee Student Representatives

To ensure all members of the college were considered in Haslam’s new building design, the 20-person building planning committee set out to include representatives from every corner of the college community, including students.

In This Issue

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Full Magazine

A Good Sport in Business Analytics

Nikhil Morar

Sources of Funds

Growth is the story in Haslam College of Business.

Gala

14th ANNUAL ALUMNI AWARDS

Ahead of the Game

Scott Daughtry

Using Supply Chain to Fight Food Insecurity

Nicole Carvagno

Exploring Emerging Tech

Driving Down Emissions with Fleet Sustainability Index

Analyzing AI:Q&A with Wenjun Zhou

Cultivating Connections

Thought Leadership

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

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.

Alan Amling - Assistant Professor of Practice

Kate Vitasek - Distinguished Fellow, Global Supply Chain Institute

The Conversation

Opponents of vouchers and school choice policies more generally argue that they put traditional public schools at a financial disadvantage. Critics have also noted that some of the early voucher advocates viewed them as a way to avoid racial integration.

Celeste Carruthers - William F. Fox Distinguished Professor of Labor Economics

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

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 - Paul & Beverly Castagna Professor in 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

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

New Faculty

The Haslam College of Business welcomed 14 new faculty members during the 2023–2024 academic year. The increase in faculty reflects the college's commitment to providing a top-tier educational experience for its rapidly growing student population.