Winter 2021

Transformational Ties

A Landmark Gift

A landmark 2014 gift to the business school from three generations of the Haslam family fueled a transformation in undergraduate education, research, and experiences at the college that continues today. The $50 million gift not only created the Haslam College of Business, it helped to position it as a top-tier business school.

International Interrupted

Studying Abroad with Covid

On a train between the airport and the city, Emma Kreiss began to feel sick. “At first I was just really tired,” she says. “I remember leaning against a pole on the train and almost falling asleep.”

Solving National and Global Challenges: Food Supply Chain Coalition Takes Aim at Hunger

Food Assistance in the United States

In This Issue

Downloads

Recent Graduate Uses Logistics to Help Football Teams Better Manage Equipment

Brady Fernandes

Threads of Purpose

At Home in The Water

Edward Sobek

Local Lab Helps Healthcare Prevent Spread of COVID-19

Latino-Owned Businesses

Slow to Grow

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Thought Leadership

Wall Street Journal

Local fulfillment changes the game, undercutting the advantages of size and scale the big carriers enjoy in their national networks, raising important strategic questions for the package giants.

Alan Amling - Distinguished Fellow

Supply Chain Dive

You saw what happened with PPE and the food supply chain. They broke because we didn’t have that redundant inventory to buffer for these longer supply chains that we designed.

Wendy Tate - Ray and Joan Myatt Faculty Research Fellow and William J. Taylor Professor in Supply Chain Management

Memphis Commercial Appeal

Millions or even billions could be amply transport- ed and stored. There is no excuse for us failing.

Thomas Goldsby - Professor and Dee and Jimmy Haslam Chair in Logistics

The Atlantic

The solution has to be us, and how we treat people and understand people and love people, and how we interact with them in society. That’s a huge challenge. But it’s not government’s to solve.

Marianne Wanamaker - George A. Spiva Scholar, Kinney Family Faculty Research Fellow, Associate Professor, and Fellow, Global Supply Chain Institute

Supply Chain Management Review

You know HPO when you’re in one, because a culture of coordination and results exceeding expectations come by rote.

Michael Burnette - Fellow, Global Supply Chain Institute

Wall Street Journal

Cyber criminals are taking advantage, launching more ransomware attacks on targets like hospitals just as the medical community has been reconfiguring supply chains to cope with the pandemic.

Ted Stank - Professor, Harry J. & Vivienne R. Bruce Chair of Excellence, Co-Faculty Director, and Global Supply Chain Institute

New Faculty

Haslam proudly welcomed these 14 new faculty members in September 2020. For a more in-depth look at each faculty member's unique skill set and interests, follow the link below.

Research

Making Research Connections

The Haslam family’s naming gift in 2014 provided an expanded resource base to better support research active faculty in the college. The 2020 investment from Natalie and Jim Haslam, Dee and Jimmy Haslam, and Crissy and Bill Haslam will build on that foundation, supporting a greater breadth and depth of faculty contributions to scholarly and applied research, both of which influence the world of business practice over time.

Sources of Funds

Sources of Funds Charts

During a year of unprecedented change and hardship, the impacts of COVID-19 required innovative thought and action. We stayed the course and continued to provide the studentfocused academic support our students expect through the online platform of Zoom, as well as many small face-to-face interactions. This was year three of the “25 in 5” faculty hiring plan. We successfully onboarded many new faculty in August. The Graduate and Executive Education team persisted through all the challenges related to COVID-19 and continued to make positive impacts on our community by offering many of the traditional face-to-face courses in an online classroom. 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.