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National Financial Awareness Day, August 14, is the perfect time to think long and hard about your current personal finance habits and consider what you want your financial future to look like. With that in mind, Laura Cole, Sharon Pryse/Trust Company Director of the Masters Investment Learning Center at the…

Bruce Behn, Deloitte LLP Professor in Accounting and associate dean for graduate and executive education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business, has been honored with the American Accounting Association (AAA)’s Lifetime Service Award. The award, which recognizes an AAA member’s service contributions to accounting education over…

For many low-income Americans, owning a home is a reliable path to wealth accumulation. In terms of wealth inequality, though, how far does home ownership go toward closing the gap between minority households and white households?  An award-winning paper co-authored by Ashleigh Eldemire-Poindexter, assistant professor of finance at the University…

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business is now enrolling accomplished students and working professionals in its graduate and executive degree offerings. Haslam’s online programs, MS in Management and Human Resources and MBA programs for working professionals are ideal for nontraditional students with families and job responsibilities seeking…

The graduate supply chain programs in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business rank No. 1 among programs in North America, according to a report from Gartner, Inc., a leading industry research organization based in Stamford, Connecticut. As a hub for supply chain management thought leadership and talent…

Mohamed “Moe” Abbas personifies the Volunteer Spirit. Having moved to Knoxville from New York two years ago, he already serves as a volunteer battalion chief with Knox County Rescue. In this capacity, he performs lifesaving work, having certifications in hazardous materials, confined space rescue, structural collapse rescue, swift water rescue,…

The 2022 Haslam Summer Scholars Research Awards program has awarded 42 grants totaling approximately $950,000 to Haslam College of Business faculty members to pursue high-quality research. This represents the highest single-year monetary total in the program’s nine-year history. Since its inception, the program has funded more than $4 million in…

Russell Crook, First Horizon Foundation Distinguished Professor and Cheryl Massingale Faculty Research Fellow at the Haslam College of Business, is the new head of the college’s Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. He officially begins the role on July 1. “Applying for and accepting this role has been a great opportunity…

The Department of Marketing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business has announced a partnership with Axle Logistics for the department’s new Sales Performance Lab, slated to launch in fall 2022.  Axle, a third-party logistics provider based in Knoxville, has made a three-year financial commitment to support…

The Haslam MBA program in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business rose to No. 5 – up from No. 7 last year – in career services among all colleges around the globe, according to the just-released WhichMBA 2022 MBA and business school rankings from The Economist. The…