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Matt Harris, assistant professor of economics, was recently named the Michael Stahl Physician Executive MBA (PEMBA) Faculty Fellow. The appointment is for a two-year term. Alumni of the PEMBA program established the fellowship to recognize a faculty member who teaches effectively and engages cooperatively with college partners and constituents. Harris’s…

Veterans studying at the Haslam College of Business have gained an additional avenue of support with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s new Veterans Resource Center. Located directly across the street from the college in Hodges Library, the center aims to ensure success for student veterans. “Most people associate the G.I.…

Nancy Scott has joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business as director of the leadership development program for graduate and executive education. In her new role, Scott will work closely with other program directors to expand assessment activities for the college’s students and corporate clients. “My vision…

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business has hired a new executive director for aerospace and defense. Joseph ‘Ben’ Skipper brings more than twenty years of military and academic experience to his new role within Graduate and Executive Education. “I was drawn to Haslam for many reasons,” Skipper…

Pedro Gonzalez joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business as director of career management for graduate and executive education on May 15. Gonzalez came to UT from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, where he served as director of employer relations…

The Financial Times has ranked the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business as the fastest-growing public institution in the United States for executive education programs since last year. That metric, which measured overall revenue growth from customized programs and repeat business, also places the college at fourth among…

Four-star United States Air Force General Joe Lengyel was the keynote speaker for a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business event on Thursday, April 6. Lengyel (ADMBA, ’11) spoke to nearly 100 people at the Aerospace and Defense Advisory Board welcome dinner at Club LeConte. As chief of…

Lee Scott, chairman of the BDT Capital advisory board and former CEO of Wal-Mart, spoke in early November, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business First Tennessee Foundation Graduate Business Symposium. Scott is widely credited for reinvigorating Wal-Mart's mission and transforming the company into a respected corporate…

When Haslam Executive MBA students make their site visits throughout the world each year, they have opportunities to be immersed in the structures around which global business is built. Recently, some of their destinations have included: Washington, D.C.; Santiago, Chile; Lima, Peru; Shanghai, China; Hamburg, Germany; and Budapest, Hungary. During…

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business has been named an outstanding business school in the Princeton Review’s annual guide, “The Best 294 Business Schools: 2017 Edition.” Haslam, as in previous years, was chosen for the distinction based on its MBA program. According to the publishers of the…