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Essential reading from leading researchers and scholars on the latest trends and topics relevant to global supply chain management.

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The Importance of Supply Chain Jobs during and after COVID-19

October 6, 2020
COVID-19 has highlighted the often underrated importance of supply chains.
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Izabela Vandeest Interview Part 2: Bringing Students an Executive MBA Experience with White Glove Service

September 29, 2020
This is the second half of a two-part interview with Izabela Vandeest, Program Manager for the Executive MBA for Global Supply Chain program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business.
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Izabela Vandeest Interview Part 1: CPA and Twice UT Alumna Finds Passion Offering White Glove Service for a World-class Educational Experience at Haslam College of Business Executive MBA for Global Supply Chain

September 29, 2020
Izabela Vandeest is proud to be the Program Manager for the Executive MBA for Global Supply Chain program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business.
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UT Graduate Uses Logistics to Help Football Teams Manage Equipment Better

September 25, 2020
Apply business science to sports and what do you get? In 2002, it was a research paper that found NFL coaches punt too often on fourth down.
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Haslam’s Advanced Supply Chain Collaborative Reports Positive Inaugural Year

September 24, 2020
Members of the Advanced Supply Chain Collaborative celebrated a rewarding first year in a recent Zoom meeting during which its initial year-end report was delivered.
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Haslam Professor First Recipient of Healthcare Supply Chain Performance Award

August 28, 2020
Randy V. Bradley, professor of information systems and supply chain management in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Dean S. Ammer Award for Healthcare Supply Chain Performance Excellence.
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Can Supply Chain Integrity Predict Sustainability?

August 26, 2020
Led by values-driven millennial consumers, the market is putting considerable pressure on companies to be ethically responsible, part of the increasing focus on companies’ environmental, social and financial performance.
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Supply Chain Summer Workshop Provides Students Hands-on Experience in Lieu of Internships

August 14, 2020
The novel coronavirus’ impact on the U.S. economy has upended the business plans of many companies.
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Haslam Student Wins Richter Scholarship

August 14, 2020
The R. Gene and Nancy D. Richter Foundation and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) have selected Spencer Strei, a supply chain management major with a collateral in international business and minor in statistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business, to receive the 2020 R. Gene Richter Scholarship.
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Haslam Supply Chain Students Gain Real E-Procurement Experience in Class Project

August 12, 2020
Two professors in the Department of Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business recently created a semester-long gamified buyer-supplier project to give students experience dealing with the digital changes coming in supply chain management.