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TENNESSEE
HASLAM COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
WINTER 2014–15
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The Man Behind the Name
A transformational gift, a man of integrity
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table of CONTENTS
TENNESSEE
WINTER 2014–15
WINTER 2014–15
Haslam College
of Business Executive
Leadership
Stephen L. Mangum
Dean
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annette L. Ranft
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Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
BRUCE K. BEHN
REVVING UP
RESEARCH
Associate Dean for Graduate and
Executive Education
DOUGLAS Hawks
Summer Research Awards
& Entrepreneurial Research
Competition Recognize
Research Endeavors of
Faculty and Students
Assistant Dean for Financial Administration
Michael “Lane” Morris
Associate Dean for Undergraduate
Programs and Student Affairs
Tanya G. Brown
Executive Director of Marketing and
Public Relations
William R. “Chip” Bryant
Executive Director of Development
and Alumni Affairs
TENNESSEE ARCHWAYS
ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Tanya G. Brown | Editor
Meredith Hulette | Development
Coordinator
Jessica Leigh Brown | Writer
Jill Knight | Graphic Designer
CHARLES Brooks | Photographer
WE WANT TO HEAR
FROM YOU!
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328 Haslam Business Building
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Fax: 865-974-1766 | E-mail: [email protected]
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On The Cover: Jim Haslam.
Photograph by Charles
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IN THIS ISSUE
Tennessee Archways is published twice
a year by the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Haslam College of Business.
Printed by University Printing & Mail.
A Message from the Dean.. ..................................................... 2
Student News..........................................................................14
Student Brag Book............................................................15, 17
Department, Center, and Faculty News............................... 18
Faculty Focus.................................................................... 21, 25
Development & Giving Report............................................. 32
Contributors to The College................................................. 32
Donor Spotlight.. ............................................................. 34, 36
Sources & Uses of Funds.. ..................................................... 38
Alumni News. . ......................................................................... 47
In Memoriam. . .......................................................................... 51
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Celebration Dinner, at
the home of Ann and
Steve Bailey, October 4th
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Clockwise from top left: Governor
Bill Haslam and John Gill; Steve and
Troba Mangum; Steve Bailey and Jim
Haslam; Joe and Pat Johnson; The
dinner venue at the home of Ann
and Steve Bailey; Jan Williams with
King and Judy Rogers.
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Clockwise from top left: Chip Bryant and
David Martin; Governor Bill Haslam; Steve
Mangum and Jim Haslam; John Compton
and Joe Crafton; Natalie Haslam; Guests
gathered for dinner and toasts.
Yes, it’s great to be a Tennessee Vol!
We have much to celebrate. Our college having been
founded in 1914, we celebrated our centennial year
throughout 2014, culminating with our annual gala in
November. A record number of alumni and friends of the college–more
than 450–attended the celebration.
In this our centennial year, we have joined the ranks of named
business schools, bearing the name of one of our most accomplished
alumni, James A. Haslam II. Also in our centennial year, our college
endowment has surpassed the $100 million dollar mark–helping to
ensure our future.
As we celebrate our past and current accomplishments, it is
appropriate to remind ourselves of some basics. There are two things
that we “put first” as a college: the thought leadership of our faculty and
the educating and launching into the professional world of high quality
graduates of our various academic programs. We seek excellence in both.
How can two things jointly occupy our attention as being “put first?”
They are complementary rather than conflicting objectives. As a college,
we organize ourselves to successfully pursue these twin, reinforcing
objectives. How? We employ a mix of faculty appropriate to our defined
mission. We seek and reward faculty having passion and appreciation
for, and significant accomplishment in, both. As you read through this
issue of Archways, we trust that you will see evidence of excellence and
commitment to all that which we “put first.”
We enter 2015 with a new name, a renewed sense of mission, and a
set of four core priorities that will focus our attention and effort over
the next few years.
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Haslam College of Business,
Naming Ceremony
November 14th
Those four core priorities are:
Thought Leadership: To increase the visibility and impact of our
knowledge creation activities.
Student Engagement and Success: To enable students to achieve
higher value-added educational outcomes, employment, and career progression
opportunities and to develop their leadership potential and capabilities.
Connections: To build our value enhancing partnerships and connections.
Infrastructure for Success: To enhance the work environment
supporting faculty, staff, and student success.
Within these core priorities, the college has articulated specific goals that
make these priorities operational and is now creating implementation plans.
We are proud to be the James A. Haslam II College of Business. We appreciate the generosity of the Haslam family—a generosity aptly recognized in the
Board of Trustees’ decision to recognize the philanthropic investment through
the naming of the college. The faculty, staff, and students of the college will
continue to work diligently to give honor to this extraordinary act by being
persistent, creative, innovative, and successful in that which we “put first.”
Clockwise from top left:
Four generations of the
Haslam Family; Jim Haslam
with business students; Jim
Haslam and Chris LaPorte.
With great respect and gratitude,
Stephen L. Mangum, Dean and Stokely Foundation
Leadership Chair, Haslam College of Business
Centennial Gala,
Knoxville Convention Center
November 14th
Clockwise from top right:
Genetta Pugh; Alan Wilson
and Elaine Williams; Bill
Lee and Alex Miller; Sarah
Rabenold; Steve Mangum,
Jim Haslam, and Jimmy
Cheek; Dr. Joe DiPietro,
president of the University
of Tennessee; Joe Fielden;
C. Warren and Annelle Neel.
Photos by Shawn Millsaps Photography.
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James A. “Jim” Haslam II calls the University of Tennessee’s
recent decision to name its college of business for him the
greatest honor of his life. To those who know him best,
it’s a well-deserved recognition of a life well lived.
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obody deserves this as much as Daddy,”
says Ann Bailey, one of Haslam’s three
children and his only daughter. “He truly cares
about the people at Pilot. He cares about his
family, about his community, and his university.”
Bailey says that “Big Jim” Haslam (HCB, ’52)
has managed something in his eighty-three years
on earth that not many people accomplish—
building a multi-billion dollar company from
the ground up while staying true to the values
he holds dear, which include a commitment to
God, to family, to giving back, and to doing right
by the people he has come into contact with
throughout the years.
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Having the college he attended
as an undergraduate named for him
following a $50 million gift from three
generations of the Haslam family is a
just reward for a servant leader who
has always put those around him first,
she says. “He always told us it was
most important to give back to the
community and to our church,” Bailey
says. “And that was way before he had
much money. He truly believes he owes
all his success to Knoxville and to the
University of Tennessee.”
Setting
High Goals
It was his father’s ailing health and his
talent with the pigskin that ultimately
landed Haslam in East Tennessee. A
lover of sports and football in particular,
he found himself playing his senior
year of high school in St. Petersburg,
Florida, after his dad–a veteran of
both world wars–retired from the
Studebaker Corporation and moved
the family far south of their home
outside Philadelphia. A coach on his
high school team had played for the
Tennessee Volunteers and told General
Robert Neyland about young Haslam.
Tennessee’s famed coach convinced the
JAMES A. HASLAM II
youth to come up to Tennessee to watch
the Vols take on Vanderbilt University
and the rest, according to Haslam, is
given to history and pure luck.
“I was seventeen years old,” he says,
laughing heartily from the end of his
expansive conference table at the Pilot
Flying J headquarters in Knoxville. “It’s
“It’s not like I had a game
plan. But General Neyland,
he was a retired army
general. Everything about
him impressed me. I’d
never been away from
home. I came to UT as a
boy and I left as a man.”
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not like I had a game plan. But General
Neyland, he was a retired army general.
Everything about him impressed me. I’d
never been away from home. I came to
UT as a boy and I left as a man. I learned
leadership playing football. I was the first
in my family to go to college, and that
experience, it was good for me.”
To hear him tell it, his time at the
University of Tennessee set into motion
a defined path for which he is grateful.
He sits back in his chair as he speaks and
surveys the room. He wears wire-rimmed
glasses and a plain gold wedding band.
On his wrist is an inexpensive black and
orange Ironman watch. When he moves,
he’s jaunty. There’s the hint of age of
course–at eighty-three there’s a hitch
when he walks but his head is up and
that smile that has been putting people
at ease for decades is easily in place. He
greets visitors with claps on the back and
firm hand shakes.
Haslam explains how, between
practices and bowl games and the rigors
of coursework in the business college
pursuing a major in finance that he
says he chose on a whim, he learned
much more at Tennessee than just how
to block and tackle. He learned time
management, the principles of business,
and a great deal about leadership.
“You go to college to get prepared
for life,” says Haslam. “That’s why
you go to school instead of only taking
courses on the Internet. You learn
how to interact with people. That’s
integral to business and to your life. You
have to interact with your professors,
the administration, and your fellow
A legacy: entrepreneur and philanthropist*
James A. Haslam II built Pilot Flying J from humble beginnings into the nation’s largest truck stop chain, and philanthropy permeates this
journey from its earliest days. Pilot Flying J continues that spirit today, providing employees a full day off per year for volunteer service.
1958 Jim Haslam opens
first Pilot in Gate City, VA,
paying $6,000 for an
existing location.
1965 Marathon Oil Co. buys
half of the $2-million-a-year
Pilot and loans it $4 million to
build new locations.
1973 Pilot has more than 50
stations and annual sales of
about $30 million.
1976 Pilot opens first
convenience store on Alcoa
Highway in Knoxville.
1976 Haslam becomes
1988 Pilot buys out Marathon
1977 Pilot buys Lonas Oil
1991-1993 Haslam becomes
Chairman of the Chancellor’s
Associates.
Co. in Knoxville.
1980 Haslam becomes a
member of the UT Board
of Trustees.
1981 With 100 convenience
stores and total annual sales
of $175 million, Pilot opens
its first travel center in
Corbin, KY.
Oil’s one-half interest for
cash and stores.
vice chair of the UT Board of
Trustees.
1997 Pilot ranks 99th on Forbes
list of the 500 largest privately
held companies.
1998 Already the nation’s largest
supplier of diesel fuel to overthe-road trucks, Pilot ranks as
the 25th largest restaurant
franchisee in the US.
2003 Pilot acquires Williams
Travel Centers.
2004 Haslam receives the
Distinguished Alumnus Award,
from the UT College of
Business Administration.
2005-2011 Haslam chairs the
statewide Campaign for Tennessee.
2006 Pilot goes international,
opening its first travel center
in Canada.
2008 Haslam Scholars
program begins.
At right: Haslam while a football player at The
University of Tennessee; A 1959 Pilot gas station.
students. And you have to do that well if
you’re going to be a leader. You have to
set high standards for yourself and high
goals, and be accountable for those.”
CALCULATED RISK
He stresses that being a leader, a
successful one, does not mean shying
away from failure or risk. It’s another
lesson he learned from General Neyland
in 1952, when he was captain of the
Volunteers, and one he says was driven
home for him after college. Haslam left
the university and went straight to the
Korean conflict, where he led a battalion
of men as a first lieutenant. He came
off of active duty and turned down both
a job in the new media of television (“I
didn’t know if TV was going to make
it. So I called that one, didn’t I?”)
and a high school football coaching
opportunity (“They wanted me for
spring practice but I wouldn’t get paid
until school started in August. I had a
boy at home and a wife so that wasn’t
going to add up!”).
He took a chance on an offer to
sell wholesale petroleum products,
a business he knew nothing about,
because the pay started immediately
and the owner wanted someone with
a business degree. He recalls that his
football pedigree also helped land
the position for him since the owner
hoped a former Vol might be able
to find common ground with local
businessmen who followed the team’s
many winning seasons.
In 1958, Haslam put his newfound
experience and his finance degree to
good use when he took another gamble
by purchasing his first gas station in
Gate City, Virginia, for the bargain
price of $6,000.
“I stopped in and the guy wasn’t
selling any gas. He was just selling
cigarettes and snacks, and I said,
‘Why don’t you just sell this place to
me?’ He asked me for $10,000 and I
offered him six. And he said, ‘Can you
close on Monday?’”
The decades spent building Pilot
Flying J into a highly successful business
have involved some trial and a fair
amount of error, which is as it should be
according to the veteran businessman.
General Neyland taught him that the
team with the fewest mistakes wins. It’s
a lesson he feels today’s millennials
would do well to learn. “General Neyland
taught us that you’re going to make
mistakes. If you don’t make mistakes,
you haven’t played the game.
2009 James A. Haslam II
Business Building named.
2013 Natalie L. Haslam Music
2010 Pilot Flying J created.
2014 UT names its college
2010 Haslam becomes a lifetime
member of the UT College of
Business Administration’s Dean’s
Advisory Council.
Center is dedicated.
of business the James
A. Haslam II College
of Business.
*Compiled from Pilot Flying J
and UT websites and materials.
You can’t be afraid. You make mistakes
and you learn from them.”
He recalls a day many years ago when
a banker friend helping him scout a new
Pilot location questioned why Haslam
always placed his gas pumps parallel
to the road. He sits back and laughs at
himself and the memory. “I said,
‘Well, that’s the way we’ve
always done it,’ and
he said, ‘Haslam,
you’re confusing
experience with
bad habits.’”
Today, pumps
at Pilot Flying J
locations are
perpendicular to
the highway, allowing
patrons to pull their
vehicles right up
alongside a
pump upon
turning in
off the
highway,
allowing
for easier
entry and exit
by multiple cars.
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No greater impact
Dean Mangum on How
the Haslam gift will benefit
the College of Business
This wonderful investment in the college by the Haslam
family provides us with needed resources to advance a
number of key strategic priorities within the college. The
naming of the college also provides an opportunity for the
college to leverage the gift through additional investments
from other donors and through reallocation of existing
college and university funds.
We are a human capital organization. While a number
of factors contribute significantly to our success, nothing
is more fundamental than our ability to attract, support,
and retain top-notch faculty and to attract, educate, and
provide career management support to high quality
students.
The recently announced gift from the Haslam Family
directly supports these most critical success factors.
Specifically, this gift will make it possible for us to:
• Invest in additional faculty capability and capacity,
through the hiring of a handful of additional
prominent faculty.
• Increase our competiveness in retaining high
performing, nationally visible faculty who operate
in a national or international labor market and whose
services would attract interest from a number of high
quality academic institutions.
• Seek out and attract additional high quality, high
potential students who might not otherwise consider
the University of Tennessee in their educational plans.
In sum, by strengthening our ability to better attract
the two primary contributing factors to success—the best
of faculty and students—this gift will be transformational
in moving the college forward in the accomplishment
of its primary goal of being a widely-acknowledged Top
25 public business school. It will empower and assist the
college in producing the mix of intellectual and programmatic impacts associated with such status.
Friends in business and in his personal life assert that
his ability to both laugh at himself and learn from others
have helped Haslam be successful. Hank Bertelkamp
(HCB, ’53), chairman of Bertelkamp Automation, Inc.,
has spent many years in the company of his friend. From
pick up games when they were football and basketball
team captains together at the university, to their children
and grandchildren’s little league games, Bertelkamp says
his friend has remained the model of a servant leader.
“He never speaks ill of people, he just doesn’t,” says
Bertelkamp. “He loves to tease and get teased. He’s a bit
of a cut up. But he is honest, and he really wants things to
be done well and to be done right. In my opinion, there is
no one that has made a greater impact on this community
than Jim Haslam.”
Bertelkamp points to Haslam’s work with United
Way, and his many leadership roles with fundraising
campaigns and various charitable boards. A natural
salesman, Haslam’s ability to put other donors at ease
and help them see why giving is important is unmatched
according to his friend of more than six decades.
“Look at what he has done for the university,” says
Bertelkamp. “He’s doing a lot to show other people that
might have similar financial situations or talents that they
need to get on board for the good of UT and the whole
state. He’s not doing it for personal accolades. He does a
great deal more that you and I don’t even know about.”
For the love of family
Haslam exemplifies the principle “Family first.” Ann
Bailey recalls that the sudden death of their mother,
Cynthia, to a stroke when she and her siblings were teens
and young adults, reinforced his character and brought
them yet closer. “What we went through with the death
of Mom–he was our nurturer. He kept us together,” she
says. “He’s been the rock of our family, always. He is very
involved with his children and his grandchildren. He is
always there when we need him.”
On the day of the dedication ceremony for the Haslam
College of Business in November 2014, Haslam waves
several times to his great-grandson Wyatt, a preschooler
who sits in the crowd of hundreds as the representative of
four generations of the family his great-grandfather cherishes.
His daughter, his sons, his wife, Natalie, her three daughters, and his many grandchildren surround Haslam. Theirs
is a family built on decades of work, shaped by sacrifice
and by, as he might say, fewer failures than successes.
When the balloons have dropped and the photographers have gone, Haslam steps off the stage still smiling
and asks, “Where is my wife?” Pointed in the right
direction, he sets off toward Natalie and the family
he holds so dear.
At right: Balloons drop during the Haslam
College of Business naming ceremony.
This page: Students present Jim Haslam
with a sack full of thank you letters.
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The motor hums.
With a firm grip on the handlebars
and swift pressure against the gas
pedal, the Haslam College of
Business revs its engine and journeys
deeper into the world of research.
Left to right: Matthew B. Shaner, Nastaran Simarasl, Laura
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research takes her to far-flung
locales, including Brazil, Peru, the
Netherlands, and Finland. “Most of my
research focuses on purchasing,” Tate
explains. “I’ve been traveling to many
different countries, trying to gain an
understanding of the differences and
similarities in working with suppliers
and to determine what decision
criteria are being used in assessing
the appropriate geographic location
for manufacturing facilities and supply
bases.” Since she started at UT, she
has developed collaborative research
partnerships in Brazil and many other
regions of the world.
Some of Tate’s other research focuses
on environmental sustainability. “The goal
is to better understand how companies
motivate suppliers to adopt sustainability
initiatives.” This research stream is also
very collaborative and globally focused,
with many opportunities to present
interesting findings and ongoing
research at various academic and
practitioner venues.
For Tate, the financial incentives
are an invaluable help. “The research
awards allow me to travel to work
with academics from other parts
of the world and also to
disseminate my research
in various locales to both
academics and
practitioners.
I am grateful that
UT is supportive
of collaborative
international
supply chain
research.”
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aslam’s faculty and students
are experienced explorers in
the world of innovative thought
leadership, but with the 2014
expansion of the Summer Research
Awards and the Anderson Center’s
Competition for Entrepreneurial
Research, they are receiving increased
recognition for their research
accomplishments.
An emphasis on research links
directly to the college’s mission
statement, says Dean Stephen
Mangum. “We have a two-pronged
mission—creation of knowledge,
which is what research is all about,
and the dissemination of that
knowledge. By supporting research
endeavors, we’re encouraging our
community to push the frontier
of knowledge and communicate
it to a variety of audiences. This
year, we’ve expanded our reward
programs to rival those at Top 25
institutions.”
A research-friendly environment
also fosters a healthy academic
community, says Annette Ranft,
senior associate dean of academic
affairs. “We’re active participants in
scholarship through our research,
and it’s important to note that all of
us, both faculty and students, are
still on the path of learning.”
This year’s Summer Research
Awards and Entrepreneurial
Research Competition winners
represent a wide variety of
disciplines and
academic interests.
Together, they propel
the college forward
toward new boundaries
of knowledge.
An assistant professor
in the Department of Economics,
Marianne Wanamaker explores
the past through her intensive
research. “I’m particularly
interested in family decision
making and education, and the
ways in which government policies
surrounding education impacted
individuals later in their lives,” she
says. Her award-winning research
investigates African-American
economic progress in the 20thcentury American South, with
a focus on how migration and
education influenced long-run
outcomes.
Nastaran Simarasl, a fourthyear doctoral student in strategic
management, studies minority issues
in entrepreneurship. “My general
area of research looks at women
in business,” Simarasl says. “For
the Anderson Center, I’m looking
at how women entrepreneurs
fare in rural Appalachia versus in
urban Atlanta.” A native of Iran,
Simarasl also is motivated to study
the entrepreneurial success of
immigrants to the US. “The most
important aspect of my research is
its application in the real world. I
want to help minority entrepreneurs
face challenges and find success.”
A second-year doctoral student
in management, Laura D’Oria
recently took her research on the
road, presenting at a conference in
Madrid, Spain, in September. “I’m
looking at entrepreneurial intentions
at the top management team level
inside corporations—and how those
intentions can be translated into
behaviors,” D’Oria says.
Assistant Professor of
Accounting James Chyz delves
into the impact of income tax
on business decisions with his
research. “We’re trying to find
scenarios where corporations can
“I get very excited
when I see new
talent coming
through our doors.
They’re revving
up for the future
of our research
success.”
—ANNETTE RANFT
pass on costs to their customers
and avoid the effort and resources
it takes to push their effective tax
rates down,” Chyz says. “It’s one
of the first studies in our discipline
that looks at the impact of
fundamental demand forces on tax
policy choices.” He’s also enjoyed
collaborating with a few doctoral
students on another tax-related
research project. “We want to see
if we can determine how income
taxes impact professional sports,”
he says. “Reliable data is hard to
come by in this area, so we’ve had
to look carefully and put in a lot of
effort.”
Ramon DeGennaro, professor
of banking and finance, also
focuses on an area where quality
data is sparse. “I’m interested
in small-firm finance because so
many economic theories break
down with small firms, and almost
all of the data we have are poor,”
DeGennaro says. “For this study,
I’m specifically looking at repeat
investors: those who have cashed
out on their first angel investment,
for better or for worse, and want to
try again.”
Associate professor Tracie
Woidtke’s research embraces
the challenges faced by larger
corporations. “I primarily focus
on institutional investors such
as public pension funds or labor
union funds, finding out whether
institutions that are lobbying
the SEC for greater rights for
shareholders are having any impact
on corporate governance and
decision-making.”
Other faculty members and
students among this year’s award
winners include Nawar Chaker,
Jason A. Strickling, Bobby Mee,
and Christian Vossler. They
represent all six Haslam College of
Business departments and cover
an impressive array of research
areas. “These individuals are
assisting greatly in our journey
to the Top 25,” Mangum says.
“We are grateful for the support
of alumni donors to make these
awards possible. The most critical
investments made in this kind of
organization are those that reward
and attract quality faculty members
and students.”
The college’s leadership hopes
that the Summer Research Awards
and Entrepreneurship Grants
programs continue to expand
in the coming years. “We’d love
to have so many faculty doing
impactful research that it strains
our resources to award them all,”
says Mangum.
Ranft agrees, noting that many
of the newer faculty members are
carrying the torch of research
into the college’s future. “A
significant portion of our faculty
are new hires,” she says. “I get
very excited when I see new
talent coming through our doors.
They’re revving up for the future
of our research success.”
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Competition for
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Research Winner
A
fourth-year doctoral
student in the Department
of Marketing and Supply Chain,
Matthew Shaner’s research
targets a unique area of
entrepreneurship. “I’m looking
at this phenomenon called the
co-creation of innovation—
essentially where companies are
soliciting and polling customers
to come up with ideas for
new products.” Overseen by
faculty member Charles Noble,
Shaner’s dissertation research
focuses on a New York-based
company that only produces
products suggested by potential
customers. He performs a series
of experiments where individuals
evaluate the new concepts.
“I have sales data on some of
the products, so I want to see
if, presented with a host of ideas,
the test subjects can distinguish
the products with sales potential
from the ones destined to fail.”
By exploring ways co-creation
could work, Shaner is helping
to solve practical business
problems. “Right now, many
co-creation companies are
failing outright. What
are they doing wrong,
and how
could they
make it
work? That’s
what I want to
uncover.”
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Thirty-five high school students
learned about office etiquette,
personal finance, the business
world, and potential careers at
the seventh annual Business
Education for Talented Students
(BETS) summer camp program.
This year’s participants were
rising seniors with at least a
3.75 grade point average who
were nominated by counselors
or community members. The
students represented twentyeight high schools and seventeen cities.
Haslam undergraduates Sarah
Hallm, Jessica Burchfield, Max
Waibel, Olga Lavrinovich, Bailey
Webb, Patrick Clarke, Magan
Berman, and Ricka Mitchell
A group of rising seniors spent
forty-five days of their summer
vacation bicycling from Los
Angeles, California, to Savannah, Georgia, to raise awareness
about human trafficking and
money to fight modern-day slavery. The Freedom Cyclers team
included accounting majors
Jason Elliott, Taylor Carlisle, and
Jeff Maier, and Matthew Roelofs,
a public relations major.
The Alpha Lambda chapter of
Beta Alpha Psi has been recognized by its parent organization
as an internationally Superior
Chapter for its excellence in
academics, professionalism,
and leadership.
GLS student Sammie Herold has
been named one of five finalists
for the Womenetics 2014
Advancing Aspirations Global
Scholarship. The scholarship
promotes the global advancement of women and encourages
future leaders to think critically
about the business issues affecting women today.
T. Boone Pickens, American
business magnate and financier,
participated in a roundtable with
Global Leadership Scholars,
MBA and supply chain doctoral
students, Torch Fund student
managers, Bredesen Center
students, and Chancellor Honors
and Haslam Scholars. Pickens
founded Mesa Petroleum in
1956 and later became famous
for acquiring other oil and gas
companies including Gulf Oil and
Phillips Petroleum. In 1997, he
founded hedge fund BP (Boone
Pickens) Capital Management,
which he chairs today.
The class of 2014 presented Dean
Steve Mangum a check in the
amount of $29,363, closing the
college’s 2014 Senior Impact
Campaign. “We had an aggressive
participation goal of 25 percent
this year,” said Chip Bryant,
executive director of development for the Haslam College of
Business. “Last year’s participation rate was 18.5 percent.” The
class of 2014 exceeded its goal,
with more than 26 percent of
students participating.
ANDERSON CENTER FOR
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
INNOVATION
Winners in the 2014 Spring Vol
Court completion were Dave
Seeman, senior in mechanical
engineering, and Christopher
Saah, junior in mechanical engineering. Seeman won first place
for Willow List, an innovative
gift registry that uses crowdsourcing to fund gifts. Saah’s
Equipped for the
future
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BRAG BOOK
BRIAN RANDOLPH
Business Management
with a Collateral
in Marketing
Whether he’s
tackling an opponent
on the football field
or evaluating market
research in a business
course, Brian Randolph
knows how to excel.
Randolph grew up
near Atlanta, Georgia,
and decided to attend The
University of Tennessee
after a campus visit.
“I was born and raised in
Marietta,” says Randolph.
“I wanted to
find a university
that wasn’t too far away.”
He found what he was looking for
at UT, where the campus culture made
an immediate impression. “I loved the environment
here. I sensed that the professors and students
valued excellence and wanted me to succeed.”
Now a junior with a business management major
and a collateral in marketing, Randolph divides
his time between coursework and football practice.
Armed with a degree from the Haslam College of
Business, he anticipates a range of career choices. “I
chose the combination of business management and
marketing because there are so many options—
you can become an entrepreneur, join a small
company, or work for a corporation.”
Football claims a large fraction of Randolph’s
time, effort, and attention. It’s been this way since
he joined the sport as a third grader. “I’ve played on
a team since I was 13,” he says. “I love it because you
have to work together to succeed, and it creates a
lot of memories.” The 2014 season marks Randolph’s
third as a safety on the UT football team.
Every summer, Randolph joins other members of
the Vols football team for a meaningful community
project. “We work with Habitat for Humanity to
build a house for a family in need, right here in
Knoxville,” Randolph says. It’s an important way to
give back while strengthening the bonds between
teammates as they join forces to help those in need.
When he’s not on the football field or attending
classes, Randolph enjoys a range of activities
including bowling, video games, and fishing. “My
friends and I enjoy trying various fishing spots in
the area,” he says. He doesn’t give away his best
locations but does give a hint. “Most recently, we
drove up to Morristown.”
Randolph hopes to find professional football
in his future. “I definitely want to play at the
next level.” If that doesn’t work out, Randolph’s
business degree equips him for another dream:
returning to the Atlanta area to pursue a career
in pharmaceutical sales.
“I chose the
combination
of business
management
and marketing
because there
are so many
options.”
—Brian Randolph
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company, MyPTshop.com, is a
web application that allows
fitness professionals to start and
manage an e-commerce fitness
shop. The winners receive $1,000
and $500 respectively and
support from mentoring
companies to advance their
business strategies.
The seventh annual
Undergraduate Business Plan
Competition winners were:
Lifestyle Category:
First Place—Christopher Saah
(mechanical engineering) with
MYPTShop.com, a business that
simplifies creating and running
an e-commerce business for
personal trainers.
Second Place—Zach Lee
(hospitality management)
and Ayron Hall (finance),
founders of Southern Gentlemen Charm and Southern Belle
Charm, complementary online
retailers offering a wide array
of high-quality jewelry and
accessories at a $10 price point.
Third Place—It’s About Thyme,
a personal chef service founded
by Andrea Hayes (nutrition),
with the intent to “give time
back” to families while also
ensuring access to healthy,
home cooked meals.
High Growth/
Tech-enabled Category:
First Place—Catalyst Wheels
founded by Justin Clark
(computer science), Nick
McCormick (mechanical
engineering), and Zach
McCormick (economics/
statistics). Catalyst Wheels
has designed, and is having
manufactured, carbon-fiber
wheel covers and interchangeable wheel fairings that
significantly reduce bicycle
equipment expenses for
competitive cyclists.
Second Place—Ben Miller
(business analytics), Andrew
Belt (math/physics), and
Benjamin Brock (computer
science/math) for crypXch, a
company that facilitates the
exchange of cryptocurrencies.
Third Place—Ryan Maginn
(supply chain management),
Wilson Waller (economics),
and Max Wibel (supply chain
management) with The Cloud
Vendor, a company focused on
improving the bottom line
of small to medium-size
companies that manage
vending machines.
BUSINESS ANALYTICS
AND STATISTICS
COURSE HIGHLIGHT
Dr. Hamparsum
Bozdogan’s Statistics
563 Probability and
Mathematical Statistics
class. Graduate students
in fifteen different crossdisciplinary areas from
biochemistry to physics
take this course. Presently
the course has more
than thirty students from
eight different countries
including the US, China,
Iran, South Korea, Ethiopia,
Rwanda, India, and Canada.
The course covers basic
probability theory and
mathematical statistics
but integrates the theory
with the student’s application areas so that they
attain a working knowledge
of how to handle statistical problems in their own
research domains.
Case Competition, hosted by
the University of Alabama. This
was a live, strategic competition
in which the students had less
than twenty-four hours to solve
a business problem and develop
a plan. All fourteen Southeastern Conference universities
participated. Congratulations to
Joseph Lammers, Whit Shofner,
Rachel Hylton and Rachel McGill.
The Grads to Golf program,
created by the Executive
Women’s Golf Association,
graduated its first class of
University of Tennessee MBA
students (above). The six-week
program featured a series of
female guest speakers from the
business and golf industries and
will be launched nationwide in
December.
FINANCE
Chelsea LeRoy received the
Phillip Fulmer Masters Investment
Learning Center Scholarship for
students majoring in finance
and working in the Masters
Investment Learning Center.
The learning center promotes
financial literacy on campus and
in the broader community.
GRADUATE AND EXECUTIVE
EDUCATION (GEE)
The full-time MBA program
participated in the second
Southeastern Conference MBA
George Frazier, Jonathan Blair,
Korri Jones, and Varick Tucker
represented the college at the
National Black MBA Association
annual case competition in Atlanta.
This competition, sponsored by
Chrysler, is an annual event during which students present their
analysis and recommendations
on real world problems. Team
coaches are Dr. Randy Bradley
and Dr. Bogdan Bichescu.
MANAGEMENT
The student chapter of the
Society for Human Resource
Management (SHRM) was
named the most outstanding
chapter worldwide, according
to its parent organization. This
is the third consecutive year the
chapter has been recognized
with the honor. Shea Lowe
was awarded an undergraduate scholarship and Christiana
Goode a graduate scholarship
from SHRM.
Doctoral candidate Nastaran
Simarasl won third place in
the prestigious Global
Development Awards and
Medals Competition, earning
a medal and $5,000 to fund
research. Global Development
Network, an international
organization funded by the
Japanese government to build
research capability globally,
sponsored the competition.
The UT Student Management
Society made a donation of
$2,175 to Mobile Meals from its
spring fundraising campaign.
The donation was enough to
pay for 640 meals.
MARKETING AND SUPPLY
CHAIN MANAGEMENT
One year later, Rocky Top
Drinkware, a GLS Supply Chain
and Marketing group project by
Liza Reineri, Georgia Ralston,
and Andrew Curry is now for sale
in all Vol Shop locations.
Merchandise includes mason jars,
wine glasses, and pint glasses.
A team of Haslam supply chain
students won the sixth annual
Intermodal Association of North
America (IANA) Logistics &
Supply Chain Management Case
Competition, hosted by the
University of North Florida. The
team members were seniors
Corey Patton and Xiaofan
Wang, and Heidi Faust and
Andrew Currey, Global Leadership Scholar juniors. Eight of
the major logistics/supply chain
schools competed.
Max Waibel, Kelly Hall,
Katherine Hutcheson, and
Martin Leamon participated in
the inaugural Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad (BNSF)
Supply Chain Management
Undergraduate Case Competition. Of the four teams who
participated in this invitationonly event, Waibel, who entered
as a solo member team, came in
first place, while Hall, Hutcheson,
and Leamon came in second.
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A Flair for
business
DESTINY SIRIVONG
Marketing with
a Collateral in
International Business
Jazz music echoes in the studio as
dancers’ feet fly across the floor. Destiny Sirivong
jumps, spins, and moves in synch to the upbeat
melody, executing a masterful pattern of steps
along with other members of the Boss Dance
Company, a student-organized campus society.
After cheering at sports games in her hometown
of Antioch, Tennessee, for much of her childhood,
Sirivong discovered the world of dance during her
freshman year at the University of Tennessee. She
auditioned for Strange Fruit Dance Company, a
troupe in Knoxville. “Unexpectedly, I discovered
a passion for it,” says Sirivong, who joined Boss
Dance Company this year. Both groups include
an array of dance types including contemporary,
jazz, hip hop, and tap. This year, she spends time
on the dance floor with Boss and applies her
organizational savvy as a choreographer for
Strange Fruit.
A senior in marketing with a collateral in
international business and a minor in tourism and
hospitality, Sirivong excels as an event planner and
marketer. She joined Alpha Kappa Psi Professional
Business Fraternity as a freshman, where hands-on
experience helped her find her niche. “I became
part of their marketing team, and I adored the
chance to express my creativity,” she says. Because
of those firsthand experiences, Sirivong decided to
major in marketing.
Her fascination with other cultures inspired
her to choose a collateral in international business.
“Eventually, I’d love to work in international business
at a large corporation,” she says. Sirivong’s tourism
and hospitality minor reflects her interest in event
planning, honed by participation in several hospitalitybased campus programs, including Student Alumni
Associates. “We’re official hosts for UT’s chancellor
and president, and we continually work to improve
relationships with alumni,” she says. “I have an eye
for detail and I enjoy the planning process, which
culminates with putting all that hard work on display.”
Other student and university organizations that
benefit from Sirivong’s participation include the UT
Lead Summer Institute, Haslam College of Business
Ambassadors Program, and Minority Enhancement
for the University of Tennessee, where she serves as
a team captain. “We recruit multicultural students
from high schools across the region and invite them
to a preview weekend on campus,” says Sirivong.
“It’s exciting to interact and share my love for UT
with prospective students.”
As she prepares to complete her undergraduate
career, Sirivong reflects with gratitude on her years at
UT. “My professors and fellow students are highly
motivated and driven toward success but supportive
of each other’s endeavors. I’m very blessed that I can
go to school with people who want to better the
university and who make time to help others.”
“I’m very blessed
that I can go to
school with people
who want to better
the university and
who make time
to help others”
—DESTINY SIRIVONG
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Each year we are priviledged to welcome new faculty who bring new
energy to our beloved college. In the fall we welcomed this prestigious
group that hails from the US and abroad, each member of which brings
a unique and highly valued skill set.
Michel Ballings joined the
Department of Business Analytics
and Statistics this fall as an
assistant professor. Applying his
interest in machine learning and
predictive analytics for social media,
he completed his dissertation,
“Advances and Applications in
Ensemble Learning,” in April 2014
at Ghent University in Belgium.
Ballings teaches marketing
analytics, focusing on predictive
analytics related to customer
acquisition, retention, and
development. His course combines
statistics, programming, and
functional marketing knowledge,
equipping students to distill data
into valuable insights.
Lauren (Dreher)
Cunningham received her
doctorate in accounting from the
University of Arkansas. A licensed
Certified Public Accountant,
she joined the Department of
Accounting and Information
Management this year as an
assistant professor. Prior to
obtaining her PhD, Cunningham
worked as an audit manager
with Grant Thornton, LLP in
Dallas, specializing in the real
estate and technology industries.
Her research interests include
auditor characteristics, corporate
governance, and the financial
reporting process. Cunningham
teaches audit and assurance services
to both undergraduate and graduate
students.
Clockwise from top left: Haileab Hilafu,
Michel Ballings, Alex Rodrigues, Erin
Henry, Lauren (Dreher) Cunningham,
Eric Kelley, and Alex R. Zablah (center).
Erin Henry became an assistant
professor in the Department of
Accounting and Information
Management this fall after earning
her doctorate in accounting from the
University of Connecticut. Henry is
a Certified Public Accountant and
holds a master’s in taxation from the
University of Memphis. She also is an
appointed research economist for the
Internal Revenue Service’s Statistics
of Income division. Her research
interests include the capital market
implications of tax reporting and the
impact of tax policy on firm behavior.
Haileab Hilafu earned his
master’s in statistics in 2011 and his
doctorate in May 2014, both from the
University of Georgia. He joined the
and Statistics this fall as an assistant
professor. Hilafu’s research interests
include statistical analysis of large
and high-dimensional data sets and
statistical computing, with the goal
of developing statistical methods and
applications for dimension reduction,
visualization, classification, and
cluster analysis. He teaches statistics
to both undergraduate and graduate
students.
Eric Kelley joined the Department
of Finance as an associate professor
after eight years on the University
of Arizona faculty. Kelley earned a
doctorate in finance from Texas A&M
University and a master’s in finance
from Texas Tech University. His
current research focuses on issues in
empirical asset pricing and market
microstructure, with particular
emphasis on how information is
incorporated into prices. Kelley
has taught a variety of courses at
the undergraduate, master’s, and
doctoral levels.
department
& faculty NEWS
NEW FACULTY
Alex Rodrigues received
his doctorate in Supply Chain
Management in 2004 at Michigan
State University. Since 2009, he
has been a professor of supply
chain management at the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro. This
fall, Rodrigues joined the UT
Department of Marketing and
Supply Chain Management as
a lecturer. His research interest
areas are global logistics strategy
and operations, humanitarian
logistics, supply chain disruptions,
inventory strategy and deployment,
and empirical and theoretical
modeling of supply chains.
Alex R. Zablah obtained
his doctorate in business
administration from Georgia
State University. He joins the
Department of Marketing and
Supply Chain Management as an
associate professor of marketing
after serving in the same capacity
at Oklahoma State University and
George Mason University. His
research explores manageriallyoriented questions within the
marketing strategy domain. His
primary area of expertise is on the
customer-employee interface in
sales and service contexts. Zablah
has taught marketing management,
marketing research, and businessto-business marketing courses.
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department
& faculty NEWS
News from the faculty, departments, centers, and
programs of the Haslam College of Business.
COLLEGE-WIDE
Excellence in oversight
About the SEC’s Investor
Advisory Committee
The 21-person advisory
committee, established in 2010,
makes recommendations to the
SEC as it seeks to protect investors,
promote investor confidence and
integrity in the securities marketplace, and maintain fair, orderly,
and efficient markets.
Committee members include
senior financial institution
executives, institutional investors,
investor advocacy groups, law
professors, and former SEC
commissioners.
Senior associate dean and
Reagan Professor of Business,
Annette Ranft, is the new vice
president and program chair
elect for the Southern Management Association (SMA).
SMA, a domestic affiliate of the
Academy of Management, has
more than 1,200 management
professors, doctoral students,
and executives representing
greater than 200 colleges,
universities, and business firms
in forty-three states and more
than 30 countries.
Sharon Edwards, CFO of Willis,
became the first Executive in
Residence speaker of the year.
Executive in Residence is a joint
program sponsored by Global
Leader Scholars and the MBA
programs.
About Joseph V. Carcello
Carcello is the EY and Business
Alumni Professor and head of the
Department of Accounting and
Information Management in UT’s
Haslam College of Business. He
also is executive director of the UT
Neel Corporate Governance Center.
Carcello has been an expert
witness for the SEC. He currently
serves on the Investor Advisory
Group of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board, which
advises on investors’ issues.
Associate dean and Sarah Ellen
Skinner Professor in Management Lane Morris was selected
as one of forty-nine SEC representatives for the 2014-15 SEC
Academic Leadership Development Program. Established
in 2008, the SEC Academic
Leadership Development
Program identifies, prepares,
fosters, and advances academic
leadership. It allows SEC faculty
the unique opportunity to address academic and administrative challenges at major SEC
research universities.
C. WARREN NEEL
CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE CENTER
The Warren Neel Corporate
Governance Center Distinguished
Speaker Series welcomed
Governor Bill Haslam to
speak on the difference between
public and corporate leadership. The governor encouraged
students to find a public service
model that works for them and
to involve themselves in public
service either by running for
office or actively supporting a
candidate.
ACCOUNTING
AND INFORMATION
MANAGMENT (AIM)
Joe Carcello, EY and Business
Alumni Professor, was named
to the Securities and Exchange
Commission’s Investor Advisory
Committee. He is the only business school professor appointed
to the committee of twenty-one.
(See sidebar at left.)
Jan Williams, dean
and professor emeritus,
received the Academy
of Strategic and Entrepreneurial Leadership’s John J.
Fernandes Strategic Leadership
Award. The award is presented
to a dean, provost, president,
or other senior academic leader
who models significant, successful leadership. ANDERSON CENTER FOR
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND INNOVATION
Bill Fox has been chosen
as the recipient of the
Ergen Professorship. The
Ergen Professorship was
established with a gift from
Charlie and Candy Ergen of
Denver, Colorado, founders
of Dish Network.
Rhonda Reger was appointed
director of research for the
Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
CONSTRUCTION
INDUSTRY RESEARCH
AND POLICY CENTER
The UT Construction Industry
Research and Policy Center
received $20,000 from Amerisure Insurance Company
to fund projects related to
reducing workplace injuries and
fatalities. Amerisure provides
workers’ compensation and
general liability insurance for
construction contractors.
FINANCE
Laura Cole, senior
lecturer and director
of the Master’s Investment Learning Center,
has been selected by the
Greater Knoxville Business
Journal as one of Knoxville’s
“40 Under 40,” a program
that highlights Knoxville’s
future leaders in business
and the community.
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& faculty NEWS
FACULTY FOCUS
On the Move
With forceful grace, Haileab
Hilafu kicks a soccer ball across the field,
sending opponents and teammates scurrying.
He makes it look easy but he’s had a lot of
practice. As a young boy in the small African
nation of Eritrea, Hilafu was constantly on
the move. He competed in long-distance
running events and played on the soccer
team at school. Now an assistant professor in
UT’s Department of Business Analytics and
Statistics, Hilafu still indulges a passion for the
sport, playing on a recreational team several
times a week. “I never quit soccer,” he says,
smiling.
Hilafu never quit mathematics, either.
“As a child, I liked solving math problems
and intended to major in math as an
undergraduate,” he says. His fascination with
numbers and patterns took a new turn when
he learned about the field of statistics. “One
of my childhood friends studied geographical
information systems and took some statistics
classes. He suggested I try a statistics course to
see if I liked it, and I did.”
Exposure to statistics deepened Hilafu’s
interest in math. “I realized I could use math
to solve practical problems,” he explains.
“That’s an important element for me.” He
also was interested in job opportunities in the
field. Eritrea had recently opened a National
Statistics Center, and Hilafu dreamed of
working there until he decided to change the
direction of his career—a change that would
take him across a continent and an ocean.
“I realized that I could go overseas to further
my education,” he says. “After taking the
necessary exams in Eritrea, I applied and
gained admission and a graduate assistantship
at the University of Georgia.”
In 2009, Hilafu relocated to Georgia and
began his graduate studies. He earned both
his master’s and doctoral degrees in statistics,
graduating in 2014. “I started applying for
a job in October 2013, and I interviewed at
UT in December,” he says. “I had multiple
options but I saw that the department at
UT is thriving, and I wanted to be part of it.
I also appreciated the focus on using data
analytics to address real challenges that
businesses face.” With his specialization in high-dimensional
data analysis, Hilafu is still on the move at UT,
conducting valuable research and teaching
students to solve real-world problems.
HAILEAB HILAFU
Department of Business
Analytics and Statistics
“I had multiple
options but I saw
that the department
at UT is thriving,
and I wanted to be
part of it.”
—HAILEAB HILAFU
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Supply Chain program ranked
by Gartner and U.S. News & World Report
A consulting company with a detailed approach, Gartner evaluates supply chain
management programs in terms of scope, size, and industry value. U.S. News
& World Report bases its rankings on program reputation. In 2014, UT’s supply
chain program proudly emerged with a No. 3 ranking in both contests.
A Steady Climb
With sure steps and perfect balance,
the Department of Marketing
and Supply Chain Management is
climbing the ladder of success.
According to 2014 reports from
industry giant Gartner, UT’s supply
chain management program ranks
at No. 3 nationally. U.S. News &
World Report rated the supply
chain program fourth nationally
and third among publics. The
industry-specific Gartner report
placed UT’s program at third
place in both undergraduate and
graduate categories, seven slots
higher than last year’s No. 10
ranking. “Gartner considers three
areas in its report: program scope,
industry value, and program size,”
explains Shay Scott, managing
director of UT’s Global Supply
Chain Institute. “We fared well this
year in all three categories.”
An emphasis on sharing
information has helped propel the
department toward greater heights,
Scott says. “We’ve created a hub
of knowledge with open lines of
communication between faculty,
students, and the advisory board—
which includes the majority of
Gartner’s top 25 supply chain
companies. We offer a portfolio
of solutions, helping to draw new
students and industry partners
into our network.”
Faculty members, including
department head Mark Moon,
affirm the numbers as important
signals of success. “The rankings
are indicative of our program’s
achievements, and they will help
to drive future success by giving
us more exposure,” says Moon.
Earning high marks from both
outlets will generate interest from
different sources, he explains.
“The U.S. News rankings tend to
influence students and parents,
attracting more high quality
applicants, whereas Gartner
rankings will influence industries,
garnering more corporate partners
and recruiters.”
“The rankings are
indicative of our
program’s achievements,
and they will help to
drive future success by
giving us more exposure.”
—Mark Moon
A Broad Approach
to Success
Although the stellar rankings
created a celebratory spirit in the
department, they didn’t come as
a tremendous surprise to faculty
members who have worked tirelessly
to improve the program. Moon
credits recent curriculum changes
for the jump. “When we shifted from
marketing and logistics to marketing
and supply chain management three
years ago, we began a significant
redesign of undergraduate and
graduate programs, incorporating
all aspects of supply chain
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management and delivering
much more content to students.”
Moon says the information
hub Scott refers to stems from
the faculty’s conscious effort.
“We’ve created this vision
that we call demand-supply
integration, seeing demand and
supply in the same picture,” he
says. “By combining marketing
and supply chain in a single
department, we stand out from
other programs.”
UT’s Global Supply Chain
Institute is another reason for
the high rankings, says executive
director Paul Dittmann. “These
forum members represent large
corporations such as Wal-Mart,
Amazon, and IBM,” he says. “We
consistently ask them how we can
improve the program and make
it more relevant. Their advice is
valuable, and they’ve spread the
word about the quality of our
program.”
While this year’s rankings
foretell a bright future, Dittmann
recognizes that the department
must continue to move forward
to keep pace with the everchanging world of supply chain
management. “We keep raising the
bar on ourselves because our field
is getting broader and broader,”
says Dittmann. “It’s amazing
because when I started it was
trucks and warehouses. Now it’s
end-to-end business strategies.”
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& faculty NEWS
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Ramon P. DeGennaro,
professor of banking and
finance, produced an
eighteen-lecture course,
“How the Stock Market
Works,” for the Great
Courses Company.
News from Global Supply
Chain Institute studies
The Effect of Outside Risks
on Supply Chains
Outside risks can stretch supply chains’
capabilities to the breaking point, but
executives who run them often fail to develop
risk contingency plans, according to a study
from the Global Supply Chain Institute.
Ninety percent of the firms surveyed do
not measure supply chain risk when outsourcing production, and none use outside
expertise to help assess supply chain risks,
according to the study.
Among other findings, the research
determined that
normal day-to-day
challenges of doing
business—unexpected
delays, cybersecurity,
90%
of FIRMS DO NOT
MEASURE SUPPLY
CHAIN RISK.
supplier failures and
warehouse shortages—often overwhelm
executives, giving them little if any time to
plan for major interruptions such as natural
disasters or geopolitical disruptions. Managing day-to-day challenges becomes a barrier
to the ability of supply chain professionals
to prepare comprehensive plans for risk
identification, prioritization, and mitigation.
The report, “Managing Risk in the Global
Supply Chain,” was sponsored by UPS
Capital Corporation.
Deborah Harrell,
investments professor,
earned the Sharon
Miller Pryse/Trust
Company of Knoxville
Outstanding Finance
faculty award.
Kathy Price retired as an
administrative specialist after
spending nine years in the
department.
Jeannie Goodman, who has
been in the Department of
Management since 2011, has
stepped into the position.
Tom Boehm is now the
Goodner Professor of Finance.
The professorship is generously
supported through the estate
of David Coleman.
Debbie Mackey was
selected as the 2014
National Faculty
Advisor of the Year by the Society for Human
Resource Management (SHRM)
and also awarded the society’s
highest honor, the James
House Williams Award. The
award recognizes her as the
top human resource
professional in the state. MARKETING
AND SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
The Global Supply Chain
Institute conducted a study
on the influence of outside
risks on supply chain performance. (See sidebar at left.)
MANAGEMENT
Russell Crook, along with
co-authors David Ketchen
(Auburn University) and
Christopher Craighead
(Penn State University),
suggests that 3D printing
and other changes have
pushed modern-day supply
chains to the threshold of a
revolution—the rise of “supply
ecosystems.” In their Journal
of Business Logistics article
titled “From Supply Chains
to Supply Ecosystems:
Implications for Strategic
Sourcing Research and
Practice,” the authors describe
how the interactions and
interdependencies within
supply chains parallel
biological ecosystems
where organisms, such as
plants, compete for scarce
resources like water.
Michael J. Stahl is the recipient
of the new Jerry and Kay Henry
Endowed Professorship.
Chad Autry was promoted
to full professor.
Chad Autry, John Bell, and
Bill Rose had their article
“Reconsidering the Supply
Chain Integration-Performance
Relationship: In Search of
Theoretical Consistency and
Clarity,” accepted in the
Journal of Business Logistics.
Randy Bradley, John Bell, Ben
Hazen (UT research affiliate),
and Brian Fugate (a UT alum
now on faculty at Colorado
State) had their paper “Logistics
Information System Evaluation:
Assessing External Technology
Integration and Supporting
department
& faculty NEWS
FACULTY FOCUS
AT HOME IN KNOXVILLE
Constant activity surrounds the
picturesque Fort Sanders home of accounting
professor Erin Henry and her family. Along with
her husband, John, and their two young sons, Eli
(2) and John Ross (6 months), she appreciates
their close proximity to campus and downtown.
“We love piling our kids into the stroller and
taking them to Market Square or World’s Fair
Park on the weekends,” Henry says. “We spent a
lot of time at the splash pad this summer.”
The family relocated in May after Henry
earned her doctorate from the University of
Connecticut. A Memphis native, she set her sights
on Knoxville as a first-year doctoral student.
“When I arrived at UConn, one of my advisors
asked, ‘What’s your dream job?’ and I said, ‘I
want to be a professor at UT.’”
Henry’s dream became reality when the
university offered her a faculty position in the
Department of Accounting and Information Management this year. “My husband and I knew this
would be a great place to raise a family,” she says.
The road to this destination had a few forks
near the beginning. As a young student, Henry
did not discover her passion for accounting
immediately. “I started my undergraduate career
in electrical engineering at Mississippi State
University but quickly realized that the field
didn’t match my personality.” Henry transferred
to the university’s accounting program, where
she found her calling. “In my first accounting
class, I felt an immediate sense of relief,” she
recalls. “I knew I belonged in this discipline.”
Since then, she hasn’t looked back.
A first generation college graduate and the
first member of her family to enter graduate
school, she completed her masters at the
University of Memphis while working full-time
as a CPA. In 2009, she began her doctorate at
UConn. “I kept going, and that’s a big deal to
my family,” she says.
Henry shares her love for accounting with
her husband, a fellow CPA. “John and I met
on my first day of work at an accounting firm
in Memphis.” She saw him on the elevator,
wondered who he was, and soon discovered
that they shared a workspace. “My desk was
right beside his cubicle.”
As a faculty member and mom to two
young children, Henry says she lacks time for
many personal hobbies but enjoys the variety
of fun events offered in her new town. “We do
love going out to eat and attending bluegrass
and indie music events,” Henry says. “Knoxville
is an ideal place to pursue both of those
interests.”
ERIN HENRY
Department of
Accounting
and Information
Management
“ . . . one of my
advisors asked,
‘What’s your dream
job?’ and I said
‘I want to be a
professor at UT.’”
—ERIN HENRY
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department
& faculty NEWS
New Name,
New Frontiers
From Department of Statistics, Operations,
and Management Science to the Department
of Business Analytics and Statistics
department
& faculty NEWS
Digital information instantly traverses continents and oceans. Companies can
track customer activity like never before, producing huge amounts of data. Interpreting that
data into practical results that can drive corporate decision-making is the primary focus
of a developing field known as business analytics. In response to the burgeoning demand
for analysts and interpreters, the Department of Statistics, Operations, and Management
Science has adopted a fresh title: the Department of Business Analytics and Statistics.
T
he department’s new moniker reflects a curriculum change
and a trend toward discipline integration, both of which
have been in progress for several years. “In 2010, we were the first
college of business to create an analytics program,” says former
department head Kenneth Gilbert. “From the start, we aspired to
make it the best.”
Faculty members also created an atmosphere of open communication. “Although the management science program joined statistics a decade ago, the two remained separate on a practical level,”
department head Chuck Noon explains. “Faculty members’ offices
were on different floors, and our degree programs were essentially
distinct.” Five years ago, that changed. “We moved onto the same
floor and became much more integrated.”
Curriculum That Connects
Because faculty members are connected with corporate leaders
via the Business Analytics Forum, important curriculum decisions
are based on the needs of prospective employers in a digital era.
“In general, there’s a move toward data-driven decision making,”
says Noon. “The plumbing is already in place. Companies have
end-to-end information systems with the ability to capture every
transaction and every look at a webpage. The data is starting to
flow, and there’s a growing need for individuals who can extract it,
do valid analysis, and communicate it to leaders to drive decisions.”
To better equip business analytics graduates, Gilbert says the
department recently hired several new faculty members who
specialize in data analysis including Haileab Hilafu, Michel Ballings,
and Julie Ferrara. “The new hires reflect the changing focus of this
discipline,” he says. “For example, Ferrara specializes in digital
analytics, digital marketing, and website usability. Traditionally,
those elements would not be part of a statistics department, but
they’re very relevant in the current world of business analytics.”
Left to right: Michel Ballings,
Julie Ferrara, Chuck Noon,
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and Haileab Hilafu.
department
& faculty NEWS
UP CLOSE
Department Head Chuck Noon
Training Graduates
to Succeed
huck Noon joined the Haslam College of Business
faculty in 1987, a new convert to the world of business
management. “My bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD were all in
industrial engineering,” he says. Attracted to management
science because of its use of applied quantitative models,
Noon immersed himself in practical research. “By the mid1990s, I was doing funded research through the college on
transportation analysis for alternative fuel supply chains with
sponsors such as TVA, the Electric Power Research Institute,
Martin Marietta, and the Department of Energy.”
In the late 1990s, his interest shifted again when he became
part of the team of faculty that developed the Physician
Executive MBA (PEMBA) program. Sixteen years later, Noon
continues to teach in the PEMBA program and he’s written
a leading book on emergency department improvement.
He’s also worked with hundreds of healthcare systems and
hospitals to improve their emergency rooms through UT’s
executive education programs, the Institute for Healthcare
Improvement, and private consulting. “Healthcare has
particular characteristics that make it distinct,” he says. “It’s
a service operation and has a high amount of variation, so it’s
very different from other types of businesses and begs new
models and approaches.”
Noon assumed a new role in June 2014. He became head
of the newly titled Department of Business Analytics and
Statistics. “After twenty-seven years on the faculty, I’m more
excited than I’ve ever been about my home department,”
he says. “We’ve made tremendous gains in the past few years
and have positioned ourselves well.” Gilbert, Noon, and other
long-time faculty members kept their ears open to the thoughts
and concerns of corporate leaders as they implemented change,
and that awareness paid off. “In some ways, the department
happened to have the right sets of skills (management
science and statistics in the same department) and the right
background (an emphasis on applied research) to succeed. We
also were riding a worldwide tailwind of interest in business
analytics. We were fortunate that these elements were in place,
but it took Ken’s leadership and commitment to strategically
position the department. I take no credit for it. I inherited a
great situation.”
When he’s not teaching or researching, Noon enjoys outdoor
sports such as soccer, kiteboarding, sailing, and backpacking
with his family. “I also play an occasional poker tournament
in Las Vegas.” He laughs. “It’s a real-life application of applied
probability.”
Noon looks forward to the future of the department. “The
strides we’ve made in the last few years have positioned us to
be a leader in the area of business analytics. I want to make
sure we reach our potential.”
Ferrara is interested in the psychology
behind successful online marketing. “I want
to understanding what makes people click
on a website,” she says. “If we can grasp
the cognitive psychology behind that, we
can identify what persuades customers to
complete a desired action.” When coaching
students, Ferrara emphasizes the need to
focus on practical application. “There is so
much data available to catch their attention.
I try to teach them to keep their minds
focused on the questions they set out to
answer and how their analyses impact the
company’s overall performance.”
Ballings, whose research includes
predictive analytics for social media,
agrees that the huge volume of available
data calls for a strategic approach to
analytics. “Business analytics has been
rapidly evolving because of ever-increasing
amounts of data, especially with the advent
of smartphones,” says Ballings. “To be able
to cope with the enormous amount of data
heading toward us, we need a much broader
skill set, so this field is becoming much more
collaborative and multidisciplinary. The
researcher cannot stay within a small field
anymore.”
With his focus on analysis of highdimensional data sets, Hilafu recognizes
that old methods for statistical analysis
don’t work in this developing world of
electronic data collection. “As time goes on,
this field will only become more complex,”
he says. “In a large data set, the goal is
essentially to find a lower-dimensional
signal in high-dimensional data. For
example, that might mean looking at groups
of customers and examining their traits to
see which characteristics lead to repeat sales
and which do not.”
That kind of applied analytics is where the
department wants its future graduates to
excel. “We want them to be equipped to go
into a business, to understand its challenges,
decisions, and operations, and to be able to
say, ‘Aha! I see how analytics can help you
succeed,’” Noon says. “We’re not creating
isolated analysts. We’re training people who
can go out to businesses and apply analytics
in a practical way.”
C
“We’re not
creating
isolated
analysts.
We’re
training
people
who can
go out to
businesses
and apply
analytics in
a practical
way.”
—CHUCK
NOON
department
& faculty NEWS
STUDY
Organizational Learning”
accepted at the Journal of
Business Logistics. This paper
was the result of a project
that the authors did with
Pilot Flying J. Mark Collins, who teaches
in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain
Management, earned his PhD
in business administration with
a concentration in organizations and strategy, offered by
the Department of Management. Anne Smith, Flaskerud
Professor in Business, was his
committee chair. Stephanie Noble and Carol
Esmark published “Managing
Closing Time to Enhance
Manager, Employee, and
Customer Satisfaction” in
Business Horizons. Lisa Murray was promoted
to senior lecturer.
Stephanie Noble was promoted
to full professor. She also was
named to the Academic Council
for the American Marketing
Association.
Charlie Noble, Proffitts Professor
in Marketing, co-authored the
article “What Unhappy Customers Want,” published in MITSloan
Management Review.
A Global Supply Chain Institute
study found organizations that
closely integrate their purchasing
and logistics functions deliver
better business results. (See
sidebar at right.)
Shay Scott was promoted to
senior lecturer.
Ted Stank, Bruce Chair of
Excellence, Diane Mollenkopf,
McCormick Professor in Supply
Chain Management, and Wendy
Tate, along with Andrea Lago da
Silva from Brazil, co-authored the
article “Building Organizational
Value Through Demand and Supply Integration,” which has been
conditionally accepted at Sloan
Management Review (a Financial
Times 45 outlet). News from Global Supply
Chain Institute studies
Purchasing and Logistics Integration
Organizations that closely
integrate their purchasing
Professor Emeritus Bob
Woodruff was recognized
by the State of Tennessee
Hospital Association with
its Annual Service Excellence
Award for his volunteer efforts
at East Tennessee Children’s
Hospital.
Mary Holcomb received the
inaugural Center for Transportation Research Faculty Fellowship.
The Center for Transportation
Research’s new Faculty Fellows
Program serves as a way to recognize leading faculty and help
improve the level of research and
collaboration between researchers.
The Haslam College of Business’s inaugural summer
Research Award recipients are:
James Chyz, assistant professor, Department of Accounting
and Information Management,
Bobby Mee, William and Sara
Clark Professor of Business,
Department of Business Analytics and Statistics Wendy Tate,
associate professor, Department
of Marketing and Supply Chain
Management, Christian Vossler,
professor, Department of Economics, Marianne Wanamaker,
assistant professor, Department
of Economics, Tracie Woidtke,
David E. Sharp/Home Federal
Bank of Tennessee Professor
in Banking and Finance. The
Research Awards recognize the
scholarship of tenure-track
and logistics functions
deliver better business
results, according to a
study from the Global
Supply Chain Institute.
The study, involving more
TED STANK
than 180 supply chain
professionals, also shows that many firms
fail to capitalize on this opportunity and have
supply chains where purchasing and logistics operate in “silos” with little cohesion.
“Together, purchasing and logistics can
account for 70 percent of an organization’s
costs and influence 80 percent of its working capital through inventory and accounts
payable,” said Ted Stank, Bruce Chair of
Excellence and one of the
study’s authors. “Clearly,
impact the firm’s overall
“Together,
purchasing and
logistics can
account for 70
percent of an
orgnization’s
costs . . .”
performance.”
—Ted Stank
purchasing and logistics
have a huge impact but
often won’t collaborate
with each other to make
decisions that will positively
The report, “Bending the
Chain: The Surprising Challenge of Integrating
Purchasing and Logistics,” was sponsored
by IBM.
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& faculty NEWS
faculty members based on their
research productivity over
last three years. (See page
11 for a more on this topic.)
BUSINESS ANALYTICS
AND STATISTICS
Cap and Gown
Graduation Statistics & Awards
The Haslam College of Business graduated 590
students during ceremonies held in both spring
and summer 2014.
Students graduating
represented the following majors:
Supply Chain Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Accounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
and Janet Heath, the goal of the fellowship is to enhance the relationship between the Haslam College
of Business and the UT College of
Engineering.
BI Software Insight, an online hub
for business intelligence-related
news, named UT’s master in business
analytics as one of the top big data
and analytics programs in the country.
The Department of Statistics,
Operations, and Management
Science has a new name—the
and Statistics. “We wanted a
department name that better
reflects the programs we teach,
the kind of research we conduct,
and, most importantly, what our
students can do,” said Chuck Noon,
department head. (See page 27 for
more on this topic.)
Stephen Few, one of the world’s
renowned experts and thought
leaders on business analytics,
quantitative techniques, and data
analysis, conducted an interactive
half-day seminar on how to effectively present and analyze
quantitative business data.
Hamparum Bozdogan,
McKenzie Professor, had
a publication, “Social Network
Analysis of Scientific Collaborations
Across Different Subject Fields,”
selected as a featured article in an
issue of Informed Librarian Online.
On September 18, 2014, Sharon
Edwards (’87, Accounting), CFO of
Willis, became the first Executive
in Residence speaker. Executive
in Residence is a joint program
sponsored by Global Leader Scholars and the MBA programs. Other
speakers this year included:
Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
GRADUATE AND
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Sept. 23 – Amy Miles (’89,
Accounting), CEO, Regal
Entertainment Group
Logistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Business Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Human Resource Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Economics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Public Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Three business graduates
became commissioned
military officers. Thomas
Chitwood (supply chain
management) and Daniel
Leininger (finance) were
commissioned as second
590
New Graduates
lieutenants in the United States Army. Brandon Abrao
(logistics) was commissioned as a second lieutenant
in the United States Air Force.
Chuck Noon, Regal Entertainment
Group Professor of Business, was
named head of the department,
replacing Ken Gilbert. Noon is an
award-winning teacher and a
curriculum innovator who has
been with the college for twentyseven years.
Ramón León retired after twentythree years with the college.
Award winners at the May 2014
commencement included:
Top Graduate: James Darlington
(business analytics)
Bank of America Leadership Award: Martin Leamon
(supply chain management major, entrepreneurship minor)
The 2014 Bank of America Faculty Leadership Award:
Joseph Carcello, EY and Business Alumni Professor
Congratulations to all our new alumni and award
winners. We are proud to call you our own!
Russell Zaretzki earned the
designation of Heath Faculty
Fellow. Established by Ralph
Oct. 21-23 – Aaron Snyder
(’87, Marketing), former AMEX
VP, now a private consultant
hired by Blackhawk Network
for a project with InteliSpend
Oct. 23 – Burt Chandler (’87,
Finance), SVP, Iberia Bank
Oct. 30 – Alan Wilson (’80,
Communications), CEO,
McCormick
Nov. 4 - Greg Smith (’85
Finance), SVP Global Operations, Goodyear Tire & Rubber
The full-time MBA
program is among the
nation’s most popular
business programs, according to the 2015 edition of
U.S. News and World Report. UT
ranked sixth nationally and second among public universities.
This ranking focused on the
percentage of students admitted
to specific schools that choose to
attend that school.
Katie Bahr is a writer/publicist.
Both are new positions.
B
FAMILY
ORANGE
STAFF AND SUPPORT
Belinda Carter retired in
December after twenty-four years
of service.
Gail Chapman earned her Green
Belt in the area of Lean Applied to
Business Processes. She is the third
person in the college to earn her
Green Belt after GEE’s Molly Kinard
and Tara Presnell.
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i
Trent Thurman joined the college
as executive director for graduate
programs. He oversees the college’s
five full-time masters programs—
master’s of business administration,
accountancy, business analytics,
economics, and human resources.
Prior to joining the college, Thurman was director of the working
professional MBA programs at the
McCombs School of Business at the
University of Texas at Austin. department
& faculty NEWS
The Physician Executive MBA
program hosted its largest ever
Alumni Symposium with 117
physicians attending.
CAMPAIGN
College Pride
Faculty & Staff Give Bigtime
More than 90 percent of the college’s
faculty and staff contributed to the Big
Orange Family Campaign, which took
Nathan Etheridge has joined the
college as director of operations
for the Executive MBA for Strategic
Leadership, Executive MBA for
Healthcare Leadership, and Executive MBA for Global Supply Chain
programs. He will oversee student
recruiting efforts, business development initiatives, and program delivery and work with global business
and domestic industry immersion
seminars. Etheridge spent more
than ten years in corporate leadership roles prior to joining UT.
Kelly Harrison joined the college
as an administrative specialist
in the dean’s office, focusing
on communications and event
management.
place from February 17-March 14, 2014.
The campus-wide average participation
was 47 percent. Five departments/centers
out of the eleven tracked in the college,
Doug Hawks joined the college as assistant dean of finance
and administration. He provides
strategies for resource planning
and allocation across academic
programs, departments, centers
and executive education operations. Hawks previously served as
a senior auditor at the university
and held positions at Southern
Utah University, Sonic Innovations,
Inc., Office Max, Inc., and Wells
Fargo prior to his work at UT.
Melia Kendall had a paper published in the American Journal of
Health-Systems Pharmacy titled
“Design and Implementation of
a Strategy for Preceptor Development in Multiple Residency
Programs.”
Molly Kinard was elected as
the business subgroup representative for the UT Exempt Staff
Council.
Several new staff members have
joined the Office of Marketing and
Public Relations at the Haslam
College of Business. Sara WhittLingerfelt is a web developer and
or nearly 50 percent, had 100 percent
participation. Another four had more
than 90 percent participation.
Recent Retirees
Our faculty and staff have made the
Haslam College of Business rise to the
Andy White was selected as one
of ten members on the Tennessee
Aerospace and Defense Advisory
Board. The board will execute
strategic planning and lead
development and outreach
aimed at spurring economic
development in the state’s
aerospace and defense sectors.
top in so many ways. We would like to
give heartfelt thanks and gratitude to
our recent retirees as they launch into
their next new adventure: Belinda Carter,
Ramón León, and Kathy Price. Thank you
for your combined sixty-one years!
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DEVELOPMENT
giving REPORT
Contributors to the College
Listed on the following pages are those individuals, organizations,
corporations, and foundations whose gifts of $100 or more were
received by the Haslam College of Business in fiscal year 2013 (July 1,
2013, through June 30, 2014).
Each and every gift, regardless of amount, is sincerely appreciated.
The generosity of our alumni and friends allows the college to provide
the best possible educational opportunities for our students.
Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and
completeness of our list of contributors, we acknowledge that the
following list may contain inadvertent errors; please contact us with
any corrections.
OVER $500,000
Anderson Family
Anonymous
James A. & Natalie L. Haslam II
$250,000-$499,999
Randal & Jenny Boyd
Estate of John W. Fisher
Chris & Donna Kinney
King & Judy Rogers III
$100,000-$249,999
BB&T
John Harrigan Boll
Ray & Joan Myatt Jr.
Gerald Thomas Niedert
Regal Entertainment Group Foundation
William & Kay Stokely III
$50,000-$99,999
James B. Baker
Thomas D. Bell Jr.
Farm Bureau Insurance Companies of TN
Walter Edwin Frazier III
George J. Green & Wilma Jordan
Home Federal Bank of Tennessee
Cheryl S. Massingale
F. Stewart McCorkle Jr.
Joseph & Barbara O’Donnell
Pilot Flying J
Pro2Serve Professional Product Services
Greg & Lisa Smith
Mark L. Venrick
Michael & Tiffiny West
Brenda T. Wood
$25,000-$49,999
Kelvin & Shery Ault
Joseph & Carole Ayres
James & Patricia Bernal
Michael & Nancy Berry
Raymond & Barbara Bible
Bill & Melba Blevins
R. Stanley Bowden II
Gary & Marsha Clayton
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP
G. Mack & Nancy Dove
Charles W. Duggan
Robert & Deborah Hyde
Bob & Molly Joy
Michael & Pamela Koban Jr.
Lawler-Wood LLC
Richard & Patricia Mallicote
John & Kathy McLeod
George & Margaret Melton
Dan & Amy Miles
C. Warren & Annelle Neel
Robert G. Parks Jr.
Richard & Deborah Perry
Pershing Yoakley & Associates
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Joseph & Sharon Pryse
Will James Pugh
David & Sharon Ramsey
Martin & Carol Robinson
Brett W. Rousch
Dane & Margaret Scism
Scott & Kathryn Selbach
R. Andy Taylor
Sharon Mullinax Taylor
Arthur & Hasseline Thompson Jr.
Charles & Nancy Wagner III
William B. Stokely Jr.
Foundation
Edward & Anne Wilson
Kim Wood
Saks Inc. Operations Center
Richard & Ann Smith
Staples Inc.
Estate of Arthur B. Stowers
Tetra Recycling Inc.
VACO LLC
William L. Vallett Jr.
Timothy W. Williams
$10,000-$24,999
Leonard & Laura Berlik
BNY Mellon
Boeing Company
Boise Cascade Holdings L.L.C.
Mark & Karen Bowling
James & Diedra Brogan
David A. Brown II
Martin & Ann Brown
Steven & Jill Brown
James & Celeste Butler
Capital One Services Inc.
Samuel & Sharon Carter Jr.
Caterpillar Inc.
Robert James Cerfolio
James & Mira Craine
Michael D. Easterly
David Kent Ecklund
David Myers Evans
Lie-Jen Fan
Fidelity Investments
Joseph & Ruth Fielden
Brian & Heather Foley
Ronald D. Ford
James & Marcia Foxworthy
Ken & Peggy Gilbert
Paul & Patricia Green
Allen Pillow Halliday
William P. Halliday III
Steven & Jane Harb
Jimmy & Dee Haslam
William & Cristen Haslam
Robert & Sharon Huette
Robert & Beverly Johnson
Dean & Laurie Jones
Amerisure Insurance
Bill F. Breeding Jr.
Aubrey R. Burleson
Ernest & Bonnie Cadotte
Citizens Bank Tri-Cities
Foundation Ltd
Cornerstone Foundation of Knoxville
Joe R. Crafton Jr.
Crossmark
Pete & Cindi DeBusk
John & Brenda Dittmann
Allen R. Elkins
Frito-Lay North America
Douglas & Carla Harris
W. Blaine Hawkins
David & Deborah Ingram
Glenn & Dottie Irwin
Nat R. Martha M. Knaster
Charitable Trust
Paul & Tammy Koonce
William & Pamela Lee
Steve & Troba Mangum
A. David & Sandra Martin
Janet L. McKinley
John R. Moore
Jim & Kathy Newsome III
Jerald & Kimberly Nine Jr.
Family Foundation
Frank & Elaine Ozburn Jr.
Kiran M. Patel
Patricia G. Pratt
$5,000-$9,999
Save the Dates!
Mark your calendar now for great fall events:
September 12 HCB Leadership Level Supporters Tailgate
Invitation only.
October 10 HCB Leadership Level Supporters Tailgate
Invitation only.
November 6
Alumni Awards Gala For more information, call (865) 974-6083.
November 14 Homecoming BBQ Celebration Must RSVP and send registration.
$2,500-$4,999
Martin & Karyn Altshuler
Glenn C. Andrews
James H. Atchley
Jonathan C. Bailey
Adam John Bean
Allen B. Bell
Douglas & Lori Blalock
Coleton Ellington Bragg
Thomas P. Brown
Anthony & Patricia Bryant
Andrew N. Burns
David L. Cannon
David & Penny Carver
Clayton Bank & Trust
Michael & Kimberly Copperthite
R. Terry & Juanita Cowles
Marcus & Kelli Davenport
Jeffery & Janet Davis
Deloitte
Kerry Allen Dodd
Norman D. Estep
Don & Sandra Fancher
Lester E. Finnell Jr.
Mark Scott Fleiner
Emerson & Catherine Fly
Kimberly B. Ford
Thomas & Anna Ford
Nan M. Given
Kostyantyn L. Grabovskyy
Thomas & Florence Graves
Samuel & Leslie Grigsby Jr.
Tom & Constance Hawkins Jr.
John & Candace Hendrix
W. Logan & Johnnie Hickman Jr.
Giles David Hollins
J. A. Fielden Co. Inc.
Kevin & Tammi Janiga
David & Jeanne Claire Jones
KPMG
Michael K. Littlejohn
Ralph Masengill Jr.
Frank & Mary McGregor
Meridian Trust & Investment Co.
Joseph & Penny McDonald
Scot D. Miller
Barbara Curtis Murphey
Charles Wesley Pearson III
John & Mitzi Platillero
James & Sandra Powell Sr.
Richard & Jane Ray Jr.
Rhonda K. Reger Piland
Howard & Agatha Ray
Regions Bank
Eugene & Elizabeth Seymour
Stewart & Ann T. Siewert
Barrett & Betsy Simonis
David M. Snapp
Aaron Joseph Snyder
Sourcing Interests Group Inc.
David L. Sylwester
Herman & Karen Tallman
TeamHealth Inc.
Willie O. Turner Jr.
US Bank
James & Connie Vavalides
Watson Foundation Inc.
Milburn & Sandra White
Jan & Elaine Williams
Morgan & Kathryn Zook
$1,000-$2,499
John & Donna Adams
Olumuyiwa O. Adeboye
Edward Sanford Albers Jr.
Ronald & Jean Alexander
Howard & Wendy Allenberg
Anonymous
Todd E. Archer
Theodore E. Arnold IV
John & Leeann Bailes
Bechtel Group Foundation
Becker Professional Education
Bruce & Julianne Behn
John Patrick Behrens
Lewis Rogers Belote III
Robert G. Berry
John & Denise Billings Jr.
David Birdwell
Kimberly Keightley Black
Randy Blackburn
David W. Blackwell
Christy April Blalock
Jerry Donald Bostelman
Christi Michelle Branscom
Shirley Pih Broadbery
Michael L. Brookshire
Andy Bruner
Fred D. Bryan
Chip & Kym Bryant
R. Lee Burleson
Joseph & Terri Carcello
Richard & Nancy Cardin
Kevin M. Casey
Thomas Cervone & Susan
Creswell
Howard & Debra Chambers
Charles Koch Foundation
Stanley Chervin & Barbara Richards
James Anthony Chyz
Kevin E. Clark
Robert L. Clark
CNS Y-12
Charles H. Coffin
deVELOPment
giving REPORT
Russell L. Lamb
Christopher & Quinita LaPorte
Jon & Toni Lawler
McCormick & Company Inc.
Jack & Patricia Mills
David L. Nelson
Regal Entertainment Group
Rodefer Moss & Co. PLLC
Scott A. Roe
William & Jane Salter
Jennifer S. Banner &
James Schaad
Scripps Networks Interactive
Taylor & Jean Simonton
State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co.
David & Deborah Stevens
Michael & Rebecca Sutton Sr.
Frank & Jane Venable Jr.
James C. Ward III
Marcus Jeter, dual MBA/MS Business Analytics student, and
T. Boone Pickens.
T. Boone Pickens talks success
with Haslam students
American business magnate and financier T. Boone
Pickens participated in a roundtable discussion with
Haslam College of Business students on October 14.
Pickens addressed a range of topics in a
question and answer session held at the Howard
H. Baker Center on the Knoxville campus. He met
with students from several Haslam disciplines and
programs, including: Global Leadership Scholars,
MBA and supply chain doctoral students, Torch
Fund student managers, Bredesen Center students
and Chancellor Honors and Haslam Scholars.
Students in attendance were given valuable
advice for life and business. Pickens told the group
that he would trade the wealth he’s accumulated
for a chance to be back in the same stage of life they
currently occupy. “What a life you have in front
of you,” he said. “What opportunities you cannot
imagine that you’re going to see as your life unfolds.”
Pickens said a good work ethic was a key to
his success. “With a good work ethic and a good
education, you can’t miss,” he said. He encouraged
attendees to make a positive impact and forge
good relationships in their business and personal
endeavors. “Leave a record that you’re proud of
wherever you go and whatever you do,” he said.
Pickens began his career as a junior geologist
before founding West Texas-based Mesa Petroleum,
which would become the world’s largest independent
oil company. He later acquired other oil and
gas companies, including Gulf Oil and Phillips
Petroleum. In 1997, he founded BP Capital.
A proponent of developing an energy plan for the
United States, Pickens also shared his insights on the
topic. “We’re the only country in the world that does
not have an energy plan,” Pickens said. In July 2008,
he introduced a plan that he summarized as “get on
our own resources” and “get off OPEC oil.”
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VOLUNTEERS
FOREVER
Chris and Donna Kinney
Chris and Donna Kinney with (left to right)
research grant recipients Tracie Woidtke,
Wendy Tate, and Christian Vossler.
deVELOPment
giving REPORT
DONOR spotlight
Despite living outside
out of state for almost two
decades, Chris and Donna
Kinney are dedicated Volunteers.
“We’re an all Vol family,” says
Chris, explaining that their son,
Phil, and daughter, Liz, both
chose to pursue undergraduate
degrees at the University of
Tennessee. Avid football fans,
the Kinneys relish being part of
the Vol Navy. “Going to games
by boat is a special tradition,”
Chris says. “That’s always been
our connection to Tennessee,
returning for football games and
meeting family and friends there.
We have a lot of orange clothing
in our respective closets.”
Both finance majors, Chris
and Donna graduated a year
apart, with Chris walking across
the stage in ’81 and Donna in ’82.
“Ironically, we didn’t know each
other at UT, although we must
have run in the same circles,”
says Chris. Instead, the couple
met at work at a local bank and
married after graduation. Chris
pursued a successful career
with stops at a few employers
including JP Morgan Chase,
Barclays Capital, and eventually,
the City of Knoxville. Donna went
on to work at General Electric,
where she remained until their
first child was born.
Chris served as Senior
Director of Finance for the City
of Knoxville from 2004–2006, a
treasured milestone in his career.
“I had taken a hiatus from my
banking career, and then MayorElect Bill Haslam asked me to
join his administration during his
first term, so I did,” says Chris.
“My three years serving the City
of Knoxville were extraordinarily
rewarding.” During his time in city
administration, Kinney worked
closely with UT, Knoxville, officials
on the revitalization of the Second
Creek greenway between Neyland
Drive and World’s Fair Park,
“ . . . one of the keys
to a higher national
ranking is the quality of
an institution’s faculty.”
—CHRIS KINNEY
among other projects. “The folks in
UT administration were congenial,
encouraging, and professional.
For me, that experience forged a
deeper personal connection with
the university.”
In 2006, Chris struck out on a
new endeavor—creating SteelRiver
Infrastructure Partners, an
investment management firm based
in New York City. “I commuted
back and forth from Knoxville to
New York for three years, but in
2010, we decided to relocate to
New Jersey.” Today, the Kinneys
are back in Knoxville. “We’re
currently in Friendsville, but we’d
love to find a home near the heart
of Knoxville.” The Kinneys share a
passion for downtown and a personal
investment in its success. “When I
was financial director for the city,
we negotiated the arrangement
with Regal Cinemas to renovate the
Riviera and open the first downtown
movie venue in decades.” Chris and
Donna also are devoted fans of the
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra,
where Chris serves on the board
of directors.
The couple believes in giving
back to the university they love.
Recently, Chris and Donna
established an endowment to
help fund the summer faculty
research awards at the Haslam
College of Business. “I admire the
administration’s courageous goal
of becoming a Top 25 university
and wanted to motivate
faculty members to pursue
valuable research,” he says.
The summer awards provide
financial incentives for faculty
members conducting research
in various disciplines within
the college. “I’m a firm believer
The Kinneys at Volunteer Landing,
their favorite pre-game haunt.
that one of the keys to a higher
national ranking is the quality
of an institution’s faculty,” says
Chris. “This endowment’s goal
is to foster a thriving research
environment and to create a
tool for recruiting and retaining
top-notch faculty who are also
talented researchers.”
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A LEGACY FOR THE
NEXT GENERATION
David and Debbie INGRAM
deVELOPment
giving REPORT
DONOR spotlight
W.C. Ingram personified
the hardworking American
businessman with the heart of a
true entrepreneur. His son, David
Ingram, recalls with admiration
how his father reinvented himself
as time and his capabilities called
for it. The elder Ingram trained
as a carpenter, but opened a toy
and hobby store when health
problems began to interfere with
his ability to do physical work.
The ninth in a family of ten
children, David Ingram grew
up in Cleveland, Tennessee,
mirroring his father’s initiative.
“I worked for him starting when
I was a high school student. He
taught me basic principles of
business and convinced me that
the customer is king. If you take
care of the customer, everything
else will fall into place.”
After absorbing practical skills
from his father, Ingram pursued a
formal business education at the
University of Tennessee. “I like
to say my education at UT was
well-rounded,” he says. “I learned
complex business principles, but I
also gained real-life experience.”
One quarter shy of graduation,
Ingram realized he needed two
elective courses to graduate. “I
met with my advisor, assuming
he’d recommend a couple of
finance electives. Instead, he
suggested racquetball and
golf.” Ingram responded with
a laugh, only to realize that
his professor was serious. “He
pointed out that I’d need a social
side to my business education.
Many of my professors came
from the corporate world, and
I appreciated the practical
advice they offered, even when
it surprised me.”
Ingram graduated from UT in
1977 with a bachelor’s in finance—
the only member of his large
family to achieve a college degree—
and began a career in sales. His
wife, Debbie Ingram, pursued a
career in physical therapy that
eventually led her to UT, Knoxville.
Already a faculty member at UT,
Chattanooga, Debbie earned a
doctorate in education from the
flagship campus in 1994. This year,
she celebrates thirty-five years
of practicing her profession and
twenty-five years as a university
professor. The Ingrams’ daughter,
Alexandra, is a doctoral student
studying learning environments
in education at UT, Knoxville.
From 2007–2008, Debbie
Ingram served as president of the
national UT Alumni Association.
“David and I had the privilege
of traveling across the country,
communicating the idea that
“ . . . Tennessee has a
low percentage of adults
with a college education.
We must do all we can to
improve that number for
the next generation of
Tennessee families.”
—DEBBIE INGRAM
education matters,” she says.
“My primary message was that
Tennessee has a low percentage
of adults with a college education.
We must do all we can to improve
that number for the next generation
of Tennessee families.”
After several years in
sales, David Ingram accepted
an opportunity at Modern Way
Printing and Fulfillment in
Ooltewah, Tennessee. “A close
friend’s father owned the business,
but he was getting older and he
needed an exit plan,” he says.
“When he hired me, we sat
The Ingrams and scholarship recipient
Shelton Ansley.
down and scrawled an eight-year
business strategy on the back of
a napkin.” In 1992, at the end of
those eight years, Ingram and a
business partner purchased the
company.
The Ingrams say they were
both fortunate not to incur debt
while pursuing education. “To
alleviate some of that stress for
current students, we’ve supported
scholarships for the physical
therapy department at UTC and,
more recently, established an
MBA scholarship at UTK.”
Appropriately, it’s called the
W.C. Ingram MBA Scholarship,
in honor of David Ingram’s
assiduous father.
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giving REPORT
deVELOPment
Sources & USes of Funds
“College
expenditures
are largely
comprised of
expenditures
on people—
faculty, staff
and students.”
—Dean Stephen
L. Mangum
The college’s total revenue
was largely unchanged from fiscal
year 2013 to fiscal year 2014 at
$61.5 million, though changes in its
composition were rather pronounced.
A significant increase in state
funding, from $21.5 million in fiscal
year 2013 to $24.8 million in fiscal
year 2014 reflected the state’s funding
of a faculty and staff raise pool, as
well as an increase in one-time project
monies. Revenue increases also
were recorded in differential tuition
from our undergraduate programs,
program fee revenue from selected
masters programs, and private gift
and endowment income.
Increases in revenue in these areas
were offset by unexpected declines
in revenue from our executive degree
programs and a continuing decline
in non-degree executive education
programs. Cutbacks in government
spending and continuing sluggishness
in the economic recovery of sectors
in which our executive education
business is concentrated appear to
be primary factors in this continuing
trend. Steps are being taken to
address these shortfalls during fiscal
year 2015.
With respect to uses of funds,
expenditures largely followed
established historical patterns.
College expenditures are largely
comprised of expenditures on
people–faculty, staff and students.
Our expenditure patterns portray
the reality that we are a human
capital-intensive organization.
The quality of our people and their
commitment and dedication to our
enterprise define us. Our people and
their dedication to the college make
all the difference!
FISCAL YEAR 2014
SOURCES OF FUNDS
11%
40%
24%
15%
10%
State Funds
Differential Tuitions
Executive Education
Private Monies
Grants & Contracts
FISCAL YEAR 2014
USES OF FUNDS
8%
16%
6%
5%
Salaries & Benefits
Executive Education
Student Support
Program Infrastructure
Reinvestment
66%
deVELOPment
giving REPORT
2014
14,763
13,408
9,160
FY2012: $56,464
6,556
6,268
5,714
FY2011: $56,673
10,885
10,617
9,601
9,975
11,005
2013
5,234
00
2012
12,312
9,104
SOURCES
OF FUNDS
In Millions
of Dollars
4,881
5000
5000
10,421
10000
10000
21,514
2011
15000
15000
20,649
19,955
20000
20000
24,818
25000
FY2013: $62,138
FY2014: $61,565
50000
40,328
5,006
9,318
3,696
FY2013: $62,138
2014
3,217
4,106
11,283
FY2012: $56,464
3,515
FY2011: $56,673
2013
3,654
39,580
0
3,554
0
8,497
USES
OF FUNDS
In Millions
of Dollars
2012
3,614
10000
2011
3,835
10000
36,964
20000
5,391
20000
10,356
30000
3,384
30000
2,974
40000
34,568
40000
FY2014: $61,565
HASLAM.UTK.EDU | 39
deVELOPment
giving REPORT
Stephen & Patty Coulter Sr.
Marcylle Combs
Scott & Jill Craig
Michael & Helen Crotty
Crowe Horwath LLC
Kendall Brian Cyree
Clay & Anita Davis Jr.
Eugene Michael Davis
Mark Wagner Davis
Paula E. Dowell
Deana L. Drewry
Jon Todd Ellis
Timothy & Karen Ellis
Enterprise Holdings Foundation
Aaron T. Fausz
Gary & Jeanne Feil
First Tennessee Bank
Shirley A. Flynn
M. Benjamin & Susan Foard
Duncan & Karol Fort III
Roy & Christine Foust
William & Deborah Fox
William & Lynn Freeman II
J. Lee Fry III
Mellon & Rosemary Fry Jr.
G. Gregory Gilbert
Les Daryl Gray
Michael & Elizabeth Greene
Ronald & Barbara Grubbs Jr.
Christopher M. Hadorn
Vicki B. Hall
Ashley E. Hamilton
John & Harriett Harty
Jerre & Barbara Haskew
John & Renee Hawkins
Rowland S. Hawkins
Tel & Nancy Helms
Charles K. Hendrix
Scott C. Hennessy
Rosalyn L. Hess
John George Hoffman III
Jay M. Hollomon
Christopher & Karen Ideker
International Paper Company
E. Carl Johnson
Mason & Emily Jones
Jenneen Marie Kaufman
James & Ruth Keally III
William Lee Kelso
Austin & Suzanne Lance
Robert & Karen Ladd
Barney Lewis Lane
Tillman L. Lay
Terry Lee Leap
Richard & Pamela Lee
Sherri Parker Lee
William & Brenda Locke
Robert & Beverly A. Lynch
Zanda Jane Lynn
Michael Robert Marks
Owen & Mary Marsh
Bob & LeaAnn Marshall
Whitney Johns Martin
Steven R. McBrayer
David & Mary McClung
Robert & Judy McMahan
Ronald & Jackie Meadows
William & Lynda Middlemas
Harry & Suzanne Miller Jr.
Mark A. Moon
Karen J. Moore
Michael & Phyllis Moore
Thomas Moore
Charles & Sherry Morgan
Charles & Catherine Morris
Neighborhood Nerds Inc.
Kimberly & Angel Norman
Mark & Sharon Oldham
Scott Parish
R. Paul & Barbara Perutelli
Chad & Lila Pfleger
Pat D. Postma
Donald Gregg Pounders
J. Daniel & Allison Pressley
Donald & Nancy Preston
John & Gail Prugh
Thomas & Kimberly Quillen
James T. Reed Jr.
Michael J. Reeves
Mark Rennich & Vicki Mayfield
David Andrew Reynolds
Louis & Victoria Riddle Jr.
Jon & Mintha Roach
Ronald & Marta Roberts
Charles & Kelly Robinson
William Henry Rodgers
Brad & Christine Rolland
William Kim Salmons
Eric M. Saul
David & Jane Schumann
Gregory M. Sekelsky
James Bruce Selleh
Timothy & Peggy Seneker
Laurie R. Shimp
Ronald Edward Shrieves
P. Matthew Simpson
Robert C. Sledd
Henry C. Smith
James Forest Smith Jr.
Randall & Jennifer Smith
Kevin Reed Snyder
Mandyam & Kanchana Srinivasan
David & Beverly Stacey III
Benjamin & Christy Stanga
Keith & Josie Stanga
Theodore Stank & Lori Nash
Aaron James Steiner
C. Lee Steinhouse III
H. Virgil & Clara Stephens
Randolph B. Stephenson
Michael E. Stevens
Temple Crain Stevenson
Matthew D. Stone
Thomas L. Stover
Stowers Machinery Corporation
Dustin J. Stratton
Ron & Teresa Suedekum
Erinmarie Sullivan
Edward Lee Taylor
Jane C. Taylor
Samuel H.Taylor Sr.
Tennessee Technology Dev Corp
Tennessee Valley Human
Resource Assoc
T. Matthew & Laura Thipgen
Joseph & Rebecca Thompson III
Dan & Sandra Tindall
Melvin & Hedy Tobias
Charles W. Tomlin
Neal & Cathy Townsend
R.L. & Irene Townsend
George Tsetsekos
Normand Denis Turgeon
UT Federal Credit Union
Thomas & Traci Van Dorselaer
Harald Van Heerde
Dwight H. Van Inwegen
David Carroll Verble
Thomas D. Walker
Brian & Christina Waller
Amy Kathleen Ward
Paul Andrew Warren
D. Brent Wilder
Bill & Patricia Williams
Kevin & Leigh Ann Witt
Tracie Mcalpin Woidtke
Bill & Jamie Woodson
NEWLY ESTABLISHED ENDOWMENTS
College of Business TN Pledge Scholarship Endowment
Henry J. “Jerry” Collins Scholarship Endowment
Doster Family Scholarship Endowment
James L. Harlan II Business Scholarship Endowment
Jerry & Kay Henry Business Professorship Endowment
David R. Howard Scholarship Endowment
Charles B. Jones Supply Chain Research Fellowship Endowment
Charles B. Jones Supply Chain Scholarship Endowment
Mark & Lindy Kinser Scholarship Endowment
Joseph T. Wyrick
Lynn R. Youngs
$500-$999
Edward A. Adams Jr.
Bruce & Monique Anderson
Kenneth & Ellen Anderson
Gregory Antoine
Jean D. Arrants
Thomas & Midge Ayres
Paul D. Banick
Colin Boyd Barrett
Rhonda Wilson Barton
Robert H. Bebber
Francis J. Bedard
Raymond Lewis Bell
Dawn E. Bertsche
Andrew Nelson Blevins
John & Mary Bolton
Tiffany Ann Boyden
Joseph Roger Brown Jr.
Anthony D. Bruno
Jane E. Campbell
J.A. & Patricia Campen
Kathy D. Cate
Robert & Amy Cathey Jr.
John & Carol Childress II
Peter & Doris Coode
Benjamin Ernst Cook
Scott Coop
Jefferson L. Cross
David & Linda Crumpton
Michael D’Ambrosio
Phillip & Bonney Daves
Charles Edward Davis
Deborah Jump-Dawson
Susan Clark Debold
T. Dick & Loretta Denson
Thomas & Rachael Desmond
Michael & Mindy Dixon
Thomas J. Dorich
John & Diana Doss III
Daniel H. Dougherty
William & Janyce Dudney
William August Dueker Jr.
Michael C. Ehrhardt
Joseph Kirby Ellis
Paul Ketron Emert Jr.
Astrid M. Emkes
John & Stephanie Felker
Mark L. Fenlon
Newly Established Endowments as of 10/1/2014.
Ralph Masengill Jr. Scholarship Endowment
William & Carole Reeves Family Business Scholarship Endowment
Shirley J. Roe Endowed Scholarship
Greg & Lisa Smith GLS Faculty Award Endowment
Selbach Family Scholarship for Entrepreneurship Endowment
Tetra Recycling Entrepreneurship Excellence Endowment
Richard L. Townsend Accounting Professorship Endowment
JW Outfitters MBA Fellowship Endowment
Hugh & Sandy White GLS Scholarship Endowment
deVELOPment
giving REPORT
Neil & Suzanne Fischer
Edwin B. Fort
Rowland & Margaret Funk
Tina M. Galloway
Gabrielle Gaspar
Kevin & Jayne Getsinger
Jvene Jay Gingrich
Robert J. Goodman
Thomas Edward Hamilton
Harrison Construction Company
H. Robert & Edith Heller III
Brittany Nicole Hicks
J. Robert Hill
Jennifer Gilbreath Hillenmeyer
Stanley & Teresa Hurt
Ernest C. Hymel
Paul L. Jett
Jack & Kathryn Kiger
Damon & Janet King
Mark & Ann Kington
Mark & Lindy Kinser
Howard R. Klebanow
John Warren Kraus
Kurt Alan Krushenski
Reuben Kyle III
Laurie Beth Landeen
Elizabeth Geneen Landers
Lauren N. Lange
Morton T. Larmore
Lattimore Black Morgan
& Cain PC
Lisa Marie Lattimore
Jeffery H. Lawhorn
Fred & Sharon Lawson
Ronald & Ann Layne
Thomas & Wallene Leek
Scott Parks LeTellier
Betty Ann Lewis
R. Bruce & Jill Long
Joni L. Longfellow
Jeffrey D. Longmire
John & LeAnn Luna
John Thomas Lutz
Robin Val & Manley
John & Mary Marsh Jr.
Peter & Nancy Maynard
Sean Griffith McCallen
James & Lynn McCallie
Donald A. McCown
Todd E. McElhatton
John & Lois McKeever
James R. Merrill
Charles & Sue Milazzo
Corbi Dianell Milligan
Nicole Wine Mohrmann
Chad A. Moore
R. Jane Moser
Eric Munoz
Matthew N. Murray
Matthew F. Musso
William Stuart Neilson
Randy E. Nichols
Marjorie Lang Niemann
Alyssa Suzanne Nimetz
Charles Henry Noble IV
Patrick Joseph Norris
Ana M. Nowell
Walter & Anita Ogilvie Jr.
William & Joy Ogilvie III
Matthew & Juanita Orth
Wesley Jason Paine
John & Susan Pannell
Keshab Paudel
John & Lori Pearce
Matthew Allan Penley
Bradley D. Petty
Randal H. Pierce
William & Pamela Pinkston
Leonard & Elizabeth Pogue III
Thomas & Anne Power
Michael & Julia Rafter
Kathleen Burns & J. Stephen Ramey
Victor & Annette Ranft
R. S. Rathinasamy
S. Seth Reagan
Joel E. Reeves Jr.
Refreshments Inc.
Michael & Amanda Respeto
John P. Reynolds
Tim & Vickie Rhodes
Jack & Anne Robbins
John & Nannon Roosa
Robert & Anne Sandlin
Robin Lynn Sansone
Jon P. Sarginger
Katherine J. Savage
M. James & Susan Sayrs
Colin Hunter Schneeweiss
Louis C. Schumacher
James A. Schwab
Shay D. Scott
Gregory Allen Separk
William D. Sharp
James Frank Slagle IV
William Randall Sluder
Darren A. Smith
Jerry Wayne Speer
Andrew & Emily Stallings
Douglas L. Standifer
Brenda Steakley
Emily Blair Steakley
Matthew & Katie Steier
Kristin O. Stone
Wade Russell Stonebrook
James & Karen Stripling
Jerry & Elizabeth Stubblefield
Kristen Jill Stump
Diane K. Stumph
Michael L. Taber
Melanie Demotts Taosuwan
B. Lance Taylor
Jacob Michael Taylor
Norman & Wendy Templeton
David R. Thomas
John & Rebecca Thomas
Michael L. Thomas
William & Lori Tice Jr.
Tool Crib
Arthur M. Townsend IV
Douglas & Catherine Traver
Theodore Robert Twyman
Jamie R. Underwood
John M. Wachowicz
Jerry W. Walker
Tom Walker
Frank Waller
William Ronald Walton
Brian Douglas Wantling
The November 14th public dedication of the Haslam
College of Business.
Celebrating a Century
The Haslam College of Business celebrated 100 years
of impact during 2014 with a new name, giveaways,
and an engaging social media campaign.
Festivities began in the spring, with signage
in the Haslam Business Building being installed
to showcase the milestone. Large “100 Years”
centennial logos were hung in prominent locations.
In addition to centennial signage, a timeline of the
college’s first 100 years was permanently displayed
on two floors in the Haslam building and on the
website, while a traveling version spent time at
several locations around the Knoxville campus such
as the Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center
and John C. Hodges Library.
In February, the college’s nationally renowned
corporate governance center was named for its
founder and former business school dean, C. Warren
Neel. Neel served as dean of the college for twentyfive years. He co-founded the Corporate Governance
Center in 2003 and remains a center fellow. The Neel
Corporate Governance Center focuses its research
in areas that affect public policy such as boards of
directors’ corporate audit committees, compensation
committees, and nominating committees and
institutional shareholder activism. The celebration continued throughout the year
with plasma screens in the building displaying facts
about HCB’s first 100 years. On social media, students
and alumni were invited to participate monthly in
themed contests to recognize the centennial with the
chance to win gift cards to the university bookstore for
the best submissions. Themes were tailored to each
month and season.
Students, faculty, and staff also were treated to
several giveaways throughout the year. From travel
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Kent Ward
John S. Whittington
Jack & Rhonda Wiley
Mary Marcica Williams
Alan & Wendy Wilson
Wanda L. Wisecarver
Yeak-Chong Wong
Yuan Zhao
William Zotti
$250-$499
mugs and luggage tags, to t-shirts and Rita’s Italian
Ice, the college community celebrated the spirit of
the centennial with commemorative items often
passed out by popular professors and members of
the college’s executive and support staff.
Financial guru Dave Ramsey (HCB ’82) was the
keynote speaker at the centennial commencement
ceremony in May 2014. Ramsey, whose son, Daniel,
graduated from HCB at the same time, offered
advice to graduates about being successful and
giving back as they began their professional careers
post-graduation.
In early October, a transformational gift from
the Haslam family recognized Pilot Flying J founder
and HCB alum, James A. Haslam II, as well as the
contributions and forward vision of the college. The
$50 million gift marks the first time in the history of
the University of Tennessee that a college has been
named for an alumnus and donor.
Later in the month, the name of the college
was sandblasted into the stone above the exterior
entrances facing Volunteer Boulevard and the
pedestrian bridge. Lee Heights Monument Company
from Lenoir City, Tenn., did the etchings, which
were recorded in a time-lapse video available for
viewing at tiny.utk.edu/HCBEtching.
In November, the entire university community
gathered in the Haslam Business Building for a
public dedication of the college under its new name.
Sixteen members of the Haslam family attended
the program and reception, which culminated with
a festive balloon drop and a portrait presentation
of Jim Haslam. The portrait will hang in the dean’s
suite. Festivities continued throughout the evening,
during the Centennial Gala, where the Haslam
family was recognized alongside annual alumni
award winners (see page: 49). Proceeds from the
gala benefitted the HCB College Fund.
To learn more about the Haslam College of
Business’ first 100 years, or any of the year’s events,
please visit tiny.utk.edu/HCB100.
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The Trust Company
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Ryan & Andrea Burkhart
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Joseph & Linda Burns
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Delia Elizabeth Caldwell
John W. Campbell Jr.
Terry & Patsy Campbell
Tom & Cheryl Campbell
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Morgan & N. Christine Cantey
Joaquin J. Cantillo
Cardinal Health Foundation
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Tom Carpenter
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Arthur & Nancy Cassill
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James & Mary Chandler IV
Weiwei Chen
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Patrick & Mayra Clark
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Anna I. Dean
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Ross & Cynthia Dempster
Kim Korzen Denton
Shawn W. Devine
Sean Robert DeWitt
William J. DeWitt
Jay & Jan Dickerson
Richard & Linda Dilbeck
John Clarence Dillon III
Discover Financial Services
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Joseph J. Domzalski
Scott R. Dotson
James R. Doyle
George C. Drinnon
Debra A. Dubois
Harold O. Duggin
John W. Duke
Kara Michele Dukes
David Deane Duncan
Bryan Patrick Dunn
Cary James Dunning
Donald & Nancy Dunning Jr.
Lindsay Stafford Duvall
Roby H. Eastridge
Gary T. Eastwood
Mario E. Ebanks
Charles Richard Edwards
Emily Ann Edwards
Byron M. Eiseman Jr.
Jonathan Emkes
John H. Engstrom
Gregory E. Erickson
Harold & Rebecca Ernest III
Patti S. Ettien
Oscar & Mary Evans II
Cyrus Timothy Farhangi
Bichaka Fayissa
Jackie & Valerie Ferguson
Jamea & Mary Fiegle Sr.
Kellie M. Fish
Cory Robert Fisher
Five Points Construction LLC
Darrell S. Fixx
Michael & Susan Fleenor
James M. Fleming
Patricia Yvonne Flowers
John & Dorothy Fonville
William Forbes
Michael Scott Forester
Mack & Marigene Forrester Jr.
William & Brenda Fort
Richard John Frederick
William Guthrie Freel Jr.
Marvin D. Friedman
Leonard C. Fuller
Robert M. Fuller
James H. Fulton
Stephen & Judy Gagliano
Richard Scott Gallian
B. J. Gamble
Angelo & Anne Garcia
Elinor Maxwell Garner
Seaton & Kristin Garrett
Denise P. Garrett
Lin Ge
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Howard & Diane Green
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Holly Danielle Hancock
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Deborah L. Harrell
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Nobumasa Haruka
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Michael S. Haupert
Jared James Hausfeld
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Yuchan Hendricks
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Micah E. Johnson
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FedEx Chairman and CEO
Fred Smith discusses economy
Frederick W. Smith, chairman
and chief executive officer of FedEx
Corporation, shared key insights on
how the economy is—and is not—
working in a keynote presentation
at the First Tennessee Foundation’s
Sixth Annual MBA Symposium,
hosted by the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business
on November 12. Smith pointed to
innovation, investment, and energy
as the formula for restoring America’s
economic growth.
“People who invent, innovate,
and invest are the job creators of the
United States,” said Smith. “We’ve
been eating our seed corn by consuming more than we invest. Economics is not that hard. A below-par
investment in software, equipment,
and public construction equals below
par economic growth.”
To spur economic growth in the
US, Smith emphasized the need to
promote tax policies that stimulate
capital investment and to level the
playing field among trading partners—particularly focusing on the
huge trade imbalance with China.
He also urged a coordinated energy
policy that maximizes US petroleum
production and decreases transportation petroleum dependence through
efficiency and alternative energies.
“In our opinion at FedEx, domestic
oil and gas production is the most
important reason why the US is experiencing a modest economic recovery
while Europe is doing poorly and
China, the locomotive of Asian growth,
has slowed down considerably,” Smith
said. “Without the fracking revolution
that began when Texas wildcat oilman George Mitchell developed the
technology to extract oil from rock
formations, we would have little economic growth in the US today.”
Although gas prices have declined
in recent weeks, Smith cautioned
audience members not to forget the
far-reaching consequences of reliance
on foreign oil. “People forget that in
the summer of 2008, oil went to its
highest price in history, $147 per barrel,” he said. “That meant a lot
of people with subprime mortgages couldn’t afford to buy gas
and pay their mortgage. The
increase in gas prices was the
match that lit the 2008 subprime bonfire that sparked the
recession.”
First-year UT MBA student
Michael Hromadka said he felt
fortunate to be able to learn
from a global business leader
of the FedEx leader’s stature.
“The Haslam Full-Time MBA
Program emphasizes the
importance of developing both
hard skills, such as finance, and soft,
less quantifiable skills like leadership,” said Hromadka. “Being able to
listen to Mr. Smith is a unique learning opportunity for students because
one day soon we will be the ones
developing and implementing strategies to improve our companies, our
communities, and our country.”
Funding for the annual UT MBA
Symposium was provided by the
First Tennessee Foundation, a private charitable foundation. Since its
formation in 1993, First Tennessee
Foundation has been committed
to building a better Tennessee by
awarding more than $55 million to
nonprofit organizations serving Tennesseans. To plant the seeds of success in the state, about one-third of
foundation giving goes to education
and lifelong learning.
Pam Fansler, east region president for First Tennessee, said the
opportunity to introduce the
next generation of East Tennessee business leaders to the FedEx
chairman and CEO was particularly
meaningful since Memphis-based
FedEx leads the list of the ten Tennessee companies included in the
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Left to right: Dean Mangum, Frederick Smith, Pam
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2014 Fortune 500 rankings, and is
the largest public company in the
state. “The First Tennessee Foundation is very pleased to be able to
sponsor the UT MBA Symposium,
and having the opportunity to welcome Frederick W. Smith here to
speak to the MBA students and our
local business professionals truly is
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Previous UT MBA symposium
speakers have included Berkshire
Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren
Buffett, Texas oil and gas executive
T. Boone Pickens, former US senator
and Secretary of Labor and Transportation Elizabeth Dole, and former
Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Smith also provided the keynote
address at the Global Supply Chain
Institute’s Supply Chain Forum,
which included nearly 200 representatives from more than 60 member
companies.
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George T. McGuire Jr.
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Robert M. McMahan
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Kim Melton
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Microsoft Corporation
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Schmid
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Ralph B. Smith
Richard & Carol Sneed
Tina Reshelle Snodderly
J. Ryan Sowell
Michael E. Spurlock
Wade St. John
Michael & Judith St. Charles
State Farm Companies Foundation
Connie Dorrough Steinmetz
Mark Alan Stephens
Melonie L. Stephens
Donald Richard Stevens
Gene H. Stewart
Rachel Marie Stewart
James & Cynthia Stone
Joe & Elena Strasser III
Matthew & Kristen Stuart
Charles W. Stumph Jr.
Lu Su & Alex Chen
Robert R. Sullivan
Christopher Summerlin
Jillian Sutton
Holly Rhianne Swersky
R. Paul & Tambi Swiney
Joe J. Tate
Uday S. Tate
D. Keith Taylor
Lawrence C. Taylor Jr.
David & Traci Taylor II
James & Wilma Taylor
Wilson & Lynda Taylor III
Tennessee Equipment Supply Inc.
Budd Terwilligeer
The Primary Care Center of Newport
Eddie & Brenda Thomas
David & Glenda Thomas
Mario Jamaine Thomas
Robert J. Thomas Jr.
Craig Thompson
Robert & Michelle Thompson
Steven R. Thompson Jr.
John B. Thornburg
Patrick Thrower
Ronald R. Tiller
Fredda Tipton & John Fox
Kiplynn Todd
Joshua Blane Tolley
W. Bailey & Sheila Tollison
Barry & Anne Totten
Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc.
Benjamin Gregory Trotter
R. Les Tubb
Thomas & Sandra Tuck
Griffin Garrett Tuggle
Thomas P. Tulloss
Stephen Ross Turbyfill
Steven & Lura Turner
W. Jeffery & Sue Anne Turner
Robert E. Tuttle Jr.
John L. Van Cleave
Robyn Van Dyke
William Robert Vance Jr.
William M. Vandegriff Jr.
Dennis R. Vanden-Bloomen
Robert G. Vanmalder
Sherry V. Vermillion
Christian & Christine Vossler
Donald & Judith Waldrupe
G. Vaughn Walker
Jeremiah A. Walker
Julie C. Walsh
Hongli Wang
Bruce A. Wankel
James & Candy Wansley
James Crawford Wardrop Jr.
Michael Lewis Wayland
James & Jean Weatherford
Doris D. Webster
William F. Webster
Jackie S. Weinstein
Shannon Marie Welch
Susan B. Welch
Raymond F. Wheeler
Gregory A. Whisnant
Robert Shelton Whitaker
Charles Buddy White
Doug White
Joseph Ewell White
Adam Ryan Whitt
C. Allen Wight
Christopher Edward Williams
Jannie Carter Williams
Joseph L. Williams
Patricia J. Williams
Doug & Carol Williamson
Richard V. Willmarth
Charlotte S. Wilson
John C. Wilson
William & Debby Wimberly
Winchester Group
Christopher Glenn Winkle
David A. Wintroath
Kiel Grant Wolf
David William Wood
Gary Lee Wood
W. Miller Wood III
Keith Eugene Woody
Elizabeth Worley
Nancy J. Worley
Leyton & Beverly Wright
Ryan Wilbur Yeckley
Thomas & Susan Yokley
Paul J. Yoo
Hassell R. York
Robin L. Yost
Shirley Yu
Yanhong Zhang
Gregory G. Zigulis
Scott Allen Zink
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This update reflects information known as of October 23, 2014, and
is listed first by decade, then alphabetically by graduation year.
’70s
The Walt Disney Company.
In her role she delivers brand
consistency, quality, and sales
performance across thousands
of product categories from
toys and apparel to fine art.
& Casualty Underwriter (CPCU)
professional designation and
is a Tennessee Supreme Court
Rule 31 Listed Mediator. For
the past twenty-one years
he has practiced law in the
Memphis, Tennessee, office
of Shuttleworth Williams.
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Randy Boyd (HCB ’79) received
the Tennessee Business Roundtable’s Gordon Fee Leadership
in Education Award for his support of statewide public education. He also was named Outstanding Marketing Professional
by the Knoxville chapter of the
American Marketing Association
and awarded the 2014 James
A. Haslam II Leadership Award
from the Knoxville Chamber.
Gary Pratt (HCB ’77), an
entrepreneur, CEO, and vice
chairman of the Surgical Review
Corporation in Raleigh, North
Carolina, an internationally
recognized healthcare nonprofit,
received the Accomplished
Alumni Award from the
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville.
’80s
Molly Adams (HCB ’84)
received the Accomplished
Alumni Award from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
during Haslam’s Women in
Business Conference. Adams
is executive vice president of
global product development
for Disney Consumer Products, the business affiliate of
Christi Branscom (HCB ’87),
deputy to the Mayor and
chief operating officer for
the City of Knoxville was
honored with an Accomplished
Alumni Awards from the
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. Previously, she
served as senior director of
public works and was the
first woman in Knoxville’s
history to hold the latter
position. She also is a part
owner for Partners Development, where she worked for
twenty years as legal counsel
and managing broker, and
Grace Construction.
Michael G. Derrick (HCB
’81), chair of the Coverage
Practice Group at Shuttleworth
Williams, has been elected as
a fellow in the The American
College of Coverage and
Extracontractual Counsel
by a unanimous vote of its
Board of Regents. The college
is composed of preeminent
coverage and extracontractual
counsel in the United States
and Canada representing
the interests of both insurers
and policyholders. Derrick
holds the Charted Property
George T. “Buck” Lewis (HCB
’76, MBA ’80), a shareholder
in the Memphis office of law
firm Baker Donelson, was
appointed to the American
Bar Association’s Standing
Committee on Pro Bono and
Public Service.
Knoxville, Haslam
College of Business
community, submit
it along with any
relevant images to
[email protected].
Please use “Alumni
Beacon
of Justice
Baker Donelson was
named a 2014 Beacon of
Justice Award winner by
the National Legal Aid
and Defender Association
for its development
of the innovative
OnlineTNJustice
platform, a new website
that allows Tennesseans
to seek free legal advice
from volunteer lawyers.
George T. “Buck” Lewis
of Baker Donelson
spearheaded the
website’s development.
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EMBA
Executive MBA
LUTCF
Life Underwriter
Training Council Fellow
MAcc
Master of Accountancy
MBA
Master of Business
Administration
PEMBA
Physician Executive MBA
Amy Miles (HCB ’89), CEO of
Regal Movies, was honored in
Variety’s 2014 Women’s Impact
Report.
ProMBA
Professional MBA
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2014 Alumni Award recipients. Left to right: First Tennessee east region president, Pam Fansler, Outstanding Young Alum Karen Bowling, and Entrepreneur of the Year Tim Williams.
Outstanding
Corporate Sponsor
First Tennessee
Alumni are making
a difference
The Haslam College of Business’s
sixth annual Alumni Awards Gala was
held in November to honor three worthy
recipients who have made outstanding
contributions to the college, their chosen
professions, and their communities. Please
help us congratulate Karen Bowling,
Tim Williams, and First Tennessee.
On March 25, 1864—while Abraham
Lincoln was president and the Civil War
raged on—First Tennessee received the
nation’s fourteenth bank charter and established an office in Memphis, Tennessee.
Today, the company is the largest Tennessee-based financial institution; it holds
$24 billion in assets and operates more than 170 offices statewide. More than one
in every four Tennessee households has a relationship with the company, and it
boasts one of the highest customer retention rates of any bank in the US. In 2014,
First Tennessee celebrated its 150-year anniversary of serving citizens of the state
of Tennessee.
A monumental anniversary calls for a significant celebration. To mark the
milestone, First Tennessee spent 2014 nurturing its tradition of giving back to
the community. Since 1993, the First Tennessee Foundation has donated $5
million each year to support financial literacy education, healthcare, economic
development, and the arts. This year, the foundation organized 150 Days of Giving,
a program allowing voters to cast ballots online for their favorite nonprofits. From
March 25 to August 21, the First Tennessee Foundation awarded 150 grants, each
worth $5,000, to the charitable organizations that garnered the most votes.
UT has benefited from the company’s generosity, says First Tennessee’s
east region president, Pam Fansler. “We have a relationship with the university
that stretches back several decades.” Several UT alums hold important positions
in the company, and the bank has a history of contributing to the university.
In the 1990s, First Tennessee gave $1 million to UT for scholarship support
extending over a ten-year period. “Then, in the mid-2000s, we dedicated another
$1 million to the university, pledging half of it to the Financial Literacy Program at
UT’s Institute of Agriculture, and the other half to the Haslam College of Business
to fund the First Tennessee MBA Symposium,” Fansler says. Since its inception,
the symposium has hosted a number of high-profile speakers to address students,
community leaders, and local businesspeople.
In honor of First Tennessee’s continued generosity and clear commitment to
the university community, the Haslam College of Business proudly names First
Tennessee as its Outstanding Corporate Sponsor for 2014.
Entrepreneur
of the Year
“I love mentoring students—helping them
Tim Williams CEO/Co-founder,
21st Mortgage Corporation
evaluate their futures and capitalize on the
great education they’re receiving at UT.”
—Karen Bowling
OUTSTANDING
YOUNG ALUM
Karen Bowling
Deloitte & Touche LLP
At the moment she received
her diploma, Karen Bowling embarked
on a successful career—and a
commitment to giving time and
effort back to the university.
After graduating from UT in 1994 with
an accounting degree, Bowling moved
to Atlanta to work in Arthur Andersen
LLP’s audit practice where she focused primarily on utility and airline
industry clients. She joined Deloitte & Touche LLP in 2002 and relocated
five years later to the firm’s national professional practice office in
Connecticut. “I worked with the leadership of Deloitte’s audit practice
to further develop processes and activities related to the firm’s regular
inspection by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board,”
Bowling explains.
Bowling gained an opportunity to again work directly with
clients—and a chance to move back to East Tennessee—in 2013.
“My husband and I have a lot of family and friends in the area and,
in many respects, Knoxville is home.”
Throughout the years, Bowling has retained strong ties with the
Haslam College of Business. She’s a member of the Department of
Accounting and Information Management Advisory Roundtable, acts
as the UT/Deloitte liaison for student recruiting, and serves as chair of
a yearly fundraising campaign benefiting the endowed Deloitte LLP
Accounting Professorship and other programs within the Department
of Accounting and Information Management. Now back in Knoxville,
Bowling hopes to confer more closely with UT faculty members.
Students are another focus of Bowling’s efforts. “I love mentoring
students—helping them evaluate their futures and capitalize on the
great education they’re receiving at UT.”
Personal experience taught Bowling the importance of
mentoring. “My professors imparted so much to me. They took time
to share their experiences and taught me the importance of making
personal connections—a value I’ve practiced in my professional life.”
While her experiences as an undergraduate impacted her career,
Bowling says the pivotal event in her life came while she was a member
of the UT Pride of the Southland Marching Band—she met
her husband, Mark. “He’s always been a fantastic supporter of my
career. A huge part of this recognition goes to him.”
For her commendable career and her generous collaboration
with UT, the Haslam College of Business proudly names Karen
Bowling the Outstanding Young Alum for 2014.
alumni NEWS
ALUMNI AWARDS
After fifteen years as CEO of
Vanderbilt Mortgage, Tim Williams
decided to strike out on an ambitious
path—starting his own business.
“While socializing outside of work, my
colleague Richard Ray and I settled on a
strategy to start a private label finance
company for home manufacturers and
retailers,” Williams says. Ray investigated the market and saw an
opportunity for their idea to flourish.
In 1995, Williams resigned from Vanderbilt Mortgage, which
finances sales of homes for customers of Clayton Homes’ 300
dealerships, and co-founded 21st Mortgage. “I’d worked for Clayton
since I was nineteen years old, so it was a significant shift,” says
Williams. Rather than objecting to the loss of its CEO, Williams’s former
employer applauded the endeavor. “Before we’d booked the first loan,
Clayton Homes asked to become a partner.”
Since it opened its doors nineteen years ago with a staff of four,
21st Mortgage has become the largest lender serving the manufactured
housing industry, with $7.5 billion of assets and more than 670
employees. Almost 10 percent of the nation’s homes are manufactured,
assuring a continued demand for financing. “It’s a vibrant company
with consistent yearly growth,” says Williams.
Careful attention to specifics and a grasp of the big picture are
keys to success in building a business, says Williams. “An entrepreneur
has to pay attention to details but also have an overarching vision—that
combination makes or breaks you.” Williams believes the company’s
most important assets are its employees. “When we started 21st
Mortgage, we made a commitment to finding bright people and
training them to do their jobs well. Since 2006, we’ve been the largest
employer of new UT graduates each year.”
Williams credits his UT education with much of his business savvy.
While an employee of Clayton Homes, he pursued first a bachelor’s
degree in accounting and then an MBA, graduating in 1993. “When I
co-founded 21st Mortgage, I was using all of the latest principles I’d
learned—things such as human resource management and computer
programming. Without the solid foundation of my education at UT, I
couldn’t have achieved the successes of my career.”
In honor of his success, the Haslam College of Business proudly
recognizes Tim Williams as the 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year.
“When we started 21st Mortgage, we made a
commitment to finding bright people and training
them to do their jobs well. Since 2006, we’ve been
the largest employer of new UT graduates each year.”
—Tim Williams
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alumni NEWS
Alice West (HCB ’80, MACC
’83) joined the LBMC Technologies, LLC, Knoxville office as a
business system consultant.
Left to right: Don Bruce, Doug Horne, Janet McKinley, and Chancellor
Jimmy Cheek.
Haslam Graduates take home
UT Alumni Awards
Haslam College of Business alumni received several honors
conferred at the UT Alumni Awards Gala on October 24,
with winners in almost every category.
Randy Boyd (HCB ’79), an industrial management
graduate, received the highest honor UT can confer upon
any alumnus, the Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award.
The award recognizes Boyd’s outstanding international
achievement as founder, chairman, and CEO of Radio
Systems, the parent company of Invisible Fence and PetSafe.
David Bohan (HCB ’70) was recognized with an
Alumni Professional Achievement Award for his lifetime
of work in marketing and advertising. He serves as
chairman and CEO of BOHAN, one of the largest
advertising agencies in Tennessee.
Three of the four Alumni Service awards were given to
Haslam alumni: Don Bruce (HCB ’73) marketing, Doug
Horne (HCB ’76) industrial management, and Janet
McKinley (HCB ’80) accounting.
Bruce is the owner and CEO of American Home Design,
which he founded in 1977 and built into a successful home
improvement company. He supports the Anderson
Entrepreneurship Center as a speaker and strategic advisor.
He also donates multiple resources to facilitate relationships with potential graduate students, deans, and donors.
Horne is a past member of the Chancellor’s Associates
and until recently was a member of the Foundation Board
and the UT Board of Trustees. He spent fourteen years at
TVA, then began a real estate and entrepreneurial career
that has included 140 projects across twenty-one states.
His business acumen was influential in assisting UT
negotiate the 2008 national financial crisis.
Janet McKinley has been an avid supporter of UT for
more than thirty years. She serves on the UT Foundation
Board, the board of Governors and the Department of
Accounting and Information Management Advisory
Council, as well as numerous other university societies.
McKinley spent decades at BellSouth Corporation,
culminating in her role as chief corporate auditor.
For more information on the UTK Alumni Board of
Director’s Alumni Awards Program, as well as a full list of
recipients, please visit: tiny.utk.edu/HCBAlumni.
’90s
Chef Tim Love
in Knoxville
Bob Sperof (EMBA ’08) is
vice president of people
strategies and services at
Orgwide Services.
Tim Spires (MBA ’07) was
the 2014 commencement
speaker at Cleveland State
Community College in
Cleveland, Tennessee. Spires
is president and CEO of
the Tennessee Association
of Manufacturers and the
Chattanooga Regional
Manufacturers Association.
John Thayer (MBA ’11) is
category manager, waste
management for Radio
Systems Corporation.
Chef Tim Love
(HCB ’94) returned to
campus for the Alabama game to cook a
gourmet tailgate for
family and friends.
Love has received
national acclaim for his
urban western cuisine,
especially in his flagship
restaurant, Lonesome
Dove Western Bistro, in
Ft. Worth, Texas. He has
appeared on Iron Chef
and Top Chef Masters,
and is a host for CNBC’s
Restaurant Startup.
Chattanooga-based
software company, Ambition, founded by Travis
Truett (HCB ’09), Brian
Trautschold (HCB ’09),
Jared Houghton (HCB ’10)
and Wes Kendall (PhD ’11)
now has fifteen employees,
and its customer base is
growing 40 percent per
month. The browser-based
platform is an incentive
program that helps companies motivate their sales
forces through team-based
competition.
’10s
’00s
Tim Davis (EMBA ’06) is
director of family office at
Pointer Management.
Hanna Bacon (HCB ’12)
was promoted to human
resources representative for
Barge, Waggoner, Sumner
and Cannon, Inc.
children abroad for every $100
in printing. During its first six
months in business, Peanut
Butter Printing has donated
13,000 packets of nutrient-rich
peanut butter. Original Photo:
Larry McCormack.
Big
Thank
you!
Alumni
contributed
more than
$103,000
to the Haslam College of
Business in just five days
during this year’s Big
Orange Give.
Mark Clark (EMBA ’10) is
controller at Wolverine Tube Inc.
This update reflects information known as of October 22, 2014.
’40s
Coleman (’40), died with
her family at her side on
Aug. 14, 2014, at age 95.
Loganne Eckhoff (HCB ’12) was
promoted to human resource
manager at Georgia Pacific.
She was an active member
of the Saint Alban
Presbyterian Church
and a champion golfer.
William G. Cooper Jr.
Chad Elmore (ProMBA ’11)
is digital communications
lead at Pyxl, Inc.
(’43), a decorated WWII
veteran, died on June 19,
2014. He retired from Dixie
Yarns after 19 years of service
and was a former employee
with Brock Candy Company,
also for 19 years.
James Bradshaw (ProMBA
’13) joined the University of
Tennessee’s chemistry department as an adjunct professor
in part do to his research
utilizing the UTK/Y-12 MOU
in mid-2011 to study soil, water,
and surface samples following
a nuclear event.
Meghann Erhart (EMBA ’13)
is director of customer sales
support and logistics at Pilot
Flying J.
Frances “Chick” Foreman
(’42) died in her home in
Black Mountain, NC, on Sept.
26, 2014. She was a bilingual
author, missionary to China
and Korea, and director of
John Houser (EMBA ’10)
is director of supply chain
management at Fairchild
Semiconductor.
County SALT Council. She
worked for the US State
Department in Europe and
Mary Ellem “Emmie”
ORANGE
GIVE
IN memoriam
Christian education at
Asheville’s First Presbyterian
Church.
Elliott Kane (’45), age
the Georgia State Department
of Human Resources.
Elgene Fredrick “Tut”
Silvey (’42), 93, died on
Aug. 22, 2013, in his home.
He served in the US Marine
Corps in WWII and was
past president and CEO of
Harriman Welding Supply.
Anna Williams (’44) died
on Jan. 20, 2014, in Tucson,
AZ, at age 90. She met her
husband of almost 68 years
while at UTK and moved
with him to Los Angeles
after graduation, where they
remained for the duration of
his noted journalism career.
Price B. Womack (’48) of
Nashville, TN, died on Sept.
16, 2014, at the age of 95.
Womack, a WWII veteran,
built his career in finance as
a certified public accountant
and auditor. He also was a
330 Mason.
91, died Sept. 9, 2014,
surrounded by his family.
Kane was a WWII veteran
’50s
who survived Normandy and
Okinawa. He later founded
Kanecrest and owned The
Kane Company.
Nate Buchanan (HCB ’11,
MBA ’12) founded Peanut
Butter Printing, a company
that donates ten packets of
peanut butter to starving
Larsen Jay (EMBA ’12) was
named a 2014 Health Care
Hero as founder/CEO of
Random Acts of Flowers.
Sylvia Shore (’42), 88,
died July 11, 2013, in Stone
Mountain, GA. Shore was a
member of the Daughters
William Allison (’57), age
84, died Aug. 9, 2014. He was
a co-founder and member of
Cokesbury United Methodist
Church, TACLU past president,
member of the Board of
Directors for Hiawassee
College, and served in the US
Navy during the Korean War.
of the American Revolution
and co-chair of the Gwinnett
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If you have an obituary for a University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Haslam College of Business alumnus, please submit it to us at
[email protected] using “In Memoriam” in the subject line.
Emma Birdwell (’54) of
Franklin, TN, died Oct. 31,
2013, at the age of 81.
Barbara Bishop (’55) died
at the age of 81 on Sept. 21,
2014. Bishop was employed
for 34 years at Oak Ridge
National Laboratories as a
computer specialist.
John Lavaggi (’52) of
Union City, NJ, died in Sun
City, AZ, on June 11, 2014.
Lavaggi was a WWII veteran
who was employed by Kraft
Foods for 31 years. He is
survived by his wife of
67 years.
Carroll Ogle (’52)
passed away on July 1, 2014,
in his home in Cary, NC. His
career spanned fields from
telecommunications to
commercial builder and he
was a managing partner in
seven companies. He also
was a 32nd degree Mason.
Robert Schriver Jr.
(’50) of the Schrivers
Brothers clothing store
family died on Dec. 19,
2013, after 62 years with
his wife. He was a building
contractor who developed
many prestigious Knoxville
neighborhoods and also
a WWII and Korean War
veteran.
Henry “Hank” Smith
(’57), former corporate
vice president of human
resources for Continental
General Tire, Inc., died Aug.
23, 2014, in Atlanta, GA. He
was a US Navy Korean War
veteran and is survived by
his wife of 61 years.
’60s
Richard Brumfield (’64), a
former resident of Kingsport,
TN, died on April 18, 2014, in
Sarasota, FL. He was 71.
Royce Davenport
(’69), a Vietnam veteran of
McMinnville, TN, died on July
1, 2014. Davenport was the
owner/operator of Quick
Wash Laundries and West
Main Company and two-time
mayor of McMinnville. He
was 66.
JoAnn DeLaney (’60) spent
50 years married to her high
school classmate before dying
on May 9, 2014, in Mount
Pleasant, SC, at the ago of 76.
She was a retired high school
teacher.
Paul Ferguson “Fergie”
Farmer (’60) was an avid
UT supporter and past
president of Phi Sigma Kappa
who died June 5, 2014, at
age 76. Farmer was a store
planner for Ace Hardware for
23 years and was married to
his wife, who survives him, for
48 years.
’70s
Satyanarayana
Cherukuri (’78) was a
proud alumnus of UT who
worked as a consultant for
Westinghosue for 15 years.
After retirement, he was
an owner of Cherukuri and
Associates. Cherukuri died
Aug. 5, 2014, at age 67.
Gilbert “Gil” Dake (’72), age
65 of Hixson, TN, died Aug.
24, 2014. He was formerly
with Buster Brown and Cross
Creek Apparel and was
owner/ operator of Signs By
Tomorrow. He also was very
active in the Chattanooga
Chamber of Commerce.
In memoriam
Stuart Uselton (’82) of
Charlotte, NC, died on Sept.
16, 2014, after a battle with
leukemia. He was an avid
Vols fan, an Eagle Scout, and
rose to senior vice president,
treasury, tax, and credit at
Cato Corporation during his
accountancy career.
Carol Maples (’76), age 61,
of Gallatin, TN, died Aug. 28,
2014. Maples was a longtime
employee of TVA where she
worked until retiring in 2002.
Glen Pinkston (’72) worked
for Firestone Tire and Rubber
Company, Dayton Tire and
Rubber Company, PIE
Nationwide, and was employed
with LRA Constructors, Inc.,
for 23 years before his death
on Sept. 17, 2014. He also was
a US Army veteran.
’90s
Randy Franklin (’90), a
lifetime resident of Sevier
County, died on Aug. 27, 2014,
at age 51. Franklin worked
as a CPA for KPMG and the
State of Tennessee. He was
valedictorian and first chair
trumpet in Sevier County High
School’s class of ‘84.
’00s
’80s
Harrison Culver (’80)
was an engineer and
businessman who worked
36 years in the nuclear power
industry before his death on
May 13, 2014. He is survived
by his wife of 57 years.
Whitney “Whit” Stegall
Jr. (’80) died unexpectedly
at age 56 in his home in
Brentwood, TN, on Aug. 31,
2014. He was regional vice
president of Primerca Financial
Services and a member of
Kappa Sigma fraternity.
James “Jim” Owens (’00)
died Sept. 30, 2011, at age 65.
Owens worked at Oak Ridge
National Laboratories for 31
years and is survived by his
wife of 43 years.
’10s
Jason Monteleone (’13)
of Dandridge, TN, formerly of
Greenville, TN, passed away
suddenly on May 25, 2014, at
the age of 35. He was general
manager of sales for Rent-AWheel of Augusta, GA.
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