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Darmstadt wins Graduate Case Competition 

Top logistics students from the United States and Europe traveled to the Sam’s Club home offices in Bentonville, Arkansas to compete in the annual Sam M. Walton College of Business  International Graduate Logistics Case Competition on  October 22-24, 2009. Teams from Darmstadt University of Technology of Darmstadt, Germany, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Chalmers University of Technology in Gottenburg, Sweden, captured the top three places respectively.  More information    

Doctoral Dissertation Award Announced

The Center is pleased to announce the winner of 2009 Doctoral Dissertation Award: Scott Grawe, Ph.D. candidate in Supply Chain Management at the University of Oklahoma.  Grawe receives $5,000 in two instalments for completion of his dissertation, Organizational Implants: A study of Logistics Service Provider – Customer Relationships.  Read the press release

T. Boone Pickens Town Hall Meeting

T. Boone Pickens, oil man, billionaire, philanthropist, financier and outspoken advocate for energy independence, spoke to more than 700 students and people from the community at a "town hall" meeting in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development Auditorium of the University of Arkansas, from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. on Monday, April 6, 2009.

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News

• Walton College Hosts International Logistics Competition
  Top logistics students from the United States and Europe traveled to the Sam's Club home offices in Bentonville, Ark., to compete in the annual Sam M. Walton College of Business International Graduate Logistics Case Competition.
• Walton College Logistics Faculty Member Wins National Award
  The Supply Chain Managers Education Conference has awarded the E. Grosvenor Plowman Award to Matthew A. Waller, professor in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, for the best manuscript accepted for presentation at its 2009 conference.
• Supply Chain Management Research Center announces recipient of doctoral dissertation award.
  The Supply Chain Management Research Center has awarded the 2009 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award to Scott Grawe, a doctoral student at the University of Oklahoma.
• Supply Chain Research Center to Host International Logistics Case Competition
  The Supply Chain Management Research Center, along with several corporate sponsors, is hosting an international graduate logistics case competition from Oct. 21-24.

Upcoming Events

• Undergraduate Case Competition in Denver (1/28/2010 - 1/31/2010)
• Supply Chain Center Board Symposium (3/2/2010)
• Supply Chain Annual Conference (3/3/2010)

World in Motion Case Study

Terry Tremwel, the Center research director, Dan Lynch, Michigan State University, and Jim Crowell, the Center director, recently released a case study, The World in Motion Wind Turbine Company.  This case was featured in the FedEx Freight Graduate Logistics Competition in February 2008.  Read the case.

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