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RESEARCH CENTERS

• Applied Sustainability Center

  • Working with disparate partners to facilitate the rapid development of sustainable business practices and promote their application across the retail and consumer goods industries. Working together through the Center, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, universities, and other interested parties can help to achieve environmental stability for future generations.

• Center for Business and Economic Research

  • A public service/outreach organization whose mission is to serve its constituents with unparalleled research support; basic and applied business and economic analysis; timely, relevant business, economic and related public policy information; and other outreach activities.

• Garrison Financial Institute

  • The Garrison Financial Institute is an institute organized within the Sam M. Walton College of Business to advance financial education and knowledge through practice. Its mission is to enhance student learning through experience, foster research that extends and perfects best practices, and contribute to the economic development of the State of Arkansas and the welfare of its citizens.

• Information Technology Research Institute

  • The Information Technology Research Institute will advance the state of research and practice in the development and use of information technology for enhancing the performance of individuals and organizations; provide a forum for multi-disciplinary work on issues related to information technology; promote student interest in the study of information technology; and facilitate the exchange of information between the academic and business communities.

• Center for Retailing Excellence

  • Center for retail studies focused on research and the development of students as future leaders in the retailing industry.  The center, through a strong partnership with the retail and supplier industries, seeks to become one of the foremost nationally acclaimed centers for retail studies.

• RFID Research Center

  • The RFID Research Center spans many disciplines including retail, supply chain, industrial engineering, and computer science, among others. The center's base of operations is a lab which models a production warehouse and retail store environment in 10,000 sq. ft. of space donated to the center by Hanna's Candles and located off-campus within Hanna's manufacturing and warehouse facility.

• Supply Chain Management Research Center

  • The goals of the Supply Chain Management Research Center are to coordinate supply chain research efforts, including transportation, logistics, management, planning, forecasting, marketing and accounting while providing support seminars and educational programs relevant to supply chain management.  We also support initiatives to promote supply chain management awareness, including student recruitment, retention, internships and placement opportunities.

• Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace

  • Judith A. Neal has been appointed the first director of the proposed Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace. The $2 million gift was matched from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation in the University of Arkansas Campaign for the Twenty-First Century, creating a $4 million endowment for the proposed center. The center will focus on curriculum development; outreach programs to business, churches and civic organizations; and research program support.

OUTREACH CENTERS

• Bessie B. Moore Center for Economic Education

  • The purpose of the Center is to establish an ongoing program in economic education. Examples of specific functions of the center include: Improving on-campus and off-campus instructional programs in economics by developing, providing consultants for schools, research in economic education, etc.

• Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development

  • Providing an environment of value added space, state-of-the-art technology and services that support the delivery of programming and events focusing on enterprise development, distance learning, and outreach alliances.

• Center for Management and Executive Education

  • Our mission is to serve the training needs of profit and not-for-profit organizations in Arkansas and the nation. Training programs designed to enhance managerial and leadership effectiveness are available for all levels of management and are transportation/logistics firms.

• Small Business & Technology Development Center

  • The rapid and vigorous growth of business in Arkansas creates new and exciting opportunities for persons considering or actually engaged in operating a small business in our area. Serving nine counties in north central and northwest Arkansas, the Small Business & Technology Development Center (SBTDC) at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, strives to deliver high-quality service to all our clients in three areas: seminars and conferences, one-on-one counseling, resource center.

• Center for Teaching Effectiveness and Faculty Development

  • The mission of the Center for Teaching Effectiveness and Faculty Development is to enhance student learning by promoting improved teaching practices of faculty and graduate instructors in the Walton College of Business. In addition, its mission includes the development of faculty in the Walton College. Consequently, the Walton grant is partially funding the Center.