Harrison Named Earl P. Strong Professor Of Executive Education
Terry Harrison, professor of supply chain and information systems at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named Earl P. Strong Executive Education Professor in Business.
Harrison Named Earl P. Strong Professor Of Executive Education
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 14, 2006)—Terry Harrison, professor of supply chain and information systems at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named Earl P. Strong Executive Education Professor in Business.
Harrison has been on the Smeal faculty since 1982, teaching courses and conducting research in the areas of supply chain management and modeling, large scale production and distribution systems, decision support systems, applied optimization, and the management of renewable natural resources.
Harrison has a Ph.D. and M.S. in management science from the University of Tennessee and a bachelor's in forest science/forest products from Penn State.
The Strong professorship is named for the late Earl P. Strong, professor of management at Smeal, who, in 1956, founded Penn State’s first Executive Management Program, now known as Penn State Executive Programs.
Penn State Executive Programs provides the world's leading corporations with both open-enrollment and custom education programs. Nearly 36,000 executives from 43 different nations have participated in programs on topics ranging from strategic leadership to supply chain management.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
