Centers + Labs

Centers

• Center for Professional Career Development (CPCD)

Helps prepare business students to stand out in a competitive job market and to succeed in today’s dynamic global workplace by providing career readiness training, professional development workshops and networking opportunities with potential employers.

• Center for Workplace Diversity & Inclusion (CWDI)

Interdisciplinary center created to foster research, learning and employee training related to workplace diversity and inclusion.

• Center for Arts Integration in Business Performance

Unique learning environment utilizing arts integration to blend business acumen with performance and leadership skills.

• Crews Center for Entrepreneurship

Exists to inspire, educate, develop and support both aspiring and active student entrepreneurs.

• Methodist Le Bonheur Center for Healthcare Economics (MLCHE)

Focuses on issues of efficiency, effectiveness and equity in healthcare through a variety of research, internship, instruction and public service programs.

• Supply Chain Management (SCM) Center for Excellence

Acquires, develops and curates engaged SCM research, education and consulting outreach that invigorates Memphis and the Mid-South.

Labs

• Cook Analytics & Trading Lab

Leading-edge technology and data center providing pragmatic, hands-on learning in an academic environment, through simulations with data and observations on how decisions could impact the market. Mimics Wall Street trading firm equipped with glass walls, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) tickers and 12 Bloomberg terminals.

• Customer NeuroInsights Research Lab (C-NRL)

Behavioral research and teaching facility that features state-of-the-art machinery capable of assessing eye-tracking, skin response, brain activity and facial recognition.

• Systems Testing Excellence Program (STEP)

Major interdisciplinary research initiative positioned to elevate the University as a leader in science of systems testing.