Creativity edges MBA

Consultant Susan Drake writes in Memphis Daily News that an IBM survey shows CEOs value above many other traits in leaders. IN Chattanooga, a U.S. Navy admiral reports to an audience on innovation within Defense, the TFP has it.

TN venture's Afghan contract

Maryville-based Critical Mission Support Services (CMSS), a turnkey service provider supporting global projects with construction, life support, demining, logistics/procurement, security and IT communications services, won a $10MM contract from Joint Contracting Command, Afghanistan.

UT Prof faces sentencing for using FN grads on USAF Work

The KNS reports J. Reece Roth (at left), the 73-year-old UT-Knoxville industrial-plasma and fusion engineer, who was convicted by a federal jury last year of plotting with Knoxville technology firm Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc. to violate the Arms Export Control Act by repeatedly allowing two foreign-national graduate students access to information on a U.S. Air Force project and taking data about it to China in May 2006, will soon face sentencing, and may ask for a new trial. He reportedly attempted to devise a way to make assignments to the students that would purposefully circumvent export rules. He and his counsel argue he wasn't familiar enough with the rules to have committed a crime.