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Dr. William R. Nance Jr.
Associate Professor of Management
Chair, The McAfee School of Business Administration
Sam M. Walton Fellow in Free Enterprise
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Office No: BAC-6
Box No: 1854
Phone: (731) 661-5505
Fax: (731) 661-5366
Email: bnance@uu.edu
Education:
B.S., Regis University
M.B.A., Union University
D.B.A., Nova Southeastern University
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Professional
Biographical Information
Dr. Nance is Associate Professor of
Management and Chair of the McAfee School of Business Administration. Dr. Nance holds a Sam M. Walton Fellowship in Free Enterprise from the Walton Foundation.
Prior to joining the faculty at
Union, Dr. Nance managed Capro,
Incorporated's Selmer, Tennessee facility. Capro, Inc., is a
division of Teleflex Corporation.
The Selmer facility designs, markets, and manufactures a variety of
mechanical control systems for customers in the outdoor power
equipment industry, furniture industry, and other industries.
Before joining Capro, Dr. Nance held
a variety of managerial, project management, and staff positions
with Lockheed-Martin
Corporation and General Dynamics at
the Milan Army Ammunition Plant in Milan, Tennessee, where he worked for over 12 years.
In addition, Dr. Nance managed a
furniture manufacturing plant in Memphis, Tennessee, was a sales
representative for a manufacturer in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and
served in the US Army.
Dr. Nance currently serves on the
Board of Directors of Leaders
Credit Union, Jackson, Tennessee.
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Personal
Biographical Information
Dr. Nance has been married to his
wife, Vivian Nance CPA, for over thirty years. They have two
daughters.
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Selected Publications
Holt, M. K., Nance, W.R., Jr., and White, D. (2006). Use the Force: Porter’s Analysis of the Bargaining Power of Buyers Applied to the RAND Study of Strategy in the US Higher Education Industry. Academic Business World International Conference. Nashville, TN, (May 2006).
Newell, H., Nance, W.R., Jr., and Absher, K. (2004). Factors influencing students to become business majors. Proceedings of the April, 2004 Society of Business, Industry and Economics Conference. Society of Business, Industry and Economics.
Russ, J.H. and Nance, W.R., Jr. (2004). Learning across disciplines: A case-study approach to teaching engineering economics and business policy. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. The American Society for Engineering Education.
Nance, W., and Pray, B. (1999).
Employee loyalty: Valuing the good and faithful servant.
Proceedings: 2000 Global Trends Conference. The Academy of
Business Administration.
Bayne, C., Nance, W., et al. (1991
November). Field life service prediction studies of the adhesive
joint in the M829 APFSDS kinetic energy round. Proceedings of the
predictive technology symposium. Oak Ridge National Laboratories
and the US Department of Energy.
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