Hannah J Stolze

Professional Summary

Hannah Stolze is an author, teacher, speaker and academic with a focus on transformative and sustainable supply chain management and the intersection of faith and business strategy. Stolze is the inaugural William E. Crenshaw Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Management in the Department of Management in Baylor University’s nationally-ranked Hankamer School of Business. Stolze is the founding director of the Wheaton Center for Faith & Innovation at Wheaton College. A former member of the U.S. Army, Stolze served in the Ordnance Corp and in public affairs. She also worked in international business and was a 2020 Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia. She has conducted empirical research with more than 50 companies in the areas of global supply chain management, faith integration, and social and environmental sustainability. Stolze published the article “Sustainable SCM and Bad Press” in the Harvard Business Review. She is the author of the book, “Wisdom Based Business: Applying Biblical Principles and Evidence-Based Research for a Purposeful and Profitable Business,” which has been endorsed by several industry leaders including Kristin Colber-Baker, head of Global Talent, Mars, Inc.

Education

• 2019 – MA Biblical Studies, Wheaton College, Wheaton Illinois

• 2012 – PhD Business Administration Emphasis in Logistics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

• 2005 – MBA Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri

• 2003 – BA in International Political Economics and Chinese, Minor: Asian Studies, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Courses

• MGT 4396 – Supply Chain Internship

• MGT 4345 – Global Supply Chain Management 

Research Interests

• Transformative Supply Chain Management: well-being, human flourishing
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management
• Faith & Business Strategy Integration 
• Marketing and Supply Chain Integration 

Selected Publications

• Stolze, H.J., Brusco, M.J., Smith, J.S. (2021), “Exploring the social mechanisms for variation reduction for direct store delivery (DSD) and vendor managed inventory performance: An integrated network governance and coordination theory perspective,” International Journal of Production Economics, (34) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108025.

• Satinover-Nichols, B., Stolze, H.J., & Kirchoff, J (2020) “Are You Prepared for Bad Press About one of Your Suppliers?” Harvard Business Review – online. https://hbr.org/2020/07/are-you-prepared-for-bad-press-about-one-of-your-suppliers. Published July 10, 2020. 

• Satinover-Nichols, B., Stolze, H.J., & Kirchoff, J. (2019) The Spillover Effects of Negative Supply Chain Information on Consumer’s Perceptions of Product Attributes, Journal of Operations Management. 65 (6), 536-559. https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1033. 

• Stolze, Hannah J., Diane A. Mollenkopf, LaDonna Thornton, Michael J. Brusco & Daniel J. Flint (2018), “Supply Chain and Marketing Integration: Tension in Frontline Social Networks.” Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 54 (3), 3-21. Nominated for best paper award AOM 2019. 

• Stolze, H.J., Mollenkopf, D.A., & Flint, D. J. (2016) What is the Right Supply Chain for Your Shopper? Exploring the Shopper Service Ecosystem. Journal of Business Logistics, 37 (2), 185-197. Featured in Supply Chain Quarterly, Q3 2016 Issue.