{"id":40,"date":"2008-11-10T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/magazines\/vanderbilt-business\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-07-29T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:02:34","slug":"a-place-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/a-place-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"A Place for Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nancy<\/a>
Hyer was selected by the Executive MBA Class of 2008 to receive the Excellence in Teaching Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To say that Nancy Lea Hyer is organized is an understatement. The Associate Professor of Management is well-known in Owen circles for her methodical approach to teaching, and that, not surprisingly, has led to some good-natured ribbing from\u00a0her students.<\/p>\n

She recalls the time when a group of them put on a skit that portrayed her using a flip chart to plan her family\u2019s weekend activities. It would have been clever had it not been so close to the truth. \u201cThey thought they were doing this absolutely hysterical piece, but we really do that,\u201d she says with a grin.<\/p>\n

While this may seem extreme to some, it\u2019s fair to say that she comes by it honestly. After all, she\u2019s an expert in cellular manufacturing and project management. She figures if manufacturing can be made more efficient by improving processes, why can\u2019t it work at home, too?<\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching process design and improvement has probably made me more organized than is good for a sane person, but at least I know what goes where. There\u2019s a place for everything, and everything is in its place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To say that Nancy Lea Hyer is organized is an understatement. The Associate Professor of Management is well-known in Owen circles for her methodical approach to teaching, and that, not surprisingly, has led to some good-natured ribbing from\u00a0her students. She recalls the time when a group of them put on a skit that portrayed her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":9026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,10],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-departments","category-faculty-in-focus","tag-fall2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/9027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}