Remembering Hal Fearon
这篇悼念文章回顾了供应链管理先驱哈尔·费伦的生平，他创立了《供应链管理杂志》和CAPS研究中心，对采购与供应链领域的学术化和专业化贡献巨大。
Our friend, progenitor, and visionary in the field of supply management, Harold “Hal” Fearon passed on October 21, 2023. Hal was born in Pittsburg, PA, on April 22, 1931. Hal earned a BA and MBA from Indiana University, served in the US Army, and earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. In 1961, he became an assistant professor at Arizona State University. Hal spent his entire academic career—almost 30 years—at Arizona State University. During that time, he served as the chair of the Department of Management for 17 years and helped grow the Department's faculty from six to 32 members. In 1984, Hal helped establish and became the chair of a new Department of Purchasing, Transportation, and Operations, which is the current Department of Supply Chain Management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He authored or co-authored multiple books on supply management and published over 450 articles in business and scholarly journals during his career. However, beyond these publications, two of his major contributions to our discipline were founding the Journal of Supply Chain Management and CAPS Research. Hal founded the Journal of Purchasing in 1965 and served as its editor for 9 years. Hal advocated that a scholarly journal in the field of purchasing was needed to advance the profession and offer an outlet for dissertation and other purchasing research. An additional reason for the creation of the Journal was to enhance the academic respectability of purchasing as a profession. The Journal of Purchasing changed names, and in 1999, it became the Journal of Supply Chain Management to acknowledge supply chain management as the paradigm encompassing research in purchasing and supply management. The Journal was repositioned in 2008 with the mission of being the journal of choice among supply chain management scholars for behavioral, empirical research. Hal was one of the key stakeholders when this decision was made. He commented at the time that, “This will either be the end of the Journal or a spectacular success, but either way it needs to be done.” We are so glad that Hal was able to see his visionary creation of the Journal of Purchasing over 55 years ago paving the way for one of our discipline's premier journals today. In 1986, Hal established the present-day Center for Advanced Procurement Strategy (CAPS) and remained its director until 1996—7 years after retiring from Arizona State University. CAPS is a joint venture between Arizona State University and the Institute for Supply Management with a mission of conducting practice leading research. Hal's vision of creating CAPS has led to the membership of Fortune 1000-sized companies with US$3.2 trillion in aggregate revenue and footprints in 120 companies and the publication of hundreds of reports with 13,000 downloads just in 2023. While a professor, Hal was a co-founder and member of the board of directors of Rio Salado Bank in Tempe and a trustee of the State of Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement Fund. Hal was also a general partner from the early 2000s until 2020 in The Southwest Growth Fund, a hedge fund that invested in companies based in the US southwest. Beyond his many accomplishments, Hal was a marvelous person and colleague. I worked with Hal at CAPS Research in 1994, while I was a doctoral student at Arizona State University. Hal and I would sometimes discuss my coursework and the literature that I was reading. While there were many pearls of wisdom that I took away from these conversations, probably the most memorable was Hal's advice about practicality. Hal would say, “You know Craig, if you read and learn about something, but you never share it with others, then what's the point?” Hal was simply a wonderful person. He warmly welcomed me to NARS (the North American Research Symposium) in the 1990s and helped me establish a research relationship with CAPS and ASU that has lasted for a quarter of a century now. He will be greatly missed. (Lutz Kaufmann, WHU—Otto Beisheim School of Management) I am deeply indebted to him and his legacy. He was a kind, insightful, and generous individual. I still remember his witty responses and can visualize the twinkle in his eyes during our executive roundtable. (Thomas Choi, Arizona State University) He was definitely a pioneer and a huge contributor to the professionalization of purchasing and to building purchasing as an academic field! He helped me launch my academic career both through the doctoral dissertation grant, and my early CAPS research studies. He will be missed—his contributions will live on. (Lisa Ellram, Miami University) Hal was a big supporter of PhD students like me in 1988 when purchasing was just getting to become known as a field of academic study. I remember him coming up to me at an NAPM conference and giving me words of encouragement and support—at the time all of the faculty at UNC thought I was nuts … (Robert Handfield, North Carolina State University) I too was lucky to have had Hal in my life, both when I was a student at ASU and later as a colleague. He put ASU's Supply Chain program on the map starting in the early 1960s and set the foundation for its top ranking today. He left his mark on many, including me, as I still quote him today. Well done Hal. (Tom Nash, Vice President of Supply Chain and Chief Procurement Officer, American Red Cross) I met Hal back in my early days with Accenture (when it was still Andersen Consulting) when he provided input to Andersen's first ever procurement course for new consultants that I was putting together with Eb Scheuing. As well as being a phenomenally brilliant resource to us I remember being struck by his humility, constantly downplaying his contributions even though they so clearly helped elevate the course to the next level. (Mark Usher, Strategic Procurement Adviser) Hal is survived by Dottie, his wife of 69 years, two sons, Rick and Scott, and their wives, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. He will certainly also be missed by his extended family in the supply chain management community.