Leadership in the News

MBA students raise $33,500 in donations for
Make-A-Wish in 48 hours
Twelve UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School students raised more than $33,500 in less than two days as part of an exercise designed to build their leadership skills.

MBA Students Invited to Global Chat with CEO of GE Moderated by CNBC’s "Closing Bell's" Maria Bartiromo
Over fifty UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA students were among the invited guests as GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt addressed several hundred graduate business students scattered across the United States and Europe during a “GE Live” broadcast October 24.

UNC Kenan-Flagler Announces Creation of Luther H. Hodges Leadership Center
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has announced the creation of the Luther H. Hodges Leadership Center to support leadership education and honor the late North Carolina Governor Luther H. Hodges.

STAR Project 2008 Does Consulting for Best Diamond Packaging
Before Kevin Thorne, who runs Best Diamond Packaging in Kinston, invested in another dispenser napkin-making machine, he consulted a team of first- and second-year MBA students through UNC Kenan-Flagler’s STAR program.

"SWAT Moms" Fill Work Force, Life Gaps
"Smart Women With Available Time," often professionals and workforce returnees, work part-time, tend to family in other times

$1 Million RBC Centura Gift Supports Leadership Initiative at UNC Kenan-Flagler
RBC Centura’s gift will allow for expansion of the business school’s Leadership Initiative. Launched in August 2005, the experience-based program assesses and develops students’ leadership skills in a way that integrates their classroom learning with real-world application.

UNC Kenan-Flagler STAR Program 'Stops Being Academic and Starts Getting Real' [PDF:325k]
MBA students are given the opportunity to gain real world experience through the Student Teams Achieving Results (STAR) Program.

UNC Kenan-Flagler Takes Learning out of the Classroom and into the Business World
UNC Kenan-Flagler launches its Leadership Practicum in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Commerce (NCDOC). This project received partial support from the Golden LEAF Foundation and the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.

Coach Dean Smith and Professor Gerald Bell Share Leadership Lessons in New Book
What can you learn from one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time that you can use in your business on a daily basis? Find out in former UNC basketball coach Dean Smith, UNC Kenan-Flagler professor Gerald Bell and sports writer John Kilgo's book, "The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching" (The Penguin Press).