Why do some firms willingly take on multifaceted, complex projects? Companies that set speed and efficiency as their goals eventually get to the same level. Why, then, do some companies perform better than the rest, year after year after year?
New research finds that companies that do well frequently rely on heuristics – simple rules of thumb.
UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Lisa Jones Christensen on Africa as a learning laboratory.
Jawahar Lal (Evening MBA ’08) developed the business plan for eMath360 in UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Launching the Venture program.
Meradith Leebrick’s (BSBA 2006) nonprofit is offering free English lessons and supporting villagers’ craft sales.
Three months after earning his MBA, Marc Zawel launched an online college admissions counseling program aimed helping high school students achieve their college dreams.
Nothing else could account for the 4 1/2 million pages of content on the website Pilon (MBA ’86) has developed with information on nearly any topic imaginable.
The University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School has appointed Ted Zoller as director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Zoller has served as executive director of the center since 2005 and has taught entrepreneurship at UNC Kenan-Flagler since 1999.
As an equity sales trader and manager at Instinet Corporation in New York, Joseph Saluzzi (MBA ’93) was familiar with market risk. That may have made it easier to take a big personal risk — starting his own company.
Investors are on the forefront of financing the future of energy, and entrepreneurs want to know who has the money, noted a panel during the UNC Kenan-Flagler Global Innovations in Energy conference.
As a partner with Intersouth Partners, a Durham-based, $780 million venture capital firm, James Rosen works with startup and early-stage research and development companies involved with pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, diagnostic tools and health care-related software.
Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Bonny Moellenbrock (MBA/MRP ’98) had an inherent appreciation of the environment. Now she’s in a role that connects her interests in various facets of sustainability.
I thought I got punked when I first heard the news. I was just at the White House on Jan. 14th for the forum on modernizing government, and had not unpacked my suitcase yet, and I was invited back to White House again? This time to be one of guests of First Lady, Michelle Obama, and to sit in her box at the first State of the Union Address delivered by her husband, our President.
Hajo Engelke (MBA ’09) launched Custom Choice Cereal after the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative helped him define his niche and develop a business plan.
Growing up, Jay Patel (BSBA ‘04) spent many summer weekends at hotels — working not vacationing. He and his brother made beds, cleaned swimming pools, repaired furniture and landscaped at hotels his father ran in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Peter Mitchell (MBA ’84) tells how he overcame losses right after acquiring Oakley Motor Repair in 1998 which he renamed TigerTek Industrial Services.
While starting a new business in the current economic climate may seem daunting to some, Laura Gamble (BSBA ’85) sees now as a good time to hatch a new venture.
Leslie Stracks-Mullem has parlayed her passion for food into a foodie’s fantasy with the new business she co-owns, Taste Carolina Gourmet Food Tours, based in Durham, N.C.
Sumit Vohra (MBA Evening ’07), CEO of LoneRider Brewing Co., is leveraging Web 2.0 marketing and a strict adherence to the brewery’s business model to tap the Triangle market.
A team from The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School won second place and more than $142,000 April 18 in the largest graduate-level business plan competition in the world.
Juan Pablo Giometti (MBA ‘06) has molded vivacarolina! to highlight the achievements of Hispanics in North Carolina.
GM, Ford and Chrysler might not have suffered the public relations black eye of their executives taking private jets to Washington to beg for bailout money had their CFOs known about the Jetpool option.
While the economy as a whole lost its footing in the fourth quarter of 2008, IT management and outsourcing firm WorkSmart logged one of its best quarters ever, in terms of revenue and bringing in new customers.
KeySource Bank has carved out a profitable niche in a volatile banking market.
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