In the News
A Sampling of Recent Media Coverage of UNC Kenan-Flagler

Faculty expertise

The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires featured a study by Douglas A. Shackelford and Jana Smith Raedy in “Study Shows Cautious Corp Response to Dividend Tax Cut.” CNNfn, The Los Angeles Times and National Journal also reported on the study. (February, April) Dow Jones Newswires wrote about it again in “Study Shows Surge In Dividend Payments Post-2003 US Law.” (June 29) The Washington Post quoted Shackelford in “U.S. Firms Keep Billions Overseas,” which The Seattle Times and MSNBC.com published.

The Wall Street Journal quoted Michael Stegman in “HUD Looks to Private Sector for Funds for Rehabilitations.” (Feb. 11)

The New York Times quoted Paul Bloom in “Offbeat Marketing for Cigarettes.” (July 1)

The Los Angles Times quoted James H. Johnson Jr. in “In a Reverse Migration, Blacks Head to New South.” (May 24)

The New York Times featured “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching” by Gerald Bell and former basketball coach Dean Smith in “Of Teamwork, and Caring.” The paper also quoted Steve Hoeffler in “A New Marketing Method for Siemens” and Neil Morgan in “After Buying Rubbermaid, a Deluge of Sorts.” (March)

USA Today quoted Rich Bettis in “EU ruling ‘could be troubling’ for firms” (March 26) and Al Segars in “SAS workers won when greed lost” (April 21) and in “First there was Beatlemania, now there’s Googlemania.” (May 4)

Reuters quoted Michael Luger in “N. Carolina Banks on Incentives to Rebuild,”  which The New York Times published. (Feb. 29)

Chicago Tribune quoted Jim Smith in “Big Cities Lag in Job Rebound; Most Trail Levels of 3 Years Ago.” (May)

Money quoted John D. Kasarda in “What makes a place hot.” (June) Associated Press quoted him in “IBM in N.C. hums at center of outsourcing debate,” which USA Today published. (March)

Crain’s Chicago Business quoted Eitan Goldman in “Top firms see churn; Changing of the guard takes place at area’s biggest companies.” (May 17)

Education matters

The Economist quoted Paul Friga (PhD ’03, MBA ’96) and cited a study he wrote with Bettis and former dean Robert S. Sullivan in “But can you teach it?” (May 24)

The Wall Street Journal’s collegeJournal.com quoted MBA Career Services Director Mindy Storrie in “Is the Outlook for M.B.A.s All It’s Hyped Up to Be?” U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Graduate Schools reported on increased supply-chain hires at UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Business Week Online quoted MBA Admissions Director Sherry Wallace in “The Year of the MBA Applicant.” (June 17) Financial Times quoted her in “U.S. visa worries deter foreign students.” (June 21)

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that UNC received a grant for entrepreneurship education from the  Kauffman Foundation and quoted Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Executive Director Jeff Reid in “How 8 Universities Plan to Use Entrepreneurship Grants.” (May) Papers in Atlanta, Palm Beach, Miami, Puget Sound, Seattle and Raleigh reported on the Center’s Venture Capital Investment Competition. (March)

Financial Times quoted Executive Education Associate Dean James W. Dean in “Real people want to study real business issues” (May 17) and mentioned UNC Kenan-Flagler in “Climate change for students: Global warming issue heats up at MBA schools,” which Canada’s National Post published. (March 15) WSJ.com featured UNC Kenan-Flagler as a school with “a strong tradition in social and environmental responsibility” in “Virtue Is In Vogue At Business Schools” and quoted Dean Steve Jones in “It’s a Revolving Door In Some Deans’ Offices.” (April)

Financial Times featured OneMBA® and quoted Associate Dean David Ravenscraft in “Creating partnerships across the globe” (March 22).

By the numbers

Entrepreneur ranked UNC Kenan-Flagler No. 4 of top national/regional programs.

Financial Times ranked the MBA Program No. 17 of the world’s top 100 programs and 12th of the top U.S. schools. (January)

Financial Times ranked Executive Education 17th overall, 11th for custom programs and 24th for open-enrollment programs. In custom programs, UNC was ranked No. 7 among U.S. schools and for new skills and learning, No. 8 for value for money, No. 9 for course design and No. 10 for aims achieved. (May)