The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise has awarded the 2012 Rollie Tillman Jr. Award for Outstanding Leadership to Greg Fontaine, a Kenan-Flagler Business School MBA 2012 graduate and Kenan Institute Leadership Fellow.
Archaeologists and scholars from the First Colony Foundation and the British Museum today (May 3) revealed recently discovered information on a 425-year-old watercolor map that could be a clue to the eventual fate of North Carolina’s famous “Lost Colonists.”
Alan Murray, deputy managing editor and executive editor, online, of the Wall Street Journal, will give a free public lecture at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 26.
Progress Energy executive Paula Sims has joined the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School as an adjunct assistant professor of organizational behavior.
The Economist correspondent and “Johnson” blogger Robert Lane Greene, author of “You Are What You Speak,” will discuss “Why Languages Matter in the Global Age” at a free public lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s FedEx Global Education Center on March 21.
Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO of Gallup, will give a free public lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Feb. 27.
A new summer program will immerse undergraduate college students from around the world in business studies at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School today announced that it has received a $100,000 grant from Z Capital Partners, L.L.C.
UNC’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) will offer a webinar on the “Implications of Selling Globally” on Tuesday, Jan. 31 from 1-2 p.m.
The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Iraq and Afghanistan will speak at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School on Jan. 30.
A new generation of entrepreneurs is leveraging the power of cloud-based computing, social networking technologies and a host of apps to provide a broad range of services in the online global marketplace. Constituting a human cloud of talent, these Internet entrepreneurs are variously referred to as freelancers, e-lancers, soloists, project employees or pay-as-you-go help.
The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School attracted top business school students and investment professionals from around the United States and as far away as London for the 7th annual Alpha Challenge Nov. 17-18, 2011.
An essay on how changing demographics are transforming the southern United States, written by Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise scholar James H. Johnson Jr., is featured in a new report, “A Way Forward: Building a Globally Competitive South,” released today (Nov. 17) by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Global Research Institute (GRI).
Increased stability and more transparency in Africa’s emerging markets is inspiring confidence in regional governments, and international investment and technology are flowing there as a result, said the opening keynote speaker for the 2011 Business Across Borders Summit, “Africa: The New Business Frontier,” Nov. 3-4, 2011, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Why Innovative Banks Care about Sustainability” will be the topic of a discussion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School on Nov.15 at 5:30 p.m. in Koury Auditorium
Sarah Perez has joined the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School as executive director of the MBA for Executives Programs.
Thomas Stith, program director for economic development for the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, has been appointed by the N.C. General Assembly to a four-year term on the N.C. Turnpike Authority board of directors.
The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has created a new fellowship program for outstanding women applicants to its MBA for Executives Programs.
The first class of MBA@UNC began classes July 4. Students average more than 8.5 years of work experience in a variety of industries and organizations, including Bank of America, Harrah’s Entertainment and Tribal Casino Gaming, Lockheed Martin, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines and Wells Fargo.
Award-winning journalist Charles Fishman, author of “The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water,” will discuss how the world of water is changing at the public lecture April 20 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has announced that Beth Flye will be director of admissions for MBA@UNC, its new online MBA program.
Business and academia leaders will share research and practical applications about areas that are critical to success at the conference “Innovating the Global Supply Chain” at the University of North Carolina.
CPAs expressed their highest level of optimism about the U.S. economy since the third quarter of 2007, according to the latest AICPA/UNC Quarterly Economic Outlook Survey.
An introduction to doing business in Brazil will be the subject of a webinar offered by the University of North Carolina’s Center for International Business Education and Research (UNC CIBER) April 20 at 4:30 p.m.
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