Ken Hines (MBA ’84) senior managing director for John Hancock’s Bond and Corporate Finance Group, accompanies 12 MBAs to Kenya for Sustainability Immersion.
UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Lisa Jones Christensen on Africa as a learning laboratory.
Meradith Leebrick’s (BSBA 2006) nonprofit is offering free English lessons and supporting villagers’ craft sales.
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.
The UNC Kenan-Flagler blog provides a behind-the-scenes look at the UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA program. In the blog post highlighted below, Jeff Glade, associate director of BSBA Global Programs, provides an inside look at a Global Innovations in Energy Conference panel discussion.
Sustainable energy innovation at the base of the pyramid often starts at the household level and must overcome banks balking at lending to non-traditional ventures, according to a panel at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Global Innovations in Energy conference.
The UNC Center for International Business Education and Research (UNC-CIBER) and the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School are offering a free conference webcast of the Global Innovations in Energy: How Business Is Addressing Climate Change conference on April 20 and 21.
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.
Brad Sparks says "One of the main reasons I selected UNC Kenan-Flagler for my MBA was the Sustainable Enterprise concentration."
For David Kirkpatrick (MBA Evening ’91) and his clients, it’s easy being green. Even in this tight economy, the positive impact investment fund he founded benefits society, the environment and its investors.
Peter Skillern (Master’s of Regional Planning ’91) is working to help expand the reach of the American Dream.
Four MBAs and one BSBA worked with the Jamii Bora Trust microfinance organization in Nairobi to make strategic recommendations for improvement of Jamii Bora’s member business training program.
John Replogle, president and CEO of Burt’s Bees, spoke as part of the Dean’s Speaker Series at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School on April 22. He urged businesses to take the lead globally on sustainability efforts.
Brad Sparks, director of KPMG International’s Global Green Initiative, plans to use what he took away from a trip to Antarctica to further his efforts to help KPMG reduce its emissions globally and raise awareness of climate change issues with employees, suppliers and clients.
Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, urged Kenan-Flagler students to consider the notion of a "social business" with a goal toward helping others as opposed to focusing on profit.
Entrepreneurs benefit from free clinics with lawyers, accountants, marketing experts and pro bono and discounted hours with other resource providers in this program for startups, now accepting applications.
What was once considered forward thinking in sustainability has now become a movement of its own, creating an entire industry where companies are rushing to fill in the gaps. Evelyn Contre (MBA ’06) says, for companies that don't know how to go about it "I can show them what's possible."
Deb Parsons (MBA ’06) left her job in marketing and business development at software company Intuit Inc. and became interested in sustainable enterprise, which led her to UNC Kenan-Flagler.
Segun Olagunju (BSBA ’04) has spent most of the past four years helping businesses and people get on their feet. Someday he hopes to help nations do the same.
Henry McKoy (BSBA ’95) helps build teams in the business world by linking corporate success with benefits for the community.
Prof. James H. Johnson Jr. continues to broaden UNC Kenan-Flagler’s reach into social entrepreneurship and to live out in a pragmatic way the School’s mission to serve the state’s people.