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October 2007

New Faculty Appointments at UNC Kenan-Flagler
UNC Kenan-Flagler welcomes 14 new faculty members in the fields of marketing; finance; entrepreneurship; accounting; operations, technology and innovation management; and organizational behavior and strategy.

UNC Career Expert Uses Dating Metaphor in a New Book to Help Job Seekers
Twenty-something job seekers can get help on the career front from a new book by Shawn Graham, a career counselor at UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Alumni Profile: Pursuing the Business of Public Health
Growing up in Russia in the 1980s and ’90s, Natalya Fedorova MacWilliams (MBA ’02) lived through the chaos from the former Soviet Union’s collapse as her country slid toward financial crisis.

Alumni Notes
Register for Reunion 2007! Find out how Kenan-Flagler social networking programs have expanded.

John Worth’s Career Corner: Ask Very Good Questions in Your Job Interview
At the end of most job interviews, you usually are given the opportunity to ask questions of your interviewer. Many candidates are prepared with questions, but are they very good questions?

$4 Million Gift Will Support Real Estate Development Center at UNC Kenan-Flagler
Leonard W. Wood has committed $4 million to the Center for Real Estate Development at UNC Kenan-Flagler.

The Wall Street Journal Ranks UNC Kenan-Flagler No. 6
The Wall Street Journal ranked UNC Kenan-Flagler 6th in its national ranking of MBA programs based on surveys of corporate recruiters.

Remembering 9/11
In memory of those alumni and others killed on Sept. 11, 2001, members of the UNC community gathered to dedicate a garden Sept. 11.

CEO of Deloitte and Touche to Speak Oct. 29 as Part of Dean’s Speaker Series
Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte and Touche USA LLP, will be the first speaker in the ’07-’08 season of the Dean’s Speaker Series at UNC Kenan-Flagler Oct. 29 at 5 p.m.

Duke and UNC Students Bond over New Case Competition
MBA students from UNC Kenan-Flagler and Duke’s Fuqua School of Business collaborated in September on the first annual Bonding of the Blues case competition.

Self-Help Founder and CEO to Speak at UNC Kenan-Flagler
Martin Eakes, founder and CEO of Self-Help, will speak about “Subprime Lending, Social Justice and Self-Help” at UNC Kenan-Flagler Oct. 11 at 5:30 p.m.

Expert on Global Innovation to Speak at Kenan Institute
The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC Kenan-Flagler is co-sponsoring with The Renaissance Computing Institute a lecture by Robert D. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, on Oct. 16.