Shaping Leaders, Driving Results

CSE in the News

Triangle Business Journal

40 Under 40

Chris Bingham (MBA '09, BSBA '01), president of Riley Life Logistics, Evelyn Contre (MBA '06) managing director of Springleaf Strategies, Chris Widmayer (MBA '02) vice president of Regency Centers, and Rob Simora (EMBA '11) CIO and assistant vice president of Railinc Corp. are profiled as part of the 2011 class of outstanding professionals under the age of 40. (May 20)

Reuters

How the Top Business Schools Perform on Sustainability

In a ranking of U.S. business schools sustainability performance, UNC Kenan-Flagler came in at No. 8. (May 20)

Reuters

Pioneering green building hits old-style financial snags

Strategy/entrepreneurship professor Chris Wedding comments on the financial problems facing the environmentally conscious Greenbridge condo building in Chapel Hill. (May 19)

The Wall Street Journal

Looking to Turn a Profit— One Good Cause at a Time

Patrick Donohue (MBA '04), founder of Hoopfund.com, discusses his use of niche-crowd funding, a tool which helps good causes find donors. Donohue was also featured in Forbes. (Aug. 22)

Poets & Quants

Many Top Schools Absent From Aspen Ranking

An analysis of the Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking notes that UNC Kenan-Flagler ranked No. 9. (Sept. 21)

Bloomberg

Stanford Tops Aspen’s 2011 Survey of Socially Responsible Business Schools

UNC Kenan-Flagler ranked No. 9 in the Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey of the top socially and environmentally responsible MBA programs. (Sept. 21)

U.S. News & World Report

Business Schools Increasingly Require Students to Study Ethics

A discussion of the increase in ethics requirements at top business schools reported that UNC Kenan-Flagler has required an ethics course for nearly five decades. (Sept. 20)

Forbes India

Planning for a Balancing Act

The article features the research of strategy/entrepreneurship professor Al Segars on large-scale organizational changes. (Sept. 9)

Financial Times

Case Study: Swiss Re and Oxfam

Strategy/entrepreneurship professor Lisa Jones Christensen writes a case study about how reinsurer Swiss Re could help Oxfam, the relief and development non-governmental organization, achieve its goals. (Oct. 31)

Times of India

Who is Next in Line?

Dean Jim Dean writes about the importance of succession planning. (Oct. 31)

The Street

Career Advancement Trumps Financial Incentives For Millennials, Gen X

UNC Kenan-Flagler is announced for achieving top honors at the fifth annual National MBA Human Capital Case Competition. (Oct. 31)

The Wall Street Journal

Employees With 'High Potential' Need to Know

Organizational behavior professor Doug Ready comments on the risks surrounding a company's choice to label its high-potential employees. (Oct. 10)

Poets & Quants

Stanford MBAs Snag Highest 2011 Salaries

In a ranking of median salary figures for U.S. MBA graduates, UNC Kenan-Flagler came in at No. 20 with a median annual salary of $100,000. (Nov. 9)

Christian Science Monitor

Want a more ethical workplace? Make it childlike.

Organizational behavior professor Sreedhari Desai writes about how the presence of child-like objects can lead to a more ethical workplace. (Nov. 7)

Poets & Quants

MBA Jobs Back For Class of 2011

In a discussion of MBA graduates without job offers, UNC Kenan Flagler boasted a 17 percent decrease in students lacking job offers from 2009 to 2011. (Nov. 8)

The News & Observer

Speeding up our food safety system

Noel Greis, director of the Center for Logistics and Digital Strategy, writes about improving the food safety system in North Carolina and throughout the United States. (June 12)

Yahoo! Finance

Bankrupt American Airlines says your frequent flier miles are safe

Strategy/entrepreneurship professor Jack Kasarda stresses the importance of American Airline preserving customers' frequent flier miles despite the company’s financial issues. (Nov. 29)