Herrison Chicas (PhD ’24) is researching the experiences of immigrants and their children in the workplace. In the process, he’s discovering a lot about himself.
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Undergraduate, MBA and PhD members of UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Class of 2023 look back — and look forward to what comes next.
Professor Shimul Melwani studies the role of emotions at work – and has some pretty strong feelings about her students.
Try multitasking. Research by Shimul Melwani and Chaitali “Tali” Kapadia (PhD ’17) shows it can boost your creativity.
Dr. Angelica Leigh (PhD ‘20) says the answer is simple: It's time for everyone to engage in acts of positive deviance.
From orientation to academics and career development, the UBP is focused on students’ success.
UNC Kenan-Flagler researchers examine how minority employees react at work to highly publicized police shootings of black Americans.
If you had a dollar in 1919, you could buy a nice dress shirt, two dozen eggs or five cups of coffee. Vacuum cleaners had just become commercially availabl...
Two days before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Shimul Melwani sat in her office with PhD student Angelica Leigh discussing the two paths diverging be...
You might call it “the one that got away syndrome.” When J.K. Rowling’s literary agent was shopping around her first Harry Potter novel, he received a doze...
In the Foundations of Business and Leadership class for freshman students pre-admitted to UNC Kenan-Flagler, Shimul Melwani, assistant professor of organiz...
Research by Laura Sonday highlights the role of reputational fears in deterring people from viewing themselves as leaders. ...
Professor Bradley Hendricks says that although founders are in greater need of advice than seasoned professionals, they also are more likely to ignore it. ...
“When you look at the jobs that are having trouble hiring, it’s the ones with really long hours, inflexible schedules, not great pay and limited benefits,”...
