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Dr. Tony Plath, associate professor of finance, has been putting his expertise on banking and the financial services industry to work on the Charlotte Observer website, answering reader questions on the economy and recent shakeups in investment banking. The feature, “Ask The Professor,” is available through the Observer website at CharlotteObserver orCharlotteObserver Blogspot. Plath participated […]

The Belk College of Business is a lead sponsor of TEDxCharlotte , an event affiliated with www.ted.com aimed to inspire, educate and bring together TED followers and other innovative thinkers in Charlotte and the surrounding area. TEDXCharlotte takes place Friday, Sept. 24 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM The agenda and speaker info is available […]

Kwame Jackson, a Charlotte native who was one of the breakout stars of the first season of the hit TV show “The Apprentice,” will share hishis “Lessons from the Boardroom” with UNC Charlotte students on Tuesday, March 20. Jackson’s appearance is part of UNC Charlotte’s Conversations in Leadership series andis co-sponsored by the Belk College […]

Data Confirms Decline in N.C. Economy, Connaughton Reports “Modest” Recovery Could Begin in Second Half of 2009, says UNC Charlotte Economist CHARLOTTE – March 17, 2009 – The North Carolina economy is expected to show a decline of 0.4 percent during 2008, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported today in his quarterly economic forecast for […]

Glenn Burkins, assistant managing editor of The Charlotte Observer, will be the keynote speaker at UNC Charlotte’s 18th annual Barnhardt Seminar on Ethics and the World of Business on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Burkins will discuss the ethical issues he faced as a reporter, specifically his experiences in Ebola-plagued Africa in the mid-1990s. The seminar will […]

U.S. News and World Report has named UNC Charlotte one of the top ten “up and coming national universities” in its annual Best College issue. According to Robert Morse at U.S. News, the magazine asked top academics as part of the regular U.S. News peer assessment survey to name the schools that they think are […]

While Wall Street ended last year in the doldrums, the UNC Charlotte students administering the Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) in the Belk College of Business ended 2007 with a return that most investors would envy. As of December 26, 2007 the SMIF had returned 8.725% since August 22, the start date for the current […]

Matthew Johnson, a 1999 graduate of the Belk College with an undergraduate degree in international business, has been invited to participate in a prestigious rally-car road race in Mexico later this month. In Rally racing,drivers and their co-drivers take modified road cars over courses that cover hundreds of miles of gravel, dirt or snow-covered roads. […]

In an effort to reach out to alumni affected by the current economic crisis, UNC Charlotte is planning a career-transition conference Saturday, Nov. 15 at the Harris Alumni Center on campus. The conference, which will run from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM, is open to all UNC Charlotte alumni and their spouses/partners. Keynote speakers will […]

In the fall of 2011, students in UNC Charlotte’s M.B.A. program and other graduate programs will be attending classes in an iconic 12-story addition to downtown Charlotte’s skyline. Construction is slated to get under way later this spring on the new $50.4 million Center City Building, which is the only University of North Carolina classroom […]