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The Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, the Department of Philosophy, and the Belk College of Business are co-sponsoring a public lecture by Patricia H. Werhane, Ph.D., on Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. in Storrs 110. Her lecture is titled “Moral Imagination, System Analysis, and Globalization.” Werhane is Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics and Senior […]

Belk College M.B.A. alumnus and advisory board member David Hauser, chief financial officer at Duke Energy Corp., was one of four CFOs who recently participated in a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Charlotte chapter of Financial Executives International (FEI). Hauser, along with the CFOs of National Gypsum, Lance Inc. and Compass Group North America, answered […]

UNC Charlotte’s Five Ventures business competition celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. This annual contest, sponsored by the Charlotte Research Institute, Belk College of Business, Office of Technology Transfer and the Ben Craig Center, includes a series of events beginning with a business planning workshop on Wednesday, Feb. 2. It will culminate in a gala […]

Dr. Steven Ott, the John Crosland Sr. Distinguished Professor of Real Estate in the Belk College of Business and director of the Center for Real Estate at UNC Charlotte, has been reappointed as a Distinguished Fellow of NAIOP, the national commercial real estate development association. NAIOP Distinguished Fellows provide a bridge between the practicing commercial […]

Professors in the Belk College of Business are frequently called on by members of the media to provide expertise on a variety of business topics. Tony Plath, associate professor of finance, is a highly-regarded expert on the banking industry. He has been in high demand this summer, in light of the volatility in the industry […]

Choice Translating, the company owned by Belk College alumni Michelle and Vernon Menard, was prominently featured in The Charlotte Observer on Feb. 2. Reporter Amy Baldwin’sarticle, “Breaking language barriers in business,” discussedChoice Translating’s growth since Michelle started the company as an international business and French major at UNC Charlotte in 1995. Sales were $2 million […]

Belk College M.B.A. student Debi Wessinger has been awarded the Zonta Club Fellowshipat UNC Charlotte. The fellowship is awarded to a non-traditional prospective graduate or undergraduate student, withpreference given to a student returning to formal education after some time away from school. The scholarship coversfull tuition for one year. Debiwill be a full-time M.B.A. student […]

Dr. Tony Plath, associate professor of finance in the Belk College of Business, was featured on the “Viewpoint” page of the July 31 issue of the Charlotte Business Journal. Plath’s editorial, “The decline of a banking powerhouse?” is available at bizjournals (registration may be required).

Dr. Steven Ott, the John Crosland Jr. professor of real estate in the Belk College of Business and director of the Center for Real Estate, is leading a professional development workshop for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) May 11 and 12 in Charlotte. The program, “Equity Capital for Commercial Real Estate: Understanding and Navigating the […]

Beginning today, the default email domain for UNC Charlotte faculty and staff will change from @email.uncc.edu to @uncc.edu. Faculty and staff are encourged to update their Outlook signatures, webpages and listserv memberships to reflect this change. (All internal listservs will be automatically updated.) When reprinting publications, letterhead and business cards,be sure to use the new […]