Karina Franco has joined the Belk College of Business as director of undergraduate advising. A native of Mexico, Missouri, she earned a B.J. in Advertising from the University of Missouri and a M.A. in Student Development in Postsecondary Education from the University of Iowa; she plans to complete her Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from N. C. State later this year...
A paper by Yiying Cheng, a student in the Ph.D. in business administration program, has been selected by the the Financial Management Association International (FMA) as a semifinalist for one of four best paper awards to be presented at the 2012 FMA Annual Meeting.
The paper, "Land-Use Rights in a Compound Option Model of Real Estate Development", is the first essay in Cheng's...
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan will be among the speakers for the discussion “Strengthening Neighborhoods and Making Affordable Housing Possible,” scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 27, in McKnight Hall in the Cone University Center.
Dustin Read, assistant professor of finance and...
Ninth Annual Five Ventures® Business Plan Competition Begins
Charlotte Research Institute Issues the Call for Entries
The Charlotte Research Institute at UNC Charlotte has launched its 2010 Five Ventures® Business Plan Competition with a call for business plan entries.
Tony Crumbley, a 1972 graduate of the Belk College of Business and vice president for research with the Charlotte Chamber, recently posted an article entitled "Charlotte's Positive Economic Indicators" on the Chamber website.
David Hauser, M.B.A. '77, has been named chairman and CEO of Charlotte-based FairPoint Communications, the nation's eighth-largest telephone company.
Hauser, who will begin his new role July 1, previously had been chief financial officer at Duke Energy Corp.
At FairPoint, he replaces a fellow Belk College alumnus, Gene Johnson '73, who is retiring.
A group of 22 Belk College M.B.A. students visited Argentina recently as part of the M.B.A. Program's annual international study tour course. Dr. Jim Nebus, assistant professor of management, was the faculty leader for the tour.
The Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte and the Wang Yana Institute for Studies in Economics at Xiamen University hosted an International Symposium on Risk Management and Derivatives July 4-6 in Xiamen, China.
Two of the nation's top experts in business ethics and a retired executive from the Federal Reserve Bank will be the keynote speakers at an upcoming UNC Charlotte conference on "Business Ethics and the Credit Crisis."
Jeff Kane, the UNC Charlotte Trustee who recently retired from the Federal Reserve Bank as head of the Charlotte branch, will give the opening keynote...
The North Carolina economy declined by 0.3 percent during 2008 and is expected to fall another 1.8 percent in 2009, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported today in his quarterly economic forecast for the state.
However, Gross State Product (GSP) should begin to stabilize during second quarter and may signal a technical end to the recession, according to...