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The Center for Real Estate at UNC Charlotte is moving closer to reaching its $4 million fundraising campaign goal. Campaign co-chairs Fred Klein, senior managing partner at Childress Klein Properties, and Todd Mansfield, chairman and CEO of Crosland LLC, recently announced $325,000 in new commitments. The law firms of K&L Gates and Parker Poe Adams […]

Many of the poor business decisions that led to the nation’s current economic crisis were not necessarily due to a complete lapse in business ethics, but human nature, a former Federal Reserve Bank executive said Tuesday at a conference at UNC Charlotte. “If you were an AIG executive, would you look at the current situation […]

Jill Lajdziak, general manager of General Motors’ Saturn division,spoke toundergraduatestudents in the Belk College duringa recent visit to Charlotte. Lajdziak, who headed Saturn’ssales, service and marketing operations before being named general manager in 1999, discussedSaturn’s strategy for introducing new models -including a hybrid-with Dana Lanham’s retail marketing class. She also visited the College of Engineering’s […]

Daryl Kerr, director for undergraduate student services in the Belk College of Business, recently received the Faculty Career Champion Award by the UNC Charlotte Career Center. Awarded annually, the Faculty Career Champion Award recognizesfaculty members for their commitment to career development issues, their championship of career related services and programs, their efforts to increase employer […]

Students from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, UNC Charlotte and Germany participated in a global summit yesterday to share perspectives on world hunger. The title of the summit, hosted and organized by the UNC Charlotte chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) was “Hunger & Poverty: Uniting Youth for a Common Cause.” CMS students from the Center for […]

Sungjune Park andChandrasekar Subramaniam, both assistant professors of management information systems, have been awardeda grantfor their pedagogical project, “The Use of Virtualization Technologies in Information Systems Education.” The Faculty CID Grant is funded by UNC Charlotte to support innovation in curriculum and instructional development.

Dr. Joseph B. Mazzola has been named dean of The Belk College of Business at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Later this summer, he will join one of the Carolinas’ largest business programs, with more than 2,500 undergraduate students, 500 graduate students and 84 full-time faculty members. Mazzola, a professor at the McDonough […]

Joe Price, a 1983 graduate of the Belk College of Business and a member of the college’s Business Advisory Council, has been named chief financial officer of Bank of America, effective January 1, 2007. “Joe Price is a strong and experienced leader, and a straightforward communicator,”commented Ken Lewis, chairman and CEO of Bank of America. […]

Tao-Hsien (Dolly) King has been appointed the Rush S. Dickson Professor of Finance in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. King, who earned a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joined the Belk College in 2006 as an associate professor. Before coming to UNC Charlotte, she taught at the University of […]

Ateam of UNC Charlotte students recentlyrepresented North Carolina in a national investment research challenge in New York City. Lee Bowles, Jarrod Green, Brian Schiffer, Suken Shah and Bruce Silberman qualified by having the top report and oral presentation in a state challenge in February, where they competed against teams from UNC Chapel Hill and Duke, […]