The rise of the aerotropolis – a city built around an airport – is chronicled in a new book by UNC Kenan-Flagler professor John D. Kasarda. In Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next, Kasarda and co-author Greg Lindsay look at the evolution of aerotropoli around the world. They show how airports are driving change in cities and countries, and examine issues of city planning, globalization, world trade and sustainability. “Major cities are developing around airports,” said Kasarda, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC Kenan-Flagler. “They are fueled by speed, agility and connectivity, and they are changing the way we live and work.” Kasarda defined the term Read More
Monthly Archives: March 2011
BSBA Ranking Jumps to No. 8
UNC Kenan-Flagler is pleased to report that Bloomberg Businessweek ranked our BSBA Program 8th in the United States in its annual ranking of the top undergraduate business programs, up from last year’s ranking of 14th. This is the highest ranking our BSBA Program has ever received from Bloomberg Businessweek. This year’s rankings for UNC Kenan-Flagler’s BSBA Program include: A+ for teaching A+ for job placement A for facilities and services 3rd for public undergraduate programs 4th for academic quality 8th for student satisfaction “These ratings confirm the high marks from U.S. News & World Report, which ranked our BSBA program 7th in August 2010 based on its reputational survey of deans and program directors,” says David Ravenscraft, associate dean of Read More
Rewarding High-Impact Research
As CEO of both Bullard Restaurant Group and Iroquois Bio-Energy Company LLC, Clifford E. “Clif” Bullard Jr. (BSBA ’76) knows how to make an impact in business. That – and his love for Carolina – are what led him to establish UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Bullard Research Impact Award in 2009. “I wanted to provide incentives for and inspire faculty members to consider the impact on the business world as they choose research topics and communicate their results,” says Bullard. Each year the award recognizes a professor whose research has had a broad impact on the field, industry and society. In 2010, Ben Rosen, the Robert March and Mildred Borden Hanes Professor of Organizational Behavior, received the inaugural award for his comprehensive Read More
Launching the Venture
In 2006, while deciding whether to accept an offer to enroll in the full-time MBA program at Kenan-Flagler, I attended a reception with former Dean Steve Jones. There, I explained to him my desire to go to Carolina but also that I was choosing between two schools. He thought carefully and asked me what I wanted to do with my MBA. I didn’t know exactly, except that I knew I wanted to own a business some day. Dean Jones lit up and sold me on the school’s Entrepreneurship concentration and Launching the Venture program. The next day I called Sherry Wallace. She said I would never regret my decision to come to Carolina, and I believed her. During my second Read More
Top 40 under 40
Poets & Quants, a social network for MBA applicants, and Fortune recently featured organizational behavior professor Alison Fragale and finance professor Adam Reed in “The World’s Best 40 B-School Profs Under the Age of 40.” The site surveyed business school officials, students and alumni for favorites and then sorted through the nominations to come up with the list. Alison Fragale, Mary Farley Ames Lee Fellow and assistant professor of organizational behavior, teaches courses on effective leadership and negotiation skills to undergraduates, graduate students and executives. Currently she teaches the required leadership course in the MBA Program. She has taught or consulted on leadership and negotiation for executives in numerous organizations, including ExxonMobil, Bayer CropScience and Eastman, among others. Professor Fragale received Read More