Allison Tarr, MBA 2012 The second in a series of  reflections on UNC Kenan-Flagler's Sustainability Immersion, our capstone experiential learning course where graduating MBAs work to solve real-world business challenges in Eastern North Carolina and East Africa.  Selam Children’s Village is a unique and special program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that has taken philanthropy and the idea of helping others towards a more self-sustaining model.  Myself and three other colleagues visited...read more

Brian Westlander, MBA 2012  The first in a series of  reflections on UNC Kenan-Flagler's Sustainability Immersion, our capstone experiential learning course where graduating MBAs work to solve real-world business challenges in Eastern North Carolina and East Africa.  The smell of roasting coffee beans virtually assaults you when you enter the front door of TO.MO.CA (Tomoca) Coffee. The first sniff is almost overpowering, but each subsequent one pulls you in a bit more gently. I love...read more

From UNC's Sustainability blog “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition" recognizes Carolina as a national leader in campus sustainability. This free downloadable guide, published in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), highlights colleges that scored at least 83 on its 99 point scale. Carolina’s Green Rating of 95 recognizes investments in high performance infrastructure, moving towards climate...read more

Written by Christina Meinberg, MBA 2007 If you’re anything like me, once you start to get really hungry, you are on a slippery slope.  While passing through Roseville California recently, hunger struck and it completely took over.  I was tired. I was hungry.  And the clincher was that I was surrounded by six-lane roads and a blur otherwise known as corporate America at its finest (my husband even noted that corporate America...read more

Excerpted from the Sierra Club blog Native Virginian and Sierra Club member Tim Whitley was earning his MBA at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School when he attended two presentations that fortuitously connected two of his animating passions: combating climate change and alleviating global...read more

Tish Lascelle and Net Impact President Genny KingTish Lascelle, Sr. Director of Environment, Health and Safety at Johnson & Johnson, was Kenan-Flagler’s Net Impact chapter guest yesterday in McColl.  Her conversation with the filled classroom made one clear point to me:  Interconnectedness.  Tish’s background was in the chemical industry, working for Honeywell and Allied Signal.  But...read more

  By Sam Imende, MBA 2012Over the last weekend in March, I had the privilege of attending the Bretton Woods Symposium as a new Associate member of the Harambe Entrepreneurship Alliance (HEA).  The Alliance was established in 2007 to support a growing network of young African entrepreneurs committed to advancing Africa’s interest both on the continent and around the world.  The founder and chairman, Okendo Lewis Gayle, often reflects on the humble...read more

Miranda Ballentine, Director of Sustainability for WalMart, visited UNC, Duke and NCSU March 27 and 28.  This post on the North Carolina Sustainability Center site covers her comments at NC State.  UNC Kenan-Flagler graduate Katie Kross is the President of the NCSC.  By its own estimates, Walmart spends more than $5 billion for merchandise and services with over 1,500 suppliers in the...read more

The Global Business School Network (GBSN) MBA Challenge Video Competition asks: Can an MBA Change the World?UNC Kenan-Flagler answers: Absolutely! VOTE TODAY AND EVERY DAY between now and the end of the competition on April 15th for the UNC Kenan-Flagler GBSN video submitted by Annie Evans (MBA 2011) and Parker Wilson (MBA 2011) highlighting our capstone Sustainability Immersion course. UNC...read more

By Carolyn Yuen, MBA 2013 After an exciting weeklong of events, which made up Green Week, the hope is that the students’ increased awareness and desire to live a “greener” way of life leads to something that is realized and maintainable. The week started with a Bike to School day and group ride, which encouraged students to choose biking rather than driving or taking the bus. This led to increased conversations where those who regularly biked to school would give advice on the best...read more