Kenan-Flagler Business School

The newest class of admits for UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School are 43 percent female, 18 percent under-represented minorities, 12 percent first-generation students and 8 percent Carolina Covenant Scholars.

Established in 1919 as the Department of Commerce of UNC Chapel Hill's College of Arts, the School was renamed the Kenan-Flagler Business School in 1991 to honor two prominent American business families and benefactors of the School: philanthropist Mary Lily Kenan Flagler and her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler. The business school will celebrate is 100 year anniversary in 2019. Photo courtesy of Steve Exum.

Kenan-Flagler Business School introduces pilot MBA program for recent college graduates

By Emma Geis

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School is launching a new pilot MBA program called NC Business Next for recent college graduates. The program offers graduates with less than two years of professional work experience the option to get their MBA before entering the job market.

UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School has created a new orientation for all students newly admitted to the undergraduate business program called Spark. The new program facilitates interaction between new students in order to better promote collaboration and community in a way that the prior orientation, Engage, did not.

Kenan-Flagler Business School receives $11 million donation for new building

By Kyle Ingram

UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School announced Tuesday that the school will receive $11 million to support construction of a new building. The donation, intended to help grow the undergraduate business program by at least 50 percent, is the largest single gift from an individual in the school's history.

Carroll Hall is the home of UNC's Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

Hussman School terminates business journalism degree, returns it to certificate program

By Lauren Cook

The Hussman School of Journalism and Media is getting rid of its business journalism major.

Here's what you need to know about Kenan-Flagler's newest master's concentration

By Emily Orland

Kenan-Flagler is introducing a new STEM-based concentration to its MBA program for Business Analytics and Management Science.

The Kenan-Flagler Business School ranked 19th overall, including a ranking of 11th in accounting and 12th in Masters in Business Administration.

Here's how the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School is tackling wealth inequity

By Mary Mac Porter

The UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, along with other campus groups and organizations, is hosting a conference on Nov. 6-7 to discuss the widening wealth gap that exists in American society. Speakers invited plan to discuss how wealth inequity has impacted higher education, job outlooks and the future workforce.

DTH Photo Illustration. UNC’s oldest co-ed business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi was suspended this summer by their national board after the chapter was found to have violated the alcohol and hazing sections of the fraternity charter.

Here's what you need to know about the aftermath of the AKPsi suspension

By Elizabeth Moore

A five-year suspension of UNC’s chapter of the co-ed business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi came earlier this year after violations related to alcohol, hazing and disruption of an investigation by the chapter’s national body. But a new business organization named Scale and Coin has been born at UNC in the months since, drawing resources from Duke University. At its helm are some former AKPsi members, and students who were in the process of joining the UNC chapter at the time it was suspended.

UNC alumni Akib Khan, and Ted Zoller, PhD, Director of the Entrepreneurship Center and T.W. Lewis Distinguished Clinical Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, creating the On the Heels of Innovation podcast. Photo courtesy of Aspyn Fulcher.

Innovate Carolina and b-school entrepreneurship partner for On the Heels of Innovation podcast

By Anna Neil

Innovate Carolina and the Entrepreneurship Center at Kenan Flagler Business School host On the Heels of Innovation, a podcast about how to attain entrepreneurial success.

Triad Studios Team picture. Photo courtesy of Triad Studios.

Here's how student-run Triad Studios has made it in less than two years

By Rachel Crumpler

Student-run media production agency, Triad Studios, is making its mark on local businesses and beyond.

Carol Wolf is a professor in the School of Media and Journalism. Photo by Pam Gerolstein.

Professor wants to help students avoid debt at all costs with personal finance initiative

By Nathan Wesley

Carol Wolf, a UNC professor is embarking on a journey to teach personal finance to North Carolina students who may not know how to handle their fiscal assets in a more understandable way.

Kenan Flagler to add a new set of flags in the lobby to reflect students' identities

By Rachel Crumpler

Kenan-Flagler is going to put up flags for different student identities, including LBGTQ+, Native American and the Peace Corps.

The Committee on the Status of Women met on Thursday to discuss recommendations to address gender pay inequity at UNC. Committee co-chairs Elizabeth Dickinson and Brent Wissick and COSOW consultant Claire Counihan were present during the meeting. Committee member Kenya McNeal-Trice joined via conference call.

What's going on with the gender pay gap at UNC?

By Praveena Somasundaram

UNC continues to discuss its gender pay gap. Executive Vice Provost Ron Strauss is making strides to remediate the issue.

Senior Biology major Rachael Purvis and Chancellor Carol Folt were  interviewed Friday afternoon regarding the "Before I Die..." art  installment located near the Pit.

With Folt gone, how has Campaign for Carolina progressed?

By Cynthia Dong

With Chancellor Carol Folt gone, her endeavor, the Campaign for Carolina, continues on. The initiative has outpaced its goal by raising $2.51 billion out of $4.25 billion in under two years.

Here's what the Committee on the Status of Women said about barriers to gender equity

By Praveena Somasundaram

"I think eyes were opened. It wasn’t exactly being blindsided; it was like suddenly having some cataracts removed. "

Meet the deans of UNC's nationally ranked graduate schools

By Lauren Westbrook

U.S. News & World Report ranked graduate programs throughout the United States. How did UNC's graduate schools fall on the leaderboard?

AKPsi's UNC chapter is under investigation following allegations of hazing

By Marin Wolf

This is not the first time a chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed business fraternity, has been under investigation following reports of hazing.

Meet the UNC students teaching their peers about a new form of investment

By Emily Holler

Looking for a new way to get involved in activism? Join UNC's Impact Investing Club as they show students how to use economics to promote companies that seek positive change.

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Kenan-Flagler Business School welcomes its latest class of undergraduates

New donations bring Kenan-Flagler closer to doubling undergraduate enrollment

Kenan Scholars present research at inaugural showcase

UNC student's parking company received $500k in seed funding