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NORTH CAROLINA’S ONLY
URBAN RESEARCH UNIVERSITY... AND LEADING URBAN BUSINESS SCHOOL UNC Charlotte is North Carolina’s urban research university. Located in one of America’s fastest growing metropolitan areas, UNC Charlotte accounts for 61 percent of the enrollment growth of the entire 17-school UNC system over the past six years. For decades, UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business has partnered in the economic development of the region, working with the business community to create a curriculum that supplies in-demand graduates to Charlotte’s thriving businesses. An AACSB accredited school, the Belk College of Business was the first to offer an MBA in Uptown Charlotte and is currently one of the Carolina’s largest business schools with approximately 600 graduate students and more
UNC CHARLOTTE’S SHARE OF UNC SYSTEM GROWTH 2009 - 2015
than 3,700 undergraduates. With more than 28,000 alumni worldwide, 18,000 of whom currently work in Charlotte — the Belk College is the most connected network in a city that Forbes recently ranked among the “Best Places for Business and Careers.”
BELK COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
MBA RANKS AMONG NATION’S BEST in the nation by
BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK
TIER ONE
program by
CEO MAGAZINE
percent in the U.S. by
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
OTHER PROGRAM RANKINGS: M.S. in Mathematical Finance program ranked No. 20 in the 2016 Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Rankings by The Financial Engineer • M.S. in Mathematical Finance program ranked No. 24 in QuantNets’s rankings of Best Financial Engineering program • M.S. in Economics program ranked No. 58 nationwide in the 2016 Economics Rankings by The Financial Engineer • Master of Accountancy program placed among the top 25% of all programs nationwide by The Financial Engineer
FACULTY
HIGHLIGHTS AND HIRES The Belk College of Business has proudly hired more than 20 new faculty members in the past three years from universities such as Columbia, Michigan State, Arizona State, Purdue and UNC Chapel Hill. The Belk College currently has more than 100 faculty members. In total, Belk College faculty members had 122 articles published or accepted for publication in 2015.
NEWLY NAMED
PROFESSORS
JUSTIN WEBB
DAVID MAUER
SANGKIL MOON
FRANZ KELLERMANNS
Belk Endowed Scholar in Business Innovation
Torrence E. Hemby, Sr. Distinguished Professor in Banking
Charles Cullen Professor of Marketing
Addison H. & Gertrude C. Reese Endowed Chair in International Business
UNC CHARLOTTE PIONEERS FIRST
DBA PROGRAM IN CAROLINAS
FEATURED
FACULTY DAVE WOEHR
UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business is offering the
Belk Distinguished Professor in Business Administration
first Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program in the Carolinas. The Belk College of Business developed the DBA in partnership with the business community. The program will help to address an unmet need in
Dr. Woehr is part of an interdisciplinary research team that received a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to examine optimal strategies for team skill development in STEM disciplines.
the region by creating a premier business-applicable degree taught in an executive format. The DBA is a unique program in the UNC system created for professionals who want to become professors, enhance their expertise, elevate their consulting credentials or become corporate change agents in their industries. Graduates of the program will gain an advanced level of knowledge in marketing, management, operations management and information systems. Visit dba.uncc.edu for more information.
RECENTLY HIRED
FACULTY
DENIS ARNOLD
JENNIFER TROYER
Surtman Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs
Dr. Arnold and Dr. Troyer completed the first study using empirical data to demonstrate that aggressive marketing of pharmaceutical drugs and truly innovative new drug development are at odds, published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
ETHAN CHIANG Assistant Professor of Finance
Dr. Chiang’s Journal of Finance article “Estimating Oil Risk Factors Using Information from Equity and Derivatives Markets” (with Keener Hughen and Jacob Sagi) introduces a novel approach to estimating latent oil risk factors and establishing their significance in pricing non-oil securities.
GEORGE BANKS Assistant Professor of Management
1. Reginald Silver 2. Gregory Martin 3. Reza Mousavi 4. Alyson Metcalfe 5. Paul Gilles 6. Yilei Zhang 7. Paul Tanyi 8. Marcia Watson 9. Vinay Vasudev 10. Laura Stanley 11. Nima Jalali 12. Yufang Han 13. Shirley Hunter 14. Kiplan Womack 15. Lisa Schulkind 16. Amanda Gabriel 17. Per Norander 18. William Sofsky 19. Kelly Vosters 20. Tom Mayock
Dr. Banks is first author of the publication “Management’s Science-Practice Gap: A Grand Challenge for All Stakeholders” in the Academy of Management Journal that outlines ways that academic researchers and business practitioners can improve collaboration on shared challenges.
MBA Alumni
A half-mile from some of the nation’s leading companies, UNC Charlotte students immerse themselves in our top-ranked MBA program. Every year, our graduates flood the ranks of the Fortune 500, receiving an average salary increase of $20,000.
OUR ALUMNI WORK FOR COMPANIES SUCH AS: Belk Inc., Bank of America, Carolinas Healthcare System, Duke Energy, Fifth Third Bancorp, IBM, Jones Lang LaSalle, Lowe’s Companies Inc., Procter & Gamble, Premier Inc., Sealed Air, SPX, Teach for America, TIAA, Wells Fargo.
93%
OF MBA GRADUATES HAVE A CAREER
WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR. DID YOU KNOW?
BELK COLLEGE ALUMNI
UNC CHARLOTTE IS ONE OF
BUSINESS LEADERS
ONLY 12 SCHOOLS IN THE
The Belk College of Business is one of several business schools to have two alumni recognized as “Influential Leaders” by the AACSB for the positive impact they make on society. Robert A. Niblock, Chairman, President and CEO of Lowe’s Companies, Inc. was honored in 2016, and alumna Susan DeVore, President and CEO of Premier, Inc., was honored in 2015.
U.S. WITH MULTIPLE ALUMNI SERVING AS CEOs OF FORTUNE 100 COMPANIES.
DAVE WEDDING ‘75 MANUEL L. ZAPATA ‘72 PRESIDENT, ZAPATA ENGINEERING
ROBERT NIBLOCK ‘81 CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, LOWE’S COMPANIES, INC.
SUSAN DEVORE ‘81
JULIE HARRIS ‘00
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PREMIER, INC.
ENTERPRISE CREDIT DATA, ALLOWANCE AND REPORTING RISK EXECUTIVE, BANK OF AMERICA
CHAIRMAN, PARTNERSHIP BOARD AND MANAGING PARTNER, MID-SOUTH MARKET TERRITORY, GRANT THORNTON
CAROL LOWE ‘87 SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND CFO, SEALED AIR