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Charlotte Business Buzz: Elevating Queen City Entrepreneurs

Charlotte Business Buzz: Elevating Queen City Entrepreneurs

Belk College alumnus Bryan Delaney offers perspective on entrepreneurship in Charlotte
   August 26, 2020

Like many entrepreneurs, Belk College of Business alumnus Bryan Delaney ‘03 wears many hats. Among those, he is co-founder of Skookum, a technology services company that was recently acquired by GlobalLogic. The UNC Charlotte Foundation board member also helped create the EO...

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Get to Know Dean Troyer

Get to Know Dean Troyer

Learn more about Jennifer Troyer, Belk College's new dean
   August 21, 2020

This summer, Jennifer Troyer became dean of UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business. Only the seventh dean in the college’s 50th-year history, Troyer, a professor of economics and health economics...

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Charlotte Business Buzz: Family Business Amidst COVID-19

Charlotte Business Buzz: Family Business Amidst COVID-19

How family business can thrive in a pandemic
   August 20, 2020

Many family-owned and operated businesses were experiencing challenges from large online retail competition even before the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Today, they are faced with a new reality.

Torsten Pieper, associate professor of management in UNC...

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Charlotte Business Buzz: Career Searching in the AI Age

Charlotte Business Buzz: Career Searching in the AI Age

Here’s how UNC Charlotte is preparing students for this new environment.
   August 14, 2020

Video interviews, automated resume screening, and artificial intelligence are quickly changing the career landscape. 

To understand how UNC Charlotte is preparing students for this new environment, Jeffrey Jones, director of Executive Education and Continuing Education at the Belk College, recently sat down with Patrick...

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Charlotte Business Buzz: Leadership in Tumultuous Times

Charlotte Business Buzz: Leadership in Tumultuous Times

Janaki Gooty is leading a team of University researchers studying COVID-19’s impact on the workplace
   August 14, 2020

While change is a natural part of business evolution, the level of stress and anxiety that the COVID-19 pandemic is bringing is not.

Janaki Gooty, associate professor in the Department of Management in the Belk College of Business and in the interdisciplinary Organizational Science Ph.D. program, says many business leaders are scrambling...

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Charlotte Business Podcast Series Launched

Charlotte Business Podcast Series Launched

Podcast is pooling the resources and partners of UNC Charlotte to help Queen City businesses.
   July 28, 2020

A new podcast mini-series is pooling the resources and partners of UNC Charlotte to help Queen City businesses weather the financial storm brought on by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

Charlotte Business Buzz, which launched recently...

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CKCRE Issues State of Housing in Charlotte Update

CKCRE Issues State of Housing in Charlotte Update

Demand for housing in Charlotte region remains strong despite COVID-19 pandemic
   July 23, 2020

After seeing a drop in April and May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, single-family home sales in the Charlotte region are surging back, according to an update from UNC Charlotte’s Childress Klein Center for Real Estate (CKCRE), part of the Belk College of Business...

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College Announces 2020 Faculty and Staff Award Recipients

College Announces 2020 Faculty and Staff Award Recipients

Awards recognize accomplishments in teaching, research and service
   July 2, 2020
The Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte presented awards to faculty and staff recognizing their accomplishments in teaching, research and service. The 2020 Faculty and Staff Awards were presented to Judson Russell, Craig Depken, Tom Marshall, Yongqiang Chu, Dave Mauer, Steven Rogelberg and Allison Sigmon.

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Belk College Named  a 2020 Leading School for Real Estate

Belk College Named a 2020 Leading School for Real Estate

The Belk College is the only business school in the Carolinas to make the list
   June 30, 2020

UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business is one of 2020’s “Leading Schools for Real Estate,” according to a national industry publication.

The Belk College is the only business school in the Carolinas to make...

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NC Economic Forecast: Recovery could take years

NC Economic Forecast: Recovery could take years

The NC economy experienced its biggest decline since the Great Depression due to COVID-19 pandemic
   May 28, 2020

Just three months ago, the United States was seeing its longest economic expansion on record, a period of growth that started in 2010 and continued through February 2020. 

“Just three months ago, our major worries were whether a looming trade war with China was going to slow the economy down in 2020,” said ...

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