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Learning from Businesses Around the World
November 13, 2019Developing global knowledge and skills through experiential learning is a hallmark of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. In the full-time MBA Program, Global Immersion Electives are vital to understanding how business is conducted around the world. These faculty-led courses develop intercultural competencies: empathy and the ability to see issues from many perspectives, deeper knowledge of a region’s business and people, and cross-cultural communication skills. Students interact with leaders of companies and organizations in different regions, learn about business practices and experience challenges, and participate in cultural and community experiences. In 2019, students focused on general management in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe; healthcare in … Read more
Vice Provost Barbara Stephenson Invited into American Academy of Diplomacy
November 12, 2019Barbara Stephenson, vice provost for global affairs and chief global officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was invited to join the American Academy of Diplomacy. Members of the academy, all of whom are former senior diplomats and government officials, voted to invite Stephenson to join based on her distinguished career in diplomacy and foreign service. “I dedicated decades of my life to representing the United States around the world,” said Stephenson. “It was truly an honor to serve my country as an ambassador and diplomat, and I’m humbled by the Academy’s recognition of my work.” Stephenson’s … Read more
Focus Carolina: Paul Cuadros
November 12, 2019Paul Cuadros served as the chair and executive director of the UNC Scholars’ Latino Initiative and is also the co-founder of the Carolina Latinx Center. Cuadros researches and writes about race and poverty in North Carolina. His reporting on Latino workers in poultry processing plants brought him to Siler City, where he wrote about coaching a Latino high school soccer team to illustrate how changing demographics affected the town. Listen to his interview on Focus Carolina.
Susan Harbage Page Shares on Borders and Belonging
November 12, 2019In 1969, when she was 10 years old, Susan Harbage Page went on a road trip across Europe with her mother and three sisters in a red Volkswagen van. It was a pivotal event in Page’s memory; they crossed about 22 borders in three months. She recalled listening to the moon landing when they were in Switzerland and getting lost on a country road in Turkey with military vehicles as their only road companions. With the opening of travel to Eastern Bloc countries, they visited Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. Then they crossed the border into Romania and everything changed. “We were held … Read more
Cuba’s USB-Driven Music Scene
November 12, 2019Mike Levine grew up in a seaside community in New Jersey best known as the birthplace of Bruce Springsteen. His dad was a music instructor who played the alto-saxophone and conducted the local concert band. It was a given that when he became a teenager, he would start a terrible rock band in his garage. “I grew up surrounded by music,” Levine said. “It was a big fixture in my life. Everything seemed to be one degree of separation away from me playing the bass, so music was just what I did.” His interest in music eventually took him to … Read more
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Rose Jackson
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Emily Venturi ’18
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