Belk College of Business

More than 50 years after earning a bachelor’s degree in business, Chuck Howard ’71 still relies on lessons learned at UNC Charlotte.

Liz Ward ‘14 M.S. is one of 25 business school graduates honored by AACSB International — the world’s largest business education alliance — in its 2023 Class of Influential Leaders.

Marine veteran Joe Mulla ’22 DBA is using research and data from his dissertation to help his company reach and connect with millennial customers. 

A senior vice president with Truist Financial since October 2022, Mulla focused his research on ways financial technology, confidence and self-efficacy impact the relationship between financial literacy and millennial saving behavior for his Doctorate in Business Administration dissertation, “Financial Literacy and Wellness.”

Paul Tanyi, associate professor in UNC Charlotte’s Turner School of Accountancy, says excessive executive compensation has been a concern to regulators in the United States for some time. 

To support the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus and in the Charlotte region, UNC Charlotte is aligning its educational and outreach efforts through the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The gap between the consumer price index for all urban consumers and the Fed Funds Rate remains too wide to reflect progress toward inflation reduction, according to John Connaughton, director of the North Carolina Economic Forecast.

Franz W. Kellermanns’ research is literally helping to define family business in the United States. 

Nearly a decade before the pandemic pushed telework to the forefront of business, Belk College of Business Associate Professor Krista Saral was focusing her research on the topic. 

Childress Klein Center for Real Estate’s research indicates affordable homes are increasingly difficult to find.

Economics professor Matthew Metzgar researches employee-owned businesses and offers his insights as to why they are beneficial.