UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School

Business school at UNC-Chapel Hill

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Former name	UNC Department of Commerce (1919-1950), UNC Graduate School of Business Administration (1950-1991)
Type	Public business school
Established	1919
Parent institution	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Accreditation	AACSB
Dean	Mary Margaret Frank
Location	Chapel Hill , North Carolina , United States
Website	kenan-flagler.unc.edu

The UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School is the business school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Founded in 1919, the school was renamed to its current name in 1991 in honor of Mary Lily Kenan and her husband, Henry Flagler.^[1]

The school offers programs for granting a bachelor of science in business administration, a master of business administration, an executive MBA, a master of accounting, a doctor of philosophy, a business certificate, and executive education programs. It is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.^[2]

History

The school was established in 1919 as the Department of Commerce of the College of Arts of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 1991, Frank Kenan continued his family’s legacy of supporting UNC by giving $10 million toward a new Business School building. The university changed its business school's name to Kenan-Flagler Business School in honor of Mary Lily Kenan and her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler.^[1]

As of August 2023, the school's dean is Mary Margaret Frank.^[3]

Rankings

Business Rankings
U.S. MBA
Bloomberg (2024)^[4]	29
U.S. News & World Report (2024)^[5]	19
Global MBA
Financial Times (2024)^[6]	38

MBA Full-time Program Rankings (additional to chart)

U.S. News & World Report
- 7th in undergraduate business
- 19th in full-time MBA programs
Beyond Grey Pinstripes (Aspen Institute)
- 7th in the United States^[7]
Princeton Review and Entrepreneur
- 11th for graduate programs in entrepreneurship^[8]

MBA for Executives Programs

The Wall Street Journal ranked the Weekend Program: 10^[9]
Bloomberg BusinessWeek for the Weekend Program: 11^[10]
Financial Times ranked OneMBA 29th in 2016^[11]

MBA@UNC Online

The U.S. News & World Report ranked the MBA@UNC Online Program #1 in 2015^[12]

MAC Program (Master of Accounting)

Public of Accounting Report: 7^[13]

Executive Development (Non-Degree Programs)

Financial Times: 9 for custom programs:^[14]
Bloomberg BusinessWeek: 14 for executive education:^[14]

People

Faculty

Robert S. Adler, Consumer Advocate
Howard Aldrich, Sociologist
Richard A. Bettis
Paolo Fulghieri, Financial Economist
Rajdeep Grewal
James H. Johnson Jr.
Arne L. Kalleberg, Sociologist
Jeanne Milliken Bonds
Jan-Benedict Steenkamp, expert on global marketing
Valarie Zeithaml, Services marketing pioneer; developer of SERVQUAL

Alumni

Gary Parr (BSBA '79), Deputy Chairman, Lazard Frères & Co.
Hugh McColl Jr. (BSBA '57), Former Chairman and CEO, Bank of America Corporation
Julian Robertson (BSBA '55), Chairman, Tiger Management
Erskine Bowles (BSBA '67), former president, University of North Carolina System; former White House Chief of Staff; former head of Small Business Administration; former United Nations deputy envoy for tsunami relief
John A. Allison IV, Chairman and Former CEO of BB&T (BSBA at UNC Kenan-Flagler) and current Director of Moelis & Company
Mercer Reynolds: Businessman, finance chair of George W. Bush's Presidential campaign.
David N. Senty, U.S. Air Force Major General
G. Smedes York, MBA 1968, 33rd Mayor of Raleigh 1979-1983, Chairman of York Properties, Inc.
Jason Kilar, Co-founder and former CEO, Hulu
Lee Ainslie, MBA, Founder and CEO of Maverick Capital (a $10B long/short hedge fund)
Hubert C. Hegtvedt, U.S. Air Force Major General
Michele Buck, MBA '87, CEO of The Hershey Company

References

^ ^a ^b "Our History | UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School". www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
^ "DataDirect - General". datadirect.aacsb.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
^ https://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/news/mary-margaret-frank-named-dean/
^ "Best B-Schools". Bloomberg Businessweek.
^ "2023 Best Business Schools Rankings". U.S. News & World Report.
^ "Global MBA Ranking 2023". Financial Times.
^ "Beyond Grey Pinstrips".
^ "Princeton Review and Entrepreneur". 16 September 2014.
^ "The Wall Street Journal". 29 September 2010.
^ "Bloomberg BusinessWeek". Archived from the original on May 29, 2004.
^ "Executive MBA Ranking 2016". The Financial Times Ltd. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
^ "U.S. News & World Report". 25 January 2015.
^ "Public of Accounting Report".
^ ^a ^b "Financial Times". The Financial Times Ltd. Retrieved 2017-02-28.