BRYAN
Fall 2015
FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE UNCG BRYAN SCHOOL
Vol. 2, Issue 2
New NC Sales Institute answers demand
for trained talent in evolving field of sales
‘In the new world of sales, being able to ask the right questions is
more valuable than producing the right answers. Unfortunately, our
schools often have the opposite emphasis. They teach us how to
answer, but not how to ask.’
— Daniel H. Pink, ‘To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others’
The new North Carolina Sales Institute (NCSI) — which the
Bryan School expects will become the first choice of students and
businesses for sales-focused education, consulting and research —
began with the right questions.
How can we teach most effectively the vital business function of sales
to students? What is the best way to extend sales education at the
executive level? How can we advance research in sales to improve not
only business theory, but the bottom lines of companies?
Dr. James S. Boles
NCSI Director
John Chapman
Executive Education Director of
Business Development
NCSI Director Dr. James S. Boles and Executive Education Director
of Business Development John Chapman asked themselves these
questions as they looked at the evolving role of sales and investigated
how they could best develop exceptional problem solvers for today’s
business world. Both had read Daniel H. Pink’s book “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others” and agreed with
the author’s assessment that “sales in the last ten years has changed
more than it did in over the previous hundred.”
standing of the complex world of business,” says Chapman, who also
serves as adjunct professor of sales and executive director of business development for executive education, and who has more than
30 years of experience in sales with major corporations. “Globalization, knowledge transfer and market efficiencies have changed the
salesperson’s role from a solution presenter to a business consultant.
No longer can a salesperson be a peddler or order taker. Next-generation sales professionals have to deliver value for their customers
and be able to quantify the value received.”
“The demand for trained sales talent is becoming increasingly apparent as firms seek well-qualified individuals who have a deep under-
The new NCSI is uniquely positioned to educate that next generation
of sales professionals.
Get involved
There are a number of ways you can both
add to and gain value from the North
Carolina Sales Institute, whether you want
to tap new sales talent, share your own
expertise or advance your current team’s
sales education. By joining the NCSI Sales
Partners Program or the NCSI Marketing
and Sales Leadership Roundtable, you’ll
have a variety of opportunities:
• Networking with a large pool of talented,
young sales professionals – students
who could be your next intern or top
performer.
• Providing real-world cases for the NCSI
to use in course discussions and
role-playing exercises.
• Serving as a guest speaker in sales
classes.
• Connecting to thought leaders in both sales
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practice and research through
customized research, a guest speaker
series, and abstracting services that
summarize sales research findings.
• Training your team through NCSI
Executive Education.
• Exchanging ideas and discussing critical
sales issues through executive forums.
To learn more, contact NCSI Director Dr. James
S. Boles (jsboles@uncg.edu; 336-334-4413).
DEAN
MBA students win for helping
not-for-profit prove its ROI
The Bryan Bulletin, like most alumni
newsletters, strives to inform readers,
while increasing their affinity for the
school. In this issue, however, I have an
additional aim: to share an unlikely piece
of news with you.
On Page 6, you will find a graphic showing some of our outstanding rankings.
While we never cater to the rankings, we are proud when we receive them
because they are a form of external validation of the quality you, and we, have
come to know and expect from the Bryan School. For that reason, it is difficult
for me to write that we are not featured in the 2016 Bloomberg Businessweek
rankings, released this month. Rest assured, this is not a reflection of any drop
in the quality of our program or our students, or what our students and alumni
think of us; rather, it is due to an error in the submission of rankings materials.
We failed to provide email addresses of students and alumni to Bloomberg
Businessweek, a required part of the submission process.
We recognize the seriousness of this error and we accept responsibility for it.
By the time we realized our mistake, the submission deadline had passed. I
appealed to the director of the ranking project, but it was too late. We certainly
have learned from this experience and built a number of checks into our system
to ensure that this does not happen again. Similarly, we are reviewing other
rankings submissions to ensure we understand fully each step in the process.
While it is clear that we will not retain our current No. 13 ranking for the
part-time MBA program, it will be valid through the end of 2015. Soon, we
will develop new billboards and ads to showcase additional strengths of our
programs. Other rankings, some shown on Page 6 and others below, continue
to speak to the quality and value of the Bryan School. These include:
#2 Most Full-Time Female MBA Students (U.S. News & World Report, 2015-16)
#14 Online MSITM program (College Factual, 2016-17)
#1 in North Carolina, Top Colleges for Computer & Information Sciences —
Online (College Factual, 2016-17)
#23 Best Value Online Undergraduate Business Schools of 2015 (Value
Colleges, 2015-16)
If others mention our absence in the Bloomberg Businessweek rankings, I ask
that you let them know that there was a submission error and that we expect to
appear in the next ranking (2017, released in October 2016), while reminding
them of our many other great rankings.
It also is true that the Bryan School is far more than rankings. We have a
compelling story to tell, one about community-engaged learning and excellent
students, faculty and staff committed to developing exceptional problem solvers
and leaders in North Carolina and beyond. We cannot share that story without
the help of our loyal alumni and friends. Thank you for being a valuable part of
the Bryan School community.
McRae C. Banks II
Margaret & Harrell Hill Distinguished Professor & Dean
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Two Bryan School MBA students placed third in a
national business project competition – but another
big winner was the local not-for-profit agency they
helped by proving its economic impact on the community it serves.
For their work with Family Service of the Piedmont,
Ashley Ferrell ’14 MBA and Will Kapakos ’14 MBA
were honored in the graduate feasibility business
plan category of the 2015 Small Business Institute
Project of the Year competition, which was held last
spring. The finish marks the fifth consecutive year a
UNCG project has placed in the competition.
Ferrell and Kapakos’ research found that Family
Service of the Piedmont’s efforts to promote financial
stability, provide mental health services, stop domestic violence and prevent child abuse have both a
positive social impact and a high economic return on
investment. For instance, the agency’s Domestic Violence Intervention Program – which has a 92 percent
success rate – cost $82,000 but had an economic
impact of $1.7 million. Every dollar spent saved the
county $20.50 in inmate, court, probation and law
enforcement costs.
“The donors really identify with the economic value.
When you’re adding economic value to the community, that’s something they want to invest in,” says Jody
Susong, the agency’s marketing and development officer, explaining that the agency already has integrated
the students’ findings into its donor presentations.
The data helped solve a key problem for Family
Service of the Piedmont, agency President Tom
Campbell told the students when they first presented
their research, “This helps us talk about our impact
in Guilford County. The more we can talk locally, the
better.”
The students conducted their research and presented
it to the organization during the MBA Capstone Program, which is designed to give students hands-on,
real-world experience in problem solving. Since 2006,
the capstone program has matched MBA students
with not-for-profit and for-profit businesses throughout the Piedmont Triad, including multiple projects
with multinational corporations such as Red Hat, TE
Connectivity, VF Corp. and Volvo Group.
The Bryan School is always searching for challenging strategic problems, as well as discipline-based
problems (e.g., marketing, HR, information systems,
merchandising, etc.) for use in undergraduate and
graduate courses. If your organization would like to
discuss project opportunities, please contact Joe Erba,
MBA project director (jrerba@uncg.edu).
GIVE WHERE YOU LIVE
MISSION STATEMENT
Alumni lauded for success & philanthropy
Bryan School alumni make meaningful contributions where they
work, live and lead. On May 19, the school honored a long-time,
committed philanthropist whose motto is “give where you live”
and a top investment adviser who credits mentors with much of
his success during the Alumni Awards Dinner at the Starmount
Forest Country Club in Greensboro.
Betty Conley Brooks
Betty Conley Brooks ’52 was recognized with the inaugural Outstanding Philanthropist Award, which is presented to alumni and
friends who have made extraordinary philanthropic contributions
to benefit UNCG and beyond.
Andrew Mehalko ’87 was presented with the Distinguished
Alumni Award — the Bryan School’s top alumni award — which
recognizes exceptional achievement and significant contributions
to the recipient’s profession and business community.
In the Bryan School of Business &
Economics, we create and disseminate knowledge about the theory and
practice of business. In addition to our
courses and research, we accomplish
this through hands-on projects, global
experiences, and outreach to the community. Our work produces principled
leaders and exceptional problem solvers
who have a global perspective, an
innovative mindset, a broad understanding of sustainability, and a commitment
to improve the organizations in which
they work and the communities
in which they live.
Brooks has supported UNCG for more than 30 years, making gift
commitments in excess of $1.7 million. Her connection to the
Andrew Mehalko
university began more than 60 years ago. She earned a bachelor’s degree in secretarial administration when the school was known as The Woman’s
College and then took a job at NC State, where she met her future husband, Robert
Charles Brooks, a faculty member. After they married, Brooks began a 30-year career in
state government with the North Carolina Personnel Office, enrolling at NC State while
working full-time and earning a master’s degree in public administration with a minor
in economics.
Innovation
Ethics
Globalization
Sustainability
Upon her retirement and move to Florida in 1981, Brooks became deeply involved in
her new community. Just one example of her myriad efforts in Florida: She dove into
a project organizing estate sales for elderly residents to help them downsize and move
to assisted living facilities. The effort provided a valuable service and also raised more
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Doubled.
Every dollar.
Are you up to the challenge?
Last year’s Alumni Challenge was exceedingly successful: Giving
increased 110 percent and the number of donors grew 131 percent.
Your Bryan School education helped shape you into a principled
leader and exceptional problem solver, an innovative thinker committed
to improving your organization and community. Your gift can give tomorrow’s Bryan School students the same strong foundation for success.
Please help us do even better this year.
A generous group of 20 alumni and Bryan School friends have
provided more than $85,000 to be used to match your gift, dollar for
dollar — doubling the impact of every gift.
Angela Arnold ‘77, ‘86, ‘88 MSA
Marc Ashley ‘97
Dr. McRae C. Banks, Dean
Dan Carpenter ‘87 MBA
Sue Cole ‘72, ‘77 MBA
Darius Davis ‘83 & Dessolene W. Davis
Debbie Griffiths ‘80
Such a return on investment is rare.
Watch your mail or give online now: GivetoUNCGBryan.com
Robin Snipes Hager ‘84
Amelia Hopkins ‘79, ‘91 MA
Sally Crumpler Jobe ‘64
David Jolley ‘77 MA & Celia Gomedala Jolley ‘71
Maggie Berger Leffke ‘96
Damien Patton ‘99
Dean Priddy ‘83, ‘86 MBA
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Jerome “Jay” Raffaldini
Philip M. Rees ‘85 & Heather Rees
Ed Rozynski ‘75, ‘76 MA
Steve Strader ‘74, ‘76 MBA & Virgie Strader
Raymond Wiley Jr. ‘99 & Tanisha Wiley
Richard Wilson Jr. ‘01 & Emily Wilson
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Bryan School
welcomes
Chancellor Gilliam
as he sets course based
on shared values
“The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a
remarkable institution and, I believe, we are uniquely
positioned to grow and thrive in the ever-changing landscape
of higher education.”
With that, Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. set out a
vision for UNCG — one that includes creating a culture for
advancement and success — during the 124th State of the
Campus Address on Aug 12.
“Let me start with what I believe to be the most important
component of any successful organization: culture,” he told
the UNCG faculty, staff and board members assembled
in Aycock Auditorium. “For me, culture refers to a clearly
articulated and broadly shared set of values that define the
very nature of an organization. These values serve to guide our
collective decision-making. They are touchstones that let us
know if we are heading in the right, or wrong, direction. They
create an environment in which self-discipline, self-correction
and self-management can occur. Throughout my 33-year
public university career I have relied on a set of fundamental
values to build culture:
1) Shared fate – collaboration
2) Excellence - common standards
3) Accountability – ownership
than $1 million for the Punta Gorda Isles Civic Association. Brooks has never forgotten her alma mater and
has been an extraordinary philanthropist to UNCG. In
celebration of her 50th class reunion, she and her late
husband established a fellowship fund to support graduate students in economics. Since then, she implemented
four additional gift plans that will supplement the fellowship fund, create an endowment for student leadership activities and establish an endowed professorship in
economics.
“Life has been good to me, and I, in return, want to help
make life better for other people who are struggling to
even survive. I especially want to help people living in
my area or who have a connection with places I have
lived before. I could summarize this in a simple statement: ‘Give where you live (or have lived).’ My husband
and I established our first fellowship at UNCG in 2002
when we had returned for my 50th class reunion. I
thought this might be difficult for my husband since
he was professor emeritus from NC State, but he was
immediately impressed by the economics faculty and
program at UNCG. I am glad that one day there will be
a distinguished professorship in economics at UNCG in
our names,” Brooks said in a statement read by Mary
Ellen Boelhower, director of development. Brooks was
recovering from injuries sustained during a fall and was
unable to attend the event.
The winner of the Distinguished Alumni Award, Mehalko is founder and chief investment officer of AM
Global Family Investment Office in West Palm Beach,
Florida. He was recognized as the Best Newcomer in the
private wealth industry by Private Asset Management
magazine in 2014. Prior to founding AM Global in 2012,
Mehalko served as CIO of GenSpring Family Offices. Under his leadership, GenSpring grew from $450 million
in assets under advisement to more than $20 billion,
and was the No. 1 ranked registered investment adviser
by Forbes, Investment News and Financial Planning
magazines. One of the all-time leading scorers in UNCG
soccer history, Mehalko has been inducted into the
UNCG Athletics Hall of Fame. He serves on the UNCG
Investment Committee and is a generous philanthropist
benefiting student athletes, the soccer program and business students.
In accepting the award, Mehalko talked about the importance of mentors throughout his life and thanked a
number of members of the UNCG community, starting
with Joseph Bryan “and his family for all they have done
for the business school, the university and the city of
Greensboro” and including the late Dr. Don Jud. “I first
met him in 1984 and worked as an intern for him,” Mehalko said of the Bryan School professor. “His gentle yet
demanding method to educate and his mentoring in the
world of economics and finance transformed lukewarm
interest in the subject to a passion. Without him, I am
not sure if I would have found my way to the profession I
have enjoyed for three decades.”
4) Innovation - entrepreneurial spirit
5) Transparency – clarity
6) Inclusion - ‘it takes a village’
7) Fun!”
The Bryan School welcomes Chancellor Gilliam as he takes
UNCG’s helm. To learn more about our new leader,
visit http://chancellor.uncg.edu.
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UNCG students traveled to
Belgium to meet with their
counterparts from the Louvain
School of Management at the
Universite Catholique de Louvain.
EXPERIENCE BUSINESS ABROAD
Course challenges students to solve problems in a global arena
In today’s business world, countries thousands of miles apart are
figurative next-door neighbors. As international markets continue to integrate, young entrepreneurs need a broad, multicultural
approach to problem solving. They find it in the Bryan School’s
Experience Business Abroad course for undergraduates.
Two weeks after returning home, the UNCG students hosted
Louvain School students as they visited Greensboro and the
Bryan School, learning from business leaders and entrepreneurs
here. The Louvain School students’ trip coincided with UNCG’s
Entrepreneur Day and the Inventors Liftoff, a celebration hosted
by The Forge and The Greensboro Partnership.
Last spring, the course teamed UNCG students with those
from the Louvain School of Management at the Universite
Catholique de Louvain in Belgium to work on semester-long
entrepreneurial projects. The process started on both sides of
the Atlantic Ocean, with students staying put in their home
countries to brainstorm global startup concepts. With all
ideas on the table, students formed teams to pursue the best
approaches and then traveled to each other’s countries to
develop their projects in person and immerse themselves in
another culture.
“I consider this journey a truly invaluable experience both academically and socially — one that I am appreciating more and
more every day,” says Lasse Palomaki ’16, who took the course
and traveled to Belgium.
Joseph Erba, a lecturer in management, leads the Experience
Business Abroad program, with aid from Bryan Toney, UNCG
associate vice chancellor for economic engagement. Toney originally designed the course at Appalachian State University and
initiated it in Belgium with the help of Dr. Frank Janssen.
UNCG students headed to Belgium first, spending their spring
break attending lectures, touring historic sites, visiting entrepreneurs and learning from Louvain School alumni who have
launched successful startups. In addition, they participated in a
workshop at the Greensboro-based Center for Creative Leadership’s European headquarters in Brussels.
“I don’t believe there’s a better way to facilitate learning and skill
development than to use experiential programs like this in our
curriculum,” Erba says. “Our students gain great international
experience in this short-term, ‘deep dive’ enculturation process,
while building their teaming skills.”
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IT IS NOT ABOUT
THE NUMBER.
IT IS ABOUT
THE EXCELLENCE
BEHIND THE NUMBER.
Part-Time MBA Program
in the U.S. (Bloomberg
Businessweek, 2013-15)
Public University
Part-time MBA Program
in the U.S. (Bloomberg
Businessweek, 2013-15)
MS in IT Program (online)
in the U.S. (U.S. News &
World Report, 2015-16)
Public University Fashion
Design Program in the
U.S. & #4 Fashion Design
Program in the South
(Fashion-School.org,
2015-16)
Economics - Program
Evaluation Program in the
U.S. (RePEc, 2014-15)
Economics - Innovation
Program in the U.S.
(RePEc, 2014-15)
Qorvo CEO encourages honor
society inductees to take action
Are you going to be a decider or a doer? Bob Bruggeworth, the 2015 Beta Gamma
Sigma (BGS) Bryan School Chapter honoree, posed that question to the most recent
group of BGS inductees during a ceremony in April. Membership in BGS is the highest
recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in an undergraduate
or master’s program at a school accredited by AACSB.
Throughout the rest of their formal education process and long after, Bruggeworth
told the students, “a core value that will make a difference in your career and personal
development is the pursuit of wisdom.”
But education without application will not get you very far, Bruggeworth said during
the ceremony, “Continue the pursuit of wisdom, but don’t forget to apply what you’ve
learned.” At the Bryan School, the application of knowledge is emphasized and contributes to the school’s ability to develop exceptional problem solvers.
“It’s much easier to decide than to do,” he continued. “One of my favorite books on
change management is called ‘Five Frogs on a Log.’ It is considered a field guide for
CEOs on how to accelerate change. The premise is that there are five frogs on a log.
Four frogs decide to jump off. So how many are left? Think about that. The answer is
five. Do you know why? Because there is a big difference between deciding and doing.”
The takeaway? “In the business world, you won’t be graded on what gets decided but
on what actually gets done,” Bruggeworth said. “So continue to invest in the pursuit of
wisdom and in applying what you’ve learned.”
Bruggeworth is president and chief executive officer of Qorvo, a leading provider of RF
solutions. The Greensboro-based company, which has more than 6,000 employees, was
formed through the merger of RFMD and TriQuint earlier this year. Bruggeworth is a
graduate of Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He started his career at
Amp Inc., ultimately running all of the company’s global computer and consumer electronics operations from Hong Kong. He relocated to Greensboro in 1999 to join RFMD
as vice president of its wireless products business. He was promoted to president in
2002 and added the CEO role in 2003.
“Just because I’ve been in the industry for over 30 years and have been CEO for about
12 years doesn’t mean I’ve stopped learning,” Bruggeworth told the students. “Formal
education is very important but learning continues long after your academic career
comes to an end. Please continue to invest in yourself, particularly when you get into
the business world. Most company assets depreciate over time. Employees are the only
asset that actually appreciates over time. How much you learn and apply will determine
how much you appreciate in value.”
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NCSI continued from cover
added next year. Recognizing that so many graduates’ career paths
will take them into sales positions regardless of major, NCSI undergraduate courses will be open to students in all UNCG disciplines.
“It is not uncommon for such programs to have job-placement rates
as high as 100 percent,” Boles says.
“There is no comparable center or institute in the UNC system. The
combination of undergraduate and graduate education — in conjunction with the executive education training opportunities through the
Bryan School Office of Executive Education — and the research and
many benefits available through membership in the NCSI Marketing
and Sales Leadership Roundtable will be unequaled by anything currently in existence in the state,” Boles says. As the NCSI grows, Boles
hopes its reach will extend beyond the state — regionally and even
nationally. Boles, who also is head of the Bryan School’s Department of
Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality and Tourism, was the 2014
recipient of the American Marketing Association’s Sales Special Interest Group’s Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contributions
to sales education and research. Before joining The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, he was a professor of marketing at Georgia
State University, where he helped establish the GSU sales program. He
is a former editor of The Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management and has worked in investments and real estate sales.
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raduate curriculum: The Bryan School will offer several salesrelated electives in the MBA Program, including Sales Leadership
and Negotiations. This will provide an opportunity for graduate students to enhance their skills in those two critical areas and improve
their performance regardless of their major area of study.
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xecutive education: To meet a critical need for organizations,
the NCSI will offer noncredit executive education programs for both
current and aspiring sales professionals and managers. Participating organizations will benefit by enhancing not only their sales functions but also their sales leadership teams.
• Research: Initially, the NCSI will focus on applied research studies for NCSI partners but, over time, will extend research efforts to
a wider audience. In addition to answering a sponsoring organization’s primary questions, study data will be used to target training
efforts for the organization, as well as to create state-of-the-art
instructional materials for UNCG students and advance academic
research.
The need for such an institute at UNCG is clear. Boles and Chapman
point to research released in 2014 by Florida State University’s Sales
Institute, which shows that more than more than 50 percent of U.S.
business graduates work in sales as their first career — regardless of
their specific concentration major, but less than three percent of U.S.
colleges and universities host recognized sales programs. Students who
do graduate from schools with sales programs can save companies approximately $200,000 per hire within the first 18 months of employment, becoming productive salespeople 50 percent faster than their
colleagues and reducing turnover by as much as 30 percent.
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embership-based groups: Relationships with external organizations will be critical to the NCSI’s success and the institute will
host to two membership-based groups: the NCSI Sales Partners
Program and the NCSI Marketing and Sales Leadership Roundtable. Organizations participating in the partners program will have
the opportunity to network with students and engage with the NCSI
for education, training and research. The roundtable will provide
organizations with those same opportunities, as well as exclusive
networking events and a high-level speaker series.
Key initiatives of the NCSI:
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ndergraduate curriculum: The Bryan School offers Professional Selling and Sales Management courses, as well as a sales internship. Key Account Management and Sales Leadership courses will be
EXCEPTIONAL NEW FACULTY
& exciting new roles
It takes exceptional faculty and administrative professionals to create exceptional problem solvers and to maintain the
Bryan School’s tradition of high-quality instruction, research and student engagement. Help us welcome new teachers
joining our ranks and congratulate other Bryan School professors and staff who have advanced into new positions.
Dr. Nancy Hodges has been
High-quality instructor-researchers
New positions
named to the Burlington
Indus- for dedicated administrators
Marie Claire Hull
Assistant Professor of Economics
PhD in Economics, Duke University ’15
Research interests: Economics of education,
labor economics, public economics
Research affiliate: Institute for the Study
of Labor (IZA)
Publication: Journal of Human Capital
Yonghong (Tracy) Liu
Assistant Professor of Management
PhD in Organizational Behavior,
University of Miami ’15
Research interests: Leadership, interpersonal
relationships in teams, cross-cultural
management, research methods
Publications: The Leadership Quarterly, Academy
of Management Best Paper Proceedings
Moses Acquaah
(at UNCG since 2000)
Head, Department of Management
Professor of Management
PhD in Strategic Management,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ’00
Research interests: Social capital/
networking, competitive strategy, family
business in emerging economies
Top publications: Strategic Management
Journal, Human Relations, Strategic
Organization, Journal of International
Management, Journal of Business
Research
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William O. Brown
(at UNCG since 2006)
Associate Dean for Internal Affairs
Professor of Finance
PhD in Economics, Clemson University ’93
Research interests: Corporate and nonprofit
governance, asset pricing, financial
market history
Top publications: Journal of Finance, Journal
of Financial Economics, American Economic
Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Journal of Corporate Finance
Amy W. Strickland
(at UNCG since 2005)
Director of Assessment and Planning
MBA, UNCG ’10
Research interests: Institutional
effectiveness, accreditation,
strategic planning
Elizabeth Todd
(at UNCG since 2007)
Executive Assistant to the Dean
BA in Psychology, UNCG ’03
Interests: Facilitating faculty searches,
managing personnel processes, planning
and executing events
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