Latest Belk college of business Podcast Episodes

Reshaping Global Learning

Charlotte Business Buzz - May 10, 2021 18:00 - 27 minutes
As a result of the global pandemic, international travel for students has been suspended since spring 2020. Despite physical barriers, UNC Charlotte continues to offer opportunities for students to be globally engaged – but in a virtual model – helping to prepare students for careers in the glob...

Investing in Minority-owned Businesses

Charlotte Business Buzz - April 15, 2021 18:00 - 26 minutes
A stumbling block for growth for many Black- and Hispanic-owned businesses is access to capital and leadership. Earlier this year, three Charlotte business titans – Malcomb Coley, managing partner with EY; former Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl; and Duke Energy Executive Lloyd Yates – announced ...

Post-pandemic Retail Landscape

Charlotte Business Buzz - March 08, 2021 20:00 - 23 minutes
Retail businesses have been on a roller-coaster ride since last March, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced many to close their doors. A year afterward, with vaccination rates climbing, the path forward for retail businesses is coming into clearer focus. Cindy Fox, a marketing lecturer in UNC Charl...

Seltzer Starter: Leveraging the power of a Belk College MBA

Charlotte Business Buzz - February 09, 2021 15:00 - 18 minutes
After completing her MBA in 2019 from the Belk College of Business, Kristin Cagney dove headfirst into ambitious plans for the first spiked seltzer brewery and taproom on the east coast. The thirty-eight hundred square foot seltzer company opened in September in the Wesley Heights neighborhood, ...

Visualizing the COVID-19 Pandemic through Data Science

Charlotte Business Buzz - January 11, 2021 20:00 - 24 minutes
Data remains crucial to understanding the impact and spread of COVID-19 around the globe. Jean-Claude Thill, a Knight Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, and Rajib Paul, an associate professor in the Department of Public Health Science, discuss an effort by...

Gender Inequality in the Workplace

Charlotte Business Buzz - December 07, 2020 19:00 - 24 minutes
Two UNC Charlotte researchers are taking a unique approach to advancing gender equality in the workplace: They're engaging male leaders. George Banks, associate professor in the Department of Management in the Belk College, and Jill Yavorsky, assistant professor in the Sociology Department in th...

Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Charlotte

Charlotte Business Buzz - August 19, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes
The nation’s economic downturn from COVID-19 has been all-encompassing, impacting all sectors of the economy at a pace not yet seen in American history.  To make sense of this proverbial roller coaster of economic change is John Connaughton, Director of the Barings/UNC Charlotte Economic Foreca...

Elevating Queen City Entrepreneurs

Charlotte Business Buzz - June 24, 2020 13:00 - 17 minutes
There is a maturing market for entrepreneurial ventures in the Queen City. But can small business survive the COVID-19 pandemic? And what can Charlotte do to support entrepreneurs? For some perspective, we talk with Belk College alumnus and UNC Charlotte Foundation board member Bryan Delaney '03. 

Driving Business in University City

Charlotte Business Buzz - June 24, 2020 12:00 - 21 minutes
Charlotte's University City boasts an expanding business community with 75,000 employees, 11 million square feet of office space, and regional offices for 23 Fortune 500 companies. In 2018, the LYNX blue line extension was completed, connecting the area with light rail public transit. Darlene He...

Driving Business in University City

Charlotte Business Buzz - June 24, 2020 12:00 - 21 minutes
Charlotte's University City boasts an expanding business community with 75,000 employees, 11 million square feet of office space, and regional offices for 23 Fortune 500 companies. In 2018, the LYNX blue line extension was completed, connecting the area with light rail public transit. Darlene He...

Family Businesses Amidst COVID-19

Charlotte Business Buzz - June 09, 2020 12:00 - 20 minutes
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every business in ways big and small, but none more so than those owned and operated by families. Joining us is Dr. Torsten Pieper, associate professor of management in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. He’s a founding editor of the Journ...

Career Searching in the AI Age

Charlotte Business Buzz - June 02, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes
We talk with Dr. Patrick Madsen, Executive Director of the University Career Center at UNC Charlotte, to understand strategies for job seekers during a difficult economy, job interviews in the artificial intelligence age, and how the University is meeting students where they are during the COVID...

Leadership Amidst Tumultuous Times

Charlotte Business Buzz - May 13, 2020 20:00 - 21 minutes
In our pilot episode, we talk with Dr. Janaki Gooty, associate professor in the Department of Management at the Belk College of Business and in the interdisciplinary organizational science Ph.D. program at UNC Charlotte. She has extensive research in how leaders and followers develop high-qualit...