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Comoros

Feb 8, 2018 | Travels

Beautiful Sunsets in Comoros! Jim’s Perspectives: In the 12th-century, the Arabs came to Comoros and brought Islam with them. They also brought their leadership structure, instilling sultans around the country. Until the French arrived in the 17th century, seven...

Côte d’Ivoire

Feb 8, 2018 | Travels

The Côte d’Ivoire, or the Ivory Coast is beautiful! About 22.7 million people live here (2015) and the capital is Yamoussoukro. The Côte d’Ivoire is a religiously secular country, with roughly equal split between Islamic and Christian followers. The...

Chase Jones: It Can Be Done

Sep 26, 2017 | News

The Most Important Lesson Chase Jones (BSBA ’11) Learned as an Undergraduate at UNC Kenan-Flagler Was a Simple One: It Can Be Done. He credits this lesson – learned in Jim Kitchen’s entrepreneurship class – with giving him the confidence needed to found Vs. Cancer,...

UNC Students Give Away 7th Car

Dec 23, 2016 | Front, News

This past Friday was an exciting day for one Durham man, Mussasa Mpengh. Social entrepreneur and Kenan-Flagler Business School instructor, Jim Kitchen, had a very big surprise in store for Mpengh. Posted by Lauryn Colatuno | “Mussasa, this is your new car, and these...

Students Raise Money to Send 13-year-old Brain Cancer Patient to Maui

Dec 23, 2016 | Front, News

“The project is really about the intersection of profit and purpose,” Kitchen said. The remaining money, after sending Will to Hawaii, will go towards the Community Empowerment Fund, which assists local homeless people transition to home ownership. Some groups in the...