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Chase Jones: It Can Be Done
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,...
Iran
A week prior to leaving for Iran (in '16) I still did not have my visa and I was getting a bit nervous. This is a country that has had US sanctions imposed on it since the 70s and gets few visa requests from Americans. I’m sure that my request was thoroughly vetted by...
UNC Students Give Away 7th Car
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
“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...
UNC’s Launch Incubator Voted 4th Best In the US!
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been recognized among the top five best performing university business accelerators in North America, based on a 2015 benchmark study by UBI Global, a thought leader in performance analysis of...