As a partner university with the Peace Corps, the School’s Master’s in Management program provides opportunities for returning volunteers to connect what they have learned with the business world. Three former Peace Corps volunteers chose the School of Business as the next step for accomplishing their future goals.
Read MoreChristina Cockey (MBA ’19) and 16 fellow MBA students traveled to India and China as part of a global immersion course that visited both countries for the first time. In the past, students had to choose between visiting either India or China for the Asia Global Immersion Course. A third course takes students to Nicaragua.
Read MoreRomain Bogaerts and 10 other Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) students along with a Master’s in Management students traveled with their career coach to the Big Apple to network with alumni and meet with employers.
Read MoreEllison-Taylor, global accounting strategy director for Oracle America, gave the 2017 Hylton Lecture to more than 300 students, faculty, and staff in Broyhill Auditorium. She spoke at length about the impoverished Baltimore neighborhood where she grew up and the career day that changed her life.
Read MoreThe president and CEO of Stephens, Inc., one of the largest privately held investment banks in the country, was on campus at the invitation of the School’s BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism. His talk, “The Only Way Entrepreneurship Works,” was a conversation with Jim Otteson, the center’s executive director. In Stephens’ opinion, capitalism is an essential factor.
Read MoreHornets General Manager Richard Cho is looking for people with writing skills that would make an English teacher proud. Hescans candidates’ social media postings to weed out Michael Jordan autograph-seekersor those apt to spill team secrets. And through the entire process, he’s looking forsigns someone is used to hard work.
Read More“Picture this beautiful quaint little town that for 51 weeks out of the year is a ski town in the Swiss Alps,” Tim Ryan told students, staff, and faculty gathered in Broyhill Auditorium. “And then picture the world converging on this city.” Ryan, U.S. chairman and senior partner at PwC, brought insights from the 2018 World Economic Forum, held annually in Davos, Switzerland, to the School of Business.
Read MoreGordon came to the School of Business for a talk focused on the importance of integrity in the business world. More than 75 students, faculty, and staff gathered in Broyhill Auditorium for the event, sponsored by the School’s BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism.
Read MoreAfter graduating from Wake Forest in 2014, Nikki Azzara headed to the beach with a dozen of her closest girlfriends. That first night, she whipped up one of her favorite healthy concoctions — chickpea cookies — and her friends devoured the guilt-free dough.
Read MoreFor decades, Wake Forest students have seen Campus Gas & Service on Polo Road across from the University as a place to fuel up cars. But now three Wake Forest alumni see it as a place to fill up bellies and build a community that bridges the campus and the historic neighborhood to the north.
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