Kenan-Flagler Business School
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| Established | 1919 |
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| Dean | Dr. Douglas Alan Shackelford |
| Location | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Website | UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School |
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| Worldwide MBA | |
| Business Insider | 20 |
| Economist | 22 |
| Financial Times | 41 |
| U.S. MBA | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 17 |
| Forbes | 13 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 16 |
| Vault | 19 |
| U.S. undergraduate | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 10 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 7 |
Coordinates: 35°53′59″N 79°02′45″W / 35.8998°N 79.0457°W The Kenan–Flagler Business School is the undergraduate and graduate business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (MBA), MBA for Executives, Master of Accounting, Ph.D., a business certificate program, as well as many executive education programs.
Established in 1919 as the Department of Commerce of UNC Chapel Hill's College of Arts, the School was renamed the Kenan–Flagler Business School in 1991 to honor two American business families and benefactors of the School: philanthropist Mary Lily Kenan Flagler and her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler. The renaming was in recognition of a generous gift from Frank Hawkins Kenan, another Kenan family member and benefactor of the School's Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.
In 1997, the McColl Building opened at Kenan-Flagler to complete today's campus. With 191,000 square feet (17,700 m2), the McColl Building has more than tripled the space that the school occupied at Carroll Hall.
Mary Lily's brother, William R. Kenan, Jr., discovered acetylene gas, which led to the creation of Union Carbide. Her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler, co-founded the Standard Oil Co. with John D. Rockefeller and is responsible for the development of Florida's eastern coast. Prior to his arrival in Florida, the state was virtually inaccessible except by ship. Flagler founded what eventually became known as the Flagler System Companies made up of railroad, shipping, real estate, and hotel development and utility companies. The system's flagship was the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach.
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