The Carolina Business Institute (CBI) is a professional development program engineered through a collaboration between the Kenan-Flagler Business School

Kenan-Flagler Business School

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 for Executives, Master of Accounting, Ph.D., a business...

 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...

 and the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education

Continuing education

Continuing education is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada...

.

Curriculum

Subjects taught include Corporate Finance

Corporate finance

Corporate finance is the area of finance dealing with monetary decisions that business enterprises make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize shareholder value while managing the firm's financial risks...

, Accounting, Marketing

Marketing

Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...

, Operations Management

Operations management

Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and/or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resources as needed, and...

 and Organizational Management.

Participants

CBI's target applicant pool is made up primarily of graduating non-business majors at UNC and other schools.

Enrolment for the summer 2006 course is approximately 50 students from UNC, NC State and the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...

. In addition to recent graduates, a number of graduate students and underclassmen have enrolled.

Applications typically exceed admittance. 2006 brought approximately 70 applicants of which fifty or so were admitted.

External links

CBI website: http://www.fridaycenter.unc.edu/cbi/

Friday Center: http://fridaycenter.unc.edu

Kenan-Flagler Business School: http://kenan-flagler.unc.edu/