RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – A “launching pad” to link universities and businesses is coming to The Frontier in RTP.
In a partnership announced Tuesday, the UNC Kenan-Flagler Entrepreneurship Center will open an office at The Frontier startup-focused campus that is operated by the Research Triangle Foundation. The RTF oversees the Park.
The office will serve as a place where UNC faculty and students can work with RTP companies.
“This will be a launching pad for strengthening collaboration between universities and businesses,” said Scott Levitan, CEO of the RTF.
Added Doug Shackelford, dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School: “With this partnership, the Entrepreneurship Center will serve as a direct connection point to companies in RTP for our student talent and our expertise and thought leadership. This close connection with leaders in industry will be a key leverage point for both our school and those companies.”
Energy Transfer Announces Bradford D. Whitehurst as Chief Financial Officer
Energy Transfer Announces Bradford D. Whitehurst as Chief Financial Officer
Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) today announced that Bradford D. (Brad) Whitehurst has been named as Chief Financial Officer effective immediately. Whitehurst, age 46, brings 20 years of experience to the position having served most recently as Executive Vice President and Head of Tax for the Dallas-based midstream company. In addition to overseeing all of Energy Transfers taxation functions, Whitehurst has also been responsible for managing Energy Transfers Information Technology and Business Optimization divisions since joining the Partnership in 2014. He also serves on Energy Transfers Investment Committee and is a director of USA Compression Partners, LP (NYSE: USAC). Additionally, Whitehurst is a member of the board of directors for the Energy Infrastructure Council, having served in this capacity since 2017.
by Fuqua School of Business December 22, 2020 .
DURHAM – Celebrating a new year might provide a momentary respite, but 2021 will offer many of the same concerns corporate financial officers faced in 2020, including productivity challenges, a remote workforce and pressure from markets to put excess liquidity to work.
“Even if vaccines roll out smoothly and the economy substantially recovers from COVID during the first half of 2021, there are still several important issues for companies to navigate in 2021, including a new U.S. president, the threat of higher taxes, labor force decisions about who can work from home and what jobs can be automated, among other issues,” said John Graham, a finance professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and director for The CFO Survey, a quarterly measure of CFO sentiment. “If there are any hitches in vaccine timing or efficacy, then there will be virus-related economic turmoil on top of these underlying issues.”
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A room on the first floor of the building that houses Carolina’s sociology department has an especially meaningful decorative touch. This room’s crowded “wall of fame” features framed portraits of each sociology faculty member who has served as the president of the discipline’s most prestigious organizations, including the American Sociological Association, the Southern Sociological Society and the Population Association of America.
“It fills the length of one wall,” said Charles Kurzman, Philip Stadter Distinguished Professor of Sociology. “It’s very impressive.”
As often as national organizations tap sociology faculty members as leaders, the University turns to the department to head centers and institutes, serve as administrators and lead campus-wide initiatives, Kurzman added. “I don’t know of any department that has a broad array of University leadership roles as our department does.”