Bryan School of Business & Economics

The endowed scholarship Tia Wiggins ‘07 (Business Administration) created at UNC Greensboro’s Bryan School of Business and Economics has turned out to be much more than a financial award. Recipients of her scholarship have become part of “Tia’s Circle” as she calls it – a small but growing network she … Continued

David Craft ’85 (Business Administration and Management) is a lifelong “doer.” Instead of waiting for others to make things better, he acts on his inclinations to support and serve his community. Therefore, it is no surprise that as he reflected on the influence UNC Greensboro faculty have had on his … Continued

Homayoon Ershadi ’18 (Economics) says the idea came to him after a bike ride. “That lightning bolt moment,” he said. “I’m a big cyclist, racing and competing for years now. I was living at home, out on my usual route — I came back and my mom had a pitcher … Continued

Take chances, learn from your mistakes, and never forget the people who helped you along the way. Those are the driving principles that accomplished serial entrepreneur Kirk Galiani ʼ87 (Finance) learned from his grandfathers — one an Italian immigrant who came to this country during the Great Depression and worked … Continued

Earlier this year, Ricole Wicks ’20 found herself on the set of a commercial shoot in Nashville. She was the subject, an opportunity that she says seemed to come out of nowhere. While in Tennessee, she got an email from one of her Bryan School professors, informing her she’d finally … Continued

Tasmin Farzana ’14 (MBA) has learned plenty of new things while working from home during quarantine. For one, there’s chess, a game she admits she hasn’t quite mastered. Another is chemistry. Farzana, Senior Procurement Manager of Global Operations at Hanesbrands Inc., oversaw the chemical component of the company’s agreement to … Continued

Joe Rotondi recalls closing the doors to Forge Greensboro on a Friday evening, in-step with recent stay-at-home orders handed down by local authorities. But things didn’t stay dormant for long. “We started prototyping designs we saw on the Internet essentially the day after, that Saturday,” said Rotondi (BS Entrepreneurship ’16), … Continued

Two weeks ago, the owners of Hudson’s Hill set up an assembly line and began producing a couple of hundred masks a day under a new agreement with Cone Health. That number is now up to about 600 masks a day, according to co-owner Tinker Clayton. “We added another sewing … Continued

Forge Greensboro, a self-described community maker space, was recently featured on the NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. For the piece, Wilmer spoke at length with Forge Greensboro’s executive director, a Bryan School alumnus. “The end goal is to get people, hands-on, making things and learning how to … Continued