CBI Courses 2008
Accounting
Accounting is the basis for business analysis and business decision making. Simply put, it is the process of capturing financial information about events and activities and communicating this information in meaningful ways so that managers can make sensible decisions. Carolina Business Institute's accounting sessions cover accounting reports such as profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and specialized reports prepared for managers.
Accounting is taught by Terri Lins, who earned her MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Lins is a certified public accountant with more than fifteen years of experience in negotiating highly leveraged, syndicated commercial loans for major global financial institutions. As a member of First Union/Wachovia's leveraged finance division, Lins taught accounting and financial statement analysis modules to entering classes of financial analysts and associates. A few years ago she joined Washington Mutual to start-up a leveraged finance lending unit for the $300+ billion financial institution. She is currently working with private equity groups, assisting with the procurement of debt to be used in leveraged buy-outs. Her teaching style institutes a real-life, practical approach to accounting and financial statement analysis.
Marketing
Marketing is the art and science of creating products and services that are attractive and saleable to segments of household and industrial consumers. Carolina Business Institute's marketing sessions cover the analysis of markets, competition, market segments, and the means of reaching and influencing customers with distribution, proper pricing, advertising, promotion, and sales forces.
Lew G. Brown is Associate Professor of Marketing in the Department of Business Administration, Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. An award-winning instructor, Dr. Brown also researches and consults in the areas of marketing management , strategic marketing, and convenience as a strategic and tactical marketing variable, and is editor of the Case Research Journal. He has written for numerous textbooks and electronic case databases, and co-authored Cases in Strategic Marketing.
Operations Management
Operations Management is concerned with the effective and efficient production of services and products for the market. Major issues addressed include quality management, capacity management, scheduling people and equipment, and managing inventories. In general, operations management is responsible for the design and control of the transformation process within a business.
Operations Management is taught by Stephen Chapman, Associate Professor, College of Management at North Carolina State University. He earned his BA and MBA from the University of Michigan and his PhD in operations management from Michigan State University. He has held managerial positions in industry and has been a senior consultant for one of the "big six" consulting firms. He has been on the faculty of the University of Iowa, Duke University, UNC-Greensboro, and UNC-Chapel Hill.
Finance
Finance is the study of how a firm makes financial decisions and how individuals make investment decisions. The focus will be on how a corporation finances its operations in an optimum way while providing an adequate return to those who provide the capital: stockholders, bondholders, and financial institutions such as banks. The sessions will also cover financial analysis, and understanding and pricing the principal financial instruments such as stocks and bonds.
Finance is taught by Karl Lins, Thayne Robson Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Finance at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. An award winning teacher at the University of Utah, Lins previously worked for six years in corporate finance, financial analyst, and international sales positions for Boise Cascade Corporation. He has taught corporate finance and international finance for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the OneMBA global program at EGADE in Monterrey, Mexico, the US Business School in Prague, AvalonBay Real Estate Investment Trust in Washington DC, and IBM Business Services in Mexico City. He has presented his research in the areas of international corporate governance and capital markets at conferences and universities in thirteen countries, and been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Financial Management.
Management and Organization
Management and Organization is the process that coordinates individuals and groups in different functional areas to achieve an organizational goal. Motivation, team-building, structure, control, culture, innovation, and change within a business will be some of the issues addressed in the management portion of the Institute.
Management is taught by Richard Blackburn, Academic Director of the Institute and Associate Professor of Management, Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Blackburn has a master's degree in arts administration, and an MBA and PhD in organizational behavior from the University of Wisconsin. Recognized with the AMF Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, he is the co-author of Managing Organizational Behavior.