The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has announced that its next dean will be Doug Shackelford, professor of taxation and associate dean of the MBA@UNC program at Kenan-Flagler.
Filling the role took an international search and the efforts of a search committee led by Susan King, dean of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Doug Shackelford was then selected by UNC chancellor, Carol Folt, and executive vice chancellor and provost, James W Dean Jr.
The school’s online MBA program, MBA@UNC, was launched in 2011 and Shackelford, associate dean of the program, has been the man behind its success. Having received his PhD from the University of Michigan, Shackelford has worked as a visiting professor in top universities around the world, including Maastricht University in the Netherlands and the UK’s University of Oxford. He also works at the US National Bureau of Economic Research as a research associate in public economics.
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