Business Archives

Jan 16, 2026
  • Steven Grandy

New Immersive MBA cohort thrives during busy fall schedule

Experiential learning and networking highlighted a very busy fall semester for the third cohort of the Arthur Graduate School’s Immersive MBA pathway. Classes began in August and then the group...

Graphic reading “Save the Date: 3.4.26” promoting ECU’s 10th Pirate Nation Gives Day of Giving, with purple and gold branding.
Jan 12, 2026
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Pirate Nation to celebrate milestone day of giving

Since 2017, Pirate Nation Gives has raised more than $50 million for East Carolina University initiatives. On March 4, supporters can cap that decade of success by participating in the...

A young, smiling man stands in front of a building marked “Financial Services.”
Jan 06, 2026
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Student finds a job offer and career at the end of work-study program

Ebrahim Rezk “Abe” Al Quhshi could be anywhere right now. Born in Yemen and raised for a time in Sudan, he moved to New York City as a youngster before...

Jan 05, 2026
  • ECU Advancement

Donor support takes ECU business students from Greenville to Wall Street

The opening bell rang, and cheers erupted. East Carolina University College of Business (COB) students experienced the New York Stock Exchange in person, on the trading floor; for many of...

Dec 18, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Society inductees spark a bright future through planned gifts

What is the outcome and impact of a charitable planned gift in an estate plan? For East Carolina University Bea Chauncey Scholarship recipient Caroline Kuskowski, a planned gift created the...

A young man wearing a suit with dark hair stands outside with yellow and red leaves behind him.
Dec 15, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Noah Brown – Business

When Noah Brown began his East Carolina University journey in August 2021, he had one expectation. “I had expected to go in, get my degree and get out,” he said....

A student stands outdoors on ECU’s campus with arms crossed, wearing a light-colored blazer over a dark top, smiling in front of a brick building and fall foliage. A graphic on the right reads “Pirate Profiles.”
Dec 12, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Cooper Hilbert

East Carolina University senior Cooper Hilbert has spent his college career exploring how cities work and how they can work better. What began as simple curiosity grew into a passion...

Nov 26, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Hospitality leadership students prepare Thanksgiving feast

Students in East Carolina University’s School of Hospitality Management’s advanced food production and service management class served a Thanksgiving feast for lunch in the Darden Dining Hall on Nov. 21....

A woman with brown hair pulled in a ponytail wearing a purple sweatshirt counts out play money to hand to a woman sitting behind a table. Other young people are lined up in a large room where they are waiting to talk to people sitting in chairs behind the tables.
Nov 26, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Life happens: Students plan post-graduation budgets

A trip to the emergency room. A flat tire. Life happens. East Carolina University students encountered all that and more in the Making Cent$ of Life After College event sponsored...

Nov 14, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Trustees approve degree conferral at November meeting

In its final meeting of 2025, the East Carolina University Board of Trustees approved conferral of degrees for 1,863 graduates at ECU’s fall commencement on Dec. 19 in Minges Coliseum....