Frontiers of Business Conference: Building Business Resilience
October 10, 2024
The Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Featured Commentary
Commentary
Business Resilience and Risk Management: The Change Healthcare CyberattackA February cyberattack targeting Change Healthcare resulted in the most extensive healthcare data breach to date, raising questions about industrywide risk management and regulation.
Featured Insight
Kenan Insight
Lessons on Small Business Resilience from the Global PandemicMore than four years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we examine the essential elements that build small-business resilience, emphasizing the importance of personal fortitude and intangible resources in ensuring business survival.
Kenan Commentary
Commentary
Building Business Resilience in an Age of Radical UncertaintyAs a once-orderly world grows messier in the post-pandemic era, UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Christian Lundblad discusses strategic planning for low-probability, high-impact events.
Commentary
Marketing at a Crossroads, Part II: Personalization vs. Privacy and the Rise of First-Party DataWith a growing emphasis on prioritizing user privacy and data protection, says UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Longxiu Tian, information collected directly from customers becomes the key to solving the puzzle of personalization and accurate targeting for marketers.
Kenan Insights
Featured Events
Video
2024 Frontiers of Business Conference Recap VideoBusiness executives, policymakers and academics gathered October 10 at The Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, NC, to discuss how to make businesses more resilient in unpredictable times.
Featured Video
Video
Kenan Fellow Josh Lerner on the Difficulty of ResilienceKenan Institute Distinguished Fellow Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School says achieving resilience is difficult, in part because businesses are hard to change.
Distinguished Fellows
The Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellows, appointed on an annual basis, comprise an exemplary set of global scholars committed to leveraging their individual expertise, thought leadership, research and networks to further the institute’s efforts to examine – and drive solutions to – the most complex and timely issues facing business and the economy today. The 2024 Distinguished Fellows work to support the Kenan Institute’s exploration of business resilience.
David Autor
Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT, and 2024 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
Josh Lerner
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School, and 2024 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
Christine Moorman
T. Austin Finch, Sr. Professor of Business Administration, Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and 2024 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University, and 2024 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
Jayashankar M. Swaminathan
GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Professor of Operations, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and 2024 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
The Distinguished Fellows program is supported by a generous gift from Bruce and Katie Van Saun.