The SunTrust Foundation will give a nearly $1 million grant to NCGrowth, an affiliated center of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, to help create new jobs and stimulate transformative development in three high-potential communities in the Carolinas. These business incubators will help startup companies hire local workers in an effort to address issues such as unemployment, underemployment, low wages and significant poverty.
NCGrowth, an affiliated center of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, has been awarded $1.3 million in new funding as part of the U.S. Economic Development Administration's (EDA) 2017 University Center Economic Development Program Competition.
Adjunct Professor - MBA@UNC | PhD Candidate in Strategy & Entrepreneurship, UNC-Chapel Hill
2020 brought an end to North Carolina’s decade-long economic expansion that began in 2010 after the Great Recession. It has now been a year since COVID-19 arrived on U.S. shores, and we can see some changes clearly, while others are just starting to emerge from the haze. It will likely be years before we fully grasp the myriad ways COVID-19 has affected the nation’s and the state’s economies. Now seems like a good time to take stock of the fallout from 2020, the trends we’re seeing a year into the crisis and where things are starting to turn around for North Carolina.
Executive Director of the Office of Science, Technology & Innovation, North Carolina Department of Commerce
The James and Gail Vander Weide Professor of Finance, Duke University Fuqua School of Business; Research Director, Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University, and 2024 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Duke Fuqua School of Business, and 2023 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
Professor of the Practice of Finance, Director of the Energy Center, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Each of the Kenan Institute's 2023 Distinguished Fellows has written a paper as part of their work to support our exploration of workforce disruption. Learn more about our fellows and read their papers, along with key takeaways from each.
Michael W. Haley Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Area Chair of Accounting, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Founder and Research Director, Institute for Private Capital; Van and Kay Weatherspoon Distinguished Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School; Faculty Director, Luther Hodges Scholars