Professor of Organizational Behavior and Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Ellison Distinguished Professor of Operations, Senior Associate Dean for Strategy and Academics, and Faculty Director of the Center for the Business of Health, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Professor of the Practice in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Our American Growth Project examination of skills in the workforce begins with a discussion of why skills are difficult to measure, then moves to a broad look at two ways to estimate the skill level across our Extended Metropolitan Areas.
The Great Recession of 2008 came with a counterintuitive twist – the unprecedented growth of minority-owned small businesses in the U.S. But although the data shows that the representation of minority firms in the small business ecosystem increased from 2007 to 2012 while the percentage of white-owned firms decreased, the larger question is whether those minority firms also made headway toward achieving equity or parity with white-owned businesses.