Dana O’Donovan, managing director of the Monitor Institute by Deloitte and a member of the Kenan Scholars Board of Mentors, has been appointed to the North Carolina Council for Women as an at-large member. The council’s mission is to advise the governor, state legislature and state departments on the issues that impact women in North Carolina. The appointment is one of 13 recent assignments made by Governor Roy Cooper to various North Carolina boards and commissions.
The Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a virtual conference on machine learning in finance on March 5, 2021. The conference is co-sponsored by the Journal of Financial Econometrics (JFEC) and the International Center for Finance (ICF) at Yale University.
This paper examines the cross-university variation in spin-off activity by faculty members from 124 US academic institutions, using a unique database including data on founders of both formal and informal spin-offs. Accordingly, the rate of spawning founders is positively affected by the quality of the institution and its departments, the R&D expenditure of the institution, and the strength of the local cluster.
Participants include Jim Goldman, Assistant Professor of Financial Economics, University of Toronto; Eva Steiner, Associate Professor of Real Estate, Penn State University; Jay R. Ritter, Joseph B. Cordell Eminent Scholar, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida; Allyson Tucker, Chief Investment Officer, Washington State Investment Board; Michael Elio, Partner, StepStone; Christian Lundblad, Richard Levin Distinguished Professor of Finance, Director of Research, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise; Matt Harvey, Managing Director, Head of Direct Lending, PGIM Private Capital; and David Sambur, Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Associate Professor, Economics Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Associate Professor and Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School