Director of the Startup Consulting Program, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
For small businesses, AI promises to handle financial and operational tasks, freeing up workers for other duties and creating new efficiencies. We offer seven focal points for small businesses planning for AI integration.
...how early-stage experimentation impacts the performance of entrepreneurial ventures. The trial will set up a venture competition with two randomly assigned groups: a treatment group in which experimentation is prioritized,...
With homebuying season here, many Americans are eyeing the housing market, looking for signs of improvement. Will unfavorable conditions abate and the number of affordable homes begin to rise?
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.
...and Category Creation in the Nascent Agricultural-Technology Industry Nina Gheihman Harvard University Alicia DeSantola University of Washington Foster School of Business Cheng Gao University of Michigan Ross School of Business...
In this week’s commentary, we’ll discuss the robustness of the improved health statistics, what the president’s executive orders mean for the economy and the first estimates from our undetected cases model. We do this with an eye toward what could be impending deterioration on both the pandemic and economic front.
While the COVID-19 pandemic was devastating for many, research shows its impact was not felt equally. Black Americans experienced disproportionate health and economic ramifications, which compounded the financial, social and psychological strain many felt pre-pandemic, and have contributed to growing inter-generational wealth disparities. In today’s Kenan Insight, our experts explore whether the multi-trillion dollar “Build Back Better” plan proposed by the Biden administration holds the potential to begin closing pervasive gaps in American society.
Lecturer, Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University
Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Five individuals from the fields of economics and entrepreneurship will spend a year strengthening collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, contributing to the schools’ teaching missions, and providing at least one major public lecture or performance.
The Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise has awarded six 2020 Frontiers of Entrepreneurship research grants to 11 scholars from around the globe. Each $10,000 grant will be used to support a wide array of research on strategy, finance, innovation and other entrepreneurship issues of interest to practitioners and policymakers.
As federal, state and local governments struggle to reopen the economy as the COVID-19 pandemic surges onward, efforts to ensure people’s health and safety are seemingly at odds with attempts to spur economic activity. In this Kenan Insight, we explore how a data-driven approach to reopening North Carolina (and the U.S. as a whole) can help preserve both lives and livelihoods.