After being generated, a new idea is rarely perfect but must be clarified, improved, and developed in more detail. Unfortunately, idea elaboration and creativity do not always come together: many new ideas become less creative when elaborated. This research examines who elaborates new ideas more creatively.
Professional service executives who base their professional relationships on individual ties bring more value to the firm.
This briefing features UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professors Matt Pearsall, Shimul Melwani and Alison Fragale, as well as UNC Kenan-Flagler Ph.D. candidate Angelica Leigh, as they discuss the vastly uneven impact of COVID-19 on different types of workers and organizations.
Commercial real estate is a major asset class, with an estimated value of more than $12 trillion in the U.S. alone. But the stay-at-home orders and business closures precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to negatively – and disastrously – affect commercial properties. What will the short- and long-term impacts be, which types of properties will be hardest hit and what policies can be put in place to help stem the tide of losses? UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor and Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies Faculty Advisor Andra Ghent and her colleagues examine these issues in this week’s Kenan Insight. This briefing features Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies Faculty Advisor Andra Ghent, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professors Katrijn Gielens and Adam Merserea, and Pension Real Estate Association Research Director Greg MacKinnon.
Hosted by NCGrowth & SmartUp, U.S. Small Business Administration District Director for North Carolina Thomas Stith and Senior Area Manager Patrick Rodriguez share a presentation via Zoom covering the administration's Economic Injury Disaster Loan program for coronavirus related economic disruptions. Stith and Rodriguez breakdown what types of small businesses qualify, how to apply and more.
Introduction to machine learning techniques using the SAS platform. Agenda includes: (1) Overview of SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning; (2) Hands-on exercises with SAS machine learning visual interfaces; (3) SAS Programming w/ demonstration of SAS Studio development environment; (4) Python programming with SAS machine learning including hands-on exercises; and (5) Advanced SAS AI Topics. Open only to UNC students, faculty, and staff. Space is limited, please register to attend.
The increasingly open flow of goods and services has fundamentally altered the world economy and global power balances. It is also reshaping the American political system and our economic geography, providing clear and lasting benefits for some and negative impacts for others. This Kenan Institute's Global Trade, Global Trade-Offs conference convened thought leaders from the business community, government and academia to explore the core questions of the impact of international trade on society, the changing nature of work and economic productivity.
Registration is open for the 17th annual Alternative Investments Conference on March 27, hosted by the Institute for Private Capital.
We examined factors that influence an individual's attitude and decisions about the information handling practices of corporations. Results from a survey of 425 consumers suggested that the hypothesized model was an accurate reflection of factors that affect privacy preferences of consumers. The results provide important implications for research and practice.
Inspired by recent empirical work on inventory record inaccuracy, we consider a periodic review inventory system with imperfect inventory records and unobserved lost sales. Record inaccuracies are assumed to arrive via an error process that perturbs physical inventory but is unobserved by the inventory manager. The inventory manager maintains a probability distribution around the physical inventory level that he updates based on sales observations using Bayes Theorem. The focus of this study is on understanding, approximating, and evaluating optimal forward-looking replenishment in this environment.
In academia, citations received by articles are a critical metric for measuring research impact. An important aspect of publishing in academia is the ability of the authors to navigate the review process and despite its critical role very little is known about how the review process may impact the research impact of an article.
In this paper, we build on research on the microfoundations of strategy and learning processes to study the individual underpinnings of organizational learning. We argue that once an individual has accumulated a certain amount of experience with a task, the benefit of accumulating additional experience is inferior to the benefit of deliberately articulating and codifying the experience accumulated in the past.
The NCFOODSAFE project bridges existing gaps in current North Carolina food safety systems by developing a new informatics tool, the North Carolina Foodborne Events Data Integration and Analysis (NCFEDA) tool, that provides situational awareness and intelligence about an intrinsically complex and dynamic process—the detection of and response to a foodborne disease outbreak. The project is informed by an understanding of the information sharing and communication structures among government agencies and other personnel responsible for regulating and overseeing the state’s food safety system.
Although the level of power held by the marketing department can determine key organizational outcomes, including firm performance, this power often is modest and, in many firms, diminishing. To address this apparent disconnect, the authors propose that the board of directors is a critical but overlooked driver of marketing department power.
This article integrates relevant literature to develop a conceptual model on the potential avenues to achieve service excellence at low unit costs, which we term cost-effective service excellence (CESE). To gain a deeper understanding of these strategies, their applicability and interrelatedness, we analyze how 10 organizations have achieved CESE. Our findings show that CESE can be achieved through three core strategies.
My particular path has contained, as most paths do, twists and turns. As I look back, they all seem somehow related to each other, but they were not all planned. Design/methodology/approach I will discuss my life and career in chronological order, then reflect on my career and research philosophy. I will also discuss several of my most cited articles and how they emerged. Findings I emphasize research that is both academically rigorous and relevant to business. I also show that passion for a subject, even one that is risky and not encouraged by others, has resulted in lifelong interest and inspiration for me.
The multidisciplinary Center for the Business of Health brings together expertise from across UNC to create knowledge, prepare business leaders and convene important conversations around the business of healthcare.
Through objective academic research, the Institute for Private Capital works to generate new, trusted knowledge and to promote a deep understanding of the role private capital markets play in the global economy.