The Kenan Institute will host Bryony Winn, chief strategy and innovation officer for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC). Winn is responsible for thoughtfully guiding the company as it seeks to realize its vision to be the model for transforming our health system through an unwavering commitment to quality, affordability, and exceptional experience.
On Feb. 8, 2019, the Kenan Scholars traveled to Raleigh to meet with government leaders and administrators for their annual North Carolina Capital Trek.
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.
Postdoctoral scholars may be economic complements or substitutes for faculty, doctoral research assistants and capital in the production of university life science research. Using data on 120 US universities, we present two cross-sectional (1993 and 2006) descriptive econometric models. Results suggest that postdocs serve primarily as complements to other labour inputs and capital.
In his most recent paper James H. Johnson, director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, addresses the challenges facing senior African Americans in accessing long-term care.
The paper explores how the workload of emergency room physicians affects which non-urgent patients they choose to prioritize out of a full waiting room, and what the consequences of those decisions might be for both the doctor and patient.
The conference, hosted by the Center for the Business of Health, the Kenan-Flagler Healthcare Club, and the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, attracted students, faculty and practitioners from all sectors of the healthcare system.
Kenan Scholar JoLynn Smith reflects on the KIFE 2020 keynote address from Backstage Capital Founder Arlan Hamilton and argues that the venture capital space needs to adopt more of Hamilton's "disruptive" strategies.
Join us for our next discussion as Isaiah Hull, a Senior Economist with Sweden’s Central Bank introduces quantum money and highlights the common misconceptions about what is achievable with quantum computing in economic models.
Román Orús, Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastián, Spain, will present the findings from his research on determining the optimal trading trajectory for an investment portfolio of assets over a period of time. Dynamic portfolio optimization is well known to be NP-Hard and is central to quantitative finance.
Join NCGrowth, the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission and the Conservation Trust for North Carolina to explore how economically mindful heritage placemaking is taking shape in Black communities across the country.
...— doctors’ practices, physicians’ offices, hospitals, health systems, other types of institutions around the country — that could take them a long time to recover from this. I would perhaps...
Please join us for an exclusive conversation with Royal Caribbean Group Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jason Liberty on Wednesday, April 14. This virtual experience is part of the Dean’s Speaker Series, hosted by UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Dean Doug Shackelford.
Economic theory holds that competition drives innovation, improves the quality of goods and services, and lowers prices for consumers. Health care delivery is no exception.
As we begin the new year, we wanted to highlight five topics, beyond the impact of COVID-19 and related uncertainties, that we believe business leaders and policymakers will be grappling with in 2022. Throughout the year, we will focus our efforts to provide solutions-focused analysis on these topics as well as a host of others.
As part of the 2020 Dean’s Speaker Series, UNC Kenan-Flagler Dean Doug Shackelford sat down virtually with Royal Caribbean Cruises EVP and Chief Financial Officer Jason Liberty.
...Ripple. Ripple’s financial gift and subject matter expertise have enabled Kenan-Flagler and Rethinc. Labs to support research, curriculum development and project-based work in blockchain and distributed systems; cryptocurrency and distributed...
As we begin the new year, we wanted to highlight five topics, beyond the impact of COVID-19 and related uncertainties, that we believe businesspeople and policy makers will be grappling with in 2022. Throughout the year, we will focus our efforts to provide solutions-focused analysis on these topics as well as a host of others.