As part of the Investing in Affordable Housing symposium, David Hartzell, director of the Kenan Institute-affiliated Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies, and Craig Miller, executive vice president of Terwilliger Pappas, analyzed a hypothetical development pro forma and discussed the challenges faced by developers attempting to build affordable housing.
Kenan Institute Senior Faculty Fellow Maryann Feldman and Good Jobs First Executive Director Greg LeRoyco-authored an op-ed published in The Guardian on why American cities should stop trying to attract big tech and offer up alternative strategies to boost local economies.
A Different Kenan-Flagler Experience Each year, the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise distinguishes a highly select group of incoming UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School students as Kenan Scholars. Through...
The United States healthcare system has long been been criticized for its segmented approach to finding solutions. But according to Jeff Arnold, Sharecare co-founder, chairman & CEO, platforms focused on personalized and data-driven healthcare solutions could eliminate that fragmentation, providing better, more sustainable care for all.
The 2019 North Carolina Investment Forum convened a highly select group of private capital investors who back N.C.-based companies. By providing a chance to share information on investment strategies, markets and life-cycle investment policies, the forum ensured all participants left with a greater understanding of how the public and private sectors can better work together to bolster investment in the North Carolina economy. Linda McMahon, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Association, served as the keynote speaker.
In spite of widespread buzz about corporate sustainability, research shows that, for many companies, sustainability is still mostly a public relations exercise. UNC Kenan-Flagler Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Center for Sustainable Enterprise Faculty Director Olga Hawn discusses new research from colleagues Caroline Flammer (Boston University Questrom), Bryan Hong (NYU Stern) and Dylan Minor (Northwestern University Kellogg) which found that companies that adopt corporate social responsibility contracting have a greater and more pervasive focus on sustainability, are better able to track their ESG (environmental, social and governance) performance and are more likely to achieve their social and environmental goals.
For hospitals, a corollary to the popular adage “what gets measured gets managed” could be “measure more accurately to manage costs better.” That seems to be true even in industries like healthcare, where corporations and the government have been struggling for years to control hydra-like costs. UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School accounting professor Eva Labro and Lorien Stice-Lawrence (PhD ’17) found one way to significantly cut hospital costs is to upgrade accounting systems in their forthcoming paper in Management Science.
Many people dream of starting their own business. But before they can make their dream a reality, one of the first and most important decisions they must make is whether to go it alone or partner with someone they may, or may not, already know. Which approach is better? Kenan Institute Grant Recipient Travis Howell, previews his findings in a soon-to-be-published working paper.