The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a significant shift in how and where we work, play and live. In this Kenan Insight, we explore which changes will be temporary and which are here to stay.
The list of stores that have closed or gone bankrupt in 2020 reads like a “who’s who” of venerable retail giants. Although retailing has been experiencing tectonic shifts for several years, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated both challenges and opportunities. In this Kenan Insight, we explore four major trends in retail, with a particular focus on food retailing.
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research & Richard "Dick" Levin Distinguished Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
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.
Founder and Research Director, Institute for Private Capital; Van and Kay Weatherspoon Distinguished Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School; Faculty Director, Luther Hodges Scholars
Professor of the Practice of Finance, Director of the Energy Center, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Professor of Operations and Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Professor of Marketing and Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Take a look back at highlights from the second annual Conference on Market-Based Solutions for Reducing Wealth Inequality, which brought academics together with the public and private sectors to hear about new research and venture into the community.
Ellison Distinguished Professor of Operations, Senior Associate Dean for Strategy and Academics, and Faculty Director of the Center for the Business of Health, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
C. Stewart Sheppard Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia
Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, and 2023 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
The arrival of two approved COVID-19 vaccines provides a clear path to the end of the pandemic that held most of 2020 hostage. But a recent resurgence of the virus and skyrocketing rates of infection indicate that a full return to normalcy—including the pre-pandemic work environment— is still months in the future. In this Kenan Insight, we examine the relevant factors that will determine when and how we go back to the office.