The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise hosted UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s annual new faculty dinner Thursday evening at the Kenan Center. The institute, which supports the school’s outreach and research efforts, kicked off the event with an interdisciplinary seminar featuring a presentation by Professor Al Segars on his latest research, “Seven Technologies Remaking the World,” and discussion and Q&A facilitated by Professor Eric Ghysels.
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.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University, and 2024 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
David E. Hoffman Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Faculty Director for UNC Tax Center
...Kenan Institute’s 2022 Grand Challenge: Stakeholder Capitalism and ESG Investing Frontiers of Business Conference: Workforce Disrupted October 12-13, 2023 • Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC The COVID-19 pandemic has driven...
The Biden administration's $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan comes with a hefty price tag, which the president hopes to pay in part by introducing a 15% minimum tax on corporate book income. Predictably, policymakers from both sides of the aisle are sounding off, but the argument is more complicated and nuanced than partisan rhetoric. In this Kenan Insight, we outline the intricacies and implications of taxing book income.
Edward Bernstein Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance, Faculty Director of Rethinc. Labs
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?
Watts Endowed Professor of Public Affairs, Arizona State University School of Public Affairs
Professor of Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
As the middle class shrinks and consumer debt, education and healthcare costs increase, a national conversation has focused on the wealth gap within America and the realities of the American Dream.
Gender and Ethnoracial Discrimination in Small Business Lending: Evidence from a Field Experiment with SBA 7(a) Lenders Yael Hochberg Rice University This study investigates gender or ethnoracial discrimination in...