AI applications are ubiquitous – and so is their potential to exhibit unintended bias. Algorithmic and automation biases and algorithm aversion all plague the human-AI partnership, eroding trust between people and machines that learn. But can bias be eradicated from AI? Dr, Fay Cobb Payton, Professor of Information Systems & Technology at NC State’s Poole College of Management and a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Computer and Network Systems moderates a discussion between Timnit Gebru, research scientist and the co-lead of the Ethical AI Team at Google and the co-founder of Black in AI; Brenda Leong, senior counsel and director of artificial intelligence and ethics at the Future of Privacy Forum; Professor Mohammad Jarrahi, associate professor at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science; and Chris Wicher, Rethinc. Labs AI Research Fellow, former director of AI Research at KPMG’s AI Center of Excellence and Vice President of Watson Engineering at IBM.
Venture capital has existed since the 1970s, expanding and becoming more institutionalized year after year. But its growth in the aftermath of the global financial crisis has been unprecedented. UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor of Finance and Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Executive Director Greg Brown dives into some trends in the venture capital space today.
New business formation fuels local growth in North Carolina and offers real-time data to guide policy and forecasting, according to new research from the Kenan Institute, the North Carolina Collaboratory, and the Secretary of State.
Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, institutions of higher education were under immense pressure to live up to their value propositions, with underlying tensions that have been developing for years posing an existential threat to their financial viability. As colleges and universities move classes and operations online in response to the pandemic, questions arise as to what such changes hold not just for now, but for the long-term success of higher education. Can ed tech provide a way forward? This briefing features North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Liason and UNC School of Nursing Professor Mary Schuler, UNC College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean of Instructional Innovation Professor Kelly Hogan, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Dean Doug Shackelford and Association of College and University Educators CEO Susan Cates.
A panel of experts from the North Carolina CEO Forum, convened by UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and its affiliated Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, offered a press briefing via webinar to introduce a new framework aggregating real-time, non-standard economic and public health data to guide critical policy decisions on economic openness. This press briefing features UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor & Kenan Institute Research Director Christian Lundblad, Kenan Institute Senior Fellow & Carroll Family Holdings Founder David Carroll, First Citizens Bank Vice Chair Hope Bryant and Kenan Institute Executive Director and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor Greg Brown.
Food retail is facing massive challenges at the hands of the COVID-19 crisis and the response has led to an acceleration in the shift to go digital. Grocers are leaning strongly into online sales and producers are using new technology to become more nimble when it comes to whom they supply and how they get to market. Join our retail faculty and industry experts as they discuss the development of new online platforms and delivery options, the management of supplier relationships, evolving customer demand and expectations and changing personnel needs and safety. Moderator: Bill Putsis, Professor of Marketing, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Panelists: Kristopher Keller, Assistant Professor of Marketing, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Jody Kalmbach, Group Vice President of Product Experience, Kroger Mark Baum, Chief Collaboration Officer & Senior Vice President of Industry Relations at FMI, Food Industry Association
In the first study of the impact of the opioid crisis on firms, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Associate Professor of Finance Paige Ouimet, Assistant Professor of Finance Elena Simintzi and Ph.D. candidate Kailei Ye demonstrate the negative effects of opioid abuse on long-term firm growth, investment and valuation.
Governments around the globe are exploring how to leverage technology and data analytics to enable effective contact tracing to stem the spread of COVID-19. UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor of Operations Jay Swaminathan hosts a panel of experts to explore how developers, corporations, regulators and consumer advocates are thinking about the impact of integrating this technology in response to the pandemic. Panelists include IBM Watson IoT VP of Offering Management Stephan Biller; the Heritage Foundations's Center for Technology Policy Director Klon Kitchen; the Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Associate Professor and Carolina Population Center MEASURE Evaluation Project Director Jim Thomas.
Does practicing corporate social responsibility (CSR) bestow any benefits on how a firm is perceived by the public? Yes, says a study by Olga Hawn, assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and faculty director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and Catherine Shea, assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business. Hawn and Shea point to a link between CSR and a company’s’ reputation for warmth and competence, how perceptions of firms’ exhibition of these characteristics affect CSR rewards and CSI (corporate social irresponsibility) penalties and how these effects vary from country to country.
Q&A featuring Yale School of Management Professor Olav Sorrenson, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Amadeus Capital Partners Chief Executive and Co-Founder Anne Glover.
As AI and related technologies – such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vision – rapidly evolve, it's necessary to examine their limitations and ethical complexities. Eric Ghysels, Edward Bernstein Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance & Faculty Director of Rethinc. Labs previews our AI Innovations Forum co-hosted with SAS.
The Kenan Scholars will take a trip to the state capital to learn more about an important public sector actor, the North Carolina state government. Scholars will gain first-hand knowledge about the roles and responsibilities of state government, the services it provides and the role that business plays in these processes.
On Sept. 9-11, the Kenan Institute co-hosted our second Black Communities Conference with the Institute of African American Research in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Attendees came from around the world to collaborate across disciplines. Black Communities is a a vibrant and uniquely important gathering featuring panel discussions, local tours, film screenings, workshops, keynotes and more. Our core mission is to foster collaboration among Black communities and universities for the purpose of enhancing Black community life.
The Black Communities Conference, a.k.a. #BlackCom2019, is a vibrant and uniquely important gathering featuring panel discussions, local tours, film screenings, workshops, keynotes and more. Our core mission is to foster collaboration among Black communities and universities for the purpose of enhancing Black community life and furthering the understanding of Black communities. Black Communities: A Conference for Collaboration is co-hosted by the Institute of African American Research and the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein discusses the economic challenges and implications of the opioid crisis, including the epidemic’s contribution to the state’s rural-urban divide.
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.
The last 20 years have been a period of tremendous growth for the PE industry. From its roots in the 1970s and 80s in the buyout and venture capital spaces, private capital has expanded dramatically in both scope and scale. Funds have gotten larger, the investor pool has broadened and the largest players have transformed themselves into fully diversified alternative asset managers, with offerings across a wide range of geographies and asset classes.
In 2018, the Institute for Private Capital celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC). The conference has established a reputation as leading the discussion between leading academics and practitioners in the private capital arena.
A growing body of rigorous academic literature empirically demonstrates that high-skilled immigrants provide a range of long-lasting and material benefits to the U.S. economy through entrepreneurship and innovation. Recent research has quantified the impact of foreign-born founders on key economic indicators such as firm creation, job creation and overall business innovation. Likewise, a growing body of literature documents how skilled immigrants have more broadly facilitated technological innovation. Kenan Institute Executive Director Greg Brown discusses the findings of he and his colleagues in this Institute Insights.
Profound demographic changes of all kinds are radically transforming America’s social, economic and political institutions. Perhaps one of the most troubling is something Urban Investment Strategies Center Director Dr. James Johnson calls the End of Men. The End of Men refers to the decade-long shift in the ratio of male to female students attending institutions of higher learning. The ratio of females to males born each year in the U.S. is roughly 50-50; the ratio among college students swings in favor of females, 60-40.