Total funding in North Carolina hit a record $3.4 billion in 2020 with the potential to hit $4 billion in 2021, along with a 10% increase in the number of companies funded, but it’s often a challenge to get cash cycled into new companies and new investments.
Urban Investment Strategies Center Director Jim Johnson shares how he’s leveraged lessons learned while growing up poor in the segregated South to benefit others throughout his distinguished career.
Businesses such as Nike and Oracle are happy to let you work from home – just not in Colorado. UNC Kenan-Flagler Professor of Finance Paige Ouimet weighs in on why.
Christian Lundblad, Kenan Institute Director of Research, joined WRAL's Debra Morgan to discuss the state's uneven economic recovery due to employee fear of being exposed to coronavirus. He suggests business vaccine mandates will help get folks back to work.
The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise was proud to host Bill Rogers, chairman and CEO of SunTrust Banks, at the Kenan Center Monday, Nov. 19. The Kenan Institute hosted Rogers as part of its Dean’s Speaker Series, which is made possible by the Archie K. Davis endowment. During his visit, the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School alumnus met with faculty, staff and students to discuss issues ranging from rural economic development to emerging technologies.
Three institute-associated experts provided analysis for the July 30 edition of WRAL-TV’s “On the Record” news program. In a segment on dwindling child care options in the Raleigh area, Director of Research Paige Ouimet talked about how child care access affects the ability of women to work.
Maryann Feldman, director of Kenan Institute affiliated center CREATE, spoke with Lili Török of the Endeavor Insight blog "Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Insights" about the role of entrepreneurship in economic development.
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor Mark McNeilly discusses how ChatGPT and other AI tools will change the workplace - as well as how workers can best prepare themselves for these changes.
As autoworkers continue to strike, there are concerns about how the work stoppage could affect the automotive supply chain, which is still adjusting to challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Wall Street Journal details how MIT economist and Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow David Autor rose to become one of the most influential scholars studying the U.S. labor market today.
...and Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and 2025 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow David Deming Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School, and 2025 Kenan Institute Distinguished...
High levels of inflation have dominated global headlines for a good part of the last year, but what’s the connection between high global inflation and a strong dollar?
Stephen Arbogast, Director of the Energy Center at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, offers an in-depth explanation of supply dynamics in global energy markets--and why oil and gas prices have been so chaotic.
...world’s workforce go from here? Learn More 2022: Stakeholder Capitalism Stakeholder capitalism is the idea that businesses would improve societal outcomes by focusing on a mandate broader than that which...
To manage marketing channels, subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs) must balance headquarters’ (HQ) mandates with the local realities of the foreign markets. The performance implications of subsidiary–distributor relationship efforts thus are contingent on the HQ–subsidiary relationship.
From investigating ways to improve the customer experience at centers housing families of children undergoing cancer treatment to examining how socioeconomic status affects individuals’ ability to accurately predict the viability of their financial investments, students in the Kenan Scholars MBA program showcased a wide range of business interests during the presentation of their capstone research projects on Wednesday, Dec. 12, at the Kenan Center.
Scholars have traditionally treated motivation as a value-neutral state divorced from normative considerations. Yet, research across the social sciences suggests a growing moral imperative to love work, which carries with it the social expectation of intrinsic motivation.
As the country reopens, it’s important to assess how we can be better prepared to stave off such enormous economic losses during the next wave or the next epidemic.
Existing models of industry evolution describe a smooth pattern over time in which initial growth in the number of firms is followed by a sharp decrease due to a shakeout and an eventual stabilization as the industry reaches maturity.
The Kenan Institute announces the publication of “The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography,” edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler and Dariusz Wójcik. Feldman is the S.K. Heninger Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the UNC College of Arts & Sciences, and a professor of finance at Kenan-Flagler Business School.