On Thursday, January 30, we’ll be livestreaming the opening session of our fourth annual Frontiers of Entrepreneurship conference, featuring the release of the first-ever Trends in Entrepreneurship Report and a series of interviews with experts speaking to the findings and themes highlighted. The full report will be available for download at frontiers.unc.edu. 9:30 a.m. EST: Opening Frontiers of Entrepreneurship conference plenary + 2020 Trends in Entrepreneurship Launch 12:00 p.m. EST: Interview with Kenan Institute Executive Director Greg Brown 12:20 p.m. EST: Interview with JPMorgan Chase Institute Director of Business Research Chris Wheat 12:40 p.m. EST: Interview with University of Chicago Polsky Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Executive Director Starr Marcello 1:00 p.m. EST: Interview with Union Square Ventures Partner Brad Burnham 1:20 p.m. EST: Interview with UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Phillip Hettleman Distinguished Scholar, Professor and Area Chair of Strategy & Entrepreneurship Chris Bingham 1:40 p.m. EST: Interview with Backstage Capital Founder and Managing Partner Arlan Hamilton
On Jan. 30, 2020, the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and UNC Entrepreneurship Center released the inaugural Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Trends Report. The report features timely insights into topics that affect founders, funders and the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem. Combining expert analysis, this report translates rigorous academic research to ensure findings are actionable for the broader entrepreneurial community, aiming to inform practitioners’ decisions and encourage further exploration of research topics by scholars. Download the full report at https://frontiers.unc.edu/.
On Thursday, January 30, we’ll be livestreaming the opening session of our fourth annual Frontiers of Entrepreneurship conference, featuring the release of the first-ever Trends in Entrepreneurship Report and a series of interviews with experts speaking to the findings and themes highlighted. The full report will be available for download at frontiers.unc.edu. 9:30 a.m. EST: Opening Frontiers of Entrepreneurship conference plenary + 2020 Trends in Entrepreneurship Launch 12:00 p.m. EST: Interview with Kenan Institute Executive Director Greg Brown 12:20 p.m. EST: Interview with JPMorgan Chase Institute Director of Business Research Chris Wheat 12:40 p.m. EST: Interview with University of Chicago Polsky Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Executive Director Starr Marcello 1:00 p.m. EST: Interview with Union Square Ventures Partner Brad Burnham 1:20 p.m. EST: Interview with UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Phillip Hettleman Distinguished Scholar, Professor and Area Chair of Strategy & Entrepreneurship Chris Bingham 1:40 p.m. EST: Interview with Backstage Capital Founder and Managing Partner Arlan Hamilton
In kicking off the new year, we at the Kenan Institute want to highlight five topics we anticipate will be top of mind for business leaders and policymakers during the 12 months ahead.
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.
With the belief that private enterprise is the cornerstone of every free and prosperous society, the nonpartisan Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise develops and promotes innovative, market-based solutions to vital economic issues facing business today. Hear from Prof. Greg Brown, the institute’s executive director, about our work to foster the entrepreneurial spirit, stimulate economic growth and improve the lives of people everywhere in the video above, and visit www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu to learn more about how you can get involved.
On October 14, 2016, the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School hosted a conference titled What’s Next, America. Convened fewer than four weeks prior to the presidential election, the objective of the forum was to allow influential business leaders, academics and policy makers to examine issues critical to the U.S. economy now and in the future. The conference offered actionable solutions to the most important economic issues facing the next administration.
UNC’s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and the Duke University Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) initiative have embarked on a joint initiative to build a data repository to facilitate empirical research in entrepreneurship.
Developing measures to improve the traceability of contaminated food products across the supply chain is one of the key provisions of the 2011 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). In the event of a recall, FSMA requires companies to provide information about their immediate suppliers and customers—what is referred to as “one step forward” and “one step backward” traceability.
Private equity funds hold assets that are hard to value. Managers may have an incentive to distort reported valuations if these are used by investors to decide on commitments to subsequent funds managed by the same firm.
In the U.S. automobile industry, manufacturers distribute products through dealers and rental agencies. To mediate direct competition between the two intermediaries, manufacturers adopted buyback programs to repurchase used rental cars from rental agencies and redistribute them through dealers.
This research utilizes data from the World Bank Investment Climate Survey to examine the use of external capital for almost 70,000 small and medium-sized firms in 103 developing and developed countries.
In its original conception the Kerr Tar Hub was broadly envisioned as a tech-intensive, locally driven regional park potentially providing a wide variety of infrastructure and service offerings intended to attract and support the location of emergent firms from within selected RTRP targeted industries.
An influential group of private sector leaders, university administrators, and government officials gathered at the Raleigh Convention Center on March 1st to craft actionable strategies to help the Research Triangle region attract and retain “C-Suite” talent to emerging high-growth companies in North Carolina.
On March 1-2, approximately 1,000 people convened at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill for the fourth annual UNC Clean Tech Summit. Themes of the 2017 summit included clean energy, food, innovation, and water and energy.
“Entrepreneurship as a field is remarkably multidisciplinary,” said Paige Ouimet, an associate professor of finance at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. “I think we all know this. Just look around the room.”
This April, the UNC Tax Center once again welcomed guests from across the country and around the world to Chapel Hill for our 20th Annual UNC Tax Symposium. The event was a great success, with participants ranging from academic researchers in accounting, finance, law and economics to policymakers and practitioners with an interest in evidence-based tax research.
Our goal in this report is to assess the demographic and economic impacts of immigrants or the foreign-born on North Carolina regions, counties, and communities as well as The State as a whole.
We see six clear trends that Census 2010 will likely confirm with hard and reliable data. In this report, we describe these emergent trends and discuss their implications for business, consumer markets, and the nation’s competitiveness in the global marketplace via analyses of intercensal statistics and reviews of scholarly demographic research. Because the specific population shifts discussed here will dramatically transform all of the nation’s social, economic, and political institutions, we refer to them collectively as disruptive demographic trends—borrowing and broadening the application of a term coined by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Joseph Coughlin.