The Frontiers of Business: Building Business Resilience conference capped our 2024 Grand Challenge with stimulating discussions on what business resilience looks like in a world of rapid change. Here are three lessons we heard.
Artificial intelligence was a major topic of conversation at the Frontiers of Business Conference on October 10. See how speakers and panelists think the technology will change the future of business.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s youth representative at this year’s UN climate conference offers her thoughts on key outcomes, the role of the private sector, and the power of diverse and cross-generational perspectives in finding solutions.
The Frank H. Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise hosted its inaugural North Carolina Investment Forum (NCIF) November 1, 2017, at the Kenan Center on the campus of the University of...
Eminent economist Arvind Panigariya has appointed UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Adjunct Professor of Finance Anusha Chari and 2018 Weatherspoon Lecturer Jagdish Bhagwati to a new initiative which brings together policy experts and academicians from distinguished universities to contribute to substantive economic policy analyses on issues confronting the Indian economy. These analyses can further help develop a reform agenda for the government to be elected in the 2019 national polls. The news of the appointments was featured in the Economic Times.
This invitation-only symposium will be similar in structure and style to the longstanding PERC Symposium held in the fall in Chapel Hill. This event will supplement and bring new topics to light in the ever-expanding field of private equity research.
On Sunday, March 31, 2019, five other Kenan Scholars and I took part in a high ropes course event at the UNC Outdoor Recreation Center. Not only was the physical experience an event in itself, but so was the pre-event planning process. It ended up being much harder than I expected and taught me several lessons.
We hypothesized that individuals in cultures typified by lower levels of relational mobility would tend to show more attention to the surrounding social and physical context (i.e., holistic vs. analytic thinking) compared with individuals in higher mobility cultural contexts. Six studies provided support for this idea. Studies 1a and 1b showed that differences in relational mobility in cultures as diverse as the U.S., Spain, Israel, Nigeria, and Morocco predicted patterns of dispositional bias as well as holistic (vs. analytic) attention.
The COVID-19 financial downturn will have short- and long-term effects on personal and consumer finance, as explored by a panel of Kenan Institute-convened experts during a press briefing held yesterday. The full recording of this briefing—along with a deeper-dive analysis on the specific implications of the downturn on personal retirement income by Kenan Institute Executive Director Greg Brown, is available in this week’s Kenan Insight.
The 2019 North Carolina Investment Forum convened a highly select group of private capital investors who back N.C.-based companies. By providing a chance to share information on investment strategies, markets and life-cycle investment policies, the forum ensured all participants left with a greater understanding of how the public and private sectors can better work together to bolster investment in the North Carolina economy. Linda McMahon, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Association, served as the keynote speaker.
With the upcoming November election and calls by President Trump for 1 or more vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to be ready before the end of the year, if not by the election, many have started to wonder whether the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can withstand this type of political pressure.
We measure the racial/ethnic densities (RAEDs) of executives in a random sample of 523 US publicly traded companies and the S&P 500®. When we calibrate the RAEDs of executives as a whole against the RAEDs of the 2019 US population, we find that American Indians/Alaska Natives, Blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented and Whites are overrepresented. However, when we calibrate executive RAEDs against a benchmark that seeks to take into account key features of the demand for and supply of proto-executive talent, namely the RAEDs of the cohorts of students graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the broad New York Times 2017 list of the top 100 US four-year colleges and universities, matched to executives’ BA/BS graduation years, mostly different and at times opposite findings obtain.
VC University LIVE is a three-day certificate program on venture finance, created by NVCA, Startup@BerkeleyLaw, and Venture Forward in 2019, and held in partnership with universities in emerging VC ecosystems across the country.
Nikita Billman (BSBA '21) spent her spring break in Antigua, Guatemala working with the mission From Houses to Homes.
Our findings suggest that the influence of precautionary savings on interest rates is elevated during bad-environment economic times, with interest rates responding much more negatively to time-varying perceptions of uncertainty.
Private equity investments have risen dramatically during the last two decades, not only in developed countries but in developing economies as well. Several studies have found evidence of improvement in firm performance following a private equity (PE) transaction, but surprisingly little is known about the implications of PE transactions for the economy – particularly the global economy.
When high-tech companies plan to expand, U.S. cities often compete to attract their investment. While living near a new corporate neighbor can bring job creation and an economic boost, these benefits aren’t experienced equally by local inhabitants. This week's insight explores this and other key findings in new research by UNC Kenan-Flagler Professor Franklin Qian and economist Rose Tan.
This study contributes to the growing strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature by examining the intersection of acquisition studies and international expansion research and highlighting the unexplored impact of media coverage of CSR and corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) in shaping completion and duration outcomes of cross-border acquisitions.
CEO pay is the latest point of contention in the political fight over ESG, but the arguments have become oversimplified. When we think about good corporate governance, what does the evidence say about CEO pay? The results may surprise you.