Distinguished Fellow Christine Moorman leverages data from The CMO Survey to uncover the view of marketplace threats and resilience strategies from the perspective of actual managers as part of our 2024 Grand Challenge.
2024 Distinguished Fellow Jayashankar M. Swaminathan explores how firms can build operational resilience, focusing on governance, risk management, supply chains, technology and regulatory compliance.
Look back at the journey that made up the Kenan Institute's 2024 Grand Challenge: Business Resilience.
In his Frontiers of Business keynote examining the use of artificial intelligence, MIT economist David Autor sees a future where AI extends the expertise of workers rather than replacing them.
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.
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.
Please join us for a talk by Christine Moorman, a Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow, who will focus on the importance of resilience in marketing, sharing how organizations can effectively navigate challenges and adapt to changing market conditions to maintain their competitive edge.
Business executives, policymakers and academics gathered October 10 at The Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, NC, to discuss how to make businesses more resilient in unpredictable times.
Join Steve Malik and the Honorable Sarah Bloom Raskin on October 10 at The Carolina Inn for “Risk, Uncertainty and Adaptive Resilience: A Fireside Chat with UNC Kenan-Flagler Dean Mary Margaret Frank."
Our 2024 Frontiers of Business Conference will convene corporate executives, top researchers and policy leaders to share objective, evidence-based solutions for building more business resiliency to help companies survive and succeed in a risk-filled world. Learn more today.
Swaminathan, a Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow, will explore the importance of supply chain resiliency and discuss alternative strategies to build robust and adaptable operations during his talk Sept. 12.
Our country's cities, towns and rural communities hold the key to understanding current and forecasted national trends – but for far too long, our nation’s microeconomic data has been lacking. The American Growth Project is here to help.
A February cyberattack targeting Change Healthcare resulted in the most extensive healthcare data breach to date, raising questions about industrywide risk management and regulation.
More than four years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we examine the essential elements that build small-business resilience, emphasizing the importance of personal fortitude and intangible resources in ensuring business survival.
Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School says achieving resilience is difficult, in part because businesses are hard to change.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the “Chevron deference,” a legal doctrine that grants regulatory agencies authority in interpreting statutes. The decision could significantly alter the regulatory landscape.
As a once-orderly world grows messier in the post-pandemic era, UNC Kenan-Flagler's Christian Lundblad discusses strategic planning for low-probability, high-impact events.
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.
What can the corporate response to George Floyd’s murder teach us about today’s diversity challenges? Discover how meaningful actions on racial equity affected market valuations, through research from UNC Kenan-Flagler's Daniela De la Parra.
As the unexpected increasingly becomes part of the everyday, Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow Kathleen M. Sutcliffe discusses the capabilities and processes that allow businesses to face their moments of truth with resilience.
With a growing emphasis on prioritizing user privacy and data protection, says UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Longxiu Tian, information collected directly from customers becomes the key to solving the puzzle of personalization and accurate targeting for marketers.
Attributing greater value to missing earnings estimates than to beating them signals a trend toward short-term demands and rewards. But what if a firm wishes to make costly investments that could yield long-term business resilience?
Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow Kathleen Sutcliffe of Johns Hopkins University discusses adventure racing and how it ties into our 2024 Grand Challenge, Business Resilience.
Longxiu Tian, UNC Kenan-Flagler assistant professor of marketing, shares his expertise in resilient business strategies and his perspective on firms' attempts to build trust and profitability with innovative consumer data management strategies.
As governments try to keep up with broadening economies and address new areas, such as climate change, data protection and artificial intelligence, the regulatory pace is increasing. This expansion creates new costs and requires increased business resiliency.
The New York Times examines the views of David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a 2024 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow, on artificial intelligence and potential benefits for the middle class.
The growth of the venture capital market should not blind one to its limitations as an engine of innovation. Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow Josh Lerner lays out three areas of concern worthy of more research.
In this edition of the Dean Speaker Series, join us for an engaging fireside chat with Dean Mary Margaret Frank and Stephanie Headley for an exploration of resilient leadership navigating the complexities of today’s business landscape.
UNC Kenan-Flagler’s John Gallemore and co-authors found that, among other things, the complexity of the U.S. tax system has a disproportionately negative effect on small, domestic-owned and private firms.
Sutcliffe, a Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow, will highlight the state of knowledge about resilience, drawing together multiple sources of research that include a recent study of adventure racing.
Please join us for a talk by Josh Lerner, a Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow, who will be discussing the unprecedented explosion of venture capital activity worldwide and what was behind this dramatic surge of activity.
By all accounts, there is steady good news coming the Federal Reserve’s way. And yet, the Fed seems to be in no rush to start cutting rates. Dive deeper into what the Fed will do to make sure inflation remains at that 2% goal.
An analysis shows the overall number of suppliers and countries supplying goods did not change significantly from 2019 to 2021. Companies did shift away from riskier countries like China, and delivery patterns also changed.
For small businesses, AI promises to handle financial and operational tasks, freeing up workers for other duties and creating new efficiencies. We offer seven focal points for small businesses planning for AI integration.
Building resiliency is essential for managing today's distinct risks, yet how do businesses develop the agility and adaptability that would make them more resilient? That's the focus of the 2024 Kenan Institute Grand Challenge.
American Growth Project models project that all 150 of the top Extended Metropolitan Areas will see slower growth in 2024 than they did last year and that 56 of them will contract. See what else the data tell us.
Sekou Bermiss, UNC Kenan-Flagler associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, unpacks the topic of people analytics, discussing how firms can build better culture by supporting both managers and employees.
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Policy Fellow - and former Chief Economist of General Motors - Elaine Buckberg outlines how electric vehicles can save the economy as well as the environment.
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.
2022 was a tumultuous year: NASDAQ, a tech-heavy stock index, closed the year down more than 30%; inflation proved more stubborn than policymakers initially thought and reached 40-year highs; Russia invaded Ukraine, sending commodity prices even higher; and central banks cranked up rates in response, the Federal Reserve raising interest rates at an unprecedented pace in recent history from around zero to over 4%. As we entered 2023, the global economy stood “on a razor’s edge,” the World Bank warned in its latest projections. Add to that a divided Congress with razor-thin majorities, political wrangling over the debt ceiling, and increasingly frequent catastrophic weather events, and it leaves one wondering where we are all headed.
The pandemic taught us that equity investors would be wise to seek to invest in firms with resilient supply chains. But is there a reliable way to identify firms whose supplier-customer relationships are less vulnerable to disruptions?
With a recent report from the United Nations warning that climate change has already begun to cause irreversible damage, experts during the 2022 Kenan Institute Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Conference discussed the role innovation can – and should – be playing to combat these ill effects. This week’s insight explores the topic through Q&A with Dr. Eric Toone, executive managing director and technology lead at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Dr. Jacqueline Pless, the Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Corporate executives have begun to glimpse the strategic value of incorporating artificial intelligence as an “employee” within their organization. In this Kenan Insight, we explore a framework that outlines the critical elements for harnessing the potential of human-AI working relationships.
Emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are ushering in significant changes in how enterprises operate – and raising a host of questions for organizations. In this Kenan Insight, we explore how changing the organizational mindset to treat AI as an “employee” may pave the way to fully reaping the benefits of AI systems.