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04
Nov
2025
Join us on Tuesday, November 4, from 1:30 - 2:30 PM for this Dean's Speaker Series talk featuring Reggie Townsend of SAS, a leading voice on responsible innovation, as he shares insights and best practices for leading with integrity in the age of AI.
Join us for a fireside chat with Michelle Peluso, CEO of Revlon, moderated by UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Dean Mary Margaret Frank, at 4:15 PM on Thursday, October 9, at The Carolina Inn.
Apr 4, 2025
Consumers’ Darkening Mood
In the institute's April 4 briefing, Research Director Camelia Kuhnen dissected consumer confidence and sentiment data with an emphasis on growing pessimism among young people and answered questions on potential economic effects of new tariffs.
07
Mar
2025
Please join us for an exclusive conversation with Eli Gross on March 7 at 1 PM as a part of the Dean’s Speaker Series, hosted by the Kenan Institute in partnership with UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Nov 1, 2024
The International Empirics of Management
A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key determinant of a country’s productivity and its GDP.
Aug 26, 2024
The American Growth Project
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.
Aug 9, 2024
Brands and Branding Around the World
Brands and branding are key to achieving competitive advantage in global markets. Yet, brands and their managers are facing new challenges and opportunities in light of numerous trends and disruptions that are changing the landscape of marketing in an international context. The climate crisis, a pandemic, and deglobalization winds—marked by China–West trade tensions, wars, and other trade-related disruptions, to name a few—are challenging branding around the world.
Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School says achieving resilience is difficult, in part because businesses are hard to change.
This paper uses two large panel data sets in China to study the effects of a health shock on household income mobility from 1991 to 2016. We compare outcomes of households with a member who receives a health shock with comparable households that do not receive any health shocks.
Apr 24, 2024
Dean’s Speaker Series: Deval Patrick
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School shared insights on resilience and leading through uncertain times with Dean Mary Margaret Frank on April 23.
Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow Tara Watson discussed "An Economist’s Guide to Immigration Reform" before an audience of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School faculty and students on April 11.
Five Economic Trends to Watch in 2025
Kenan Institute Chief Economist Gerald Cohen kicks off 2025 with a rundown of five issues that will be top of mind for business leaders and policymakers, accompanied by his analysis.