Dean’s Speaker Series: Reggie Townsend
Reggie Townsend, vice president of the Data Ethics Practice at SAS, spoke on "Responsible Innovation, Responsible Innovators" in the Kenan Center Dining Room on November 4.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Skills Gap
The AI transformation has yet to happen, prompting uncertainty about potential impacts on the skills gap and the nature of work. Recognizing this will help us develop strategies for mitigating potential risks to workers, firms and the economy.
Business Resilience and Risk Management: The Change Healthcare Cyberattack
A February cyberattack targeting Change Healthcare resulted in the most extensive healthcare data breach to date, raising questions about industrywide risk management and regulation.
AI Integration and Its Impact on Clinical Labor
The EHR revolution has significantly transformed healthcare work and the flow of information, but it hasn't come without costs, measured in increased administrative burden and the accompanying stress for healthcare professionals. Can generative AI help?
Resilience in the Age of Short-Termism
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?
Times Features Distinguished Fellow for His View of AI
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.
Enhancing the Resilience of Venture Capital
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.
Artificial Intelligence for Small Business Development: Are You Ready?
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.
Is AI the Answer to Lowering Healthcare Costs?
As healthcare costs continue to rise, many Americans are looking to artificial intelligence to provide cost-reducing solutions. At the 13th annual UNC Business of Healthcare Conference, a panel of experts separated the AI hype from reality in a discussion of the limitations, risks and ethical questions surrounding AI solutions in healthcare.
AI in Practice: The View from Academia and Industry
UNC Professor Mohammad Jarrahi and IBM’s Phaedra Boinodiris address concerns about organizational adoption of artificial intelligence and how to include employees in important discussions, such as ethical considerations and potential job-related changes.
Harvard Business Review: What Will Working With AI Really Require?
Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi of the UNC School of Information and Library Science explores the competitive and cooperative skills that organizations will seek in both their employees and their artificial intelligence systems for Harvard Business Review.
May 25, 2026
Will Knowledge Work Survive ChatGPT?
ChatGPT and other generative AI programs can replicate much of the work performed across the knowledge worker class. This gives us a glimpse of what ever-more-powerful AI tools might be able to do, which is both exciting and, to say the least, unsettling.
Will Knowledge Work Survive ChatGPT?
A panel of industry and academic leaders discusses what ever-more-powerful generative artificial intelligence tools might be able to do.
May 25, 2026
CREATE & AOM TIM: Emergence: Organizations, Markets, Platforms and Regions Conference
The workshop explores research on the processes of emergence in order to advance our understanding of innovation and the dynamics of change.
May 25, 2026
Webinar: Rethinc Labs – Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms for Financial Analysis
Join us to hear from Seth Lloyd, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics at MIT, as he shares his findings on quantum algorithms for analyzing financial data and predicting time series
May 25, 2026
Rethinc Labs – Fairness in Justice: Use of Machine Learning in Pre-trial Detention
A large body of social science evidence indicates that objective, reliable and valid risk assessment instruments are more accurate in evaluating risk than professional human judgements alone. In the world of pretrial detention, where more than 10 million people are jailed each year in the United States after arrest, pretrial risk assessment tools may provide a more efficient, transparent and fairer basis for making assessments than having a judge quickly scan documents detailing the defendant’s prior record and current charges and make a decision in mere minutes. However, these assessments will retain any bias present in the data used by criminal justice agencies.