Researchers at the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise will take a comprehensive look at the economic opportunities and impacts of developing North Carolina’s biomass fuel feedstocks for domestic use and export.
New research from Bradley Staats, assistant professor of operations, technology and innovation management, identifies three factors that increase the velocity at which we can master new information and skills without sacrificing quality.
UNC Kenan-Flagler professor Ted Zoller has developed software that mines from Standard and Poor’s data to find people who are involved in multiple privately held, high-growth companies.
Deena Singleton (MBA '05) on the beauty of collaboration
When William “Call-me-Bill” N. Starling (BSBA ’75) takes a commitment to heart, the world changes for the better. As a medical-technology serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, his passion is the business of saving lives and improving health care.
Ralph Falls Jr. (BSBA '63) combined his innate business acumen, competitive spirit and affinity for hard work with a solid business education. In his resulting career, he helped create the modern medical industry.
The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise has awarded the 2012 Rollie Tillman Jr. Award for Outstanding Leadership to Greg Fontaine, a Kenan-Flagler Business School MBA 2012 graduate and Kenan Institute Leadership Fellow.
MCNC today announced the first round of the $144 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI) is complete. All broadband fiber associated with this phase of the project is now active and serving Community Anchor Institutions (CAIs) including K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, health care facilities, public health facilities, libraries, research institutions, and other sectors of CAIs in western and southeastern North Carolina. Through first-phase commercial partner FRC LLC, which invested $4 million into the project, fiber is now available to serve commercial businesses and last-mile consumer broadband needs in these same regions.
UNC Kenan-Flagler has formed a partnership with UNC's medical school to teach doctors and researchers the strategic application of business principles.
The Economist correspondent and “Johnson” blogger Robert Lane Greene, author of “You Are What You Speak,” will discuss “Why Languages Matter in the Global Age” at a free public lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s FedEx Global Education Center on March 21.
Why do some firms willingly take on multifaceted, complex projects? Companies that set speed and efficiency as their goals eventually get to the same level. Why, then, do some companies perform better than the rest, year after year after year?
A new job-creation initiative developed by a team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is yielding results for two eastern North Carolina counties six months after its launch.
What allows some organizations to flourish in tough economic times when so many others flounder? How do they use a crisis as an opportunity to transform their business models, to redirect their strategies and to build momentum during a downturn?
The long-term benefits of learning more slowly
Fusion strategy yields a higher payoff
Location impacts corporate income taxes.
The role social status plays in effective leadership
The role credit default probabilities play
Applying lean principles to increase efficiency
The more likely they are to deliver positive experiences to customers which helps lead to higher customer loyalty and long-term customer value.
A new generation of entrepreneurs is leveraging the power of cloud-based computing, social networking technologies and a host of apps to provide a broad range of services in the online global marketplace. Constituting a human cloud of talent, these Internet entrepreneurs are variously referred to as freelancers, e-lancers, soloists, project employees or pay-as-you-go help.
Many people assume that there is no point to conducting a job search over the holiday season. Nothing could be further than the truth!
An essay on how changing demographics are transforming the southern United States, written by Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise scholar James H. Johnson Jr., is featured in a new report, “A Way Forward: Building a Globally Competitive South,” released today (Nov. 17) by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Global Research Institute (GRI).
Increased stability and more transparency in Africa’s emerging markets is inspiring confidence in regional governments, and international investment and technology are flowing there as a result, said the opening keynote speaker for the 2011 Business Across Borders Summit, “Africa: The New Business Frontier,” Nov. 3-4, 2011, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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