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Research

Research is key to how we make good on our promise to prepare students and executives for tomorrow’s business world. Our professors examine critical issues influencing 21st century business – you benefit from their insights in the classroom and the boardroom. Contributing to the breadth and depth of our thought leadership are our Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and centers.

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You can be too careful

Researchers show what happens when leaders focus too much on preventing errors.
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Using big data to help small businesses

Celine Fei studies frictions that arise in financing entrepreneurship, such as drivers of racial disparity in small business lending.
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What’s race got to do with it?

Research shows that Black women negotiators receive more favorable offers and outcomes compared with white women and Black men.

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Bridging the gender gap in entrepreneurship

Researchers study personal wealth’s role in selling a patent – and if more wealth closes the gender gap in patent sales.
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Sleep and awe

Awesome dreams fuel resilience at work, researchers from UNC Kenan-Flagler reveal.
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Managing innovation

Does being close to headquarters help or hinder corporate innovators? UNC Kenan-Flagler researchers look for answers.

How a values-based approach advances DEI

A new model for developing diversity, equity and inclusion in the organization can increase employee satisfaction.

Collaborating to cut hospital costs

Researchers and alumni collaborated to solve a problem. Their solution could save a hospital millions of dollars a year.

Deciding who you trust

Professor Alison Fragale studies how status and power affect our perceptions of trustworthiness.

The good fight

Professor Chris Bingham writes a playbook for creating and sustaining innovation.

Don’t call us

Customers would rather hold the line than get callbacks, UNC Kenan-Flagler researchers show.

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Tackling grand challenges

Professor Mahka Moeen uses historical cases to draw a roadmap for innovation when governments need to solve critical challenges.

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Understanding CSR’s role in international acquisitions

Professor Olga Hawn wanted to know if a CSR track record makes it easier for BRICS companies to make cross-border acquisitions.
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Shaping the future of work

Technology and our desire for autonomy are forces in the changing world of work.
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Coffee: Cup of ethics

Go ahead and have that extra cup of java– it might just help you act ethically at work. Caffeine could help sleep-deprived workers resist unethical influen...