The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise promotes cooperation among business, government and academia to foster private-sector development and entrepreneurship; improve the competitiveness of North Carolina and U.S. firms domestically and internationally; and utilize the private sector to serve the public interest in the United States and worldwide.

The Kenan Institute, is an affiliate of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, at the University of north Carolina. The Kenan Institute develops innovative public-private and private- private partnerships that build the capacity of people, business and communities to prosper in market-based environments. These programs are anchored in research that provides the basis for replicating and extending these outreach programs nationally and internationally.

The Kenan Institute was established in 1985 by a series of gifts from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust and the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund. The Institute operates from two locations – the Kenan Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Washington D.C. A sister institute in Thailand, Kenan Institute Asia, has been established to provide a physical and institutional presence.

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In GLORI, The Kenan Institute is represented by Dr. Noel P. Greis, Dr. Jack Olin and Jonathan Green.