Undergraduate Research Expo on Emerging Markets

David De Cremer serves as the Dunton Family Dean of Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business. With more than 300 full-time faculty and staff members supporting over 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students, D'Amore-McKim is known worldwide for cutting-edge thought leadership, teaching excellence, entrepreneurial ingenuity, and unparalleled global experiential learning opportunities.

Most recently, De Cremer was a provost chair at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, where he was a professor of management and organizations and the founder and director of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH). He has also served as the KPMG-endowed professor in management studies at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School and fellow at St. Edmunds College, where he remains an honorary fellow at both institutes. Other past academic roles include research and teaching positions at Stanford University as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, London Business School as a visiting professor teaching in the EMBA programs, Harvard University as a visiting research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, and a research member of The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. He is also the founder of the Erasmus Center of Behavioral Business Ethics at Rotterdam School of Management.

De Cremer is a behavioral scientist who examines the interplay between humans and smart technologies in business and society. He strongly advocates interdisciplinary research to generate innovative ideas that can be translated into business and organizations.

Loredana Padurean is an award-winning global educator, entrepreneur, author, and public speaker with experience in Switzerland, Italy, India, Malaysia, and the USA. Before joining Northeastern University, she spent eight years in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as the Senior Associate Dean of a new business school established in collaboration with MIT Sloan, Asia School of Business. Under her leadership in action/experiential learning, the MBA program was recognized multiple times for extraordinary innovation.

In July 2022, she received the “Distinguished Woman Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award” at the World Women Economic & Business Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in an event keynoted by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Honorable Jacinda Arden.
As an MIT Sloan International Faculty Fellow, she has taught in multiple MIT executive programs and entrepreneurship bootcamps.

As a keynote and TedX speaker, she shared the stage with famous entrepreneurs, dignitaries, authors, and influencers, but her favorite stage remains the classroom.
Prof. Padurean is the author of “The Job is Easy, The People are Not – 10 Smart Skills to Become Better People” and she is working on a new entrepreneurship book called “Nail it, Scale it, Sail it – Operations for Entrepreneurs” in collaboration with MIT Sloan Professor Charles Fine.

Known by her students as the “unconventional professor” due to her direct, no-nonsense approach, she is a plant-based animal lover and an undercovered introvert.

Professor Clark's primary research interests are in marketing strategy and managerial decision-making, especially as they relate to competition and performance measurement. He teaches courses in marketing strategy and management at the graduate level and marketing management at the undergraduate level.

A former marketing and product manager for computer software at Sunburst Communications, Clark has worked with American Express and in consulting or executive education roles at Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Compaq, the Design Management Institute, EMC, Genzyme, Intel, Masterfoods, Ropes & Gray, Schering AG, and Shell International. He has also served on the faculty of the Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Cranfield School of Management (UK). He has been an advisor on MBA Field Consulting Projects.

Clark is an active reviewer for academic publications that include the European Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, and Marketing Letters, among others.