Dahlia Broberg and Heidi Ho, Spring 2025 recipients of the Srinivasan Family Awards for Projects in Emerging Markets, launched a music therapy program in Shandia, Ecuador, to address adolescent mental health challenges through structured musical engagement and community partnership.
Lydia Adobea Dampare Addo, a Fall 2024 recipient of the Srinivasan Family Awards for Projects in Emerging Markets, has spent the past six months leading a student innovation competition in Ghana aimed at helping young people move their ideas from concept to impact.
Read the Center for Emerging Markets' report on all major activities in the first half of 2025, from new publications and research grants to key events and educational programming.
Fahdi Alew, a Fall 2024 recipient of the Srinivasan Family Awards for Projects in Emerging Markets, has spent the past several months in Kenya's Baringo County researching the comorbidities between visceral leishmaniasis and diseases like HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Keynote speaker Vivek Sharma urges business graduates to embrace their unique identities and write their own stories, drawing from his journey as a first-generation immigrant who became a celebrated industry leader.
Northeastern Professor Kim Eddleston calls it the “Fredo effect” after the weak-link son in the Godfather movies. “The damage can be devastating,” she says.
The researchers evaluated firm performance in two areas: environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores; and enterprise value.
Seven student projects received funding through the Srinivasan Family Awards for Projects in Emerging Markets in spring 2025.
CEM welcomed its fourth cohort of Student Associates in anticipation of the 2025-2026 academic year. After a competitive selection process, nine exceptional students were chosen to support CEM's mission of advancing research, education, and student outreach on emerging economies.
Carolina Pacheco-Balcazar, a fourth-year Economics and Political Science major from Puebla, Mexico, is investigating how solar energy can alleviate poverty in these communities with support from the Center for Emerging Markets' Srinivasan Family Awards program.
