Made possible by a gift from David R. Nardone, the Nardone Family Seminar Series at the Center for Emerging Markets brings academics and practitioners to Northeastern University to share insights about emerging markets with the Boston community.
The longtime series has hosted over 150 speakers since the Center for Emerging Markets' inception, thanks to Nardone's support. Speakers have discussed topics ranging from family business to climate resilience, fintech trends to medical innovation, corporate governance to international policy, and more. These speakers have similarly come to CEM from a diverse array of academic and professional backgrounds and have shared their knowledge on research, trends, and innovations touching nearly every continent.
Upcoming Events
Forging Research Collaboration with Police in India
Deepika Suri, an accomplished Civil Servant and advocate for gender justice from the elite Indian Police Service, will visit Northeastern University for a discussion on research collaborations between Northeastern University faculty and police in India. This is a collaborative event hosted by the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University and the Global Action Policy Initiative.
Nardone Family Seminar: AI & the Changing Geography of Work – Implications for Emerging Markets
Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, will share his research on the changing geography of work, especially as it relates to emerging markets. Pulling from his ongoing projects in Turkey, Bangladesh, and India, Raj will examine the productivity effects of remote work and how AI plays a role in its future.
Managing Innovation in a Volatile, Geopolitical World with Gianluca Pettiti
The Center for Emerging Markets will welcome Gianluca Pettiti, Executive Vice President and President, Life Sciences, Diagnostics and Applied for ThermoFisher Scientific, for a fireside chat to discuss innovation in today's geopolitical climate. This event is a Distinguished Lecture part of the Nardone Family Seminar Series.
Past Events
Nardone Family Seminar: Small Actions Big Difference: Business Through the Sustainability Lens
CB Bhattacharya, Professor of Marketing and Professor of Organizations and Entrepreneurship at the University of Pittsburgh, explored a purpose-driven pathway to enable companies to integrate environmental and social concerns into all their business decisions. Using real world data, he showed that a transition to a more sustainable business model, via the “sustainability ownership experience,” is a surefire way to ignite key stakeholders and employees, and provide more meaning to their jobs.
Nardone Family Seminar: Party-State Capitalism in China
Kellee Tsai, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University, shared her research on “party-state capitalism” in China. While China's state has always played a core role in development, prioritization of growth has shifted to a variant of state capitalism best described as “party-state capitalism,” which emphasizes risk management and leadership by the Chinese Communist Party. This transition to party-state capitalism emerged from a combination of perceived domestic and external threats, with consequences for contemporary dynamics in global capitalism.
Nardone Family Seminar: Paradoxes of Global Corporate Sustainability
Katrin Heucher, Assistant Professor of Change Management and Sustainability at the University of Groningen, discussed how multinational enterprises (MNEs) navigate the complex tensions between global sustainability strategies and local challenges in interorganizational systems. She explored how a paradox lens can reveal new approaches to managing sustainability in global networks.