Events

The Center for Emerging Markets' fourth annual Vivek and Vandana Sharma India Summit explored the central role family enterprises play across emerging economies, featuring sessions by Indian family business leaders, young alumni representing next-generation leadership, and select family business leaders from other emerging markets.

As part of the Vivek and Vandana Sharma India Lecture Series, Frank D'Souza, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Recognize, joined CEM for a fireside chat on the role India might play in the growing field of artificial intelligence.

Vicente Zavarce, DMSB '16, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Yummy, shared his journey of building Venezuela's most successful on-demand delivery platform, now valued at over $200 million.

John Lowrey hosts Christian Kaps for a discussion on how charging infrastructure impacts driver decisions.

D'Amore-McKim's Finance Group is pleased to host its 10th annual Finance Conference, a two-day event for discussing new theoretical and empirical papers in all areas of finance.

The Center for Emerging Markets welcomed Gianluca Pettiti, Executive Vice President and President, Life Sciences, Diagnostics and Applied for Thermo Fisher Scientific, for a fireside chat to discuss innovation in today's geopolitical climate. This event was a Distinguished Seminar, part of the Nardone Family Seminar Series.

Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, shared 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 examined the productivity effects of remote work and how AI plays a role in its future.

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. 

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.

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.