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The Latin American Business Club at Northeastern University (LBC) had the privilege of hosting Ecuador's former President, Jamil Mahuad, for a fireside chat on Thursday, March 28. Supported by the Center for Emerging Markets and organized by the LBC leadership team, the event provided students and faculty attendees with an opportunity for insightful discussions about global economics, diplomatic strategies, and entrepreneurship with the distinguished leader.

Since its founding in 2020, the Women in Finance Trek has connected female finance concentrators with alumni while immersing them in the financial services world of New York City.

Two exceptional D'Amore-McKim seniors were named among the 100 Best & Brightest Business Majors by Poets&Quants For Undergrads.

“The impact of integrating analytics into real estate is profound. While the financial benefits may take time, the immediate payoff has been a shift in the mindset of our team. We're embracing a more data-driven approach, and this evolution is giving us a competitive edge.” – Matt Ramey, Real Estate Broker at Concept Properties

“Our graduate co-op started her role at a critical time after a team member had recently left the company. We needed time to find the right new hire and fell behind on essential projects. She quickly proved competent and conscientious, allowing us to give her more complex projects progressively. During her three months with us, she brought us up to date on our projects and ensured a smooth transition for our new hire.” – Sylvia Konopka, Accounting Manager at Trillium Flow Technologies

Cheng Li and Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra investigated the relationship between misconduct by multinationals' foreign suppliers and subsidiaries and the multinationals' corporate social responsibility (CSR). They explain and find that multinationals whose foreign suppliers or subsidiaries experienced major environmental, social, and governance (ESG) breaches improved their CSR performance after the incident when compared to multinationals without such breaches. Additionally, these responses by multinationals to supplier and subsidiary misbehavior are more robust for multinationals from home countries with CSR mandates. Finally, they found that while major subsidiary misbehavior led to higher internal CSR performance, major supplier misbehavior resulted in higher external CSR performance. The findings provide valuable insights for managers of multinationals dealing with the challenges of managing misbehavior in far-flung suppliers and subsidiaries. They need not only to solve the particular misbehavior, but also implement multinational-wide initiatives to compensate for the breach in the social contract with stakeholders

A June 2024 conference sponsored by D'Amore-McKim aims to help people work smarter, not harder, thanks to the help of AI and solve the world's problems along the way.

David De Cremer was installed as the Dunton Family Dean of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business on March 21, 2024.

“I can now confidently make decisions that positively impact the company's future.” – Avik Vimal, MBA'24

As a Spring 2023 recipient of the Srinivasan Family Awards for Projects in Emerging Markets, Northeastern University's chapter of Innovators for Global Health, is working to develop affordable and sustainable medical supplies for healthcare facilities in Ghana.