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In our globalized world, the ability to navigate cultural differences has become a critical skill. Paula Caligiuri's recent book provides a valuable framework for achieving this goal, by emphasizing the need to build cultural agility through social learning. Her Cultural Agility framework provides executives and managers with the tools needed to build trust, gain credibility, collaborate, and communicate across cultural boundaries. It is all the more important for managers of companies in and from emerging markets, who may be facing unique cultural barriers through foreign expansion.

Current student Omar Mohuddin, DMSB'26, is running for mayor of Woburn, Massachusetts.

Dunton Family Dean David De Cremer and his collaborators discuss finding the balance between human-generated and AI-generated creative content.

Christoph Riedl and his co-authors suggest AI is accelerating the emergence of workforce ecosystems in new research posted on Brookings.

“Giving Day is the event where the Northeastern community rallies together with their support of our students, faculty, research—the entire global university system,” says Lori Jacques, associate vice president for Northeastern Alumni Relations.

Northeastern graduate Danny Walsh's, COE'15, MBA'18, love of coffee has sent him down a journey he never expected to take. By combining his love for coffee and being healthy, he created the mushroom-infused Peak State Coffee. 

The Dean's Corner series provides a first-person, informative narrative of exciting and important happenings at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business. In this installment from Interim Dean Emery Trahan, he details why Northeastern's annual Giving Day is especially important to him this year, our centennial.

From the beginning of her educational journey, Katherine Kikta, DMSB'23, understood the value a business degree can provide in terms of financial security. But it wasn't until she found the Northeastern Army ROTC program that the world of possibility began to cleave open.

It's a grueling workday for Luke Zaller, who is working as an analyst during a co-op at Ernst & Young in Singapore. Beginning at 8:30 a.m., he can sometimes work on analyst reports until 10 or 11 p.m. But, Zaller says, the job is preparing him for his future career.

The future of health in Sub-Saharan Africa is both uncertain and promising. Life expectancy in this region has increased significantly, and growing economies may provide opportunities for increased financing for health. To effectively improve health in Sub-Saharan Africa, deliberate political investments and African-led models are necessary, as well as robust health systems that can adapt to changing disease and demographic patterns. Community health workers will play a crucial role in achieving universal health coverage and combating pandemics. However, Sub-Saharan Africa remains reliant on foreign financing and must combat corruption and improve domestic health governance to achieve autonomy. Ultimately, interventions to improve health in the region must target the population's changing needs and infrastructure demands.