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“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.

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.

On Thursday night, cheers erupted and streamers floated down on the ground floor of the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex as the community celebrated D'Amore-McKim's 100th birthday.

As a student at Northeastern University in Boston, Caston did not foresee that one day she would follow in her father's footsteps in the construction industry. She majored in the music industry with a minor in business but found it hard to break into the notoriously difficult entertainment field.

Once the capital of pastel shirts, white shoes and retirees, Miami's drive to become the next hub of finance is attracting record investments and a growing population of venture capitalists like 2013 Northeastern graduate Julian Jung, DMSB'13.

Forced labor is often unidentified and unaddressed in global supply chains because international production networks are complex and obscure. Many companies are not actively tracing their supply chains beyond the first or second tiers, leaving out the complete picture of the origin of their raw materials.

The Summit—the biggest event of the year for WISE—aims to provide students at Northeastern and in the Greater Boston area an opportunity to connect with a diverse group of female and non-binary business founders and entrepreneurs. The theme this year is “Created by Courage.”

“Given the bailout, I don't think there's anything else that people should be worried about,” says John Bai, an associate finance professor at Northeastern. “I think confidence should still be there.”