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The Challenge of the Colleges turned into a back-and-forth, photo-finish race. The $30,000 first prize went to the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, whose 418 donors amounted to a 176.3% increase compared to 2021. The College of Science earned $10,000 for finishing a close second with 190 donors (a 175.9% gain).
Amanda Brea, who will graduate from Northeastern this spring with a degree in theater and marketing, will leave for the Canary Islands this fall to begin an English teaching position funded by the U.S. Fulbright Student Program.
If the COVID-19 pandemic showed businesses that depend on offshore production anything, it's that one stoppage along these vast delivery channels can propagate across the entire system, Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply-chain management at Northeastern, said in the annual Robert D. Klein Lecture on Tuesday.
Arlen Agiliga, who will graduate in May with a degree in finance, will attend a one-year master's program at Tsinghua University beginning this fall where he will study emerging markets and international investing. There's no better place: China is “the poster child of a successful emerging market,” he says.
Michael Enright, a leading expert on global competitiveness and corporate strategy, and a Center for Emerging Markets Faculty Fellow, was named the first Pierre Choueiri Family Professor in Global Business at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
From a global social entrepreneurship course, Natasha Ibori was inspired to build her venture, Uwana Energy, an Innovator Award winner.
Honored for her contributions to advancing management and organizational science, Professor Cynthia Lee joins the Academy of Management Fellows Group.
The 2020 Husky Startup Challenge celebrated the entrepreneurial endeavors of our Northeastern community during an unprecedented time. During the event, a dozen ventures competed against one another for cash prizes and the approval of D'Amore-McKim judges including Steve Golden, Kate Murdock, DMSB'18, and Greg Skloot, DMSB'12.
Launched this year, the Bradford-Osborne Research Award is the first national award to recognize research published in peer-reviewed journals that contributes to advancing the growth of businesses owned by people of color. Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Venkat Kuppuswamy received the award for his co-authored 2017 Management Science paper, “The Colorblind Crowd? Founder Race and Performance in Crowdfunding.”