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Industry: Food and Beverage Founding Student Name(s): Rachel Domb Brief Description of Solution: Rooted Living is an eco-friendly snack company aiming to make the wasteful snack industry more sustainable by offering plant-based snacks wrapped in 100% compostable packaging that breaks down in just 3 months. Funding Dollars: $110,000 What led you to launch this venture? I launched Rooted Living because…

Years ago, students in my organizational behavior class often referred to my course informally as "How to Play the Game." Officially, it was titled "Organizational Behavior," but my students understood that success in the workplace operates much like playing and winning a game. A meritocracy functions as a game; you must recognize this to participate…

Professors Bruce Clark and Barbara Larson led an insightful exploration into the use of AI in the classroom.

With the global economy facing unprecedented uncertainty and geopolitical tension, D'Amore-McKim faculty share insights gleamed from our second “Beyond Boundaries” event focused on effective global leadership.

Jamie Hansen grew up in Chicago in something of a Francophile household.  “My parents both majored in French in college,” says Hansen, who is studying international business at Northeastern University. “Because of that I had this interest from a young age in doing a similar thing — like studying abroad in France, since they both…

When Northeastern University student Aarya Dhru was in high school she noticed it could get competitive trying to secure internships and other work experience that enhanced her resume for college. Dhru, now a third-year finance and data science student at Northeastern, also observed that she and her peers had a lot of the digital and…

‘How technology influences behavior, and how behavior influences technology' is the mantra for D'Amore-McKim's newest management course.

“The D'Amore-McKim School of Business stands out for its unique corporate residency program, offering an immersive experience that ensures I will graduate with not just a diploma but also substantial experience to enhance my resumé and facilitate my career pivot into finance.” – Uurtsaikh (Uje) Gantogtokh, Full-Time MS in Finance/MBA'24

Federal subsidies meant to make health insurance more affordable for low- and middle-income Americans could be on the chopping block when Donald Trump returns to the White House. President Joe Biden's enhanced version of the Affordable Care Act subsidies — which provide lower premiums and reduced out-of-pocket costs for lower-earning Americans who don't get health insurance subsidized by…

If you think that your cross-cultural training program is enough to prepare your employees for global success, think again. For human resource and global mobility professionals, the key to international effectiveness is integrating practices that move beyond cross-cultural training. What's needed is an approach that focuses on critical cultural agility competencies. In a study published…