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Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020 is November 16, 2020 to November 20, 2020

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.

Visiting Professor and Executive-in-Residence in Marketing Shubhro Sen's broad global experience builds on D'Amore-McKim's professor/practitioner model.

Innovation is a team sport, according to Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation K. Srikrishna.

Pierre Choueiri Family Professor in Global Business Michael Enright claims that to succeed internationally, Western companies must understand that business will be conducted on a whole new playing field.

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.”

In a university event co-hosted by D'Amore-McKim's Center for Emerging Markets and Women Who Empower, Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun welcomed Indra Nooyi, member of Amazon's Board of Directors and former CEO of PepsiCo, for a conversation about her career, lifelong learning, and workplace diversity.

“This is a new form of cooperative education for the university,” said Christina Jaracz, assistant vice president of corporate partnerships and D'Amore-McKim assistant dean of corporate and professional learning. Designed by Northeastern faculty and ServiceNow, the new degrees and certificates will help U.K. employers fill an immediate demand for skilled digital talent.

Emilo Botin, DMSB'17, co-hosted a recent Young Global Leaders panel featuring Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun and three European business executives on the Brexit trade pact between the United Kingdom and the European Union.

You like digging your toes in it and children enjoy building castles out of it. Now consider for a moment a world without sand. Sheila Puffer, distinguished professor of international business, explains how that will be our reality someday.