By Olivia Allen On March 21st, six students from the Social Enterprise Institute traveled to Phoenix, Arizona to take part in the Clinton Global Initiative University conference (CGIU). Over the weekend, they presented projects, interacted with students from 89 countries around the globe. The conference was held at Arizona State University, an institution Read more…
By Gordon Adomdza, Ph.D Steve Jobs was known to give a standard answer to the question of how much market research went into new product designs: None. He would add “It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want”. Further, one of the common quotes attributed to him is Read more…
By Michael Gallagher March 22nd and 23rd saw the second annual Collegiate Alternative Investments Summit here at Northeastern. This year, the CAIS committee was determined to incorporate the Social Enterprise Institute, with an emphasis on impact investing, an emergent area of the non-traditional investing space. The Summit featured speakers from Read more…
By Professor Dennis Shaughnessy While watching the news coverage of the tragedy of Malaysia Flight 370 over the past three weeks, I was reminded of a compelling analogy used by author Roger Thurow in his book “Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in An Age of Plenty”. Based on information Read more…
By Gail Batutis Our tiny auto-rickshaw swerves through traffic, the wind bathing our faces in a sensory assault of dust and fried food, constant construction by barefoot men on bamboo scaffolding and the cries of children at intersections, hands gesturing plaintively at their mouths, swarming when they notice my light Read more…
By Olivia Allen For the past three years, the Social Enterprise Institute (SEI), housed within the D’Amore-McKim School of Business has led students enrolled in ENTR 4506 “Advanced Studies in Social Entrepreneurship” to developing countries to study the role of social enterprises and other market-based solutions in alleviating poverty. This Read more…