Ravi Ramamurti

Global busi­ness strate­gist Vijay Govin­darajan said on Monday at Northeastern’s Pres­i­den­tial Speaker Series “Pro­files in Inno­va­tion” that reverse inno­va­tion rep­re­sents one of the biggest oppor­tu­ni­ties for cor­po­rate growth in America.

Northeastern’s Center for Emerging Mar­kets hosted a weekend con­fer­ence on emerging market multi­na­tional companies.

Mass­a­chu­setts Gov. Deval Patrick said on Thursday at Northeastern’s fourth annual Emerging Mar­kets Sym­po­sium that the state’s edu­ca­tion, inno­va­tion and infra­struc­ture make it an ideal busi­ness partner.

Ravi Rama­murti, a Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor of Inter­na­tional Busi­ness, explains why reverse inno­va­tion in emerging mar­kets may shape the globe’s inno­va­tion landscape.

Harsha Vard­hana Singh, deputy director-​​general at the World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion, empha­sized the impor­tance of mul­ti­lat­eral trading sys­tems during a talk at Northeastern.

In 2001, Goldman Sachs grouped the BRIC coun­tries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — into that acronym because they were at a sim­ilar stage of eco­nomic devel­op­ment. On Tuesday, the Amer­ican multi­na­tional news cor­po­ra­tion Bloomberg named China as the only BRIC nation ranked among all top global emerging mar­kets. We asked Ravi Rama­murti, Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor of Inter­na­tional Busi­ness and director of the Center for Emerging Mar­kets at North­eastern, to iden­tify what’s next for these four countries.

North­eastern fac­ulty mem­bers have written at length on a wide range of topics. Here, we high­light the third batch of pub­lished works in a fea­ture on recent fac­ulty books.

A range of global expe­ri­ences helps Exec­u­tive MBA stu­dents grasp the changing busi­ness land­scape of the 21st century.

Despite the global eco­nomic slow­down, India has expe­ri­enced rapid eco­nomic growth, and is now hoping to attract invest­ment from global com­pa­nies. At The Economist’s recent India Busi­ness Summit in Paris, … read more »

Con­fer­ence spon­sored by Northeastern’s new Center for Emerging Mar­kets takes a look at the chal­lenges of doing busi­ness in devel­oping countries

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity Pro­fessor and Born­stein Senior Fellow of Inter­na­tional Busi­ness Ravi Rama­murti has been selected by the United Nations Con­fer­ence on Trade and Devel­op­ment (UNCTAD) to help pre­pare its World … read more »