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Boston University’s Questrom School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kristal May as the Executive Director of the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets & Society. In this role, May will provide day-to-day leadership of the Institute, advancing its mission to explore the evolving role of business in society and to foster meaningful collaboration among researchers,
In an article in The Conversation, H. Sami Karaca, Questrom Clinical Assistant Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law, makes a case that capitalism in the United States is being altered by the policies of the federal government. “Is the Trump administration trying to reshape American capitalism? Recent moves by Washington, such as taking a 10% share of semiconductor maker Intel, point to a
Check out the slides for Paul McManus’ talk at the August 2025 AIWS (AI World Society Innovation Network) conference on “Opportunities & Challenges for Businesses in the AI Era” at the Harvard Kennedy School. McManus talked about AI’s impact on strategy, business models, and governance. See the slides here.
By Jesse Colman, Richard Stuebi, and Nalin Kulatilaka A recent field study by scholars at the Mehrotra Institute highlights both (1) the promise of solar energy solutions in bringing electricity to rural communities not served by utility grids in developing economies around the world and (2) the persistent obstacles that private enterprises face in delivering these solutions to customers. While
We’re excited to announce the receipt of a generous donation from Raif Dinçkök, a 1994 Questrom alumnus of the Business Administration program. The gift establishes the Raif Dinçkök Student Forum Fund at the Mehrotra Institute to advance student-led engagement initiatives that foster constructive dialogue and discourse on the role of business and global competitive markets in society. “Boston University, and
There’s something about bringing together diverse opinions and experiences to create innovation. It works. On June 6-8, 2025, the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder convened a meeting to discuss innovative ways to teach about the role of business in society – something we prioritize here at the Mehrotra Institute. At that meeting, Professor Jeff Furman
The Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, & Society (MIBMS) Inaugural Summit wasn’t just an event, it was the culmination of a semester’s worth of effort on the part of Questrom undergrad honors students. Each spring, the honors students take on a capstone project to finish out their senior year, the final leg of their Honor Program’s journey. This year, Questrom
In front of a live audience of over 100 people, we taped an episode of our podcast, Is Business Broken? as part of the May 2025 WBUR Festival. WBUR’s Curt Nickisch moderated the discussion, posing questions to – and fielding audience questions for – State Senator Barry Finegold; Andrei Hagiu, Professor of Information Systems at Questrom; Asu Ozdaglar, MathWorks Professor
By Professor Nalin Kulatilaka The biologist E.O. Wilson once famously remarked, “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies” (Wilson, 2009). In this compact diagnosis of modern civilization, Wilson identified a dangerous asymmetry between the evolutionary design of the human brain, the political and cultural systems we still rely upon, and
Why overhaul a course that, for over a decade, has been engaging, highly rated by students, and has enlisted a set of extremely dedicated faculty? Most programs would rest on those laurels. The SM131 introductory class is essentially the gateway to the Questrom curriculum for freshman undergrads and about 1,400 students will take the class each year. It’s not hyperbole
By Professor Nalin Kulatilaka The Gilded Age, a term coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 satirical novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, refers to a transformative period in U.S. history from approximately 1870 to 1900. It was characterized by rapid industrialization, technological innovation, and unprecedented economic expansion, but also by stark inequality, political
Is capitalism falling out of favor? Jay L. Zagorsky and H. Sami Karaca, faculty at the Questrom School of Business and the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, and Society, conducted a research study to answer that very question. Aided by AI, the professors, alongside student RAs Madison Marchionna and David Kim, scoured 400,000 newspaper articles from the past
