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For students who will soon enter the business world, corporate governance might be something they haven’t given much thought to. What does it entail? What does good corporate governance even mean? And what kinds of questions should we be asking? The 2nd annual Mehrotra Summit on November 10 was
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
