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Faculty Awards and Honors


  • 2010-2011

     

    Sheila Puffer Awarded the Title of University Professor 

     

    PufferCherry Family Senior Fellow of International Business Professor Sheila Puffer was awarded the title of University Professor at the Inaugural Academic Honors Convocation in April. It is the highest honor Northeastern can give to a faculty member. Puffer's research focuses on the organizational and economic life in Russia and the former Soviet Union. According to the College of Business Administration, "she is ranked internationally as a leading business scholar."

     

     

     
     

    Professors Ravi Sarathy and Elitsa Banalieva Receive IMD Skolkovo Best Paper


    ISarathyBanalievan August, 2010, Professors Ravi Sarathy and Elitsa Banalieva received the IMD Skolkovo Best Paper Award for their paper entitled,"Boundaries of the Resources-Based View in the Context ofEmerging Markets Multinationals." In this paper, Professors Sarathy and Banalieva ask: Does a market differentiation strategy enhance the performance of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs)? Analyzing the relationship between relative differentiation advantage (RDA) and firm performance of EMNEs, they suggest that the theoretical predictions of the resourced based view (RBV) encounter boundaries in an EM context.