Hugh Courtney

Hugh Courtney, 59, a Concord resident who was part of the lecanemab study, was happy to hear about the positive results. Courtney is an accomplished economist and former dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, where he continued to teach until retiring in 2021 when symptoms of the disease made working too […]

Alzheimer’s runs in Courtney’s family, so he always knew there was a chance of getting the disease. As a former professor and dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, he understands the value of research. 

Whether delivering a monthly themed box of STEM activities straight to your door or creating a solar powered cell phone and tablet charging station, the startups springing out of Northeastern’s venture accelerator IDEA are nothing if not diverse. The word “diverse” continued cropping up at the Northeastern Entrepreneurship Expo held Wednesday evening in the school’s […]

Only three or four out of every ten movies made in America breaks even or earns a profit. Yet the decision to green-light a project is usually based solely on “expert opinions” — in other words, executives’ intuition supplemented by standard regression analysis. There’s got to be a better way. We think we’ve found one. In […]

College is crazy expensive–and it’s getting more expensive all the time. Entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel are fond of saying it’s not worth it. But 23-year-old Chris Wolfel, who is getting his bachelor’s from Northeastern University this spring, found college to be not only a good investment, but the perfect launching pad for his entrepreneurial dreams. For the last […]

The university is in its fourth year of hosting Idea, a student-led venture accelerator that provides resources to students and alumni looking to found startups. In 2009 the school was seeking new ways to boost entrepreneurial activity on campus when six seniors proposed the concept for Idea. The group received funding from the university and […]

When senior Dan Wendt attended his first Northeastern Entrepreneurship Club meeting in 2009 as a freshman, fifteen people showed up. A few years later though, the Entrepreneurship Club, which was founded in 2006, has grown into one of the largest and most active student business clubs in the country. Its board of directors is now […]

Although leading US business schools appear to have weathered the recession, there are real question marks about the sustainability of less prestigious US institutions, particularly those that are state-funded. Most leading business schools saw the value of their endowment funds fall sharply during the stock market decline in 2008. Among US schools that have featured […]

For Hugh Courtney, dean of Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, his arrival couldn’t have been better timed. Courtney began his tenure as the dean July 1, two months later the business school received a $60 million gift from alumni Richard D’Amore and Alan McKim to rename the business school from the College of Business […]

Is there a role for government in helping entrepreneurs? Should the free market rule? Here are the big questions, with Hugh Courtney, dean of Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business — and some answers.