Far-Flung Faculty
Category: Noteworthy
WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA
TIGINEH MERSHA AND VEN SRIRAM, both professors in the Merrick School of Business, traveled to Windhoek, Namibia, in August to present two papers at the Academy of Business and Emerging Markets conference; one was a model for assessing the impact of social enterprises, and the other involved female entrepreneurship in Africa. En route to the conference, the professors traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to collect data for their ongoing research on social enterprise impact assessment. One of their data-collection sites was Selam Children’s Village, a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization that enables underprivileged children to become self-sufficient and to lead better lives.
—Elise Gallagher is a graduate creative writing and publishing arts student.