A Scholarship to Support the Next Generation of Business Leaders

For Prahlad Singh, MBA’00, and Joel Goldberg, MBA, JD’96, Northeastern is where they learned how to become influential business leaders. Since graduating, they’ve both led accomplished careers and become members of the leadership team at the Revvity Foundation. Even after finding professional success, they continue to stay involved at the university, playing an instrumental role in preparing the next generation of students for careers in business. Now, they’re giving back to the Center for Emerging Markets (CEM) at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business by establishing the Revvity Access CEM Scholarship.

The Revvity Access CEM scholarship aims to help full-time graduate and undergraduate students with financial need who are the first generation in their family to go to college and/or who are international students. The scholarship could enable these students to benefit from Northeastern’s rich experiential learning opportunities, including international co-ops, study abroad or international field-study programs, or engage more deeply with center’s projects and initiatives.

Prahlad Singh, Revvity’s president and chief executive officer, has a long association with the center. He has served on its advisory board since 2018, presented at its symposium on business strategy in China in 2019, hosted the center’s board meetings at Revvity headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, and spoken to the center’s founding director Ravi Ramamurti’s students many times. He also shared his advice for students in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business’ Lessons in Leadership series.

Along with the Revvity Access CEM Scholarship, the Revvity Foundation also endowed the Revvity STEM Access Scholarship to advance STEM education for undergraduate students at Northeastern.

Sharing his hopes for the two scholarships, Singh said, “We are impressed with Northeastern University’s success over the many decades in educating and shaping the minds of our next generation. Through the Revvity Access CEM Scholarship and Revvity Access STEM Scholarship, we hope to further advance this endeavor and make a difference in these students’ lives. When you invest in young people, it will bear fruit down the road in terms of advancing social and economic progress.”

Goldberg, Revvity’s senior vice president, administration, general counsel, and secretary added, “Our Revvity Access scholarships align with our foundation’s aims and are designed to open doors for students, particularly those passionate about the health and sciences fields, to positively impact lives down the road.”

Thanking Revvity for its generosity, Ramamurti said, “This gift has a deep personal meaning, because I got to know Prahlad Singh 25 years ago when he was a member of Northeastern’s MBA Case Competition team, and I was its faculty coach. He is a great role model for our students. We are honored and touched by Revvity’s generosity.”

The Revvity Foundation’s vision is built around being a global citizen that enables the advancement of science and healthcare for everyone. These scholarships underline Revvity’s dedication to equipping the next generation of leaders and innovators with the skills necessary to address global challenges.