Alumni Profiles

Leading Innovation at Pfizer How do you encourage innovation in a global pharmaceutical corporation with nearly 80,000 employees? That was the challenge Wendy Mishkin Mayer faced when she became vice president for worldwide innovation at Pfizer two years ago. The initiative she leads, Dare to Try, is aimed at improving the company’s operations and services […]

Turning Around Roper’s Scientific Imaging When Ben Wood became vice president of Scientific and Industrial Imaging at Roper Industries in 2002, the division was underperforming. Sales were in decline, manufacturing costs were too high, and the research and development cycle had stretched to nearly three years. Roper’s researchers wanted to “make great products and great […]

Making a mark in health care It’s a scene that unfolds every day in a hospital somewhere in the United States: A patient arrives in the emergency room, unable to speak English and pounding on his chest. The medical staff doesn’t know whether to treat him for chest pain or a bad case of indigestion. […]

Driving Social Change Around the World Nearly all mobile phones, computers, and the microprocessors that power them contain some combination of four minerals: gold, tin, tantalum, and tungsten. When Intel Corporation learned that many of these minerals come from mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo that are controlled by armed militias funding violence in […]

A “hybrid” career in asset management Both a widely respected scholar of asset management and a practitioner with years of experience as a managing director on Wall Street, Joseph Cherian refers to his path as a “hybrid” career. Now a professor of finance and director of the Center for Asset Management Research & Investments at […]

Irene Rosenfeld ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’80, CEO of Mondelez International and recipient of the L. Joseph Thomas Leadership Award, shares “Tips to the Top” At Johnson’s seventh annual Alumni Recognition and Celebration Dinner in Manhattan on Jan. 30, Irene Rosenfeld ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’80, chair and CEO of Mondelēz International and this year’s […]

Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06, receives the Robert J. Swieringa Young Alumni Service Award Helping public organizations to help the people they serve improve their quality of life is a major motivator that has resulted in rewarding achievements for Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06. As a vice president on the public institutions team at the […]

Jack M. Ferraro, MBA ’70, receives the Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Service Award Although he began his graduate studies at Cornell in a joint law and MBA program, Jack Ferraro liked the business school so much more that he decided to focus his education on business; he went on to earn his MBA with distinction. […]

On behalf of the Johnson Club of Seattle, Club President Pam Spier ’05, MBA ’11, receives the Henry P. Renard ’54, MBA ’55 Regional Club of the Year Award Pam Spier ’05, MBA ’11, connected with Johnson alumni in Seattle even before she moved there to do her summer internship at Amazon in 2010. As […]