Alumni Profiles
Abbi Hills, MBA ’09, MHA ’09
Combining consulting with a passion for sports Abbi Hills arrived at Cornell in 2004, not for graduate school but for her first job: assistant coach of the women’s lacrosse team. […]
Fresh, new energy jump-starts a national icon
Hernan Mendez, MBA ’83, President of Procafecol When Hernan Mendez took over as head of Colombia’s Juan Valdez coffee business in 2010, the retailer was in sad straits. Parent company […]
Natalie Grillon, MBA ’12
Bringing transparency to the fashion supply chain Take a look at the clothes you’re wearing today. Where were they made? Under what conditions? If you’re wearing natural fiber, where was […]
Robert Strahota ’62, MBA ’64
Building Emerging Securities Markets The perfect segue to Bob Strahota’s career trajectory came shortly after the Berlin Wall fell. It was 1991 and he had just returned, after 19 years […]
GiveGab aligns volunteers’ skills, interests, and values
The volunteer matching and management system created by two Cornell-Queens graduates was selected to connect Cornell alumni. by Da-Eun Lee ’16 When Charlie Mulligan, MBA ’11, and Aaron Godert, MEng […]
Neng Bing Doh, MBA ’05, HealthCrowd
Rx for health-care communications by Irene Kim When you think about health-care customer service, what comes to mind? “Press 1 for billing inquiries. Press 2 for plan information. Your wait […]
Coaching for Change
Jennifer Dulski ’93, MBA ’99, president and COO at Change.org Jennifer Dulski leads by helping other people excel. She’s been doing this for most of her life. She served as […]
Daniel J. Mansoor ’79, MBA ’80, GiveNext
Taking the pain out of giving by Irene Kim Ever wonder how much of your charitable donation ends up paying for all those dinnertime solicitation calls and mailers with “free” […]
Kurt Vedder, MBA ’02 (E), Fixes 4 Kids
Kids’ surgeons get a lucky break by Irene Kim They look like something that might have been used to build RoboCop or the Six Million Dollar Man, but the E-Fix […]