Alumni Profiles

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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” […]

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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 […]

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Wendy Mishkin Mayer ’92, MBA ’94

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 […]

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Benjamin W. Wood, MBA ’99

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 […]

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James “Jamey” Edwards ’96, MBA ’03

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 […]

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Lori McMahon, MBA ’10

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 […]

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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 […]