Blog Posts

Finding My Place in the World and the Courage to Pursue It
Finding My Place in the World and the Courage to Pursue It by Jackie Barrett, MBA ’17 Whether I was interviewing an executive or pulling retention data this summer, I […]

Why SGE?
by Jon Tang-Kong, MBA ’17 Why choose SGE? Jon Tang-Kong relates how his SGE Immersion experience gave him the necessary confidence and expertise to navigate tough problems and even tougher […]

New Book Launch – Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi by Eswar Prasad
Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi (Oxford University Press, October 2016; gainingcurrency.com), a new book by Eswar Prasad, will be launched at the Brookings Institution on Friday, September 23rd, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Panelists: […]

Unveiling the Energy Sector through a Summer Internship
by Marcelo Oliveira de Paiva, MBA ’17 and Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow During my internship on the trading floor of an energy company, I stumbled upon the concept […]

ISS Project to Study Economics, Politics of China Urbanization
By Lori Sonken via Cornell Chronicle One in 10 people on Earth live in China’s cities. Over the past decade, nearly 200 million people in China have moved from rural […]

What Does SGE Have to do with Mayonnaise?
by Alexa Ing Stern, MBA ‘17 The SGE Immersion helped me find creative ways to solve ambiguous problems during my brand management internship at Unilever. Going into the first year […]

Pursuing My Passion for Animals
by Luna Guo, MBA ‘17 What does SGE have to do with marketing and animals? A lot, as it turns out. When I first decided to quit my job as […]

SGE: A Multidisciplinary Immersion
by Alexa Ing Stern, MBA ‘17 Gaining exposure to diverse ideas and frameworks, as well as classmates and practitioners with extremely varied functional expertise. Throughout the Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) […]

Ownership Is Key to Fixing China’s SOEs — Eswar Prasad
Increasing competition and private ownership would help spur the changes needed to reform the country’s state-owned enterprises. By Eswar Prasad via The Wall Street Journal China’s state-owned enterprises remain one […]