Blog Posts

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:  Caroline Atkinson, Head of Global Public Policy, Google, and former Deputy National Security Advisor, White House Ben Bernanke, Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution, and former Chair […]

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 of energy resource reliability and its importance to the energy sector. The drastic changes that the U.S. energy sector is currently undergoing demands a cross […]

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 to urban regions, and 8 million more are expected to relocate every year between now and 2050. Just what this means for China and the […]

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 of myMBA, I knew I wanted to do brand management, so the Strategic MarketingImmersion (SMI) seemed like the logical progression. However, I am passionateabout business […]

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 a businessanalyst and pursue my MBA, I had a very clear direction I wanted to go in:marketing, and something related to my one true love—animals. […]

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) immersion we are exposed to diverse ideas and frameworks, as well as classmates and practitioners with extremely varied functional expertise. During the immersion,we make two […]

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 of the biggest challenges facing Beijing today. SOEs play an outsize role in the country’s economy, even though they are a major source of corruption […]

by Tommy Wong, Cornell Executive MBA Americas 2016 I chose Johnson because of our program’s world-class faculty, recognition, and excellence. I continue to be quite impressed by the collaborative team-based format, focus on technology, and preparation for post-graduate success on a global scale. Just as critical, Johnson offers an EMBA program that is well-suited for […]

by Syed Hussain, Cornell Executive MBA Americas 2017 Johnson is a prestigious name among Ivy League schools, and I am proud to have it on my credentials. This program has great flexibility in scheduling your classes while you continue to work without any interruption. Secondly, leadership always blooms from excellent teamwork, and this program is […]