News & Announcements

11/22/2016 Supporting Johnson MBAs through decades of partnership with Colfuturo by Irene Kim A native of Bogotá, Colombia, German Peralta, MBA ’17 and Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) Fellow, wanted a top-quality MBA experience. Being a triathlete, he also wanted to be able to spend hours training in the great outdoors—a near impossibility in Colombia’s crowded, congested capital. […]

11/10/2016 The Emerging Markets Institute’s 2016 conference and inaugural Emerging Multinationals Report convey powerful evidence of “a new global landscape” showing a sharp increase in emerging economies as foreign investors and a “blossoming of some of their firms as world champions.” by Janice Endresen The global economic landscape is experiencing a sea change as the […]

10/25/2016 Moments and highlights from the 2016 EMI Conference, Emerging Multinationals: Innovating to Compete Read the article

10/15/2016 The Emerging Market Multinationals Report (EMR) aims at contributing to a better understanding of the dramatic rise of emerging economies multinationals and its economic and societal implications. by Lourdes Casanova and Anne Miroux Emerging economies are one of the hallmarks of today’s global economy, and the dramatic rise of their multinationals, also known as […]

09/06/2016 Roberto M. Cañizares ’71, MBA ’74, and Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06, will be honored with Johnson’s Diversity Awards The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management will honor two alumni with distinguished alumni awards at its Seventh Annual Johnson Diversity Symposium and Alumni Awards Dinner, to be held on the Ithaca campus, Oct. 20-21, […]

08/15/2016 Soumitra Dutta, dean of the Cornell College of Business, is co-editor of the report, which ranks nations on their innovation capacity and results. GENEVA, August 15, 2016 – China joins the ranks of the world’s 25 most-innovative economies, while Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Finland and Singapore lead the […]

06/14/2016 Graduating fellows honored and awarded for work and study in emerging markets Thirty-eight graduating fellows from the Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) were honored by family and friends in a special ceremony in May, prior to the official Commencement. Lourdes Casanova, academic director for EMI, noted that 14 countries were represented among the talented group […]

06/02/2016 The goal in our pilot study is to assess whether an education via digital media can help the educational outcomes of migrant workers’ children in China. by David Ng, Cornell University and Bill Tsang, Hong Kong Youth Foundation With budgets tightening worldwide, there is a need to channel limited government and international organization funding […]

04/25/2016 To revert current economic trends, Brazil will need a stable governing coalition that is willing to face reality and implement a reformist agenda. by Leonardo Freitas, MBA ’16 RISE OF THE WORKER’S PARTY In a November 2003 report called “Dreaming with BRICs: The Path to 2050”[1], Goldman Sachs predicted that Brazil, Russia, India and […]