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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 time may exceed ten minutes.”? Now, imagine applying the power of online advertising to health-care services: integrated communications and services delivered via conventional and social […]

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 coxswain for the men’s crew team in high school and the women’s team at Cornell. She taught school and founded a nonprofit enrichment program to […]

A “hybrid” career in asset management Both a widely respected scholar of asset management and a practitioner with years of experience as a managing director on Wall Street, Joseph Cherian refers to his path as a “hybrid” career. Now a professor of finance and director of the Center for Asset Management Research & Investments at […]

Irene Rosenfeld ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’80, CEO of Mondelez International and recipient of the L. Joseph Thomas Leadership Award, shares “Tips to the Top” At Johnson’s seventh annual Alumni Recognition and Celebration Dinner in Manhattan on Jan. 30, Irene Rosenfeld ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’80, chair and CEO of Mondelēz International and this year’s […]

On behalf of the Johnson Club of Seattle, Club President Pam Spier ’05, MBA ’11, receives the Henry P. Renard ’54, MBA ’55 Regional Club of the Year Award Pam Spier ’05, MBA ’11, connected with Johnson alumni in Seattle even before she moved there to do her summer internship at Amazon in 2010. As […]

Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06, receives the Robert J. Swieringa Young Alumni Service Award Helping public organizations to help the people they serve improve their quality of life is a major motivator that has resulted in rewarding achievements for Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06. As a vice president on the public institutions team at the […]

Jack M. Ferraro, MBA ’70, receives the Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Service Award Although he began his graduate studies at Cornell in a joint law and MBA program, Jack Ferraro liked the business school so much more that he decided to focus his education on business; he went on to earn his MBA with distinction. […]

A Global Journey to Wall Street Every now and then, Angela Mwanza says, she pinches herself in her office at UBS Private Wealth Management on Park Avenue in Manhattan, where as a senior vice president, she advises clients of substantial wealth. It’s a career she finds “somewhat surreal,” since Mwanza was born in Zambia, one […]

Luis Carlos Sarmiento Jr. MBA 85′, CEO of Grupo Aval Luis Carlos Sarmiento Jr., the CEO of Grupo Aval, Colombia’s largest financial services holding company, likes nothing more than making deals. Evidence suggests that he is good at it. The biggest of the 16 transactions he directed over the last decade, Aval’s $1.9 billion purchase […]