Immersions

Untrashing News by Mauricio Medaets, MBA ’17, MEng ’17 Putting organic waste in its place — laying the groundwork for a cleaner and more sustainable America Many people dream of a world where trash doesn’t accumulate in landfills (or in abandoned city blocks or rivers, as is the reality in most developing countries). Grind2Energy, a […]

The SGE Immersion: A True Consulting Experience by Brett Lester, MBA ’17 The Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) Immersion allowed me the opportunity to interact with clients and support a market expansion problem, leaving me prepped for success for my internship with EY’s Strategy group.One of the most important questions a 1st year MBA student must […]

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 knew from my Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) Immersion experience that I had acquired all of the skills that I needed to succeed and in a […]

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 CEOs. During the first week at Johnson, every student asks each other the same few questions. One of them is: “What immersion are you doing?” […]

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 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 […]

by Georgia Maloney, MBA ‘16 How the SGE Immersion and Cornell MBA core curriculum provided the foundation for a successful internship assessing corporate sustainability practices. When I started, I never could have predicted how valuable thetwo weeks of the Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) immersion “boot camp” withProfessor Mark Milstein would be. During that time, we […]