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Speaker: Johanna Mair Johanna Mair is Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School. Her research focuses on how novel organisational and institutional arrangements generate economic and social development. Mair is also the Distinguished Fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and […]

Johnson’s magazine includes a Q&A with Dean Soumitra Dutta, feature stories on marketing new technology and on metrics-driven marketing, a profile of Cambridge Health Alliance CEO Patrick Wardell, MBA ’79, and much more. Take a look! Read the article

The Joint CICER and EMI Emerging Markets Research Day was held on strong>Friday, April 19 from 8:30AM</strong to 5:00PM in B10 Sage Hall Workshop Videos are available here: Morning session 9:00 – 12:15pm Afternoon session 1:30 – 5:00pm The Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER) brings together scholars from Cornell and elsewhere to conduct […]

04/17/2017 The “Googley” culture of Silicon Valley companies didn’t always resonate with my staff, I found the no-nonsense leadership approach practiced by the US military to be particularly effective in my company. Unlike his peers who applied for prestigious banking/consulting jobs Johnson Cheng became an assistant to director in a real estate development firm in […]

03/17/2017 Africa could be the world’s next breadbasket. But can it overcome the hurdles in its way? by Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 Sixty percent of the world’s uncultivated, arable land lies in Africa, according to a McKinsey & Company report. In fact, the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone could feed two billion people, according to some […]

02/09/2017 EMI speaker and Humphrey Fellow Gopalakrishnan Veilumuthusamy detailed what happened when India, one of the world’s most cash-dependent countries, decided to get rid of its most valuable currency notes. by Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 On the night of Nov. 8, just as voters across the United States were casting their ballots in the presidential election, […]

02/09/2017 The forum “Brazil and Latin America: Innovating to overcome the crisis” has the purpose of promoting a discussion on new alternatives to expand Brazil and Latin America initiatives on skills development, based on successful experiences and the role of the new players. Read the article  

11/29/2016 In his REDTalk, “School of Thought: Insights from Ghana,” Bright Botchway draws on his own life story to illustrate how education makes a difference. by Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 When Bright Botchway, MBA ’18, enrolled in a boarding school in his native Ghana, he did not know what to expect. He had already gone further […]

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. […]