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Building sustainability into the supply chain
Agata Kostecka, MBA ’11 Agata Kostecka is helping to make sustainability a way of life for stakeholders at Gap Inc. After working on the firm’s supply-chain strategy team in San […]

A voice for the wilderness
Deirdre Monroe, MBA ’90 Unlike most of us, Deirdre Monroe can’t share war stories from work. “I can’t talk about the bulk of what I did,” she says, because it […]

East Meets West in Executive Search
Wai-Leong Chan ’83, MEng ’84, MBA ’85 Wai-Leong Chan decided to launch an executive search firm when he saw an opportunity to establish a collegial, pan-Asian search firm to better […]

Experience and agility for hire
Gary Fassak ’76, MBA ’78 Gary Fassak enjoys helping businesses grow and prosper by sharing his extensive management and marketing expertise as a member of Chief Outsiders, a company comprising […]

Startup Snapshots: Pure Energy
Cameron Brooks, MBA ’03: E9 Energy Insight and Tolerable Planet Enterprises by Dick Anderson Cameron Brooks was smitten with the outdoors as a teenager, spending countless hours exploring California’s Sierra […]

EMI ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT – Nirupama Kumar, MBA ‘13
Getting out of the Johnson One-Year program I realized I had changed somewhere, completely. The experience was so transformative, the support during and after the MBA so positive, that the only regret I have is that it was only 13 months!

M-Pesa and Kenya: Why Mobile Money Matters?
Most people probably don’t think of Kenya as an innovation and technology hub, but it became the launching pad for M-Pesa, a transformative mobile phone-based platform for money transfer and […]

Money Matters in Modi’s India
by Abhiram Muddu and Vince Wong Abstract Money matters in India are complicated. As Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has set forth bold policy objectives towards reining in sovereign liquidity, which has suffered […]

Money Matters in Modi’s India
Money matters in Modi’s India are complex. However, Modi has a unique opportunity to leverage startups’ accelerated time-to-market to foster a tech-enabled ecosystem that incentivizes users to adopt formal channels. […]