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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 serve Western clients. A Malaysian who has lived in Singapore since 1985, Chan worked for seven years at search firm Spencer Stuart before he and […]

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 Francisco for a couple of years, Kostecka, a Park Fellow, collaborated with her boss to create a new role for herself as senior manager for […]

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 Mountains. His hero was John Muir (1838-1914), the Scottish-American naturalist, author, and pioneering wilderness preservationist. “I was very interested in environmental issues,” says Brooks, who […]

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!

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 financial services. by Chao Yi, Eva Zhang, Bihan Zhu and Viviane Gomide In the course Leaders in Emerging Markets many students were introduced to a […]

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 in recent years due to declining money inflows and rampant tax evasion. In this article, we investigate India’s liquidity imbalances and explore the implications for […]

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. 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 […]

Over the past decade the Chinese government has spent over $500B in infrastructure and healthcare reform, including the establishment of many new hospitals and policies to satisfy the demand that accompanies China’s population of over a billion people. by Preetika Vish, Matt Weisse, Matt Wilhelm, Bryan Wong Paul Zhang, MBA’99 and Managing Director of Life […]

Gerardo Galvan, Executive MBA Americas ’18 Solid education, constant self-improvement, and innate marketing talent have brought Gerardo Galvan to the pinnacle of North America’s beverage industry. As president and general manager of Interex, a Dallas/Fort Worth-based commercial firm, Galvan directs sales of one of the industry’s hottest drinks, Topo Chico, a sparkling mineral water bottled […]