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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 more than 50 part-time, or fractional, chief marketing officers (CMO) for hire. “The work is challenging and exciting,” he says. “You need to quickly develop […]

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 […]

India is a complex multi-ethnic society and one of the fastest growing populations in the world at a current 1.2 billion citizens. Now under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the nation is in a period of great growth combined with substantial challenges. by Gregory Asnis, Katherine Leonetti and Mehrdad Moghaddam Overview of Events […]