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By Lori Sonken via Cornell Chronicle One in 10 people on Earth live in China’s cities. Over the past decade, nearly 200 million people in China have moved from rural to urban regions, and 8 million more are expected to relocate every year between now and 2050. Just what this means for China and the […]

Speaker: Loren Brandt Loren Brandt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto specializing in the Chinese economy. He has been at the University of Toronto since 1987. He is also a research fellow at the IZA (The Institute for the Study of Labor) in Bonn, Germany. He has published widely on the […]

Roberto dos Reis Alvarez is the Executive Director of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC – www.thegfcc.org). In his famous book “The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century”, Thomas Friedman highlights ten forces that are shaping a ‘flat world’. Later in 2005, Richard Florida wrote an article in The Atlantic […]

Corruption and a corrupted way of doing politics, populist measures and relaxed fiscal and monetary policies showed that Brazil still has a long way to go before becoming a developed country. by Decio Oddone, O&G Officer at Prumo Logistics In 1985, after twenty-one years of military rule, a democratic government rose to power in Brazil. […]

We are always online. We pay our rent, buy furniture, take language lessons and schedule our next appointment to the doctor, let alone the time spent on social media. The Internet is part of our lives and we take it for granted. In fact, we barely remember how life was before we could wake up […]

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 […]

Alice Leung, MBA ’86, Sapientiae by Dick Anderson Alice Leung didn’t develop her new business by today’s rules. Sapientiae, a biotech management consulting firm, has no website, no app, and no real online presence. (“Most of the work I do is confidential,” she explains.) Clients find her by word of mouth, referrals, and a well-connected […]

Melva Covington, MBA ’04 Melva Covington fell into health care unintentionally. After graduating with a degree in politics and economics from The Catholic University of America, Covington aspired to earn an MBA. However, with no professional work experience, her first stop was selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door in Washington, D.C. Then her undergraduate psychology professor called, […]

Javed Singha, MBA ’09, Fieldwire by Dick Anderson For all the construction design tools that look like something out of “The Jetsons,” the building process itself still resembles “The Flintstones.” “There’s all this phenomenal software that’s happened in the design process, then the execution goes back to paper and pencil,” says Javed Singha. Seeing opportunity, […]