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Professor Shanjun Li is chosen for the Faculty Fellowship for Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts supported by Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF). This fellowship program supports Cornell faculty in the social sciences, humanities, and arts who are working in the sustainability arena. The in-residence fellowship provides faculty with teaching leave for one semester and […]

Although Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy, it has been battling with economic and political instability, particularly Boko Haram and the recent oil crisis. by Ibijoke Oke, MPA ’16, EMI Fellow A few months ago, the World Bank published its annual 2016 Doing Business[1] Report and Nigeria ranked 169 out of 189 economies in the ease of doing […]

by Georgia Maloney, MBA ‘16 How the SGE Immersion and Cornell MBA core curriculum provided the foundation for a successful internship assessing corporate sustainability practices. When I started, I never could have predicted how valuable thetwo weeks of the Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) immersion “boot camp” withProfessor Mark Milstein would be. During that time, we […]

Xi Chen Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University Affiliated Faculty, Department of Economics, Yale University PhD in Applied Economics, Cornell University (2012) Abstract: While there has been large economics literature evaluating the health cost of air pollution, less is known about its impact […]

The 2016 Mai Bangkok Business Challenge. by Jeremy Kuhre, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow “I’ll tell you what. I’ll offer you $300,000 for 50% of the company right now.” My partners and I were pitching our company, Produce Power, live on national television, and in this moment, I knew what it felt like to be an […]

Winning image captures early mangrove saplings coming to life, taken on an eco-tour with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) along the Makran Coastal Highway in Pakistan Rizwan Quraishi, MBA’16, was named first-place winner, North America, in Morgan Stanley’s annual Campus Photo Competition. Throughout the months of January and February 2016 students across the three […]

Baidu is involved in a series of public relations crisis, which opens a great opportunity for Bing to explore the China market. by Winston Sun, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow Launched in 2009, Bing is still at the corner of the stage. As of April 2016, Bing only accounts for 12.37% of the global search market. […]

by Aidan Renaghan, MBA ’17 and Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow The SGE immersion trek was an informative and inspiring experience in meeting people working on the front lines to create a more sustainable future. In April 2016, students from the Sustainable GlobalEnterprise (SGE) immersion traveled to Washington, D.C. for three days ofnetworking and […]

Johnson UAE Trek Spring 2016 by Jonathan Jorge Swavely, MBA ’16 To be honest, I did not have very high expectations for this trip to begin with. Of all the options we had for student treks, traveling to the UAE seemed to me as one of the least interesting. When I travel to a new […]