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Professor Yongheng Deng Provost’s Chair, Professor of Real Estate and Finance, National University of Singapore (NUS) Real estate is an important driver of the Chinese economy, which itself is vital for global growth. However, data limitations make it challenging to evaluate competing claims about the state of Chinese housing markets. This paper brings new data […]

Professor Ivan Png Dr. Png is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Business and Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the economics of innovation. He is the author of Managerial Economics, which has been published in multiple editions. Dr Png was a nominated MP (10th Parliament of […]

Healthcare and Internet access are becoming increasingly intertwined in China. by Sydney Gehrking, MHA ’17, EMI Fellow The countryside zipped by at lightning speed as I watched from the comfort of my seat on the bullet train. My 2016 China Trek cohorts and I had set off from the glitzy skyscrapers of Shanghai, the “economic […]

by Thomas Bishop, MBA ’16 and Environmental Finance & Impact Investing Fellow The Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) Immersion and its career trek to Washington, DC were instrumental in making a career transition to social impact and finance and landing an internship with Calvert. I had the opportunity to intern with CalvertInvestments, a socially responsible investment […]

Creating Successful High-Tech Startups in Ithaca With a doctorate in material science from Cornell, Greg Galvin understood the intricacies of physics and electrical engineering but didn’t want to spend his days in a lab. With a Cornell MBA , he also knew the principles of accounting and marketing but didn’t want to leave the science […]

Sid Bardwell’s MBA ’89 career spans three continents and numerous countries. As a boy in the 1960s, Sid Bardwell spent summers on his grandparent’sdairy farm outside Madison, Wisc. During college, as an Asian studies andeconomics major, he spent an eye-opening year abroad in Japan. And duringthe latest chapter of his distinguished career with John Deere, […]

John Bonhomme, MBA ’07, was named recipient of Johnson’s 2015 Wilbur Parker Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding professional achievement and commitment to his community. John Bonhomme has dedicated himself to promoting diversity and inclusion both in his career and volunteer work. “Diversity is huge to me. In age, gender, sexual orientation, race, socioeconomic status, background. […]

Felipe de Jesus Garza Medina, MBA ’80, was honored with the Carlos R. Quintanilla Distinguished Latino Alumni Award. Felipe de Jesus Garza Medina was honored with the 2015 Carlos Quintanilla Distinguished Latino Alumni Award at Johnson’s Diversity Awards dinner, held Nov. 6 in the Statler Hotel ballroom as part of Johnson’s 6th Annual Diversity Symposium. […]

Adam Kirsch ’15, MBA ’16, provides student tenants and landlords with a safe, easy-to-use platform for listing, finding, and managing rental properties. by Katie O’Brien ’16 After experiencing firsthand thefrustrations students encounter when searching for rentals in Ithaca, Adam Kirsch ’15, MBA ’16, decided to found Yorango — a company that provides student tenants andlandlords […]