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An Interview with Rustom Desai, MBA ’95 Managing Director – Corning India
Observations on career management, doing business in India, and leadership by Ashwin Gowda, MBA ‘15 Rustom visited the Johnson School in early February, 2015 and spent time with the Emerging […]

Jay Walker, ’77
Once a curator of travel deals, Walker now curates ideas When it comes to intellectual property, few countries rival the United States. Yet according to Jay Walker ’77, the U.S. […]

Wild about COMACO
by Brennan Duty, MBA ‘15 Cornell MBA students describe their experience working with the Zambian social enterprise, COMACO as part of the SGE immersion in the spring of 2014. Anna […]

Calm Before (and after) the Storm: A Summer in Disaster Management
by Damian Kearney, MBA ‘15 Interning with Accenture Development Partnerships in the Philippines, Damian Kearney worked with clients trying to improve the disaster preparedness and recovery sectors. The Philippines is […]

Saving Nemo
by Claude Rosen, MBA ‘15 Claude Rosen describes his deep dive into the sustainability challenges of the aquarium fish industry this summer as a Packard Environment Fellow. Coming into business […]

Dropping Oil Prices Affect Emerging Markets Differently
The falling price of crude oil is helping oil dependent countries, but hurting oil producers by Jared Woodrey, MBA ‘15 As I write this paper, crude oil prices have crashed […]

Joseph Alvarado, MBA ’76
2014 Carlos R. Quintanilla Distinguished Latino Alumni Award Recipient From playing football as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame to studying accounting and finance as an MBA candidate […]

Percy Allen II, MPA ’75
Wilbur Parker Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient When Percy Allen II joined the University Hospital of Brooklyn as CEO in 1989, the state facility was losing money and struggling with employee […]
The Innovation Challenges and Achievements of Latin America
Established in 2010, the Emerging Markets Institute was founded at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management to promote the research and study of emerging economies. The Institute […]