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Richard Saccany, MBA ’73
Spanning the globe in mining As a teenager growing up in a suburb of Cleveland, Richard Saccany recalls reading in the newspaper about an underground salt mine operating near the […]

Ponsi Trivisvavet, MBA ’99
A GMO approach to sustainable crops Ponsi Trivisvavet has spent the past six years thinking about how to help farmers feed the world. In India and Africa, how can growers […]

Cornell’s Emerging Markets Institute appoints Humberto Luiz Ribeiro
Ribeiro, a former senior member of the Brazilian Federal Government, will focus his studies on the services industries in emerging markets Cornell’s Emerging Markets Institute appoints Humberto Luiz Ribeiro, former […]

Building a Plane Midflight
by Trevor Wirsig, MBA ‘15 Using what I learned at Johnson to make an impact during my consulting internship. My project as a summer intern in Deloitte Consulting’s mergers andacquisitions […]

Business as Unusual at Patagonia
by Brendan Condit, MBA ‘15 Though his unconventional experience at Patagonia included surf lessons and flip flops at work, Brendan Condit’s (MBA ’15) biggest takeaway was the attitude of employees […]

Natalie Grillon, MBA ’12
Bringing transparency to the fashion supply chain Take a look at the clothes you’re wearing today. Where were they made? Under what conditions? If you’re wearing natural fiber, where was […]

The Political Economy of an Emerging Power: In Search of the Brazil Dream
A new book by Johnson’s Lourdes Casanova encapsulates Brazil’s role in the new order of emerging economies and the steps the country needs to propel its economic growth Twelve years […]

Robert Strahota ’62, MBA ’64
Building Emerging Securities Markets The perfect segue to Bob Strahota’s career trajectory came shortly after the Berlin Wall fell. It was 1991 and he had just returned, after 19 years […]

Global Innovation Index 2014 Unveiled in Sydney, Australia
The report, co-authored by Johnson Dean Soumitra Dutta, shows European countries the world’s most innovative, with encouraging signs from sub-Saharan Africa The Global Innovation Index 2014, a chief benchmarking tool […]