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Christine Bader, author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, delivers 2015 Day Family Ethics Lecture at Johnson by Jay Wrolstad Corporations can and will do the right thing, says Christine Bader, but that requires executives willing to weigh both profits and principles — especially when things go wrong — and patience […]

An Indian alumnus shares his thoughts for succeeding in business – be dynamic, keep innovating and be happy. If you are interested in emerging markets, the International consulting practicum class, is the class for you. This year over nine teams worked in consulting projects all over the world. I worked on Latin America market entry […]

by Winston Sun, MBA ‘16 I recently visited Welch Allyn, the leader in medical diagnostic equipment. The company holds many patents, but the most impressive one for me is a very simple one, the FlexiPort® Disposable Blood Pressure Cuffs. It’s on a very different and promising end of the innovation spectrum compared with ordinary inventions. […]

Prasad maintains that the global financial crisis has actually strengthened the U.S. dollar’s prominence and made it the most sought-after currency. He explained this in a Chats in the Stacks book talk at Mann Library Sept. 24, 2014, touching on contemporary issues in international finance. by Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy The […]

Emerging Markets Institute sponsored the representative team from Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management. The Team: Stephane Corgie Cornell Post-Doc (Cornell McGovern Center), Chris Kim MBA’15, Brennan Duty MBA’15, Abhijeet Bais MBA’15, and Margaret Wu MBA’15. Where – The Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Why – The most prestigious and biggest competition in South East […]

Blending Social Change with Business Leadership When she isn’t working as chief strategist at MK Ellison Advisors in San Francisco, Kate Capossela might be volunteering with a program that teaches entrepreneurship to people with criminal histories working to transform their lives, or writing the professional development curriculum for her local San Francisco Bay Area chapter […]

by Brian Liberatore, MBA ’16 I can think of few industries as fascinating as energy right now. New technology, shifting regulations, and exploding international demand are changing everything we know about this industry. I am fortunate to have a chance this semester to delve into some of the questions surrounding this transformation by working on […]

A new prescription for health-care delivery Bringing health-care services to rural patients in India for about $10 a year, Sevamob combines seva, meaning “service” in Hindi, with mobile technology. True to its name, the organization provides valuable services to patients in underserved areas, using innovative technology. Founder Shelley Saxena, who had previously launched a smartphone-based […]

Setting The Parameters In 2011, Faizan S. Syed, MBA ’09, left investment banking and returned to his native Pakistan to start an herbal products business. Before he could, his family asked him to manage the medical TV channel they started in 2009. Now, as head of Pakistan’s only healthand- lifestyle channel, Syed has seen his […]