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by Colin Shengbo Gu, MBA ‘15 “We are all really impressed by your final presentation, Colin. Congratulations!” This final comment concluded my 11-week summer internship at Corning Inc. as a strategy intern. I chose to attend the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management seeking a transformational experience, and the Strategic Marketing Immersion (SMI) is […]

Chris Kim, MBA ’15, describes the long but successful road to an exciting win at this year’s global case competition, the mai Business Challenge @ Sasin, in Bangkok, Thailand. by Chris Sungjoo Kim, MBA ‘15 It was a long and intense journey I walked with my teammates: Margaret Wu MBA ’15, Abhijeet Bais MBA ’15, […]

by Ace Stryker, MBA ‘16 On a trip to NYC SGE students heard from startups and Fortune 50 companies, from entrepreneurs and investment bankers, from real estate developers and ice cream makers, all of whom shared a passion for finding opportunity at the intersection of financial return and social/environmental impact. Milton Friedman famously argued in […]

An incredible summer internship with Accenture in Manila by Damian Kearney, MBA ‘15 Last summer, I had the unique opportunity to do an internship with Accenture, a global management consulting firm, in its international development practice, Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP). I worked with two clients working in disaster management, based in Manila, Philippines. The internship […]

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 Markets Institute. Highlights of his conversation are below. Q: Could you elaborate on your journey from Johnson to CEO of Corning India? RD: I wish […]

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. still has a long way to go in order to harness the power of this ingenuity. “Essentially, there is an enormous problem in the United […]

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 Glaab (MBA ’15), Johann Tritthardt (MBA ’14), Helen Schnoes (MRP ’14) and I share a passion for impact investing, sub-Saharan Africa, equitable food systems and […]

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 no stranger to natural disasters. The country sits precariously in the notorious Ring of Fire. Dozens of typhoons hit the nation’s 7,100+ islands annually. Experts […]

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 school, I knew that my target industry was food and my target job function was operations and supply chains. This somewhat niche and non-traditional focus […]