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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 […]

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 through the $80/barrel barrier thanks to a decrease in overall global demand, an increase in US oil increase, and a large jump in supply from […]

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 at Johnson, Joseph Alvarado says he learned that “The essence of success is teamwork among diverging interests. If there is no cohesive work ethic and […]

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 morale. Allen immediately set to work, buying state-of-the-art equipment, developing a strong management team, and improving customer satisfaction. He also reached out in simple ways […]

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 provides a private forum for lively exchange among corporate leaders from emerging and developed markets and leading researchers. We are building the most highly regarded […]