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Going with the flow by Irene Kim Naama Bloom, MBA ’13, founder of HelloFlo The curse. The crimson tide. Lingonberry week. It’s the five-day event that happens to women of childbearing age each month, sending embarrassed husbands and fathers running to the “feminine care” aisle. Helloflo.com is happy to meet women’s periods head on. “It […]

New Order by Irene Kim Unless you’re a restaurateur or app developer, you’ve probably never heard of Ordr.in. This open platform for restaurant e-commerce is used by restaurants, developers, and websites to power their food-ordering capabilities. Co-founder David Bloom describes Ordr.in as “DNA for restaurant e-commerce” — an infrastructure for building takeout-ordering services that allow […]

Over 100 Cornell alumni and business professionals in attendance. The Fourth Emerging Markets Institute conference “China, Reaching out to the world: Global investments and partnerships,” held in New York City in mid-October was well attended by over 100 Cornell alumni and business professionals. The topics, Chinese investment in the United States, ensuring natural resources, technological hubs and […]

by Mark A. Ramos, MBA’15 SGE Immersion team learns about Chinese manufacturing and culture firsthand while working on supply chain optimization with Team Planet. As part of the Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) Immersion, Ihad the privilege of working with Team Planet, a start-up that sells small-scale solar panels in Malawi. The student team consisted of […]

The Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management hosted the 4th Annual Emerging Market Conference which was held in New York this week. Read the article

On July 5 and 6 2014, the EMI sponsored a major international research conference, the Symposium on Emerging Financial Markets: China and Beyond, at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Other sponsors were the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University and Peking University’s Academy of Finance and Development. This symposium was intended […]

Hernan Mendez, MBA ’83, President of Procafecol When Hernan Mendez took over as head of Colombia’s Juan Valdez coffee business in 2010, the retailer was in sad straits. Parent company Procafecol was on the verge of bankruptcy and its misguided expansion plans for its chain of coffee shops had been deep-sixed. The executive corps was […]

Combining consulting with a passion for sports Abbi Hills arrived at Cornell in 2004, not for graduate school but for her first job: assistant coach of the women’s lacrosse team. A veteran lacrosse player who had played in high school and college, Hills helped lead the team to earn its first Ivy League title. “It […]

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 increase their corn yields, which are far below worldwide averages? And in Southeast Asia, how can farmers boost their production of rice to meet the […]