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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 center of the city. With all the drilling and blasting, the operation fascinated him, and when it came time to choose a college, he selected […]

Refocusing on climate change A year and a half ago, Larry Kraft was senior vice president of sales and marketing at Digi International, a technology company in Minneapolis. But after circling the globe on an environmental quest with his wife and two children, Kraft decided to leave the corporate world and now leads an organization […]

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 Brazilian Secretary of Commerce and Services as Visiting Scholar The former senior member of the Brazilian Federal Government will focus his studies on the services […]

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 (M&A) practice was to assist a consumer packaged goods (CPG) companyas they split into two. People say that a merger of two companies is like […]

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 and the overall character of the culture. My MBAinternship at Patagonia has beenan eye-opening experience. Before joining, I wondered if the company could possiblylive up […]

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 it grown? Who harvested it? And were those workers treated fairly? Ever thought about it? Natalie Grillon thinks about it – a lot. That’s why […]

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 of significant growth with social-development programs have made Brazil the seventh largest economy in the world, but it now looks for a second wind. In […]

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 of private law practice, to the US Securities and Exchange Commission as an attorney fellow in its Office of General Counsel. Newly independent nations across […]

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 for business executives, policy makers and others seeking insight into the state of innovation around the world, was released today in Sydney at a gathering […]