Around Cornell Business

An interview with Privthvideep Singh, BS ’11, Strategic Marketing Director of Dynel LED Lighting, New Delhi, India by Boon Hoe Chin, MBA ‘14 I had the opportunity to speak with Prithvideep Singh at the recent Cornell Big Red Weekend in Singapore about his experience at Cornell and his thoughts on running a business in India. […]

How a summer in Africa changed the perspective of an American MBA student by Jerry Petit-Frere, MBA ‘14 Africa as a continent has been an emerging market for the past 20 years. The use of modern day technology has been part of some of the leading advancements taking place in Africa. However infrastructure, food crisis […]

An MBA student’s perspective of the Johnson trek to the Holy Land of Israel by Gregory Miller, MBA ’15 In March and April 2014, four EMI Fellows and over 30 other Johnson classmates traveled to Israel on an academic and cultural trek. This incredible trip was just seven days long but managed to incorporate visits […]

Things to consider when entering the China market, an interview with James Robinson, Senior Director in APCO Worldwide’s New York office by Momo Bi, MBA ’15 “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who molds public sentiments goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or […]

Grants underscore the Institute’s role as a leading center of research on the emerging markets The Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University has announced the winners of its fourth annual research grant competition.  Faculty and Ph.D. students were invited to submit proposals for academic research on […]

Jennifer Dulski ’93, MBA ’99, president and COO at Change.org Jennifer Dulski leads by helping other people excel. She’s been doing this for most of her life. She served as coxswain for the men’s crew team in high school and the women’s team at Cornell. She taught school and founded a nonprofit enrichment program to […]

Making a mark in health care It’s a scene that unfolds every day in a hospital somewhere in the United States: A patient arrives in the emergency room, unable to speak English and pounding on his chest. The medical staff doesn’t know whether to treat him for chest pain or a bad case of indigestion. […]

Turning Around Roper’s Scientific Imaging When Ben Wood became vice president of Scientific and Industrial Imaging at Roper Industries in 2002, the division was underperforming. Sales were in decline, manufacturing costs were too high, and the research and development cycle had stretched to nearly three years. Roper’s researchers wanted to “make great products and great […]

Leading Innovation at Pfizer How do you encourage innovation in a global pharmaceutical corporation with nearly 80,000 employees? That was the challenge Wendy Mishkin Mayer faced when she became vice president for worldwide innovation at Pfizer two years ago. The initiative she leads, Dare to Try, is aimed at improving the company’s operations and services […]