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by Bryson Saez, MBA ’14 and Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow Mission-driven SGE student interns with the founding biotechnology firm. Early in my career I found that, like many […]

Students conduct on-the-ground research in Bangladesh and deliver real-world impact to rural communities.  by Stephanie Kwok, MBA ’13 As part of the Johnson EMI Fellows program, each fellow completes a […]

The historically unpredictable way of life in Russia, the dizzying traffic, and the formidable language barrier proved to only be a minor inconvenience to the relentless first year Cornell Johnson […]

Opportunities lie within secondary market exits, growth capital investments, and outbound strategic acquisitions by Kevin Wang, MBA ‘13 Wallace, the IPO Project Manager for QS Solar, a privately held alternative […]

The stars are aligned for major private equity investments to take place in Africa.  by Derick Appia-kubi, MBA ’13 There has been a lot of focus on Africa as a […]

Suh Kyung-Bae, MBA ’87, CEO of South Korean cosmetics firm AmorePacific Beauty. Harmony. Balance. Happiness. These are not words that you’d typically hear from the CEO of a multibillion-dollar global […]

Greenhouse Growing in China China has 22 percent of the world’s population but only about eight percent of its arable agricultural land. How to generate enough food to supply the […]

Deliberate and Bold When Wendy L. Schoppert mentors young professionals hoping to follow in her footsteps, she always offers the same advice: “Make yourself uncomfortable,” she says, “because if you’re […]

Fighting Poverty in Central Asia When Hakim Feerasta was a senior financial analyst at IBM in Toronto, he was invited to visit the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the […]