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Irene Rosenfeld ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’80
Irene Rosenfeld ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’80, CEO of Mondelez International and recipient of the L. Joseph Thomas Leadership Award, shares “Tips to the Top” At Johnson’s seventh annual Alumni Recognition and Celebration Dinner in Manhattan on Jan. 30, Irene Rosenfeld ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’80, chair and CEO of Mondelēz International and this year’s […]
Pam Spier ’05, MBA ’11
On behalf of the Johnson Club of Seattle, Club President Pam Spier ’05, MBA ’11, receives the Henry P. Renard ’54, MBA ’55 Regional Club of the Year Award Pam Spier ’05, MBA ’11, connected with Johnson alumni in Seattle even before she moved there to do her summer internship at Amazon in 2010. As […]
Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06
Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06, receives the Robert J. Swieringa Young Alumni Service Award Helping public organizations to help the people they serve improve their quality of life is a major motivator that has resulted in rewarding achievements for Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06. As a vice president on the public institutions team at the […]
Jack M. Ferraro, MBA ’70
Jack M. Ferraro, MBA ’70, receives the Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Service Award Although he began his graduate studies at Cornell in a joint law and MBA program, Jack Ferraro liked the business school so much more that he decided to focus his education on business; he went on to earn his MBA with distinction. […]
Emerging Markets Institute Academic Director Appointed Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies
G. Andrew Karolyi, the Alumni Professor in Asset Management, will serve for three years in the most senior role of leading research journal in financial economics Andrew Karolyi, faculty director of the Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, and Alumni Professor of Asset Management, has been […]
Economic Perspective from a Ukrainian National in Kiev
A student’s personal connection with understanding the conflicts that have erupted in Ukraine by Max Spivak, BS ‘07 MBA ‘14 MILR ‘15 “…for now we have only hope and faith.” Max Spivak, EMI Fellow candidate, has taken an interest in the situation in Ukraine – a country where he and his fiancee, Kate, have deep […]
Cornell’s Emerging Markets Institute Sponsors a team to join Semi-Finalists Competition in 2014 mai Bangkok Business Challenge @ Sasin
by Ginger Ku, MBA ‘14 The Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University is honored to sponsor a team to compete in the mai Bangkok Business Challenge @ Sasin that will take place during Feb 27th – March 1st 2014 at Chulalongkorn University. Juan Diego Alonso MBA […]
For Career-Switchers, There’s a First Time for Everything
by Adam R. Beane, MBA ‘10 Like many of my Johnson colleagues, I pursued an MBA not to advance my current career, but to put myself on a new path altogether. I spent three years moving sideways at a well-known hotel chain, but when the long-awaited promotion opportunity finally arrived, I found myself hesitating to […]
A Tale of Two Countries – Does infrastructure capacity lead economic growth, or does it result from economic growth?
An MBA student’s prospective on the stark differences of two emerging markets, India and Chile by Max Spivak, BS ‘07 MBA ‘14 MILR ‘15 What came first, the chicken or the egg? This was the question I kept asking myself during my winter break travels to India and Chile. Does a country need infrastructure to […]