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Empowering Women, One Video View at a Time For the past two years, Mike Sweeney, managing partner of Film Annex Capital Partners, has been deeply involved in promoting WomensAnnex.com — an interactive web platform that supports the empowerment of women in developing countries. The idea for the platform, Sweeney says, grew out of a conversation […]

Global outsourcing with a human touch According to Anindo Dutta, outsourcing “comes in two different flavors”: Information technology and application outsourcing (the most commonly known), and business processing outsourcing (BPO) — his area of expertise. As vice president-Americas BPO at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dutta helps provide corporate clients with domestic and offshore solutions devoted to handling […]

The Business of Reaching Kids, Changing Lives “In a way,” says Tiffany Washington, “I grew up on Sesame Street twice.” Like millions of other kids, Washington credits the beloved television show for helping her learn her numbers and AB Cs. But, in her case, the company brought Big Bird to millions of children around the […]

Luis Carlos Sarmiento Jr. MBA 85′, CEO of Grupo Aval Luis Carlos Sarmiento Jr., the CEO of Grupo Aval, Colombia’s largest financial services holding company, likes nothing more than making deals. Evidence suggests that he is good at it. The biggest of the 16 transactions he directed over the last decade, Aval’s $1.9 billion purchase […]

Li Bin, expert on China-U.S. economic cooperation, will speak to MBA students in an upcoming Emerging Markets Class. Li Bin, Counselor for Economic Affairs, for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., will speak to MBA students on November 25, 2013, at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Bin, who will […]

2013 Wilbur Parker Distinguished Alumni Award recipient In his 40-year career in global branding and marketing, De Verges Booker Jones, MBA ’74, launched products ranging from Clairol hair coloring to Pedigree Puppy food. But as diverse as these brands may seem, Jones followed the same key strategies that drove their success in the marketplace. His […]

Emerging Markets Institute hosts day of panels and discussions on development and innovation in Latin American economies Johnson’s Emerging Markets Institute, in partnership with Americas Society/Council of the Americas, will host its third daylong conference, focusing on Latin America, on Wednesday, October 16, 2013, at the New York City offices of the Council of the […]

A talk by Beth Keck, senior director of women’s economic empowerment at Walmart What determines the success or failure of new market entries? What are Walmart’s strategies for entering emerging markets? Beth Keck, senior director of women’s economic empowerment at Walmart, shared her perspectives on these questions with Johnson students during Richard Coyle’s class, International […]

by Carlos R. I. Yoneda, MBA ‘14 and Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow This summer Carlos Yoneda (MBA ’14) travelled home to San Paulo, Brazil, where he worked in Google’s Brazil office for the AdWords Channel Sales team. His internship was focused on market research in Latin American and the Caribbean as well as […]