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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 […]

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 […]

Nanjing one of six Chinese universities whose executive MBA students study at Johnson at Cornell University The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and Nanjing University of China celebrated their 10-year partnership in educating China’s top business leaders who are alumni of Nanjing’s executive MBA program. Soumitra Dutta, the Anne and […]

by Jackie Longner, MBA ’14 SGE immersion student, Jackie Longner (MBA ’14) discusses GE’s plans to increase the productivity and reliability of wind energy. As the world population grows and becomes more affluent, the demand for power to operate homes, businesses, and public infrastructure will undoubtedly increase. The question that remains is how to meet […]

International Consulting Practicum, taught by Mr. Richard Coyle, Executive Director of the Emerging Markets Institute (EMI), sent three students to Shanghai as part of a semester-long project for GE by Boon Hoe Chin MBA’14, Cecilia He MBA’14, Ginger Ku MBA’14 On Sunday October 20th, 2013, the three of us from S.C. Johnson School of Management […]

A Global Journey to Wall Street Every now and then, Angela Mwanza says, she pinches herself in her office at UBS Private Wealth Management on Park Avenue in Manhattan, where as a senior vice president, she advises clients of substantial wealth. It’s a career she finds “somewhat surreal,” since Mwanza was born in Zambia, one […]

Li Bin, Counselor for Economic Affairs for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., joins a panel on emerging markets What does China’s investment situation in Latin America look like? What would be the potential risks and problems for such investments? What are the characteristics of successful market entries in emerging markets? On November 25, 2013, […]

Richard J. Coyle will offer thoughts on growth and innovation in Brazil  Richard J. Coyle, Executive Director of the Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, will be a featured speaker and participate in the third annual Brazil Investment Conference at the New York City-based Council on […]

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 […]