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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bringing more intelligent healthcare to the U.S. military Consolidate, cut costs, and upgrade: Since being named Chief Information Officer(CIO) for the Department of Defense Military Health System(MHS) last September, David Bowen has been called to do all three at the same time. The most daunting mission of the past year, Bowen says, has been preparing […]

Bridging the investment gap by Irene Kim John Kallassy, MBA ’03, president and founding partner,I-Bankers Direct In March 2013, John Kallassy launched his Web-based “crowdfunding” platform, I-Bankers Direct, to mine what he saw as a rich vein: the opportunity created by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. Signed into law by President Obama in […]