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International Consulting speaker Matt Podrebarac was formerly Accenture’s lead partner for North America finance and strategic cost management, banking, and capital markets By Yuezhou Huo ’15 Multiple differences across Asia’s many countries and regions — including languages, currencies, cost structures, taxation, and regulations — pose challenges to global companies that want to enter the Asian […]

Amanda Wu, MBA ’14, writes about her summer internship with a high-tech firm in São Paulo, Brazil. By Amanda Wu, MBA ‘14 The opportunity to be independent, to learn about a new culture, and to push yourself beyond boundaries are important lessons that prepare an MBA student for the future. But encountering them during a summer […]

Distinguished Global Speaker Mark Hutchinson, President and CEO, GE Greater China, outlines GE’s operations in aviation, healthcare, and energy, and proclaims: “China is not slowing down.” Mark Hutchinson is bullish on China. In fact, when he spoke to Johnson MBA students at Sage Hall on Sept. 3, he said “I love China; it’s awesome. What […]

Kimberley Mark, MBA ’14, writes from Nairobi, Kenya, about summer project with Accenture Development Partnership (ADP) to improve the state of learning across Kenya with mobile technology. Sasa from Nairobi by Kimberley Mark, MBA ‘14 (8/19/13) Navigating my way through a developing country, on a mission to create a sustainable impact in some of Africa’s […]

by Jerry Petit-Frere, MBA ‘14 A summer in Africa changes the perspective of an American MBA. The continent of Africa is plagued by a number of socio-economic issues. Sustainable infrastructure, nourishment and education lag behind the world average. However, according to Heirs Holdings, an investment firm in Nigeria, Africaptialism is the solution that will propel […]

The best of both worlds: Influential thought leader and masterful teacher What if sales promotions aren’t having the effect companies think they have? Are consumers really switching brands or are they just buying what they would have purchased a few weeks later? Sachin Gupta, PhD ’93, who has been teaching at Johnson for thirteen years, […]

by Patrick Starr, MBA ’14 and Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow SSG Advisors, a boutique international development consulting firm based in Burlington, VT, was looking to evolve as a company, and they hired me to help them figure out where to go. My path to business school was anything but traditional, so I knew […]

Sasa from Nairobi by Kimberley Mark, MBA ‘14 (08/19/2013) Navigating my way through a developing country, on a mission to create a sustainable impact in some of Africa’s poorest communities. I had yellow fever. Less than three days after receiving my yellow fever vaccination I developed the debilitating sickness. My brother even started calling me […]

by Hanson Boyd, MBA ‘14 Energy makes the world turn. I’ve been fascinated with the energy industry from an early age and worked in traditional power generation before coming to Johnson. This summer I was able to experience another dimension of the industry with an internship with GE’s Renewable Energy Leadership Program. There is an […]