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Deliberate and Bold When Wendy L. Schoppert mentors young professionals hoping to follow in her footsteps, she always offers the same advice: “Make yourself uncomfortable,” she says, “because if you’re not uncomfortable, you’re not learning.” That philosophy has guided Schoppert through a series of companies to the position that has been her career goal since […]

Fighting Poverty in Central Asia When Hakim Feerasta was a senior financial analyst at IBM in Toronto, he was invited to visit the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, at his office outside Paris. Feerasta recalls feeling so excited and nervous he could not sleep the night before the interview. “It’s a […]

Suh Kyung-Bae, MBA ’87, CEO of South Korean cosmetics firm AmorePacific Beauty. Harmony. Balance. Happiness. These are not words that you’d typically hear from the CEO of a multibillion-dollar global company. But for Suh Kyung-Bae, CEO of South Korean cosmetics firm AmorePacific, they are not only everyday terms; they are core tenets that symbolize the […]

Greenhouse Growing in China China has 22 percent of the world’s population but only about eight percent of its arable agricultural land. How to generate enough food to supply the world’s largest country is a dilemma for which Auke G. Cnossen claims to have a solution: investing in companies that intensify agricultural production. As the […]

by Peter Cassara, MBA ’14 Changing careers was a major influence on my decision to go to business school. After working in private wealth management and venture capital, I was ready to work in an environment where my insights and decisions directly impacted my company. After considering my choices for immersions, I decided to take […]

by Julian Ho, MBA ’14 Joining Johnson’s Capital Market and Asset Management (CMAM) Immersion, I have been exposed to and learned about many areas in asset management. Our CMAM practicum regularly invites different investment professionals, ranging from institutional sales to distressed investment, to talk to us. This has widened my understanding of different functions and […]

Johnson students immerse themselves in the history, culture, and business of Colombia from March 16th to March 24th 2013 by Anupama K Umachandar, AMBA ‘13 As a student of the accelerated one year MBA program here at Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, I decided to seize the opportunity and take advantage of […]

by Rick McGuire, MBA ’14 Learning theoretical frameworks and applying those frameworks to real world situations was one of the initial appeals of Johnson for me. The Semester in Strategic Operations (SSO) Immersion exceeded my expectations by providing balanced and rigorous academic preparation combined with unprecedented access to a variety of manufacturing and service industries. […]

by Tom Palmer, MBA ’14 Destination Johnson (DJ), which just recently happened at Johnson, is an exciting weekend when prospective students who have been admitted come to campus and learn more about the curriculum, meet future classmates and current students, and (most importantly) figure out housing. It is an overwhelming but exciting weekend! As Co-President […]