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Emerging Markets Institute Announces Research Grant Winners
Grants further enhance Johnson’s research agenda as the pre-eminent business school for the study of emerging markets. The Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of […]

Bright Horizons
Lorna Smith, MBA ’87, CEO at Horizons National In her five years leading Horizons National, a nonprofit serving low-income and educationally disadvantaged students, CEO Lorna Smith has helped transform the […]

Alice H. Chen ’02, MBA ’09
Influencing Development in China Alice H. Chen has worked for Jones Lang LaSalle, a financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate, in Tianjin, China for less than two […]

Ramnath Subramanian, MBA ’07
From Wall Street Banker to a Hindu Monk In the 18 months Ramnath Subramanian worked as an associate at Bank of America, he would leave his office on Wall Street […]

Peter Atkins, MBA ’91
Investing in the Internet and a New Book When Peter Atkins decided to leave his job as a general manager at Microsoft and launch an investment fund in the midst […]

Andy Dijkerman, MBA ’85
Rebuilding Africa one country at a time Two days after starting her first job as an MBA graduate at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, Andy (Margaret) Dennison Dijkerman was sent to […]

Jennifer Dulski ’93, MBA ’99: The Dealmap
Easy access to daily deals by Irene Kim It’s great to find a good deal. But it can take hours of looking through coupon and daily deal websites, plus local […]

Sumitro Sarkar, MBA ’07: TechStrategyLabs
Quantitative IT Strategy Building by Irene Kim TechStrategyLabs, founded by Managing Partner Sumitro Sarkar in 2007, is an executive advisory firm that differentiates itself by using quantitative techniques and applied […]

Lawrence Watkins, MBA ’10: Great Black Speakers
Seeking a passion pays off by Irene Kim Lawrence Watkins didn’t start out as an entrepreneur. Like his family, he thought he was going to be an electrical engineer. But […]