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How the SSO Immersion Helped Prepare Me to Run My Family Business
by Alex Kyung-Yul Yang, MBA ’13 Alex learned how to ask the right questions through various performance learning experiences Before Johnson, I worked for Samyang System Group in South Korea. My grandfather founded the company in 1960, and I am part of the third generation involved in our family business. We manufacture control valves and […]
“Progress for women is progress for all”
UN Women executive director advocates women’s empowerment at Cornell University On September 5th, UN Women executive director and former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet delivered a lecture on gender equality at Cornell University. Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship sponsored this lecture, “Women and the New Development Paradigm,” in cooperation with the Emerging […]
An Unlikely Banker
by P.J. Kemerer, MBA ’13 As a former music teacher, P.J. Kemerer explains how he’s made the career switch to finance Shortly before beginning my coursework at Johnson, I had the opportunity to have lunch with MFI Director Steve Calk. As we discussed my future and what companies might be a good fit for me, […]
Global Business Titan, Early Innovator, Shares Insights with Johnson MBA Students
N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder and former CEO of Infosys, addresses students on the Cornell University campus N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder and former CEO of Infosys and an Emeritus Trustee of Cornell University, offered a retrospective look at his remarkable career, as well as timely advice, on September 10, 2012, in an address to Johnson MBA […]
How SGE Prepared Me for an Internship in the High-Tech Industry
by Stephanie Kwok, MBA ’13 The SGE Immersion project gave Stephanie the rare opportunity to work on a real business venture with a client. She leveraged this experience in her summer internship. The 2012 Summer Olympics was the most electronically connected games in history. The information network controlled 30 percent more digital data than the […]
Applying Key Learnings from the Strategic Marketing Immersion to My Internship
by William Degroot, MBA ’13 Bill spent the summer engaged in competitive analysis and market research, among other strategic marketing projects, for a prominent consumer brand. I am excited to be back in Ithaca for the second year of my MBA after a very enjoyable summer. I was able to intern at a large, leading […]
Prosperity and Development in Brazil Are Focus of Conference
Emerging Markets Institute brings together leading economists, investment managers, researchers, and government officials to explore opportunities in the world’s sixth largest economy The Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Better Brazil will be hosting the second international conference on trade and investment with Brazil “Brazil: A pathway […]
Emerging Markets Fellow Develops Predictive Model of Solar Demand
Gopal Bethmangalkar’s project with Applied Materials helps increase the firm’s understanding of market for solar PV cells and modules A predictive model on solar demand was developed by Gopal Bethmangalkar, MBA ’12, of the Emerging Markets Institute for use by Applied Materials, Inc., the world’s leading supplier of equipment to manufacture solar PV cells and […]
Johnson Expands Executive MBA to Latin America
Unique Cornell-Queen’s Executive MBA program now available in North America and Latin America Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management announces the launch of its innovative Cornell-Queen’s Executive MBA Program (CQEMBA), in Latin America and Mexico. The program’s class of 2014 includes four MBA students in Bogota, Colombia, and five in Monterrey, Mexico. […]