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Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) announces summer grant winners
Johnson’s Emerging Markets Institute(EMI) has announced the winners of its first annual summer grant program. The issuance of these grants is critical to the institute’s goals of increasing the visibility […]

Citi signs on as inaugural founding partner for Johnson’s Emerging Market’s Institute
Partnership will enable Citi to shape strategic course and focus of the institute One of Johnson at Cornell University’s newest institutes of excellence, its Emerging Markets Institute (EMI), founded in the fall […]

When it comes to IPOs, the name of the game is GLOBAL
Co-authored study by Johnson’s Andrew Karolyi and reported in The Economist, says that the big IPO dollars are often more likely to come from emerging, global markets Global and emerging markets are […]

Steven Kropper, MBA ’86: WindPole Ventures LLC
The answers are blowin’ in the wind by Irene Kim Steve Kropper sells wind data. His company, WindPole Ventures, leases over 12,000 broadcast towers, each taller than the Statue of […]

Beverly Sastri, MBA ’88: Power Source Now
Live like you mean it! by Irene Kim Ever know someone who could zig and zag with life’s curve balls, who seemed to have nothing but good luck? According to […]

Transforming Troubled Brands into High Fliers
Naomi Kelman, MBA ’83, head of the OTC division at Novartis Naomi Kelman is sitting in the pilot’s seat of her single-engine Beech Bonanza preparing to land. Visibility is close […]

Commencement weekend ’11 celebrated the accomplishments of thousands of Cornellians
It was Johnson’s 64th and Cornell University’s 143rd, yet for those who received degrees this past weekend, it was simply an amazing and exciting experience This past Memorial Day Weekend, […]

Dean Joe Thomas shares his thoughts on “The Relevant MBA” with the Huffington Post
Thomas says that modern MBA programs remain highly valuable if they are flexible but remain true to disseminating core business content Excerpt from “The Relevant MBA” (Huffington Post, May 24) by Dean Joe Thomas of Johnson […]

Johnson to further partnership with Nanjing University through conference participation
Johnson at Cornell University will participate in the Seventh International Symposium on Multinational Business Management at the School of Business at Nanjing University, in China, June 5-6. Featuring a theme of “Enterprise Management […]