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New dean and four others join the faculty in several disciplines The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University welcomes five new faculty members for the upcoming academic year, one of whom is its new dean. New faculty also include an assistant professor, a clinical professor, and two senior lecturers. Soumitra Dutta […]

Charli Taylor to lead Recruitment in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University welcomes Charli Taylor, the new International Recruiting Manger for Johnson. Charli will be based in London and oversee recruiting in the regions of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India. Charli will […]

Jin-young Jung, Ph.D., visiting scholar and researcher for the Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, was published in the April 2012 online edition of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies. Jin-young Jung, Ph.D., visiting scholar and researcher for the Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis […]

Institute selects information technology veteran from Bangalore The Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management has announced its inaugural student fellow.  Gopal Bethmangalkar from the Accelerated MBA program was awarded the fellow designation at a Dean’s Award Luncheon at the Cornell Plantations on May 25, 2012.  His award was […]

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 Management has announced the winners of its second annual grant program.  The issuance of these grants signifies Johnson’s commitment to furthering business research on emerging […]

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 of the Internet bust, his local newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, speculated he was “a little crazy” and “a little nuts.” It was August 2001, and […]

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 at the end of each day, arrive home at a monastery in the East Village, eat a simple meal, and then retire on a yoga […]

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 years, but she is already involved in one of the most ambitious developments in the country: a global financial center proposed for a peninsula in […]

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 organization into one of the top summer-learning organizations in the U.S. What if schools that typically shut down in the summer stayed open to offer […]