Around Cornell Business

by Robert Frisch, MBA ‘13 Visitor experience is taken very seriously at the National Park Service. Consequently, my role over the summer was to address congestion issues through the management of commercial transportation to an iconic site: Muir Woods National Monument. When it comes to choosing your MBA summer internship, some advise trying to round […]

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 […]

by Christoper Kissane, MBA ’13 Chris explains why matriculating at Johnson has been the best investment he’s made to date I applied to business school to begin a transition. I would enter as an accountant and hope to emerge just two years later as an investor. I started the process by enrolling in Johnson, and […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]