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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 […]

The next healthcare technology evolution in China will be the fusion between Western and Oriental medicine. by Kevin Wang, MBA ’13 (05/29/2012) I still find it difficult at times to grasp the idea that I will be working in New York this summer. For many people this might be an ordinary event, but as someone […]

The securities regulatory agency heavily cited Andrew Karolyi’s research on barriers to U.S. investment in emerging markets On April 11, 2012, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a detailed report on the economic impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, largely utilizing empirical research conducted by […]

The floor-care appliance manufacturer joins Citi in collaborating with Johnson’s research and knowledge hub in emerging markets. The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University is proud to announce that BISSELL Homecare, Inc., has joined the Corporate Partners Program for its Emerging Markets Institute (EMI).  The partnership will enable Bissell to help shape […]

Bogotá-based students will earn a Cornell MBA, learning in real time alongside peers from across the U.S. and Canada Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management will be welcoming the first class of Latin-American-based managers and executives to its Cornell-Queen’s Executive MBA Program (CQEMBA), beginning in Bogotá in July 2012. Colombia was selected […]

In a new video, Soumitra Dutta talks about achieving growth through the the right combination of innovative people, technology, and global perspective in business education and management development. On March 5, 2012, Soumitra Dutta, who joins Johnson as its dean in July 2012, talked with Indian industrial development expert Tarun Das at the Aspen Institute […]