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Quantitative IT Strategy Building by Irene Kim TechStrategyLabs, founded by Managing Partner Sumitro Sarkar in 2007, is an executive advisory firm that differentiates itself by using quantitative techniques and applied research to address complex IT challenges, including IT rationalization, restructuring, pricing, go-to-market strategy, and valuation of technology startups. Serving corporate IT executives, independent software vendors, […]

Easy access to daily deals by Irene Kim It’s great to find a good deal. But it can take hours of looking through coupon and daily deal websites, plus local coupon books and newspapers, before you find something promising in your neighborhood. The Dealmap, a startup cofounded by Jennifer Dulski and recently acquired by Google, […]

Rebuilding Africa one country at a time Two days after starting her first job as an MBA graduate at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, Andy (Margaret) Dennison Dijkerman was sent to Cameroon by the firm’s international lending unit to establish an accounting and pricing system for a seed company. Ever since then, her career has been […]

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 […]

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 […]