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Recruiting trip to African nations supports Johnson’s goals of maintaining its stellar, diverse student body and increasing connections with the world’s emerging markets In support of its global outreach and recruiting efforts, Johnson’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion will be hosting four recruiting events in Africa at the end of August.  In partnership with UVA’s Darden School of Business, the […]

Richard Coyle, MBA’86, has joined the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management as the founding executive director of the Emerging Markets Institute (EMI).  Coyle will lead EMI as it grows to become a hub for research, knowledge and cross-cultural collaboration for emerging economies around the globe. “We are thrilled to have Richard on board at […]

Andrew Karoly is a Professor of Finance, Co-Faculty Director of the Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) & Alumni Professor in Asset Management at Johnson Excerpt from “Citigroup, Goldman boosted french bank ties before rout”(Bloomberg, Aug. 15) “There is a great cloud of uncertainty that’s hanging over the U.S. banks about the full extent of the exposures they have to French […]

Joseph Thomas, the award-winning faculty member who led the efforts at the Johnson to create the Emerging Markets Institute and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, will return to teaching and research June 30, 2012 at the conclusion of his five-year term as dean. “My term as dean of Johnson has awarded me some of the […]

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 of research on emerging markets and providing it for its global stakeholders through the portal of the institute itself.   The grant review committee – […]

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 of 2010, has proudly taken on its first founding corporate partner in Citi. The partnership will enable Citi to help shape the strategic course of […]

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 becoming the ticket for many companies seeking to play on the world wide economic stage.  A paper cited by The Economist and co-written by Andrew Karolyi, co-faculty director of Johnson’s Emerging Markets Institute and professor of finance at […]

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 to zero, but she’s unfazed. “I’m an instrument-rated pilot,” says the new head of Novartis’s over-the-counter healthcare products division. “That means I’m qualified to fly […]

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 Beverly Sastri, anyone can be like that. The basic tenet of her peak-performance training: By letting our core truth guide our intellect, and by attuning […]