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The answers are blowin’ in the wind by Irene Kim Steve Kropper sells wind data. His company, WindPole Ventures, leases over 12,000 broadcast towers, each taller than the Statue of Liberty. When wind developers are prospecting a new site, WPV mounts sensors and instrumentation on a tower near the project and records wind-speed data — […]

It was Johnson’s 64th and Cornell University’s 143rd, yet for those who received degrees this past weekend, it was simply an amazing and exciting experience This past Memorial Day Weekend, Dean Joe Thomas of Johnson lauded the achievements of more than 500 new MBAs and PhDs along with their friends and families.  In addition to […]

Thomas says that modern MBA programs remain highly valuable if they are flexible but remain true to disseminating core business content Excerpt from “The Relevant MBA” (Huffington Post, May 24) by Dean Joe Thomas of Johnson at Cornell University: I believe that the MBA is more relevant today than ever before. But today’s MBA, both in product and in person, is […]

Johnson at Cornell University will participate in the Seventh International Symposium on Multinational Business Management at the School of Business at Nanjing University, in China, June 5-6.  Featuring a theme of “Enterprise Management in a Transitional Economy and Post Financial Crisis” the conference will provide a forum for scholars, entrepreneurs, and CEOs from multinational firms to discuss how corporations […]

On Saturday, May 28, Joe Thomas, the tenth dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, will congratulate the school’s newest graduates (nearly 500 MBAs and PhDs), ask them to reflect on their  experiences at Johnson and encourage them to do well by doing good as they further their careers.  The 2011 […]

Johnson guest, Dan Senor, author, geopolitical expert, investor, and adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations delivered a talk entitled “Start up nation: The story of Israel’s economic miracle,” and signed books of the same title at Cornell on May 2. Published in over 15 languages, Senor’s book has attracted a range of […]

Joe Thomas, dean of Johnson at Cornell University recently met with the Economic Times of India while visiting locations throughout that country.  He discussed the imperative of MBA programs to provide a moral and ethical compass for students and for today’s businesses to grow around a sustainable, contributing model. He also spoke of the need and MBA […]

Johnson’s Andrew Karolyi, professor of finance and co-academic director for the Emerging Markets Institute, delivered the keynote speech at the annual meeting of the Eastern Finance Association (EFA), in Savannah Georgia on Friday, April 15. He also received the “Distinguished Scholars Award” in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of finance. Approximately 280 faculty from around the world attended […]

Emerging Markets Institute’s inaugural Fellow discusses the “decoupling” between the business cycles of advanced and emerging economies with audience at Johnson Up until now, the United States and other advanced economies have set the stage for the global economic climate. According to Eswar Prasad, Johnson Emerging Markets Institute’s (EMI) inaugural fellow and senior professor of International Trade Policy at Cornell, this relationship […]