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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 […]

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 — […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]