{"id":9065,"date":"2011-05-24T23:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T23:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/2011\/05\/24\/johnson-at-cornell-university-to-celebrate-its-64th-commencement-may-28\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:18:55","slug":"johnson-at-cornell-university-to-celebrate-its-64th-commencement-may-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/2011\/05\/24\/johnson-at-cornell-university-to-celebrate-its-64th-commencement-may-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson at Cornell University to celebrate its 64th commencement, May 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/06\/hili_graduation.jpg\" alt=\"Johnson at Cornell University to celebrate its 64th commencement, May 28\" class=\"wp-image-9058\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/head><body><p>On Saturday, May 28,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnson.cornell.edu\/About\/Leadership-Vision.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"external\">Joe Thomas, the tenth dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University<\/a>, will congratulate the school&rsquo;s newest graduates (nearly 500 MBAs and PhDs), ask them to reflect on their&nbsp; experiences at Johnson and encourage them to&nbsp;do well by doing good as they further their careers.&nbsp; The 2011 class of Cornell MBAs will be entering or advancing within fields&nbsp;such as&nbsp;asset management, consulting, sustainable enterprise and marketing which, as Thomas will&nbsp;remind students, are areas that today, need the attention of well trained and thoughtful minds more than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends and family will congregate to celebrate the herculean accomplishment of their loved ones at one of two recognition ceremonies:&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum.johnson.cornell.edu\/commencement\/emba.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"external\">Executive MBA (EMBA)&nbsp;ceremony&nbsp;<\/a>(which will be for graduates of the Cornell EMBA or the Cornell-Queens EMBA) or the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum.johnson.cornell.edu\/commencement\/index.html\" class=\"external\">Residential ceremony&nbsp;<\/a>(which will include graduates of the two-year and Accelerated MBA programs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson&nbsp;graduates and their guests are also welcomed to attend events of Cornell University&rsquo;s commencement including the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/events.cornell.edu\/event\/senior_convocation_2011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"external\">Senior Convocation speech by former Mayor of New York City and 2008 presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani on May 28<\/a>, at noon in Shoellkopf Stadium. &nbsp;Johnson graduates may also march with the entire 143rd graduating class of Cornell University and take part in the university&rsquo;s commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 29 at 11&nbsp;a.m., also&nbsp;in Shoellkopf Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/graduates\/?netid=mcn52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"external\">Click for&nbsp;a special Cornell University profile of &rsquo;11 Johnson&nbsp;graduate, Marlon Nichols<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commencement.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"external\">Click for more information on Cornell University&rsquo;s commencement&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 28,&nbsp;Joe Thomas, the tenth dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, will congratulate the school&rsquo;s newest graduates (nearly 500 MBAs and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":9058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[],"class_list":["post-9065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-announcements","organizational_unit-center-for-emerging-markets","organizational_unit-centers-institutes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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