Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets

International Consulting speaker Matt Podrebarac was formerly Accenture’s lead partner for North America finance and strategic cost management, banking, and capital markets By Yuezhou Huo ’15 Multiple differences across Asia’s many countries and regions — including languages, currencies, cost structures, taxation, and regulations — pose challenges to global companies that want to enter the Asian […]

Amanda Wu, MBA ’14, writes about her summer internship with a high-tech firm in São Paulo, Brazil. By Amanda Wu, MBA ‘14 The opportunity to be independent, to learn about a new culture, and to push yourself beyond boundaries are important lessons that prepare an MBA student for the future. But encountering them during a summer […]

Distinguished Global Speaker Mark Hutchinson, President and CEO, GE Greater China, outlines GE’s operations in aviation, healthcare, and energy, and proclaims: “China is not slowing down.” Mark Hutchinson is bullish on China. In fact, when he spoke to Johnson MBA students at Sage Hall on Sept. 3, he said “I love China; it’s awesome. What […]

Kimberley Mark, MBA ’14, writes from Nairobi, Kenya, about summer project with Accenture Development Partnership (ADP) to improve the state of learning across Kenya with mobile technology. Sasa from Nairobi by Kimberley Mark, MBA ‘14 (8/19/13) Navigating my way through a developing country, on a mission to create a sustainable impact in some of Africa’s […]

Students conduct on-the-ground research in Bangladesh and deliver real-world impact to rural communities.  by Stephanie Kwok, MBA ’13 As part of the Johnson EMI Fellows program, each fellow completes a practicum project relating to an emerging market. This allows the fellows to dive deeper into a particular geographic area or industry by applying business skills […]

The historically unpredictable way of life in Russia, the dizzying traffic, and the formidable language barrier proved to only be a minor inconvenience to the relentless first year Cornell Johnson survivors. by Max Spivak 07’ MBA 14’ MILR 15’ On May 17th, a group of twelve first-year students from the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of […]

Opportunities lie within secondary market exits, growth capital investments, and outbound strategic acquisitions by Kevin Wang, MBA ‘13 Wallace, the IPO Project Manager for QS Solar, a privately held alternative energy firm based in Shanghai, met with 50 potential private equity investors over the span of a few months in 2007. This guest-list included leading […]

The stars are aligned for major private equity investments to take place in Africa.  by Derick Appia-kubi, MBA ’13 There has been a lot of focus on Africa as a region of private equity investments, as Africa is one of the fastest growing investment regions in the world today. Maturing markets and rising opportunities have […]

Johnson students immerse themselves in the history, culture, and business of Colombia from March 16th to March 24th 2013 by Anupama K Umachandar, AMBA ‘13 As a student of the accelerated one year MBA program here at Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, I decided to seize the opportunity and take advantage of […]