Centers & Institutes

Exciting things are happening within our centers, institutes, and special program initiatives. Here’s a collection of recent stories and updates.

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Using Israel’s playbook to benefit African economies

by Armstrong Mbi, One-Year MBA ’18 As a country that makes international news headlines constantly, Israel is a major geopolitical force in the world. A visit to its business, political, and cultural ecosystems is an opportunity that every aspiring global leader should seize. As part of the Cornell itrek 2017 class, I not only participated […]

Resilience Distinguishes Emerging Market Economies
Johnson School

Resilience Distinguishes Emerging Market Economies

While China continues to solidify its lead, other emerging markets show steady economic growth in the Emerging Market Multinationals Report 2017 and in discussions at the 7th Annual Emerging Markets Institute Conference: “Emerging Multinationals in a Changing World.”

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Johnson School

Roundtable discusses Trump, automation, and Airbnb

Cornell undergraduate students had the opportunity to interact with leading industry experts in a roundtable hosted by the Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations.

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Latin American Political Scenario in 2018

by Evodio Kaltenecker Introduction Democracies in Latin America await a wave of important elections in 2018. Starting in Costa Rica, with presidential and legislative general election on February 4th, and El Salvador, which will face legislative elections on March 4th, to several other countries in the region, which will cast votes for their legislative branches, […]

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Hospitality in the age of disruption

The age of disruption is here and is only going to grow from here on out. Key insights from the Cornell Hospitality Research Summit in Hospitality Net.

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Johnson School

Park Perspectives: Beyond the classroom with hackathons and startups

Learning what it takes to start a company seemed to be a great path in learning how to help existing companies become even better.

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Finding Common Ground in Public Service

Scott Cameron, MBA ’79, is drawing on four decades of experience in public and private natural resource, energy, and environment management to implement an ambitious change agenda at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Digging into the family business landscape with Daniel G. Van Der Vliet

Cornell’s Dann Van Der Vliet shares his thoughts on family business as guest on Successful Generations podcast.

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Noteworthy: Lourdes Casanova makes 2017 List of Most Influential Ibero-American Intellectuals

This is the third time the Johnson lecturer has received this honor for her work and influence in the Ibero-American space.