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

An interview with Mark Lomanno: Why everyone in hospitality needs to pay attention to distribution costs
Kelly interviews Mark Lammano about recent research from Kalibri Labs that found distribution costs are rising at two times the rate of room revenue.

Rizwan Quraishi, MBA’16, Wins First Place in Morgan Stanley Campus Photo Competition
Winning image captures early mangrove saplings coming to life, taken on an eco-tour with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) along the Makran Coastal Highway in Pakistan Rizwan Quraishi, […]

Baidu’s recent trouble opens great opportunity for Bing in China
Baidu is involved in a series of public relations crisis, which opens a great opportunity for Bing to explore the China market. by Winston Sun, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow Launched […]

Insights on the UAE from an MBA student
Johnson UAE Trek Spring 2016 by Jonathan Jorge Swavely, MBA ’16 To be honest, I did not have very high expectations for this trip to begin with. Of all the […]

Africa the Country: The Prejudice that is Hurting a Continent and Investors
Many people from the US and Europe tend to group the different countries of Africa into one generalized nation of Africa by David Matthew Breazzano, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow In […]

Elevating the Yuan’s Global Status — Eswar Prasad
Ultimately its international value will be determined by the market, but this could help spur further reforms in China. By Eswar Prasad via The Wall Street Journal A burning question […]

Testimony at U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission — Eswar Prasad
Public Hearing on China’s 13th Five-Year Plan: Fiscal and Financial Reforms China’s Economy and Financial Markets: Reforms and Risks By Eswar S. Prasad Chairman Shea, Vice Chair Bartholomew, and honorable […]
Rethinking Emerging Markets: Unwinding the Western Lens
While the last five years has been a difficult period for the emerging economies, there is no denying the seismic shift in the global economy of the 21st century, moving the […]

CICER won a grant from the 2016 Jeffrey S. Lehman Fund
Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER) won a grant from the 2016 Jeffrey S. Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China. The institute will host regular seminars on Chinese […]