Centers & Institutes

03/17/2017 Africa could be the world’s next breadbasket. But can it overcome the hurdles in its way? by Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 Sixty percent of the world’s uncultivated, arable land lies in Africa, according to a McKinsey & Company report. In fact, the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone could feed two billion people, according to some […]

02/09/2017 EMI speaker and Humphrey Fellow Gopalakrishnan Veilumuthusamy detailed what happened when India, one of the world’s most cash-dependent countries, decided to get rid of its most valuable currency notes. by Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 On the night of Nov. 8, just as voters across the United States were casting their ballots in the presidential election, […]

02/09/2017 The forum “Brazil and Latin America: Innovating to overcome the crisis” has the purpose of promoting a discussion on new alternatives to expand Brazil and Latin America initiatives on skills development, based on successful experiences and the role of the new players. Read the article  

11/29/2016 In his REDTalk, “School of Thought: Insights from Ghana,” Bright Botchway draws on his own life story to illustrate how education makes a difference. by Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 When Bright Botchway, MBA ’18, enrolled in a boarding school in his native Ghana, he did not know what to expect. He had already gone further […]

11/22/2016 Supporting Johnson MBAs through decades of partnership with Colfuturo by Irene Kim A native of Bogotá, Colombia, German Peralta, MBA ’17 and Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) Fellow, wanted a top-quality MBA experience. Being a triathlete, he also wanted to be able to spend hours training in the great outdoors—a near impossibility in Colombia’s crowded, congested capital. […]

11/10/2016 The Emerging Markets Institute’s 2016 conference and inaugural Emerging Multinationals Report convey powerful evidence of “a new global landscape” showing a sharp increase in emerging economies as foreign investors and a “blossoming of some of their firms as world champions.” by Janice Endresen The global economic landscape is experiencing a sea change as the […]

10/25/2016 Moments and highlights from the 2016 EMI Conference, Emerging Multinationals: Innovating to Compete Read the article

10/15/2016 The Emerging Market Multinationals Report (EMR) aims at contributing to a better understanding of the dramatic rise of emerging economies multinationals and its economic and societal implications. by Lourdes Casanova and Anne Miroux Emerging economies are one of the hallmarks of today’s global economy, and the dramatic rise of their multinationals, also known as […]

09/06/2016 Roberto M. Cañizares ’71, MBA ’74, and Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06, will be honored with Johnson’s Diversity Awards The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management will honor two alumni with distinguished alumni awards at its Seventh Annual Johnson Diversity Symposium and Alumni Awards Dinner, to be held on the Ithaca campus, Oct. 20-21, […]