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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The State’s Role in Emerging Economy Outward Investments: A comparison between Brazil, China and Korea

  Issue NO. 24 By Anne Miroux* Lourdes Casanova** While most emerging economies have long developed clear policies to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), few have adopted proactive policies to […]

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Gender Equality Is Smart Development Economics

  Issue NO. 23 By Otaviano Canuto* Brazilian “conditional cash transfers” are small amounts of money distributed by the government directly to very poor households on condition that their children […]

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Hospitality panel discusses sexual harassment, brand evolution

The School of Hotel Administration presented its first Cornell Hospitality Thought Leadership Event focused on sexual harassment and brand evolution.

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An urban farmer aims to address food insecurity

Harlan Blynn, MBA ’10, suspended his management consulting practice to launch a new startup — an urban farm in Denver.

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Combatting the global water crisis with charity: water

Last summer I was offered the opportunity to join charity: water—a non-profit organization leading the charge to solve the global water crisis—as their first MBA intern within the partnerships team.

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Southeast Asia and its startup economy

by Audi Prabowo , MBA ’18 Home to more than 650 million people spread across 11 countries, Southeast Asia has seen an uptick in trade since the end of the […]

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Navigating through my MBA at 20 years old

Entering Johnson at the age of 20, I was apprehensive of being labeled the ‘baby of the class.’ But I was amazed at how my classmates treated me with the same respect and love as they did any another student.

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Juan Valdez: An Emerging Multinational

by Nicholas Deaton, Anish Kumar, Nicholas Quigley, Cornell Tech MBA ’18 Juan Valdez Cafe can trace its roots back to December 12, 2002, when the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de […]

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A Closer Look at China

by James Tseng, AMBA ’18 China’s nominal GDP surpassed that of Japan in 2010, becoming the second largest economy in the world. In 2017, China’s annual GDP growth rate surpassed […]