Centers & Institutes

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

Rob-Canizares

ROBERTO CANIZARES, BS ‘71, MBA ‘74

Rob Cañizares' leadership experience in successfully building and transforming businesses around the world span more than two decades. In senior executive roles leading their successful globalization, he focused the formulation […]

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RUSTOM DESAI, MBA ’95

Rustom Desai is currently director, commercial operations, Precision Glass Solutions. Precision Glass Solutions was formed to establish Corning as a leading glass-based solutions player in the consumer electronics, Internet of […]

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Peter Cornelius

Peter Cornelius is a Managing Director at AlpInvest Partners, which is part of the Investment Solutions group of The Carlyle Group. At AlpInvest Partners, he is responsible for analyzing the […]

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Dharmakirti Joshi

Dharmakirti Joshi is the Chief Economist at CRISIL limited- An S&P Global Company. Mr. Joshi has spent 29 years in economic research and consultancy. He spent 11 years at the […]

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RAGNHILD MELZI, MBA ’80

Ragnhild Melzi is Americas Society/Council of the Americas’ vice president of Public Policy Programs and Corporate Relations. She provides leadership for the organizations’ international programming, which attracts top government officials, […]

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Ravi Ramamurti

Professor Ramamurti founded and directs the Center for Emerging Markets. His research and consulting focuses on corporate strategy and business-government relations in emerging economies. He is currently researching the internationalization […]

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SERGIO COSTA

Sergio Costa graduated in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Azusa Pacific University, USA. Besides having an extensive […]

The Transformative Power of Blockchain
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The transformative power of blockchain

Cryptocurrencies aside, blockchain technology is set to transform a host of industries beyond finance.

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Air pollution is making us dumber, study shows

CNN News by James Griffiths (Study author Xiaobo Zhang is a professor of Peking University, a senior research staff of IFPRI and an external affiliated faculty of CICER) ———————— Air […]