Johnson School

Johnson recently welcomed 69 One-Year MBA candidates to our campus in Ithaca. MBA students—together with their peers from the incoming Johnson Cornell Tech MBA program—have been getting to know one another, working in core teams, and tackling classroom and leadership challenges.

Faculty members Bill Schmidt, Risa Mish, and Allan Filipowicz were nominated by the Class of 2018 to deliver this year’s Last Lectures and offer life advice and parting words of wisdom to soon-to-be MBA graduates.

Alex Susskind, an associate professor in the Hotel School that teaches restaurant management courses, offers his thoughts on the winners of this year’s James Beard Awards and why together they represent a breakthrough for African-American chefs.

MBAs in the Investment Banking Immersion spent their Day of Service painting at a pre-school for the Franziska Racker Centers. While I found some parallels between service and banking, the main takeaway is larger than that.

Sachin Gupta, professor of management and director of graduate studies in management at Johnson, co-authors a fascinating article on protecting customer data, recently published in Harvard Business Review.

Graduates of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management were celebrated at two recognition ceremonies on Saturday, May 26. Congratulations to the Class of 2018!

Graduates of the School of Hotel Administration were celebrated at the Hotel School Graduate Recognition Ceremony and reception on Sunday, May 27, following Cornell’s 150th Commencement. Congratulations to the Class of 2018!

Graduates of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management were celebrated at the Dyson Graduate Recognition Ceremony and reception on Saturday, May 26. Congratulations to the Class of 2018!

Cynthia Saunders-Cheatham, executive director of the Career Management Center at Johnson, explains why increasingly more employers want MBAs with data analytics skills.