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Park Fellows alumni spotlight: Andrea Findley, MBA ’09
Andrea Findley, MBA ’09 and Park Fellow, reflects on her Park Fellowship experience and how it has influenced her personal leadership style.

Maureen O’Hara earns Bernstein Award for contributions to finance industry
Johnson professor Maureen O’Hara receives prestigious Bernstein Award for a paper she co-authored titled “Footprints on a Blockchain: Trading and Information Leakage in Distributed Ledgers.”

Noteworthy: Enterprise Radio interviews Al Bhimani, MBA ’81, on financial management for tech startups
Al Bhimani, MBA ’81, is featured on an episode of Entrepreneur Podcast Network and discusses how financial management for tech startups requires a new mindset.

Research Recap: Legal analysis proposes new standards in the age of “Me Too”
David Sherwyn and Paul Wagner discuss what constitutes sexual harassment, identify the problems, and propose a solution that could eradicate, or at least mitigate, the reason for the Me Too movement.

Welcoming the Class of 2019 One-Year MBA candidates
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 Last Lectures 2018: Schmidt, Filipowicz, and Mish give graduates assignments for life
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.

Have African-American chefs finally shattered the glass ceiling?
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.

IBI Day of Service: 100% accretive to the community
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.

Protecting customers’ privacy requires more than anonymizing their data
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.