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ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks

“ProducePay funds close to 2% of the market, that’s about $1 billion of produce per year,” founder and CEO Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck MBA ’15 told AFN.

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Break it down: CR0WD task force forges zero waste goals

The Circular Economy: Science and Business of Construction, a collaborative project with Mark Milstein, involves local stakeholders from all stages of a building’s life cycle.

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Is Cuba’s “army of white coats” medical diplomacy or contemporary slavery?

Cornell Emerging Markets Institute Fellow Sunayana Karra comments on the benefits and pitfalls of Cuba’s physician export business.

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Researchers find grocery taxes harm low income households

Professor Harry Kaiser and his co-authors research the connection between grocery taxes and food insecurity in the United States.

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EMBA case competition: A winner’s perspective on innovation and new venture creation

A Q&A with Linda Alvarez, MD, Cornell Executive MBA Metro NY class of 2021, CEO and co-founder of new sports nutrition venture Levelle

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Bloods, Crips, and beer: The unlikely success story of TRU Colors Brewery

Brewed by active Bloods, Crips, and GDs, TRU Colors beer is helping promote peace and prosperity in a city once ravaged by gang violence.

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Institutional and societal values challenge modernizing emerging markets

Sunny Chai ’24 reflects on EMI visiting speaker Johanna Mair’s concept of modernizing emerging economies’ market structures.

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Investing at Cornell theme launches campus-wide Investing Ideas Forum

Five teams participated in Investing at Cornell’s first Investment Ideas Forum, including undergraduate and graduate students from across Cornell.

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Learning From COVID-19: Addressing impacts in Dyson’s curriculum

Dyson faculty incorporated pandemic challenges into their curriculum, allowing students to keep pace with a business world in flux.