Student Voices & Experiences

Ian Folau, Johnson Cornell MBA Tech ’16, and Johary Rivera, a current One-Year MBA student at Johnson, describe the advantages students gain when enrolling in an accelerated one-year MBA program.

Four Dyson graduate students have been awarded travel grants from the Mario Einaudi Center including Ali Abbas, who will spend time in Pakistan exploring collusion between citizens and the state in the property tax market.

The disruptors are being disrupted and new types of partnerships between traditional players and new-age fintechs are being created.

Francesca Opoku, the owner of Solution Oasis, is the embodiment of this and a living example of what is possible when women are empowered, supported, and connected.

Thanks to the support of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, I just got back from the Natural Products Expo West event in Anaheim, California, where I interacted with thousands of brands showcasing their new natural products.

Coming to Johnson for your MBA is like setting up your basecamp at Sage Hall and looking in all directions for opportunities to venture—you should look outward and use your time at Cornell University to explore everything it has to offer.

This week we were presenting our potential leveraged buyout case—and we had a special guest: Christina Park, MBA ’02, managing director in leveraged finance at RBC Capital Markets.

Talking with administrators during the application process further highlighted the managerial focus of the program. I was not coming here to learn operations, I was coming here to learn how to be a leader in the industry.

Lindsey Staley, Two-Year MBA ’19, recounts her experience winning the top prize at in the Cornell Investment Portfolio Case Competition, from first applying to heading to Cornell Tech in NYC and presenting in front of the judges.