Student Voices & Experiences

Family expansion: From 3 to 300+ in less than a year
If you are reading this, maybe you have already Googled “best MBA for families” or “best MBA cities for families.” Well, let me tell you my story and how my family grew from three to 300+ people.

Dejah Powell uses awards to help feed her Chicago neighborhood
Last summer, Dejah Powell, Dyson ’18, led a volunteer effort to plant a community garden at her former elementary garden, a project that won several national awards.

Park Perspectives: Core semester? It’s like drinking from a firehose.
A popular cliché around Sage Hall during the core classes term is that the onslaught of new classroom content, recruitment activities, and social events is like “drinking from a firehose.”

Hotelies set course for the cruise industry with immersive Royal Caribbean experience
Students recently traded their winter jackets for sunglasses to get a closer look into the cruise industry with Robert Kwortnik’s Introduction to the Global Leisure Cruise Industry course.

Three things Cornell’s entrepreneurial spirit taught me
It is sometimes said that an MBA cannot do anything for an entrepreneur. Over my last two semesters at Johnson, I have found this proven wrong every day that I spent in class.

Mistakes interns make and how to avoid them
MBA interns from the top business schools, including Mark DesMeules, Two-Year MBA ’18, reflect on their own experience and impart their best advice by citing the mistake most often made as an intern and the best way to fix it.

SMART Program reflections: Dirkosh Crunch in Ethiopia
I had the incredible opportunity to participate in Cornell’s Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Team (SMART) as a consultant for Dirkosh Crunch, a small agri-business, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

What is fintech? Lessons from seven weeks in NYC
Threading together takeaways from various speakers, including Citi Ventures, EY, Point72, Betterment, SoFi, and Capital One, Zoelle Mallenbaum, Two-Year MBA ’18 gets a better understanding of fintech.

Evan Yates, MBA ’18: Uniting business, tech, and medicine
After starting a company with a friend during his second year of medical school, Yates knew that he wanted his life and career to be built on more than just medicine.