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Student Clubs & Organizations

Business and Industry

Associate Real Estate Council (AREC)
BR Incubator
BR Ventures
Consulting Club
Energy Club
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club (EVC)
Fashion, Lifestyle & Luxury Industries Club (FL&L)
General Management Association
Healthcare and Biotechnology Club (HBC)
High Tech Club
Johnson School Investment Management Club (JSIMC)
Marketing Association (MA)
Media & Entertainment Club
Nanotechnology Club
Old Ezra Finance Club
Public / Non-profit
Strategic HR, Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness Group(SHRLOE)

Associate Real Estate Council (AREC)
AREC facilitates educational and networking opportunities among industry leaders and members of the Cornell community. AREC hosts guest lecturers, promotes student research, and organizes trips to industry seminars, conferences, and current development projects.

BR Incubator
The BR Incubator was established to stimulate entrepreneurial activity within the Cornell community through the creation and growth of early stage businesses. We provide individualized services to our clients by matching the talents and skills of our pool of Johnson MBA candidates with the varied and diverse needs of our clients. Our goal is to provide quality real world projects for students and significant, valuable contributions to the start-up ventures.

BR Ventures: The Big Red Venture Fund
BRV is a professional organization whose goal is to foster entrepreneurship throughout the Cornell community. By providing the means for entrepreneurs to create companies out of ideas, the fund embodies the most interactive and valuable learning experience possible for Johnson School students.

Consulting Club
The Consulting Club is one of the largest professional clubs at the Johnson School. It is a student-run organization whose members are developing their consulting industry careers. The club's mission is to educate its members about the industry and to help them prepare for consulting recruiting. Additionally, the club strives to increase the reputation and exposure of the Johnson School within the consulting industry.

Energy Club
The mission of the Energy Club is to educate the school and the club members about industry trends and events, build relationships with companies as well as governmental agencies, and ultimately place our members in internships and full-time positions at top-notch energy firms and organizations.

Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club (EVC)
The EVC's goal is to foster thinking and discussion regarding entrepreneurship and the funding of entrepreneurship through venture capital. The EVC participates in national business plan competitions, provides unique opportunities for small group meetings with invited speakers, creates access to Cornell's Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise program, and engenders learning experiences for those who have limited knowledge of this professional field.

Fashion, Lifestyle & Luxury Industries Club (FL&L)
Our mission is to attract Fashion, Lifestyle and Luxury industries to the Johnson School to market Johnson students to companies in these industries and to promote Johnson as a source of recruitment talent for these Industries.

General Management Association
GMA's mission is to provide "real-world" exposure to general management particularly in operations, strategy and management, securing top multi-discipline jobs for our members, educating the Johnson School community on the many career opportunities in general management, and expanding the scope across career fields.

Healthcare and Biotechnology Club (HBC)
The HBC's mission is to provide a forum for interested students to learn the business of the healthcare and biotechnology industry, and to interact with leaders in biotechnology, genomics, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, life-science focused venture capital, healthcare IT, consulting, and investment banking. The organization also works as an effective vehicle to gain employment in healthcare and life science companies. The HBC develops new relationships and strengthens existing interactions with companies and recruiters in the effort to make the Johnson School a leading recruiting ground for healthcare and biotechnology companies.

High Tech Club
The High Tech Club at the Johnson School strives to advance the understanding of technology and its impact in today's global business environment. The Club works with the Johnson School to facilitate opportunities for students to explore professional and informational trips to Silicon Valley and Boston's high tech corridor as well as host the annual High Tech Symposium.

Johnson School Investment Management Club (JSIMC)
The club serves as a forum for the discussion of investment-related topics and opportunities available in investment management, primarily buy-side and sell-side research. It hosts a Visiting Speaker Series that includes senior management from top investment firms. The club also sponsors informational field trips to Boston and New York City to meet with analysts from buy-side and sell-side investment firms. In addition, the JSIMC members act as a sounding board for Cayuga Fund portfolio managers to practice a "dry run" before pitching their ideas to the Fund's Investment Committee.

Marketing Association (MA)
The Marketing Association provides an integrated and comprehensive resource for members to network and become better educated about a career in marketing and brand management. Through active involvement from all members, the association maintains high visibility at the Johnson School, as well as with corporations, recruiters and the outside community. Most importantly, the association provides a structure to support and encourage, both personal and professional development of all members.

Media & Entertainment Club
The Media & Entertainment club exists to help Johnson students build careers in the media & entertainment field.

Nanotechnology Club
The Johnson School has a strong spirit of entrepreneurship and interaction with other colleges and centers at Cornell. The JSNC will work to foster relationships between these centers and the Johnson School in order to build a network which will serve the needs of researchers seeking advice on startup businesses and Johnson School students who seek career opportunities in the nanotechnology field.

Old Ezra Finance Club
Old Ezra is the oldest and largest club at the Johnson School. The club is committed to providing our members with educational and career development opportunities within the realm of finance and enhancing the Johnson School presence in the financial services industry by delivering well-prepared candidates to firms who are knowledgeable about our product.

Public / Non-profit (see Community Impact)

Strategic HR, Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness Group (SHRLOE)
SHRLOE provides a forum for students, faculty and corporate executives to explore the various dimensions of human resource issues prevalent in global business. SHRLOE aims to be a provider of educational and professional development with compelling speakers, workshops and symposiums. SHRLOE promotes collaboration with the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS), and the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) at the ILR School, as well as Leading Edge, The Consulting Club and the Center for Leadership at the Johnson School. The group's values are respect, inclusiveness, passion, integrity and egalitarianism.