Dive into data. Harness the power of tech and analytics.
Tech-savvy business leaders are early adopters, data-driven analysts, and skilled communicators. They ideate, innovate, and create—all while making an impact.
Whether you aim to lead a high-tech company, manage product teams, or build digital initiatives, you’ll find a number of paths at Johnson to help you develop your skills in coding, databases, and advanced analytics in support of business strategy, data-driven decision-making, and the tech ecosystem.
“With the launch of the Johnson Cornell Tech MBA, the introduction of our Digital Technology Immersion, the refresh of our marketing immersion to include an emphasis on strategic product management for tech, and the creation of our intensives in digital marketing and fintech, Johnson is offering more and more resources for students who are seeking a career in technology.”
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Yuankai (Kevin) Shen, MBA ’20. Kevin was a High Tech Club board member, Tech Career Work Group leader, and TA for the course Designing Data Products
Technology breadth and depth to fit your career goals
From hackathons to academic course sequences, Johnson offers countless ways to develop your tech expertise.
Across Johnson’s programs, you can work directly with tech companies to solve real business challenges, take courses in NYC—an expanding tech hub—or focus electives on data analytics and product management. Explore a few of the many opportunities below.
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Ithaca-Based & Johnson Cornell Tech MBA Programs
Electives within these areas of focus complement your MBA course of study. Learn about disruptive technology, data modeling, design and innovation, and more.
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Johnson Cornell Tech & Cornell-Tsinghua Finance MBA Programs
Work on interdisciplinary teams to find and present a technical solution to a business problem in 48 hours. Winners take home $10,000.
Plan your tech career strategy
No matter your career stage, you’ll need a plan for navigating options within the broad tech space.
Dedicated career management staff for tech-focused recruitment
Resources to define your “tech compass”—your ideal role, sector, niche, and hub
Engaged alumni who participate in mock interviews and informational sessions
Technology Career Work Group sessions with MBA peers
Treks to tech companies on the West Coast and in Boston and NYC
Workshops on converting tech internships into full-time offers
Guidebooks and company primers from places such as Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, IBM, and Microsoft
Bea Nallar, MBA ’21, worked for three years in data analysis and technical product management at an early-stage technology consulting startup before coming to Johnson. After searching for roles in product management and internal strategy within the technology industry, she accepted an internship with Microsoft as a partnership development manager MBA intern.
Career outcomes in technology and data/analytics
Johnson’s robust network of tech industry alumni, paired with career resources, can help you make your next career move.
A number of Johnson graduates enter into careers in technology, while many executive MBA students work for tech companies as they complete their degree programs. The Johnson Cornell Tech MBA program yields an industry-leading number of tech placements for our alumni.
$132,084
average salary for Two-Year MBAs in tech
$37,684
average signing bonus for Two-Year MBAs
13%
of all MPS grads enter data or analytics roles
$7,933
average monthly salary for tech interns
14%
of EMBA students work in tech full time
97%
of Tech MBA grads are employed
94%
of Tech MBAs work in tech orgs/functions
Johnson’s top technology recruiters
The companies below have recently hired Johnson graduates or currently employ executive MBA students.
Immersive, real-world experiences inside and outside the classroom
Launch new tech with other Cornellians, lead clubs and conferences, or focus your degree on tech and data.
Johnson offers many opportunities for hands-on experiences and leadership in the tech space. You’ll work on projects with real clients—often proposing tech-based solutions for business challenges and using data to inform your decisions. You can also network with tech industry influencers at annual student-run conferences.
One-Year Johnson Cornell Tech MBA Program
This one-year accelerated MBA program is based at Cornell Tech in NYC. You’ll combine business and management courses with hands-on projects. Work in interdisciplinary teams of computer scientists, engineers, and others, and hear from tech industry leaders each week.
Open to Ithaca-based MBA students, this semester-long immersion combines coursework with real tech company projects. Take on business analytics, such as mining big data or improving the usability of technology products by building mobile apps or creating benchmarks.
Big Red Tech Strategy’s Commercialization Fellows program consists of an intensive 12-week project that pairs first-year MBAs with Cornell PhD students to conceptualize early-stage business strategies for novel technologies and products.
HTC provides resources and recruiting support for your tech career. Become a member or take on a leadership role. HTC organizes treks, offers peer mentorship, and holds company information sessions so you can gain new skills and prepare to land your dream job in tech.
JWiT is the only student-run MBA conference dedicated to creating a community of women MBAs, advocates, and tech leaders. Whether you’re a board member or an attendee, you’ll make invaluable industry connections, hear from panelists, and take your career preparation a step further.
Blockchain and Innovation Club
Johnson is a well-known leader in developing fintech talent. As a club member or leader, you’ll learn about blockchain and innovative technologies. Network with specialists from the fintech industry and engage in blockchain-based business initiatives.
Learn from expert researchers and practitioners
Johnson faculty understand the “business of technology” and have years of experience at its intersection.
Whether you’re focusing your entire degree program on technology or taking data and analytics electives, you’ll tap into insights from faculty who thoroughly understand how to apply business principles within emerging fields like AI and fintech. Learn more about some of Johnson’s tech experts.
Associate professor of finance and Rudd Family Professor of Management
Cong’s academic interests include financial innovation, mechanism and information design, blockchains, cryptocurrencies, machine learning, AI, and alternative data. His recent research has focused on the intersection of technology, data science, and finance.
Professor of operations, technology, and innovation
Girotra focuses on identifying and refining business models enabled by new technologies and on the practices that enable the digital transformation of companies and industries. He has worked with companies in urban living, smart transportation, and e-commerce.
Assistant professor of operations, technology, and information management
Mankad, who often leads the digital technology practicum, focuses his research on the intersection of data analytics and economic decision-making using machine-learning techniques. His research has been featured in more than a dozen media outlets.
Find courses rooted in technology and innovation—from data analytics and machine learning to fintech and leading agile teams.
You’ll have the opportunity to take tech and analytics electives across Johnson’s academic programs. Explore a sampling of these offerings below.
In this course, you will learn how data and analytics tools can give you an edge in your career. We will examine real world examples and hands-on case studies to teach you how to interpret and apply data and analytics to better understand business situations and improve business outcomes. The course content will be organized around answering three types of critical business questions: descriptive (what is happening now?), predictive (what will happen in the future?), and prescriptive (what decisions can improve performance?).
This course introduces concepts, methods, and applications of analytics to address marketing questions. The course covers the areas of digital advertising analytics, demand analytics, and customer analytics. Unlike marketing courses that focus on conceptual material, this course provides skills to translate conceptual understanding into specific operational plans—a skill in increasing demand in organizations today. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on return on investment in marketing spending. Knowledge of Excel and regression analysis is required.
The goal of the course is to give a systematic and rigorous introduction to the emerging areas of financial technology, digital economy, and applications of big data, machine learning, and AI in business settings. This course includes seven intensive sessions of lectures, discussions, guest talks by practitioners, and readings.
This course will help you gain the necessary skills of building a data product. Many industries today are faced with high data volumes and there is an understanding that “data is the new gold,” but value is not created by data; rather, it is created by the application of data for a B2B or B2C need. To link the possibilities of data to business needs is a skill that is highly in demand in today’s business world. This course aims to fill the current skill gap and teach you the basic data skills that are needed in order to guide an organization to become data-centric and potentially create data products. Classes will be a combination of lectures, discussions, and hands-on training with data. You will build their own predictive model without the need to directly write code.
This course is designed for students who wish to work in the tech industry or in tech consulting and want to gain knowledge for designing and managing operations for digital and data-driven businesses. You’ll use case studies to analyze how data enables productivity, efficiency, scale, and creation of better products; study an organization as a data factory; and examine applications of technology in manufacturing, retail, and services businesses.
In this course you will learn and apply team innovation principles, business model innovation, design thinking, and product development, in addition to the psychology of creativity, product pitches, and the basic principles of leading innovation in a team, including team demography and team processes that drive innovation. You’ll then practice these skills in a three-day hackathon where you will identify an unmet need and develop a solution to the opportunity, build a prototype and business model around this solution, and pitch this solution to a panel of investors.
This course aims to provide an effective combination of theory and practice in digital transformation and innovation. Lectures and mini-cases provide a rich forum for in-class discussions. You will share your own experiences and aggregate key lessons for an organizational digital roadmap along five important dimensions: data platforms, organizational agility, customer customization, ecosystem leverage, and digital culture. A specific focus will be put on the organizational change and digital transformation that has to occur in incumbent leaders as they seek to leverage digital technologies.
Information systems and technology can transform the capabilities of a business. This course analyzes and reviews global information industry trends and their implications for business. You will learn how to plan, develop, and implement effective information technology strategies to drive competitiveness and profitability.
This course focuses on providing high-level pictures and frameworks based on rigorous academic and industry research that are rarely available from generic media discussion or popular books. In particular, we want to clarify misconceptions, identify links across various areas of fintech, separate hypes from promising innovations, analyze past moves, discuss current trends, and shed a light on future opportunities for both researchers and practitioners. The insights from the course should guide the approach to real problems and solutions at startups, traditional financial services firms, and the VC and consulting communities which serve them.
Learn the diverse data mining techniques used in business applications to recognize patterns and make intelligent use of large amounts of data, which includes logistic regression, classification trees, clustering, and more. Get a sense of the range of applications of data mining techniques in business, healthcare, and elsewhere, and gain hands-on experience through realistic samples and a project using real data.
This course examines the strategic management of technology and innovation in established firms and startup organizations and is ideal for students who may someday work in, consult for, and/or create firms whose primary product is fundamentally related to technology or innovation.Learn how industries are transformed by new technologies and how these patterns of industrial change generate both opportunity and high rates of firm failure. Why do some technology leaders fail? How do technology innovators successfully take on and replace incumbent firms? You’ll then explore internal management issues, focusing on the design of innovative organizations, which includes designing reward systems, managing growth, overcoming resistance to change, and using organizational culture to promote innovation.
This course takes a multi-pronged approach to learning about women and leadership to better prepare students of both genders to lead in organizations. To do this, you will analyze case studies of women leaders pulled from a range of industries. You will also review the current state of empirical evidence about the status of women as leaders, investigate the barriers that have made it more difficult for women to reach the top of the business world, and consider ways in which individuals and organizations can overcome them. Finally, there will be time to engage in deep reflection about what you expect from your career, as well as a chance to consider the pathways you must take to become effective and inclusive leaders in increasingly diverse organizations.
Johnson offers several graduate degree programs for candidates with a range of experiences, academic backgrounds, and interests. Explore our programs to see which would best support your ambitions in the technology sector.
