Notable Alumni

Cornell’s first African-American MBA broke barriers throughout his career The Johnson community was saddened to learn of the passing of Wilbur Parker ’50, MBA ’50, Cornell’s first African-American MBA and […]

Change for good In China’s remote villages, residents who don’t have access to electricity cook their food by burning wood or yak dung inside poorly ventilated homes. The toxic smoke […]

Better banking in Dubai As a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dubai, Salmaan Jaffery advises banks on how to operate more effectively. But since moving to the Middle East in 2008, […]

Blending Social Change with Business Leadership When she isn’t working as chief strategist at MK Ellison Advisors in San Francisco, Kate Capossela might be volunteering with a program that teaches […]

Once a curator of travel deals, Walker now curates ideas When it comes to intellectual property, few countries rival the United States. Yet according to Jay Walker ’77, the U.S. […]

Wilbur Parker Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient When Percy Allen II joined the University Hospital of Brooklyn as CEO in 1989, the state facility was losing money and struggling with employee […]

2014 Carlos R. Quintanilla Distinguished Latino Alumni Award Recipient From playing football as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame to studying accounting and finance as an MBA candidate […]

Refocusing on climate change A year and a half ago, Larry Kraft was senior vice president of sales and marketing at Digi International, a technology company in Minneapolis. But after […]

Spanning the globe in mining As a teenager growing up in a suburb of Cleveland, Richard Saccany recalls reading in the newspaper about an underground salt mine operating near the […]

A GMO approach to sustainable crops Ponsi Trivisvavet has spent the past six years thinking about how to help farmers feed the world. In India and Africa, how can growers […]