Articles

Going with the flow by Irene Kim Naama Bloom, MBA ’13, founder of HelloFlo The curse. The crimson tide. Lingonberry week. It’s the five-day event that happens to women of childbearing age each month, sending embarrassed husbands and fathers running to the “feminine care” aisle. Helloflo.com is happy to meet women’s periods head on. “It […]

New Order by Irene Kim Unless you’re a restaurateur or app developer, you’ve probably never heard of Ordr.in. This open platform for restaurant e-commerce is used by restaurants, developers, and websites to power their food-ordering capabilities. Co-founder David Bloom describes Ordr.in as “DNA for restaurant e-commerce” — an infrastructure for building takeout-ordering services that allow […]

by Mark A. Ramos, MBA’15 SGE Immersion team learns about Chinese manufacturing and culture firsthand while working on supply chain optimization with Team Planet. As part of the Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) Immersion, Ihad the privilege of working with Team Planet, a start-up that sells small-scale solar panels in Malawi. The student team consisted of […]

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 center of the city. With all the drilling and blasting, the operation fascinated him, and when it came time to choose a college, he selected […]

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 circling the globe on an environmental quest with his wife and two children, Kraft decided to leave the corporate world and now leads an organization […]

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 increase their corn yields, which are far below worldwide averages? And in Southeast Asia, how can farmers boost their production of rice to meet the […]

Combining consulting with a passion for sports Abbi Hills arrived at Cornell in 2004, not for graduate school but for her first job: assistant coach of the women’s lacrosse team. A veteran lacrosse player who had played in high school and college, Hills helped lead the team to earn its first Ivy League title. “It […]

Hernan Mendez, MBA ’83, President of Procafecol When Hernan Mendez took over as head of Colombia’s Juan Valdez coffee business in 2010, the retailer was in sad straits. Parent company Procafecol was on the verge of bankruptcy and its misguided expansion plans for its chain of coffee shops had been deep-sixed. The executive corps was […]

by Trevor Wirsig, MBA ‘15 Using what I learned at Johnson to make an impact during my consulting internship. My project as a summer intern in Deloitte Consulting’s mergers andacquisitions (M&A) practice was to assist a consumer packaged goods (CPG) companyas they split into two. People say that a merger of two companies is like […]

by Brendan Condit, MBA ‘15 Though his unconventional experience at Patagonia included surf lessons and flip flops at work, Brendan Condit’s (MBA ’15) biggest takeaway was the attitude of employees and the overall character of the culture. My MBAinternship at Patagonia has beenan eye-opening experience. Before joining, I wondered if the company could possiblylive up […]