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Bringing transparency to the fashion supply chain Take a look at the clothes you’re wearing today. Where were they made? Under what conditions? If you’re wearing natural fiber, where was it grown? Who harvested it? And were those workers treated fairly? Ever thought about it? Natalie Grillon thinks about it – a lot. That’s why […]

Building Emerging Securities Markets The perfect segue to Bob Strahota’s career trajectory came shortly after the Berlin Wall fell. It was 1991 and he had just returned, after 19 years of private law practice, to the US Securities and Exchange Commission as an attorney fellow in its Office of General Counsel. Newly independent nations across […]

by Samuel Kessler Swenson, MBA ‘15 Students interested in global markets can benefit greatly from hearing the perspectives of people that have risen to the top of their respective financial firms. The Capital Markets and Asset Management (CMAM) Immersion has been particularly rewarding in that we’ve had the opportunity to listen to some of the […]

An interview with Privthvideep Singh, BS ’11, Strategic Marketing Director of Dynel LED Lighting, New Delhi, India by Boon Hoe Chin, MBA ‘14 I had the opportunity to speak with Prithvideep Singh at the recent Cornell Big Red Weekend in Singapore about his experience at Cornell and his thoughts on running a business in India. […]

Jennifer Dulski ’93, MBA ’99, president and COO at Change.org Jennifer Dulski leads by helping other people excel. She’s been doing this for most of her life. She served as coxswain for the men’s crew team in high school and the women’s team at Cornell. She taught school and founded a nonprofit enrichment program to […]

Taking the pain out of giving by Irene Kim Ever wonder how much of your charitable donation ends up paying for all those dinnertime solicitation calls and mailers with “free” address labels? Launched this spring by Daniel Mansoor, GiveNext is a website that centralizes donors’ giving and charities’ solicitation efforts. Donors enter the names of […]

Kids’ surgeons get a lucky break by Irene Kim They look like something that might have been used to build RoboCop or the Six Million Dollar Man, but the E-Fix and E-Thotic are actually medical devices to fix kids’ broken elbows. A supracondylar humerus fracture is the most common fracture in preteen children, annually occurring […]

Leading Innovation at Pfizer How do you encourage innovation in a global pharmaceutical corporation with nearly 80,000 employees? That was the challenge Wendy Mishkin Mayer faced when she became vice president for worldwide innovation at Pfizer two years ago. The initiative she leads, Dare to Try, is aimed at improving the company’s operations and services […]

Turning Around Roper’s Scientific Imaging When Ben Wood became vice president of Scientific and Industrial Imaging at Roper Industries in 2002, the division was underperforming. Sales were in decline, manufacturing costs were too high, and the research and development cycle had stretched to nearly three years. Roper’s researchers wanted to “make great products and great […]

Driving Social Change Around the World Nearly all mobile phones, computers, and the microprocessors that power them contain some combination of four minerals: gold, tin, tantalum, and tungsten. When Intel Corporation learned that many of these minerals come from mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo that are controlled by armed militias funding violence in […]