Articles

An MBA student’s prospective on the stark differences of two emerging markets, India and Chile by Max Spivak, BS ‘07 MBA ‘14 MILR ‘15 What came first, the chicken or the egg? This was the question I kept asking myself during my winter break travels to India and Chile. Does a country need infrastructure to […]

by Jackie Longner, MBA ’14 SGE immersion student, Jackie Longner (MBA ’14) discusses GE’s plans to increase the productivity and reliability of wind energy. As the world population grows and becomes more affluent, the demand for power to operate homes, businesses, and public infrastructure will undoubtedly increase. The question that remains is how to meet […]

A Global Journey to Wall Street Every now and then, Angela Mwanza says, she pinches herself in her office at UBS Private Wealth Management on Park Avenue in Manhattan, where as a senior vice president, she advises clients of substantial wealth. It’s a career she finds “somewhat surreal,” since Mwanza was born in Zambia, one […]

Offering value that clients understand — and want by Irene Kim Lori Asbury, MBA ’03 (E), president and CEO of CMOco Lori Asbury’s two-year-old startup, CMOco, has a simple value proposition: Rent a chief marketing officer (CMO). “Many companies, typically in the range of $10 million to $100 million, have a need for a senior-level […]

Bridging the investment gap by Irene Kim John Kallassy, MBA ’03, president and founding partner,I-Bankers Direct In March 2013, John Kallassy launched his Web-based “crowdfunding” platform, I-Bankers Direct, to mine what he saw as a rich vein: the opportunity created by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. Signed into law by President Obama in […]

Bringing more intelligent healthcare to the U.S. military Consolidate, cut costs, and upgrade: Since being named Chief Information Officer(CIO) for the Department of Defense Military Health System(MHS) last September, David Bowen has been called to do all three at the same time. The most daunting mission of the past year, Bowen says, has been preparing […]

Empowering Women, One Video View at a Time For the past two years, Mike Sweeney, managing partner of Film Annex Capital Partners, has been deeply involved in promoting WomensAnnex.com — an interactive web platform that supports the empowerment of women in developing countries. The idea for the platform, Sweeney says, grew out of a conversation […]

The Business of Reaching Kids, Changing Lives “In a way,” says Tiffany Washington, “I grew up on Sesame Street twice.” Like millions of other kids, Washington credits the beloved television show for helping her learn her numbers and AB Cs. But, in her case, the company brought Big Bird to millions of children around the […]

Luis Carlos Sarmiento Jr. MBA 85′, CEO of Grupo Aval Luis Carlos Sarmiento Jr., the CEO of Grupo Aval, Colombia’s largest financial services holding company, likes nothing more than making deals. Evidence suggests that he is good at it. The biggest of the 16 transactions he directed over the last decade, Aval’s $1.9 billion purchase […]

Global outsourcing with a human touch According to Anindo Dutta, outsourcing “comes in two different flavors”: Information technology and application outsourcing (the most commonly known), and business processing outsourcing (BPO) — his area of expertise. As vice president-Americas BPO at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dutta helps provide corporate clients with domestic and offshore solutions devoted to handling […]