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A Roller Coaster of a Year: From Complete Disorientation to an Amazing Summer Internship by Barak Cohen, MBA ‘18 Career choices can be overwhelming but by focusing on those things that are important to you will help you identify the career path that is right for you.Before coming to Johnson, I served as an officer […]

A catalyst for regional champions in East Africa When terrorists attacked the high-end Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2013, businessman Chris Getonga was just driving away. He had gone to the mall that Saturday morning to buy a present for his friend’s daughter on the way to her graduation party. As he did […]

Sandra Persing, MBA ’10 Sandra Persing fights as a champion for diversity, inclusion, and advancement in the Web developer community. Persing is the senior program manager for developer relations at Mozilla, the Internet nonprofit and Firefox browser creator. In her role, Persing connects developers, designers, and Web creators with Mozilla technology through engagement platforms that […]

Gaming and Sustainability by Anna Poplasky, MBA ‘17 Exploring in the SGE Immersion how the gaming industry can improve its reputation by leveraging its sustainability program. As part of the Sustainable Global Enterprise Immersion, my team and I worked with Las Vegas Sands Corporation (Sands) to figure out how to best market their sustainability program, […]

Jaydeep “Jay” Anand, MBA ’05 Jay Anand attributes his remarkable record of success in business to a relentless focus on bottom-line results and a commitment to treating every customer as if each were a guest in his home. Anand has spent over two decades managing diverse businesses, including a $100 million consumer electronics division, a […]

by Veneta Andonova and Mauricio Losada-Otálora The challenges faced by Latin American multinational companies, or multilatinas, often require unique strategies tailored to a demanding global environment. The book Multilatinas studies the strategies of internationalisation exercised by large multilatinas, offering the first systematic, quantitative effort to examine the pattern of their international investments within the context […]

Inspired by SGE and the Johnson Community by Miles Archer, MBA ’18 and Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow How I’ve drawn from Johnson lessons to succeed at my internship. People go to business school for a variety of reasons: to improve their analytical and problem solving skills, to advance within their current company, or […]

Building Mumbai’s Largest Veterinary Hospital by Shantanu Naidu, MBA ’18   My experience at the Johnson Graduate School of Management since last fall has been preparing me for my summer internship with Tata Trusts to build a state-of-the-art veterinary teaching hospital in Mumbai, India.   I am the fourth generation of my family to work […]

Val Tsanev, MBA ’13: SponsorShipped by Dick Anderson Corporate sponsorship is big business, and it’s getting bigger. According to IEG Sponsorship Report projections, sponsorship spending will reach $23.2 billion this year in the United States alone and $62.8 billion worldwide. But what do sponsors get for their money? That’s the question driving SponsorShipped, a SaaS […]

Grace Han Wolf ’86, MBA ’91 Grace Han Wolf’s professional career has included five distinct phases. “I tend to reinvent myself about every decade,” Wolf says. “I tell young people you can’t be afraid of taking risks.” Wolf worked on Wall Street prior to earning her Johnson MBA, then spent much of the 1990s in […]