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by P.J. Kemerer, MBA ’13 As a former music teacher, P.J. Kemerer explains how he’s made the career switch to finance Shortly before beginning my coursework at Johnson, I had the opportunity to have lunch with MFI Director Steve Calk. As we discussed my future and what companies might be a good fit for me, […]

by Stephanie Kwok, MBA ’13 The SGE Immersion project gave Stephanie the rare opportunity to work on a real business venture with a client. She leveraged this experience in her summer internship. The 2012 Summer Olympics was the most electronically connected games in history. The information network controlled 30 percent more digital data than the […]

by William Degroot, MBA ’13 Bill spent the summer engaged in competitive analysis and market research, among other strategic marketing projects, for a prominent consumer brand. I am excited to be back in Ithaca for the second year of my MBA after a very enjoyable summer. I was able to intern at a large, leading […]

Lorna Smith, MBA ’87, CEO at Horizons National In her five years leading Horizons National, a nonprofit serving low-income and educationally disadvantaged students, CEO Lorna Smith has helped transform the organization into one of the top summer-learning organizations in the U.S. What if schools that typically shut down in the summer stayed open to offer […]

Influencing Development in China Alice H. Chen has worked for Jones Lang LaSalle, a financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate, in Tianjin, China for less than two years, but she is already involved in one of the most ambitious developments in the country: a global financial center proposed for a peninsula in […]

From Wall Street Banker to a Hindu Monk In the 18 months Ramnath Subramanian worked as an associate at Bank of America, he would leave his office on Wall Street at the end of each day, arrive home at a monastery in the East Village, eat a simple meal, and then retire on a yoga […]

Investing in the Internet and a New Book When Peter Atkins decided to leave his job as a general manager at Microsoft and launch an investment fund in the midst of the Internet bust, his local newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, speculated he was “a little crazy” and “a little nuts.” It was August 2001, and […]

Rebuilding Africa one country at a time Two days after starting her first job as an MBA graduate at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, Andy (Margaret) Dennison Dijkerman was sent to Cameroon by the firm’s international lending unit to establish an accounting and pricing system for a seed company. Ever since then, her career has been […]

Easy access to daily deals by Irene Kim It’s great to find a good deal. But it can take hours of looking through coupon and daily deal websites, plus local coupon books and newspapers, before you find something promising in your neighborhood. The Dealmap, a startup cofounded by Jennifer Dulski and recently acquired by Google, […]

Quantitative IT Strategy Building by Irene Kim TechStrategyLabs, founded by Managing Partner Sumitro Sarkar in 2007, is an executive advisory firm that differentiates itself by using quantitative techniques and applied research to address complex IT challenges, including IT rationalization, restructuring, pricing, go-to-market strategy, and valuation of technology startups. Serving corporate IT executives, independent software vendors, […]