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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 […]

In her address to more than 2,000 top managers and sales people in Shanghai, Ya-Ru Chen shares principles of trust building and collaborative negotiation Johnson at Cornell University’s Ya-Ru Chen gave a guest speech to more than 2,000 sales people of Mercedes-Benz at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai on February 27, 2012. The 2012 Mercedes-Benz […]

Soumitra Dutta serves as panelist, moderator, and interviewer at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Johnson’s Dean Designate, Soumitra Dutta, plays a significant role this week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Dutta, who is currently The Roland Berger Chaired Professor in Business and Technology at INSEAD, France, will serve as […]

Green-Bagging it by Irene Kim If you’ve ever packed a lunch for yourself, a spouse, and maybe a kid or two, you know that you can go through a lot of packaging pretty fast. Just think of all the plastic sandwich and snack bags, plastic wrap, and foil needed to pack lunches day after day. […]

What’s that Buzz? by Irene Kim If you’ve ever kvetched on Facebook about the hotel your company books for its annual meetings, or reviewed the incredible taco place next door, Ashish Gambhir is all ears. His startup, newBrandAnalytics, harvests customer feedback on businesses in the hospitality industry (also in the works: retailers, casinos, and spas). […]

Jon Moeller ’86, MBA ’88, CFO at Procter and Gamble Since joining Procter & Gamble twenty-three years ago, Jon Moeller has steadily climbed up the ranks. Now, as P&G’s Chief Financial Officer, he is helping to guide the nation’s 26th largest company through the worst economic downturn in eight decades. When Jon Moeller wants to […]

Washington Post features Prasad’s interview with Susan Li on Bloomberg Television’s “First Up” Eswar Prasad, the inagural faculty fellow for Johnson at Cornell University’s Emerging Markets Institute (EMI), senior professor of trade policy at Cornell and a former head of the International Monetary Fund’s financial studies division, talks about the outlook for the global economy. Prasad, author of “Emerging […]

Naomi Kelman, MBA ’83, head of the OTC division at Novartis Naomi Kelman is sitting in the pilot’s seat of her single-engine Beech Bonanza preparing to land. Visibility is close to zero, but she’s unfazed. “I’m an instrument-rated pilot,” says the new head of Novartis’s over-the-counter healthcare products division. “That means I’m qualified to fly […]

Live like you mean it! by Irene Kim Ever know someone who could zig and zag with life’s curve balls, who seemed to have nothing but good luck? According to Beverly Sastri, anyone can be like that. The basic tenet of her peak-performance training: By letting our core truth guide our intellect, and by attuning […]

The answers are blowin’ in the wind by Irene Kim Steve Kropper sells wind data. His company, WindPole Ventures, leases over 12,000 broadcast towers, each taller than the Statue of Liberty. When wind developers are prospecting a new site, WPV mounts sensors and instrumentation on a tower near the project and records wind-speed data — […]