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- (Johnson School) - Top 10 Business Schools With the Best Career Prospects
The Princeton Review surveyed job placement, average starting salary of students after graduation, and asked students about the efforts of their career-placement office, the quality of recruiting companies, their level of preparation and more to come up with this list Top 10 Schools with Best Career Prospects, on which the Johnson School ranked ninth. - (Entrepreneurship) - Moving into web video communication, Logitech buys SightSpeed for $30 million
SightSpeed, the business founded by Johnson School alumnus Brad Treat (MBA '02) who also served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence from 2006 -2007, was bought by Logitech International, marking the first successful exit for BR Ventures. - (Johnson School) - Johnson School at Cornell hires Coyne to boost brand
The Johnson School at Cornell University named Coyne PR its AOR, focusing on raising the graduate business school's brand awareness. - (Johnson School) - The Admissions Interview Your Questions
Admissions director Randall Sawyer offers advice on what prospective students should ask MBA interviewers while on campus. - (Students) - Day Celebrates University Sustainability Efforts
Ed Rifenburg (MBA '09) is quoted in this article on Cornell's Sustainability Day. Rifenburg is the the lead for Cornell University's Solar Decathalon Marketing & Communications team for 2009. - (Entrepreneurship) - Gift supports life sciences startup incubator
Researchers at the newly-named Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences whose startup proposals are selected will receive business and marketing guidance from Johnson School faculty and students. - (Entrepreneurship) - Startup Website Aims to Cut Costs for Wary Consumers
Albert Ko's (BS '06, MBA '08) online site CheapCheapCheap.com is profiled. He mentions the technology courses and faculty at the Johnson School as being influential in inspiring him to start his own business. - (Sustainable Global Enterprise) - Johnson School Center Promotes Sustainable Entrepreneurship
This feature article discusses the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise with extensive quotes from Mark Milstein, director of the Center, and a mention of the Financial Times editorial written by Stuart Hart. Several students are also quoted including: Ryan Kelley, Lilian Ng, and Mike Pezone, all Class of 2009. - (Faculty) - Indonesian finance group meets with CU professors
A delegation of eight officials from the Indonesian Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Central Bank of Indonesia met with several Cornell faculty members in the Southeast Asia Program to seek input on how to improve the perception of Indonesia on such financial issues as the sovereign credit rating and the country risk classification. They also met with Johnson School students to discuss the perception of Indonesia in the U.S. mass media. - (Entrepreneurship) - New program assists entrepreneurial engineers
The College of Engineering announced the Kessler Fellows Program which will help engineering students turn their innovations into businesses. The Essentials of Entrepreneurism class will be taught in the spring by John Spoonhower, a new adjunct professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, a visiting lecturer at the Johnson School and the managing director of its Business of Science and Technology Institute. - (Johnson School) - Cornell University - the Johnson School
Student, industry, and program profile of the Johnson School's EMBA program based in Palisades, NY. - (Faculty) - Time for bankers to risk an apology?
Professor Benjamin Ho comments on the importance of sincere apologies for building confidence and trust. This article was picked up by numerous outlets including Forbes, the International Herald Tribune, CNBC, and others. - (Johnson School) - Admissions Director Q&A: Randall Sawyer of Cornell University's Johnson School of Business
Director of Admissions Randall Sawyer discusses our immersion program, the recruiting and retention strategy to increase the number of female MBA students, and more. - (Sustainable Global Enterprise) - Soapbox: The importance of sustainability
Professor Stuart Hart offers his opinion on the importance of integrating sustainability into business school curriculum. - (Johnson School) - Clearing Up an Application Blemish
Admissions director Randall Sawyer urges prospective MBA students to be honest and upfront throughout the application process. - (Johnson School) - Executive MBA program ranked No. 7 by WSJ
The Johnson School's Executive MBA program located in Palisades, NY, which allows mid-career professionals to earn business degrees while they work, has earned the No. 7 spot in a new ranking by The Wall Street Journal. - (Faculty) - Cornell Hospitality Quarterly Article Wins Emerald Award
An article published in the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (CQ) has been named as one of the 50 best articles published in the world's top management journals in 2007. The article, Guest Satisfaction and Restaurant Performance, by Sachin Gupta, Edward McLaughlin, and Miguel Gomez, has won the Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence. - (Faculty) - Bailout offers fair-value out
Professor Maureen O'Hara comments on pricing assets based on theoretical models, an approach known as level three, and how the models have been shown to be inaccurate. - (Faculty) - Pursuit of an Edge, in Steroids or Stocks
Economics Professor Robert Frank, in his column, comments on the economy and the problems that contributed to the recent market failure, and suggests a path for moving forward. - (Johnson School) - MBA Admissions Web Sites Not All Are Equal
The Johnson School website ranks 9th in ease of finding admissions data, in this look at websites at leading graduate schools of business. - (Faculty) - Cornell University panel says government must increase regulation
Professor Bob Andolina was one of three Cornell professors who analyzed the market failure leading to the current crisis. The panel also included David Easley, a professor of economics; and Elizabeth Sanders, a professor of government. - (Faculty) - It's beginning to sink in: We've been had
In an op-ed, the book "Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class," by economics professor Robert Frank, is touted as suggested reading in the wake of the current Wall Street crisis. - (Faculty) - Johnson School panel ponders the financial crisis
The Johnson School hosted a panel discussion moderated by Dean Doug Stayman that included Professors Bob Jarrow, Rich Marin, and Maureen O'Hara. - (Faculty) - Clarification of accounting rule sparks debate
Professor Maureen O'Hara comments on the SEC's interpretation of mark-to-market accounting. - (Johnson School) - CORNELL UNIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE TOP TEN SCHOOLS TO GO TO FOR YOUR MASTERS IN BUSINESS
Local network news covered the Executive MBA's top-10 ranking by the Wall Street Journal.