Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

The Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise celebrates 20 for 20 honoree CJ Fonzi, MBA ’08, cofounder and COO of Africa Climate Ventures. #CornellBusiness https://bit.ly/3CSdElu

Very honored to receive the CALS Early Achievement Award from Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences today the annual CALS Faculty & Staff Aaards ceremony. I am grateful for the wonderful support from partners such as Northeast Chapter, ASFMRA, American Society of Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers, US Heartland China Association, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Cornell Cooperative Extension. Congrats to my Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management colleague Adam Brumberg for the recognition for his leadership at Cornell Food Industry Management Program (FIMP).

“I came into the Dyson school with a strong passion for sustainability. One of the main reasons I chose the Dyson school was due to the school’s focus on improving our world through business, so I was immediately looking for ways to combine these interests." Kayla Singer ’25 highlights what makes the Dyson school so unique. You can help students like Kayla go beyond business to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Explore more https://bit.ly/3EVSXph ✨ #CornellGivingDay

Kaitlin Woolley ’12 was leaning toward taking snow pants to an outdoor event, but her husband suggested she leave them home. As she shivered later, she kicked herself – but did not blame her husband. “I felt like I was living out our research,” she said. In a series of experiments, Woolley, professor of marketing and management communications in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and Dr. Sunita Sah, associate professor of management and organizations in the SC Johnson College and faculty fellow at the Cornell Health Policy Center, found that when people go along with opinions that go against their better judgment, they feel more culpable for the decision if things go wrong than if they hadn’t received another opinion.

Career Corner: Technology executive Chaitanya Baddam pivoted from insurance platform technology director to chief data officer at an insurtech startup. #CornellBusiness https://bit.ly/3EYRFKg

“My goal is to use the power of business to make decisions that go beyond standard practices, focusing on choices that maximize impact. For me, this means identifying synergies between profit and doing the greatest good.” Dyson school student Rafaela Baldeon ’27 shares how the college gives her the tools to drive change. You can help students like Rafaela create innovative solutions for tomorrow and beyond. Learn how: https://bit.ly/3QyI3ID #CornellGivingDay

“So many things that we eat are historically tied to a part of history where being in this country was anything but a pleasant experience if you were someone who looked like me,” Delesa McCruter ’25 said. So she was thrilled when two hospitality entrepreneurs working to elevate the cuisine of the African diaspora visited a course taught by Nolan School lecturer Lilly Jan, Cultures and Cuisine, last semester. Alexander Smalls and Nina Oduro collaborated on The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa, a cookbook that grew out of Smalls’ personal journey to understand the food he loved by tracing the history of the slave trade. On campus, students found inspiration in their visit. #CornellBusiness https://bit.ly/3QGnB8S

SAVE THE DATE for Giving Day 2025! 💫 Our SC Johnson College of Business community is coming together on 3.13 for a day of philanthropy that will enable our students to launch business beyond boundaries. Let's see what we can accomplish together! #CornellGivingDay https://bit.ly/4gQ5hVi

A new Johnson School paper explores why doctors may fall prey to conflicts of interest and proposes a new approach called “deep professionalism.” #CornellBusiness https://bit.ly/4366RiE

It has been amazing to work with and interact with the students and early career professionals in the Cornell CEMS Master in International Management (MIM) program and larger CEMS network. I interact with these students most often in their consulting projects course, which has an expectation of each student working around 20 hours per week in a team of 5-6 people for a whole semester. These teams work with an actual client to address a specific problem involving some global consideration, scope out the work, develop an engagement methodology, and deliver on project deliverables with real consequences. At a higher-level, the CEMS program is about enabling students to pursue future careers and work globally, perhaps with multinational companies, global consultancies, and many other situations. As such, when students get into the Cornell CEMS MIM program, they not only pursue a professional master degree at Cornell but also spend a semester at a global exchange school and work on an international internship. Its a gem of a program. While it is very well-known in places like Europe, it less well-known in the United States than it should be --- by a long shot. This is why I am glad that Kristy Bleizeffer helped pull together such a great piece to shed more light on program, through the help of my Cornell colleagues, like Sarah Magnus-Sharpe, Dana Matthews, Gail Fink, Jinhua Zhao, and Andrew Karolyi working and supporting behind the scenes. Most importantly, the article highlights rock star, Cornell CEMsies like Flaminia Granati, Kexin (Ramona) Liu, Manasi Mukund Kabra, and Tristan Say. We miss you here, and we hope that you inspire many others through not only your past experiences but also great work and efforts that you do everyday. Much gratitude to all. CEMS - The Global Alliance in Management Education Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management Cornell University