*Palo Alto, CA
January 7, 6 pm
Annual Johnson School Alumni Predictions Dinner. Join us for a great evening with Johnson School alumni, students and staff and make your predictions for the coming year! At the Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto. Register today!

New York, NY
January 8
Abby J. Cohen will be speaking at a CEN event during the Johnson School students' Week on Wall Street trip. Details TBD.

Seattle, WA
January 9, 6 pm
CEN Seattle Presents a Venture Capital Panel.

Menlo Park, CA
February 11, 6 pm
CEN Silicon Valley “Panel Presentations on Ag-Biotech.”

Ithaca, NY
February 21
Cornell's 2003 Entrepreneurship and Private Equity Symposium.

*Brussels, Belgium
March 22
Annual Alumni European Symposium. Tentative program for this year's symposium. It promises to be a great event!

*Johnson School specific events.

Alumni are always welcome at Johnson School admissions events.

View and search a complete listing of Cornell University events.

To Top

Attention all U.S. Johnson School alumni: Do you have experience negotiating with Japanese businesses? And to our Japanese alums: Do you have experience negotiating with the U.S. firms?

Johnson School Professor Wendi Adair is investigating the dynamics of U.S.-Japanese negotiations. Your experience with both personal and professional negotiations in a U.S.-Japanese context is a rich source of information that cannot be captured through experimental studies in the lab. By sharing your knowledge and experience of U.S.-Japanese negotiations and supporting faculty research in global business, you can help the Johnson School and Cornell achieve their international research mission.

Professor Adair is looking for Johnson School alumni willing to complete a 20-minute survey in February about their U.S.-Japanese negotiation experience. The survey will not ask for any specific information about your company, partners, or deals. You will be asked general questions about negotiation strategies, communication effectiveness, and levels of satisfaction. After receiving your responses, Professor Adair will prepare and send you a personalized report of the results (your own responses relative to the average sample responses). You will also have an opportunity to participate in the project further with a personal interview.

If you are willing to participate, please sign-up for the Johnson School US-Japanese Negotiation Survey.

To Top

Receiving unsolicited e-mail (a.k.a. SPAM) and viruses on one's computer system is not only annoying—it's potentially destructive. Industry estimates suggest that 40 percent of the e-mail we receive is SPAM. In this regard, we have improved the function of the Johnson Alumni Connection service by changing the way the “communities of classes” operate.

As you may know each class has an e-mail list associated with it, which allows you to stay in touch with your classmates, keep networks going, arrange events, and allows the school to stay in touch with you. Many classes use this feature to publish newsletters as well. Alums may continue to send messages as before. However, instead of the message going to the selected list(s) immediately, the message will be sent to an Alumni Relations officer for approval during the business day. While this all happens automatically, it does mean the message will appear as coming from the address jgsmalum@cornell.edu and will not go out immediately.

All other aspects of the system work as before which includes the ability to search for fellow alumni and send them e-mail, etc. These messages will not go through a screening process.

While this change will result in a delay for messages sent to entire classes (when sent outside normal business hours), we think you will appreciate the extra step taken to eliminate unwanted mail and protect your computer.

To Top

The best representatives for the Johnson School are satisfied customers—alumni with firsthand knowledge of Cornell's business school and what it takes to excel here. As our Admissions team continues seeking the best candidates for the next entering class, we need your help. Do you have friends or colleagues interested in obtaining their MBA who you feel would match well with the Johnson School ethos—professionals who identify and seize opportunities; who have a track record of academic, personal and professional success; who are team players as well as team leaders?

We are interested in referrals for all of the MBA programs—the two-year program, the Executive MBA, and the Twelve-Month Option (our accelerated MBA designed for scientists and engineers with advanced degrees.)

If you can recommend qualified candidates—or need more information on the programs to pass along to a prospective MBA—contact the admissions office at mba@cornell.edu or by phone at 1-800-847-2082 (or 607-255-4526).

Help us shape the future of the Johnson School and your alumni network. And be sure to share your MBA experience and tout your alma mater when the opportunities arise. The strongest reputations are built and nurtured through “word of mouth.” Many thanks for your help.

To Top

Citigroup has approved a Johnson School proposal in support of Leadership and Ethics for a total of $300,000 (paid over a three-year period and renewable annually). This resource will enable us to further integrate ethics and corporate responsibility into the curriculum and enhance the Johnson School's innovative leadership development program. We were one of six graduate schools of business selected, and our grant proposal was deemed the most unique and interesting of all proposals submitted. In a separate grant, Citigroup approved a $50,000 request to sustain the ongoing diversity initiatives spearheaded by the Office of Women & Minorities in Business. In addition to strengthening our outreach efforts through support of Destination Johnson (our annual event for prospective students) and Johnson Means Business, the grant will help create a Citigroup Women & Minorities in Business Speaker Series. The first event is scheduled for Thursday, January 9, 2003, in New York City.

To Top

Roni Michaely, professor of finance, has been appointed the Rudd Family Professorship of Management at the Johnson School. The new chair—a gift from Andrew Rudd and Virginia Rudd, BA '81—embraces the Johnson School's plan to develop the next generation of senior faculty leadership, to preserve its traditional strengths in areas such as finance, and to partner with Cornell to further leverage its strengths in such areas as genomics and life sciences.

Roni Michaely's recent research concentrates on conflict of interest in capital markets, corporate payout policy, and the pricing and long-term performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) and has been frequently featured in many leading business and consumer publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Economist, Investor's Business Daily, Business Week, and Forbes. A 1999-2000 Whitcomb Fellow who received the Johnson School Award for Exceptional Research for 2001-2002, Michaely has published over twenty papers (several of which received best-paper awards) in refereed journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He was appointed a director of the Israel Securities Authority in 1998. Michaely holds a BA in economics from Tel-Aviv University and an MPhil and a PhD in finance from New York University.

For recent media highlights of Michaely and other Johnson School faculty and administrators, see Johnson School in the News.

To Top

Dean Swieringa recently announced this year's recipients of two of the Johnson School's most prestigious awards—the Fried Fellowships and the Kiplinger Prize.

The recipients of the Fried Fellowships are Scott Boyd, Trish Murison, Amit Nisenbaum, Chris Reddin and Felix Rouse. The Fried Fellowships were established in 1989 by a generous endowment gift by a distinguished Cornell alumnus, Albert Fried, Jr. The fellowships are awarded to five second-year students each year solely on the basis of leadership potential and academic achievement as demonstrated during the first year. The award includes a stipend and requires that the recipient work with a faculty member on a project of mutual academic or professional interest.

The winner of the Kiplinger Prize is Raquel Nelson. The Kiplinger Prize was established in 2000 by a grant from the Kiplinger Foundation and also is based on leadership potential and academic distinction as demonstrated during the first year.

Professors Mannix and O'Connor also recently announced the winners of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Student Excellence in the Study of Management & Organizations: Kara Kownacki, David Maier, Beth Schrader, Mara Sipzener, and David Witkowski. These students performed exceptionally well in the Managing & Leading Organizations course, and each received a certificate of achievement plus a check for $1,000.

To Top

This year's Annual Fund phonathon raised more than $79,300 and beat the previous record of $79,180 set in 2001, according to phonathon organizer Sean Neville '02. Much thanks is due to the alumni who responded generously to pledge calls from student volunteers. The Annual Fund is an important source of support for numerous strategic initiative and breakthrough programs at the Johnson School.

To Top

In January Dean Swieringa will make a special trip through Asia. It is the first such visit by a Johnson School dean in many years and will include interaction with many alumni in the region. The itinerary includes Shanghai and Suzhou, China; Seoul, Korea; and Tokyo, Japan. In China, he will be meeting with alumni at SC Johnson/Shanghai and visiting USTC-Suzhou. In Korea, he will be meeting with alumni and handling a presentation at an all-Johnson alumni reception. The stop in Japan will include meetings with Cornell and Johnson School alumni and participation in two alumni events.

To Top

Join our Alumni Community Mail Groups in JAC!
Are you interested in discussing the high-tech, marketing, I-banking or e-commerce industry with your alumni colleagues? Do you want to know what alums in your area of the world, from St. Louis to Singapore, are up to? Log into JAC (Johnson Alumni Connection) today and sign up for the appropriate industry or regional community mail groups! Don't see the group you want? Request it or your JAC log in info by e-mailing jgsmalum@cornell.edu.

Your Access to the Cornell Online Alumni Directory!
As Cornell graduates, you have access to the Cornell Alumni online directory. To access this, go to the directory and click “First Time User”—you will need to provide your last name and alumni id # to gain access (if you don't know your alumni id # e-mail jgsmalum@cornell.edu to request it). This directory is searchable by name, location, and company name under the “Custom Search” option.