Some reasons to apply to the Johnson School

at Cornell University

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Please don’t treat this as an “ad” of any kind. This is intended to inform you of one of many great schools out there from where you would be proud to get an

MBA degree. Johnson loves BITSians.

Anupendra Sharma anupendra@yahoo.com

(Cornell MBA 1998)

BR Ventures: A VC firm run by Johnson School students

• Fund and Incubator run by Cornellians

• BR Ventures and BR Incubator jointly work on promising Cornell and local startups

• The fund provides incubation services and seed capital, typically ranging between $50,000 and $200,000, to selected businesses.

• Over its lifetime, the fund will invest up to $10,000,000 in business entities

• Most recent funded venture is Sightspeed (photo on right) , started at Cornell and now in Silicon Valley

The Parker Center: The Top Trading Floor of all B-Schools

• Amazing multi-million dollar trading floor that gives a real life experience

• Many classes held on the trading floor

• Created by the founder of FirstCall, a Johnson Alum

• http://parkercenter.johnson.cornell.edu/

Cayuga Fund: $7MM Hedge Fund run by students at Johnson School

• Managed by the Parker Center

• Run completely by students• Returns of 18% last year;

40% CAGR to date• Fund was seeded by the

class of 1998 (my class)• See

http://parkercenter.johnson.cornell.edu/research.htm

• Johnson has a strong history of people entering money management now (fund management, hedge funds etc.)

The most beautiful, state-of-the-art of all b-school buildings in America

An incredibly stunning campus• If you like lakes, gorges,

mountains, amazing fall colors, you will love this campus

• “Ithaca is gorges” is a popular bumper sticker

• See http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/ photo

Excellent immersion programs to teach you exactly what you want

• Immersion learning is a distinctive part of the Johnson experience

• 80 percent of the students in the two-year MBA program participate

• Taken in the spring semester of the first year

• Taught in conjuction with companies/banks

• Profs. Include industry experts such as Merrill Lynch MD as Lead Professor for IB Immersion

• Strategic Brand Management Immersion

• Semester in Manufacturing • Investment Banking Immersion • Managerial Finance Immersion • Entrepreneurship and Private

Equity Immersion • Research, Sales, and Trading

Immersion

The “Friendly” School• Johnson is known as the

“friendly” school• It is a fun oriented place

with an open culture• Generally every alum is

very helpful• Also Cornellians are very

helpful; people have very strong bonds to other Cornellians irrespective of which school they attended

• Comment on the right is genuine

• “I have loved my two years at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. It is no coincidence that Cornell's Business School is known as the friendly school. While everyone here is intelligent, fascinating, and ambitious, there is a general sense of helpfulness and caring that flows throughout the school. The faculty and administration work side by side with the students to continuously improve the school and to respond to our needs. There is always someone willing to help you out in tough times. The faculty love to teach and are ALWAYS available and accessible to students. Students are challenged intellectually and are trained to be successful -- however, NEVER at the expense of someone else. It is a school of strong values and ethics and provides a very warm and caring environment for two years.” – Alum who joined consulting

Johnson Rankings/Companies• #7 in Businessweek • Previous rankings - #11,

#8, #8• Highest rank #5• Generally considered a

“top 10” school• Average class size: 270

to 300• Executive: 108• Women: 28%• Average GMAT: 680

• Everyone hires at Johnson

• See http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/career/Recruiting%20Companies.pdf for names

Dean of Johnson School is a Director of the Board of the World’s Most Admired Corp.

A Global Brand Name with a storied history

• Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell

• He said “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”

• A passionate alumni network with the 2nd highest annual gifts received of any university in the world

• Annual R&D of $0.5 billion ranked 6th in the world

• One of the top 5 colleges in terms of number of startups

• 29 Nobel Laureates including 3 currently teaching there

You will be part of the famed Ivy League

• Eight top universities in the nation joined to form the Ivy League in 1954• Cornell is the largest of the Ivvies with 13,700 grads (2nd is Harvard) which

gives access to an incredible network• These are amongst the richest universities in the world

Legendary Cornellians

• Adolph Coors, Founder of Coors• Robert Trent Jones, World’s most famous golf course designer (400 of world's courses)• Christopher Reeve, Former actor • Janet Reno: US Attorney General 1993-2000 • David Duffield - Co-founder of PeopleSoft • David Edgerton & Jim McLamore - co-founders of Burger King • Irwin Jacobs - Founder of Qualcomm• Herbert F. Johnson and Samuel C Johnson - Founders/first executives of SC Johnson

Wax• Ratan N. Tata - Chairman of Tata Sons • Jay S. Walker - Founder of Priceline.com• Sanford I. Weill - Chairman of Citigroup• Dr. Robert Atkins - Creator of the Atkins Diet • Carl Sagan, Astronomy Professor• Charles Knight, Chairman of Emerson Electric• Lee Teng-hui, Former President of Taiwan

Finally, an inspiring graduation ceremony that you will never forget